Hot in the most lukewarm way possible

On the subject of Speed’s profound Soho observations at the end of this clip and on the subject of mentalblog.com: metrosexual Yom Ha'atzmaut in das Capitale:

I was walking next to a lake recently. My attention drifted to a girl speaking to a goose. She grimaced like people do to a child; she changed faces looking expectantly for the goose to nod in approval. This made me thinking, is there a need for an emotional response that expresses itself in the way people play with toddlers and animals? If that seems to be the case why this girl and others are open to affection from strange animals but unavailable to human openness?

Just a day after I observed the girl bonding with the goose I saw a typical scene in a park. A middle aged woman was walking in the park. Across came a person with a puppy. She didn’t even say hello to the owner but stared cuddling and petting the dog. After a minute of the ritual she passed me stone faced.

This brings me to speed’s observation about Soho. For argument sake let’s call all the boys and girls that attended the Yom Ha'atzmaut party metrosexuals. The party was "hot in the most lukewarm way possible". There is this unrelatedness, the fear of human emotion, the fear of approaching the other person openly. But we know that latently it exists, you can see it by the geese or unfamiliar dogs. This is by the way the great sod of photo journalism, people are more likely to smile and emote to a metal and glass camera than to a human being.