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Mind your language

The rise of the man bun, the Mancan and man boobs

Just at the moment, in the gender-role wars, ‘man’ is attached to more and more things

28 November 2015

9:00 AM

28 November 2015

9:00 AM

‘Ha, ha, ha,’ said my husband, as though he had learnt to laugh by reading Twitter. ‘Now they’ve got falsies.’

He was waving an article about clip-on man buns. A man bun is that top-knot that some young men began to sport, in proof that there is nothing too absurd for fashion.

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