Lumbersexual

He's our first sighting of a Lumbersexual! We're delighted to report that Lumbersexuals have migrated to New England from the Rocky Mountain states.  Our hottie above regales riders on our bus with his luxuriant and finely coiffed beard, and keeps ruggedly warm with his practical, yet stylishly quilted Eider Down jacket. A cherry red wrist watch tells the time while working off the grid, while pearly white iPhone ear pods keep one up to date on the latest tunes.

And what is a Lumbersexual?

Lubersexual, above left. Metrosexual, above right.

While a metrosexual is a young man  with money to spend - living within the city (because that's where all the best shops, clubs, gyms, and hair dressers are) and has clearly taken himself as his own love object and pleasure as his sexual preference, a lumbersexual is quite different. How so?

A lumbersexual refers to himself as "rugged" despite spending 20 minutes each morning grooming his facial hair.

Lumbersexuals graciously cut people some slack, typically with a vintage hatchet from Colorado.

Lumbersexuals are prone to adorn their walls with bear traps yet are unable to bring themselves to carve a Thanksgiving turkey because it "looks too real".

Lumber sexual high fashion is wearing a woodsman jacket to the Genius Bar at the Apple Store.

We could go on and on, but that might obscure the fact that we adore watching men in plaid with copious amounts of facial hair. We feel stylish and secure with lumbersexuals onboard our train!

Location: Green Line at Boylston
Imagined Profession: Web Designer
Photographer: FT

And we update on January 20, 2014. Meredith Goldstein at the Boston Globe is reporting that some Lumbersexuals have... aroma in their beards. Her video is below. All we can tell you is that we do not feature Lumbersexuals with malodorous beards.