twisted tales posted by imani , Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 6:46 PM, in Labels: freefall

i'm with my best erick at starbucks shangri-la right now, getting caffeinated. today marks the onset of starbucks' tradition - so basically for the next few weeks, i'll be forced to chug liter after liter of starbucks' christmas blends so i may get their 2010 limited edition planner - preferably with the help of friends ahaha.

so we started our coffee session with one question: is chivalry dead?

i was asking erick if i daunt men. well, i actually feel that there always seem to be an issue when i am seen with a girl at work but that never happened when they see me with a guy. i think it's because everyone knows that i am not really interested in men nyahaha.

so erick said even if he knows some guys who actually like me but i don't just daunt them, i strike fear in their hearts (so poetic, dofa, really nice).

speaking of men - we agreed that there isn't a guy on this earth who would want to rescue a damsel in distress. saving them was never part of the plan, however, getting into their pants is. tough but true. my doyen quipped that if his species will hear him talk like this he'd be excommunicated. i say he'd probably be stoned to death. thank god he did not exist in the era of the crusades.

who thought of chivalry? why would they call it chivalry when there's always a reason why they would rescue a damsel. and the three main reasons are: sex, money and power. and in that order.

take for example the fairy tales that we all grew up reading:

beauty and the beast - beast apparently took belle captive in the hopes that she would fall in love with him and ultimately break the curse. it is very obvious that beast wouldn't have wasted his precious time impressing the girl if he could do something all by himself to lift the curse. belle was really hot, but he just wanted to get in her pants.

snow white/cinderella/sleeping beauty - it wasn't fate that brought the princes and princesses together. it was testosterone. why would they want to battle evil stepmothers, witches or seven naughty dwarves (the bastardized version of snow white) if they know they can't score?

alladin - why else would alladin want to be with jasmine if not for her gold? i mean she probably smells like her pet tiger...and no sane guy would go for that.

i'll attempt to revisit other fairy tales - either through books or movies. but one thing is clear - the word chivalry was invented to prove how disillusioned women are - that there are 'nice' guys around. the word chivalry simply puts devious things in a positive light.