This is a picture of EE Carter’s husband.
He’s every man you wish you man could be – just like the Old Spice commercial.
He’s our secret lover, our book boyfriend. He is every romantic fantasy rolled into one.
Can you identify them all?
Have you ever imagined what every book boyfriend would be like if you rolled up every type of romantic leading man into one?
I did and came up with this image here.
It’s a picture of my husband.
Stop laughing.
It is truly… sure, he might be hard pressed to see the resemblance himself, but he is my romantic hero.
I wrote a piece a few weeks back about the allure of the book boyfriend, so I won’t repeat it – you can check out the link here.
But I thought the image was too funny not to share.
Who I have missed out? Put your comments in answers below and if I get enough, I’ll create another PhotoShop montage mash-up!
ADDENDUM
A great post in Acculturated Magazine today on chivalry in the real world:
But many men will see the above examples as definitive evidence that chivalry is, well, stupid. Why leap to the defense of a woman you don’t even know if you might end up in the hospital—or the cemetery? Even if you get the better of the bad guy in a physical confrontation, you might still come away injured and/or facing a financially devastating lawsuit. And what if the woman doesn’t even appreciate a man coming to her defense? These days many young women resent even having doors opened for them. Just what is the upside of playing the white knight anymore?
These are very valid questions, and they are part of the reason that chivalry is dead to so many today. What are men to do?
The simple answer is that men must do their duty, as men have always been expected to do. Part of that duty means, as I wrote above, embracing the chivalric virtues of service to others and protection of the defenseless. I know that the reality is more complicated than that sounds, but there is no getting around the fact that morality and manhood require courage. The world needs—and has always needed—men willing to put themselves on the line to be gentlemen and heroes, willing to stand up to men of baser character and evil intent, even at personal risk. Without that, in a society in which able-bodied men do not selflessly step up to do the right thing, bad men will run rampant and the law of the jungle will prevail.