The Perfect Mate: A Man With A Shovel
February 10, 2010 by blackgirlgrown
Filed under life
Several feet of snow and a continuing blizzard is enough to adjust your thinking when it comes to the qualities you want in a significant other. After shoveling more than three feet of snow, random men with shovels coming over the snow horizon look downright sexy. Who knew? Kathleen Parker has a great opinion piece in the Washington Post about men and their shovels.
Much time and many volumes have been devoted to Freud’s famous question — What do women want? — with little commensurate attention to the male counterpart.
What do men want?
The simple answer is well-known, but a more nuanced answer has presented itself the past several days during Washington’s “Snowmageddon.”
Shovels. Men want shovels, the bigger the better.
No sooner had the first flakes begun falling in this crippling winter smackdown than the attendant quiet was interrupted by the scrape of metal against brick.
There was Craig, festooned in a winter-defiant red jacket, battling snow with his Great Big Snow Shovel. Barely a doughnut’s dusting had settled on the sidewalk, but one can never get started too soon in the battle against accumulations to come.
Lest I be accused of sexist stereotyping, let me tweak the record to reflect that many women were also out clearing sidewalks and unearthing cars no longer identifiable as such. But most women do these things because they must, while men apparently can’t wait to do them.
She’s damn right. This blackgirlgrown is shoveling snow because she must. Prince Charming, please come with a shovel…and carry-out. Read Kathleen Parker’s entire column.
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