I *really* don't understand humans.
May. 1st, 2003 09:38 amYesterday I snarked at
botanist_keiko for her immature and primitive hysterical jealousy of the blatantly-obvious-and-yet-they-won't-admit-it relationship between her husband
smiley_miles and
doctor_bashir.
So she asked me out to dinner.
Humans can still surprise me reasonably often. To an entity who's billions of years old and has seen and done it all, that's a very valuable trait.
I also have to confess that after being turned down by two starship captains and a thief (not that the thief wasn't doing me a big, big favor by getting out of my life when she did), I find it flattering to have humans throwing themselves at me, even if the objective is obviously just to make her husband jealous. (As for whether he has anything to be jealous *of*... well, a Q doesn't kiss and tell, but if I claimed I'd been a perfect gentleman would anyone actually believe me? :-))
But this human monogamy thing. Also this human desire to deny same-sex attraction. You people have *got* to get *over* it.
So she asked me out to dinner.
Humans can still surprise me reasonably often. To an entity who's billions of years old and has seen and done it all, that's a very valuable trait.
I also have to confess that after being turned down by two starship captains and a thief (not that the thief wasn't doing me a big, big favor by getting out of my life when she did), I find it flattering to have humans throwing themselves at me, even if the objective is obviously just to make her husband jealous. (As for whether he has anything to be jealous *of*... well, a Q doesn't kiss and tell, but if I claimed I'd been a perfect gentleman would anyone actually believe me? :-))
But this human monogamy thing. Also this human desire to deny same-sex attraction. You people have *got* to get *over* it.
Didn't you make fun of me for doing this?
Date: 2003-05-01 10:46 am (UTC)Jerk.
Also hypocrite. (See, I *do* know more than one word.)
No hypocrisy here.
Date: 2003-05-01 10:51 am (UTC)Observing a tottering house of cards and putting just a teeny tiny card on the top to see if it will finally collapse is a very Q-like thing to do. I am utterly consistent.
Still a jerk.
Date: 2003-05-01 11:04 am (UTC)You are such a jerk.
Because it's so much better...
Date: 2003-05-01 11:11 am (UTC)It's exactly *because* I have a child, and experience in the matter of hating your child's other parent, that this strikes me as a perfectly valid thing to do.
People who have nothing but resentment and anger for each other should break the hell up and share custody as far away from each other as possible. Believe me, this I know all too well.