Men
Let's talk men. Tall ones, short ones, wide ones, narrow ones. (Oh, don't roll your eyes, Trace. This isn't going to be like that!)
I seriously love men. I don't mean just in a physical, sensual way but I love the way they think and talk and walk and play and work. I think if I was a scientist I would just study men.
That said I'm also completely baffled by them.
Why do they think "The Three Stooges" are funny no matter how old they are?
Why do they remember every line from the movie "Godfather" and quote them with the smallest prompting? In the same vein, why do they roll their eyes when women talk about movies like "An Affair to Remember" or "Sleepless in Seattle"?
Why do they have remote envy?
(Psst...remote envy is when you have control of the television remote, they get impatient and squirmy in their chairs like they're being attacked by killer gnats.)
I don't have the answers to these questions but I'm willing to spend the rest of my natural life trying to get them. Perhaps that's one of the reasons I love writing fiction. Within the realm of my characters, I can assign my "men" logical, reasonable reasons for doing the things they do. I try hard to accomplish that even when my "men" are being hard-headed. And yes, even "characters" are hard-headed just like real men.
Take Oliver Robinson whose story, Hero Adrift, was released by Amber Quill this month. http://www.amberquill.com/HeroAdrift.html
He screwed up. He believed his own press and then when things went from sugar to, well, you know, his original response was to throw everything away. You see, Oliver was a hero. But he was ready to turn his back on his role and life and just say forget it, I'm done.
Abby Smithton wasn't about to allow that to happen. She knew that real heros aren't just given the job, it's who they are. It took a while Abby and me to convince Oliver that we were right, but in the end, we prevailed.
In real life, I'm still going to struggle to find the answers to ulock the mysteries of my real "hero" . Let's just hope my fictional "heros" don't start taking lessons from him!
Trixie Stilletto
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I seriously love men. I don't mean just in a physical, sensual way but I love the way they think and talk and walk and play and work. I think if I was a scientist I would just study men.
That said I'm also completely baffled by them.
Why do they think "The Three Stooges" are funny no matter how old they are?
Why do they remember every line from the movie "Godfather" and quote them with the smallest prompting? In the same vein, why do they roll their eyes when women talk about movies like "An Affair to Remember" or "Sleepless in Seattle"?
Why do they have remote envy?
(Psst...remote envy is when you have control of the television remote, they get impatient and squirmy in their chairs like they're being attacked by killer gnats.)
I don't have the answers to these questions but I'm willing to spend the rest of my natural life trying to get them. Perhaps that's one of the reasons I love writing fiction. Within the realm of my characters, I can assign my "men" logical, reasonable reasons for doing the things they do. I try hard to accomplish that even when my "men" are being hard-headed. And yes, even "characters" are hard-headed just like real men.
Take Oliver Robinson whose story, Hero Adrift, was released by Amber Quill this month. http://www.amberquill.com/HeroAdrift.html
He screwed up. He believed his own press and then when things went from sugar to, well, you know, his original response was to throw everything away. You see, Oliver was a hero. But he was ready to turn his back on his role and life and just say forget it, I'm done.
Abby Smithton wasn't about to allow that to happen. She knew that real heros aren't just given the job, it's who they are. It took a while Abby and me to convince Oliver that we were right, but in the end, we prevailed.
In real life, I'm still going to struggle to find the answers to ulock the mysteries of my real "hero" . Let's just hope my fictional "heros" don't start taking lessons from him!
Trixie Stilletto
Visit my website at: http://www.trixiestilletto.com
Join my newsletter group at:
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posted by TrixieS at 11:00 AM
9 Comments:
Hey Trixie!
Oh I have a 3 boys and my hubby and they see everything differently than I do. Men/boys takes things to heart more than I think their given credit for. I also have a couple of hard heads and can't figure why!
Robin: Yikes, three boys? So you're out-numbered 4-1? Whew. I always tell everyone that you don't want the four-legged family members to out-number the two-legged ones unless you want anarchy (of course that doesn't matter with the felines!) but at least you've managed to keep you sense of humor!
Trixie we even out if you count the three female dogs we have. LOL! Two german shepards and a shepard/lab mix. I have let them all know though I'm queen bitch! LOL.
You know you were talking about men and the things they remember using movies as a reference. It makes me laugh because my older boys have their girlfriends over to watch movies and there is a big difference in what they watch depending on who picked it out. I also notice the boys always happen to fall asleep when it's not their choice. Gee I just want to go in and smack them up side their head. LOL.
Trixie,
LOL, I can't figure men out, either, though I have to admit I find the stooges funny at times. Some kind of genetic malfunction, I suppose.
A few years ago, I decided that the basic incompatibility of men and women is the great cosmic joke.
Robin, sounds like your boys are typical guys. That's not a bad thing, even if they fall asleep during chick flicks.
Lyndi
Robin: Good for you on the female dogs. And you deserve to be the Queen!
Lyndi: I think the Stooges are kinda funny -- not for 14 straight which is what my husband did a couple of weekends ago when football had ended and all the basketball games here were not shown because of a local telethon. LOL
I don't find men all that hard to understand, but then, mine is outnumbered 5-1 (counting the dog and cat) so maybe he's just well-trained. :)
The Stooges only "kinda funny"? HILARIOUS, you mean!!!!!!! Fourteen straights hours is akin to heaven!!!!
Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk...hey, Moe, hey, Moe...
Men really are wonderful creatures, aren't they? They're hard on the outside, hard on the inside, hard-headed, hard of hearing... hard... err... I'm distracting myself here. LOL
Lacey
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Amen to that Lacey. I can't tell you the number of times my DH tells me I NEVER told him something. This is either right before or right after he tells me I'm nagging him to death. LOL I say this because yesterday (Monday), I went through married hell. Furniture shopping. Well, let's say, when we were done, the salesman looked at me with such empathy in her eyes we had to laugh out loud. Of course, then DH says, "What's so funny?"
But it's the hard parts that make us love them, right?
And don't think I'm going to let that yuk, yuk, post disappear, T.C....we know whose side you're on.
Trixie
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