The guy who coined the term
'metrosexual' talks about the phenomenon in Salon Magazine. Here's a particularly delicious quote, though please note that the whole article is rather tongue-in-cheek:
"When Air National Guard absentee George W. Bush dressed up in Cruise's "Top Gun" costume and used the USS Abraham Lincoln as a giant, nuclear-powered strap-on, that was as brazen an exhibition of cross-dressing as there's ever been. But it was represented by Bush's P.R. machine as evidence of his "real," "down-home," "all-guy" masculinity."
Love it! And to my mind, he actually gets at some core principles behind Bush's ludicrous assertion that the Mission was Accomplished.