'Lumbersexual' and Loving It: A New Trend

For lesbians, being "lumbersexual" is just like any other Tuesday, but for the au courant hipster, it is a new hot trend taking the world by storm!

In a recent piece by Gawker, it is explained what it means to be a lumbersexual. The best way to sum it up is the complete opposite of a metrosexual. Men are trading in their slim-fit pants for wide leg jeans, letting their beards grow wild (and the rest of their body hair) instead of maintaining them and practicing strict manscaping rituals.

As Gawker writes, "[t]he Metrosexual is clean and pretty and well-groomed; the Lumbersexual spends the same amount of money, but looks filthy."

Instead of shopping at high-end stores for sleek three-piece suits, the lumbersexual is hitting up L.L. Bean and Sears for flannel, flannel and more flannel. Gawker points out a website called GearJunkie, a "top online publication for product reviews and news in the outdoors world," details the lumbersexual:

"He is bar-hopping, but he looks like he could fell a Norway Pine. His backpack carries a MacBook Air, but looks like it should carry a lumberjack's axe."

What the site doesn't say is that the typical lumbersexual bows down to their almighty savior, the Brawny paper towel dude.

As New Now Next reports, most lumbersexuals are straight but there are some gay lumbersexuals. And of course, there's an app for them!

Bristlr, is a gay app "[c]onnecting those with beards to those who want to stroke beards" and was created by John Kershaw of Manchester.

"So far it seems to be people who unashamedly love beards," he told Elite Daily. "And bacon. A lot of the bearded folk seem to have a fantastic Ron Swanson style."

For further reading on lumbersexuality, check out this extensive piece by Jezebel.