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leia131So, Andrew and I just spent about 20 minutes trying to come up with an example of a faithful man, akin to Penelope from The Odyssey, and we came up with nothing.
The closest thing I could think of was Harry during DH, watching Ginny's dot on the Marauder's Map all the time. But they were broken up at the time, so he could have done anything and not technically been unfaithful. Not that he had sex on his mind at the time. Or maybe he did. He was a 17 year old boy, after all. But I digress.
This is unacceptable. There must be faithful men. In all of history, mythology, literature, television, and cinema, there has to be at least one.
So I appeal to you, Toodles friends list. Someone must know of a faithful man!
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Date: 2008-06-27 12:53 am (UTC)Gatsby in the great Gatsby.
Lucius Vorenus in "Rome." Not that I expect you to know that reference, but it's a good one.
Smith in Sex and the City.
Rhett. Let us not forget Rhett. Sure, he MIGHT have slept with a hooker or two, MAYBE. That's a big maybe. We never really know for sure. But he sticks around with her whiny ass for YEARS just on the vain hope that one day she might potentially love him a little.
Pi in Life of Pi. Do you think he ever found another tiger as enchanting? No. Richard Parker was his one and only.
Heehee.
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Date: 2008-06-27 01:55 am (UTC)Awwww Rhett. How we love him.
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Date: 2008-06-27 11:53 am (UTC)Another very faithful man: Clark Kent. Damn he's faithful to the most oblivious woman in the world.
Johnny Cash could be argued that he was faithful to fault after he met Carter.
AFTER. lol.
That's my "in two minutes" list. Unless you mean faithful as Penelope to mean sat in a house crying for years? If that's the case then you'd be hardpressed to actually find a woman other than her to match the description. The problem with finding fictional faithful men is that the majority of heroes in the fictional world are men, and heroes have to have some sort of back story. And a back story of "and then he pined away" isn't as interesting as "Then he banged and banged and banged, but none of them would erase (enter random woman's name) from his mind."
Also, comparing to The Odyssey is just plain silly.
It was a silly book. That's my personal belief, I know there are arguments for it and I respect it as a primary source in archaeology. But it is a kind of silly book.
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Date: 2008-06-27 11:54 am (UTC)Just remembered that one.
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Date: 2008-06-27 02:47 pm (UTC)Take that.
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Date: 2008-06-27 03:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-27 03:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-27 03:26 pm (UTC)Andrew said that Clark isn't very faithful, but I don't really know very much about that, so I'm not going to put up a big argument.
And I wasn't looking for a man to sit around pining, I was just looking for one who was separated from his woman, for a long time, and did not sleep with everything that moved like Odysseus did. It was just that she's the extreme example of female fidelity.
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Date: 2008-06-27 03:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-27 04:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-27 05:12 pm (UTC)Oh dear goodness...
--Matty McHuh?
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Date: 2008-06-27 05:31 pm (UTC)Yeah.
And I'm proud.
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Date: 2008-06-27 08:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-27 10:37 pm (UTC)Boop!
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Date: 2008-06-27 10:55 pm (UTC)It actually took me a couple minutes to try and figure out if there was a Biblical Alanis...
Then I made the connection.
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Date: 2008-06-28 02:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-28 01:05 pm (UTC)