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A long time ago, in
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I "celebrated" Relationship Week here on the Festival. The week has long since expired, but I'm still dealing with fallout from the relationship, and it came to my attention that someone emailed me a response to the "why do girls go after bad boys?" question. The email came to be before I left for Flore-da, so I didn't see it for 3 weeks and then lost track of it in the process of school starting. Here, finally, is the insight from yet another faithful reader:
remember in kindergarten when the teacher said, "good morning kids, we are now going to effect a snowman out of these mint leaves, trident wrappers, and pieces of construction paper."
what did the boys do?
mint leaves = food
trident wrappers = spitballs
construction paper = paper airplanes
what did the girls do?
"excuse me, Miss Lippy? is this supposed to be a girl snowman or a boy snowman?"
The point being that girls love a project. We find much of our worth in being able to repair and improve, especially in regards to people and their problems. If we can take a bad boy and turn him into Mr. Sensitive, then we have achieved a success greater than any corporate promotion. There is something enchanting about the thought of having a relationship with "the perfect man" who is really a product of our creative instinct. I think it would also be worthy to note that dating a man in need of improvement helps to decrease our feelings of vulnerability and inadequacy. Until he is "fixed" (no pun intended), he is not worthy of us. Thus if something in the relationship goes awry and it ends prematurely, we suffer no permanent emotional damage. to be real honest with you it's all about control. in that we like lots of it.
So there you have it, girls are control freaks trying to mold guys into their own image like some sort of Frankenstein's monster. In honor of this revisiting of Relationship Week, there's a great article on ESPN.com about why guys communicate by quoting lines from movies written from the point of view of a very confused female who has regrettably never seen Office Space.
And finally, in a scene reminscent of Free Willy (if it were rated R), a fisherman was killed when a whale jumped onto his boat, splintering it in pieces. Apparently the whale jump-a-thon was not fatal for everyone, but "the survivors were not able to identify the type of whale, which they described as "very large."" Well that narrows it down.
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