Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice

Last night I got to thinking about how unfair the nursery rhyme What Little Boys Are Made Of is. Little boys are made of snips of snails and puppy tails while girls are made of everything nice?!? Hmmm. Much too sexist I would have to say. 

I would have to admit that for a long time, I’ve held on to the idea that men are jerks. The operative word here being HELD ON TO. Last night I was proven wrong, once again, by good men behavior Admittedly they may be far and few between, but they do still exist. 

It may have been coincidence,  but I would like to believe it was synchronicity, but  when I got home, I caught an rerun of Sex and the City. and it was the episode where Miranda hooked up with Steve, the bartender, and he was trying to get to know her and all, but she remained cynical about men.  Then towards the end of the episode, Mr. Big cancelled on dinner with Carrie and her friends and she was obviously so disappointed (how apt…it was called Denial!). To make the long story short, Carrie was getting chewed on by Miranda about how typical it was for men to be jerks and to flake on their girls yadiyadiya then out of nowhere, he came. See, guys aren’t always so bad after all.

So going back to what I was saying, because of yesterday, plus the converging of the stars (aka having more male counterparts at the office that prove to me that there are indeed nice (REAL) guys, as well as my male undergrad students who are polite, decent and sincere), I have to admit: men can also be made of sugar and spice and everything nice.

Now if only I knew where to find them…