Litigation

Author Argues Guys Vs. Men

By Angel L. Reyes, III

In yesterday's New York Times, Cathleen Calbert urged women to "Forget the men. Pick a guy."

Guys are often in between things like jobs and houses, which means they're more likely to stay up with you all night, drinking wine and playing gin rummy. They'll rub your belly. They'll lick chocolate off it. They'll like your cute little dog. A guy is never going to shoot Old Yeller in the woods.

Men like innocuous dress shirts or pastel polos with colors as nauseating as chewable Tums. Do men want to be guys? I don't think men know guys exist, at least not as a permanent condition. They assume guys are boys who haven't manned up yet.

The column gets a little darker and reveals things from her past that explain why Cathleen has a preference for guys and generally dislikes men, but  as a person who checks the "male" box when a Dr.'s Office form asks my sex, I hope there's a happy medium. Muys? Gen?

Then there's always Mike Gundy:

Full post as published by Angel Reyes Blog on September 21, 2009 (boomark / email).