Last night, my wife and I watched “We Were Soldiers…” It’s an outstanding but very bloody movie about the Vietnam War. My wife had seen it before but somehow I convinced her to settle in and watch it again. Which just goes to show you that it’s possible to be married and be a man. Aaron from cheesehead.tv weighed in the other day and BratsNBeerGuy offer his thoughts here. He couldn’t very well keep using BratsNBeerGuy if he gave us anything less manly than this:
Facing a similar situation last night — Mrs. BratsNBeerGuy decided she wanted to watch the movie Enchanted — I chose to watch hockey in the other room and was treated to a great performance by Madison native Phil Kessel.
And John Hinderaker, at Powerline, contributes to the discussion unintentionally, by noting that last night his wife watched a light heavyweight title bout with him. And it was her birthday.
Some of you might think I’m just pointing this out so that Andy can show this to his wife the next time she wants to watch “Dancing with the Stars.” That’s a good idea, but it’s not my motivation.
We understand that we’re on the verge of our 100,000 page view because of our overwhelmingly male readership. And while we welcome our female readers — especially PackerBelle — I just want to make sure that there’s no question we are men’s men here. Andy qualifies, too, despite his lame TV watching and, as we’ve seen below, he could be worse.
April 21, 2008 at 2:57 pm |
Hey, part of being a man’s man is watching girly TV and movies one you’re married. Heck, the smart ones who want to get married would be wise to brush of on their Jane Austen while dating someone they’d like to marry.
April 21, 2008 at 3:18 pm |
Fair point. I’m no troglodyte and I’m actually pro-Jane Austen. I guess there are two problems here. 1) Andy, by his own admission, had gone out and gotten a comedy video to watch only to collapse when his wife pleaded for “Pride and Prejudice.” 2) This is part of a pattern that I see with lots of my friends. There is lots of give — and give and give and give — but very little take. The true test will come this weekend, when we’ll see if Andy can go to, say, a sports bar to watch the NFL Draft w/his guy friends or maybe even take his wife with him. I’m betting no.
April 21, 2008 at 4:44 pm |
Thanks Cate – appreciate your support (though I am far from well-schooled in Jane Austen, still confusing her with Jane Eyre, Jane Mansfield, Dick and Jane…)
I do some taking, it’s just balanced, that’s all. I take when I drink a beer as she is preparing a high quality meal, I take time (leaving her with child) to get some golf in, Brewers games, playing music, general partying.
I actually won’t be able to watch the draft this year most likely. However, I am guessing I will have the chance to listen to it in its entirety on the radio – which worked well last year – feeding me with great biased/detailed local-interest tidbits of info.
April 21, 2008 at 7:26 pm |
We might as well come clean. Cate (see above is my wife). I admitted that I watched Pride and Prejudice before. But just to demonstrate how it all works out – Cate watched a lot of Packer games and all of the play offs with me last season. I have now turned her into a honest-to-goodness Packer fan. Just the other night she turned to me and said, “I can’t wait for Packer season.” And she is told me about this blog.