2008 Woodie Awards
The birds, bees and Murray State
Whitney Harrod
Issue date: 8/22/08 Section: Features
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These racy girls from next door - maybe not - Manhattan, may seem shallow or too materialistic at times, but when it all comes down to it, they're fun, flirty and setting the standard of how our dating lives should progress.
Okay, fine. They set the standard of every mess a girl can easily get herself in - sometimes good and usually juicy for story-telling the next day. Their lives are guilty pleasures for me to easily compare and contrast how and how not I want my dating life to evolve.
You may not even know that the show was actually inspired by columnist Candace Bushnell, who wrote the original column called "Sex and the City." She dalt with the real-life quest for love, as does her protégé Carrie.
By combining her talent as a writer and her not-so-successful plight as a single girl in the city, she used her initials C.B. to hit the literary and R-rated television jackpot.
Well, obviously it's too late for me to hit a similar jackpot with my wittiness and my 90th percentile writing skills.
Over the next semester, however, I will entertain you, the reader of Murray State with stories and advice (you may or may not want to take) about (drumroll, please) the birds flying and the bees swarming in and around the faces and places of the guys who don't behave and the gals who only think they behave better.
I did some research to see how and who coined the phrase dealing with the birds and the bees (if you're wondering about the name of this column). I don't really see an obvious connection between the two creatures, except birds have a certain connotation of love - love birds, duh. And, birds do poop in the city where the Bradshaw girls congregate. And, bees do follow the orders of the Queen bee. Oh, they make honey, too. (Thus, how we arrive at the honey-do-list).
I have the pleasure to have known a plethora of them all: the atypically nice guy, the bad boy, the player, the normal yet boring guy, the I-can't-help-it-I'm-so-good-looking guy, the I'm-from-the-North-and-always-better-than-you-guy and my all-time favorite, the I-think-my-tractor's-sexy guy.
Don't worry. I don't plan to leave you out, boys. Girls can equally be unpredictable and unconventional in how they act, think and breathe on a day-to-day basis.
On top of starting classes and adjusting to new schedules, you may be on the verge of starting, continuing or ending relationships or, for a lack of better terms, "friendly" flings. Be careful with romance and definitely have an open mind. Carrie did, after all, marry Big in the end of her designer journey.
Brace yourself because maybe, just maybe, you may find yourself one day tacking your and your love's soccer cleats and high heels to the shoe tree in the quad.
Whitney Harrod can be reached at
whitney.harrod@murraystate.edu.
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