Men and wine?

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While reading a recent blog that deals out advice for men I saw, what I hope, was a joke about an article regarding men ordering wine as a means of attracting better women. Now, I can't be sure, since the post regarding the article was rather straight lipped. But when the the post went on and on about men not drinking beer, that ordering wine was the thing, I kept getting this funny feeling that my leg was being pulled. And I hope it was. Either that of the author was back, fresh from a "Be Beta or Less" seminar.

No, wine is fine. For home consumption, on rare occasions such as high dining with the dame de delight, or just as a rare thing just because. But for social events I will sooth my taste buds and nerves if needed with a bit o' barley and hops in a glass sans glass preferably. Further, while looking for a mate, I am not going to give up my choices to hope to please some unknown potential Miss or even Misses. It won't happen. She will know who and what I am up front. I suggested if the men were going to begin kowtowing to some anonymous woman's wishes before they even meet her perhaps they ought to just hand her their junk, car keys, house, and whatever else she will take in the divorce.

Now one commenter piped in about how elegant ordering wine is to a potential mate. He, of course, has an income double the baseline wealthy, at least. No, I won't jump on that. If you have it, great. What I will say is when you have the kind of money to self select, you can do pretty much whatever your pampered butt wants. But in real America, in any of the bars or joints I've been in, if you order wine and you are male, you might as well do it in a dress. Further, one thing you will note? Kings, Emperors, Clergy, and academics on stage... all do wear dresses, essentially. Oh, call it what you will. It is a sign of power to do what would get a common man beat in the street for doing. Lets not play games.

If you don't have the money, power, fame, or some combinations of such, don't try to pull off some things. Don't. Even then be careful where you try it. I doubt if he has been in a bar where the drinks cost less than an average hourly wage, as a regular patron and ordering wine anyway, in... maybe never. While I did learn to do my own thing, and became handily powerful enough to enforce my ability to do so, I also learned that there are limits for the common boy and man. I would love to see him forced to live on my income, in my world, and try ordering wine at my joints. I don't know if he was serious, which would mean he is delusional about much of the real world... or was joking to see who would play along... or what.

Beside that, as I said, if you like beer, drink beer. If you happen to like wine, fine, do that, but be a little discrete about it. Just know there may be real social hits. And just because some woman prefers wine drinkers? Don't think all, or even a majority, or just the pretty ones do. Be yourself, do your thing up to a point, that is all. Some people's kids...