CNN notices variation in the male of the species

Turns out human men vary in ways other than color of necktie, according to CNN, which revealed its discovery Sunday after noticing in its offices a male intern who seemed vulnerable:
Some guys still try to be manly and try to be like strong and stuff, but you know personally I’m not afraid to show my vulnerability because being vulnerable or being sensitive is not a weakness,” said former CNN intern Junichiro Hori.
Vulnerable men. What’s next: strong women? Friendship between the sexes?
“Typically, ‘herbivore men’ are in their 20s and 30s, and believe that friendship without sex can exist between men and women,” the writer Maki Fukasa told CNN. Fukasa dubbed these men “herbivores” because they lack an aggressive interest in “flesh.”
Tipped off, perhaps, by Mr. Hori’s and Ms. Fukasa’s shared nationality, CNN traced the male variant to Japan, where the news network was able to discern that the Japanese are not at all happy about this. In a bar frequented by businessmen after work, CNN located a spokesman for prior generations, an older male who declared, anonymously, “You need to be carnivorous when you make decisions in your life. You should be proactive, not passive.”
CNN also interviewed a young woman who described these “boys” as flaky and weak.
Japan’s herbivores may remind readers of a male variant called the “metrosexual” first sighted in the United States in 1994 and banned from the national discourse a decade later. But this new variety of male has an added stripe that may alarm American sensibilities even more than the thought of men getting waxed: men with disaffection for money. It has already alarmed one Japanese parent.
Hori told CNN, his former employer, that “a lot of my friends were trying to work for a big company that pays well and I wasn’t interested in that. I am kind of struggling financially and my father is not very happy about it.”
But instead of increasing pay for its interns, CNN announced that 20 percent of Japanese men fall into this new category, that they are influencing their brethren, and CNN wondered, “Will these men simply grow out of this?”
As long as international institutions like CNN find it necessary to profile individual traits against the norms and economics they threaten–yes, those individuals will probably, eventually, whether they like it or not, “simply grow out of this.” Because while the topic of the story looks like change, its surprise at finding variation in men testifies more to the stubbornness of a single sanctioned stereotype.