Ladies, we all know that good men are hard to find. In today’s troubling times, it can be hard to find a dude that walks the fine line between being a retro man’s man and using more hair products than I do.
Maybe you, like me, saw the “Sex and the City” movie over the weekend and were a bit disgusted with all of the male characters (including Steve! Alas!). If that’s the case, NPR would like to point us ladies in the direction of that most mysterious of masculine men, “Star Trek’s” Mr. Spock.
Apparently, Mr. Spock is the “mystery of masculinity embodied.” Ok, fine. Whatever. But then the word “fascinating” is bandied about in the same sentence as “Leonard Nimoy”, and NPR starts to lose me. I know that the average public radio listener is a bit dorky, but Leonard Nimoy as a sex symbol?
(Matthew says – “I don’t know, dude, have you seen that Bilbo Baggins video?”)
Anyway, NPR points out, Spock’s character is mostly an example of the human struggle to contain emotions. Says Spock’s mother: “When you were 5 years old and came home stiff-lipped, anguished … I watched you knowing that, inside, the human part of you was crying.”
The NPR story also throws out some little-known facts about Mr. Spock: He seems to have a deep affection and even passionate relationship to Captain Kirk,” humanities professor Henry Jenkins says.
Fascinating!
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