Wait, what's the crap about the rise of men wearing sandals?!?! They pretty much predate shoes for crying out loud. It has always been acceptable for men to wear sandals. If there was ever a unisex item of clothing it was sandals.
I mean, the rest of the fashion stuff I wouldn't be caught dead in, but SANDALS?!? You cannot pretend they are feminine. Men have been wearing them since the dawn of civilisation, in all cultures and societies. Abraham, Sun Tsu, Eric the Red, Julius Caeser, Chris Colombus, Atahualpa, Genghis Khan, that prehistoric caveman that was found frozen in ice, all wore sandals.
Also "After almost a decade of these hybrid terms" Bullcrap. 90% of these I've never heard of, and I'm considering that the article made up half of them!