What part makes the pollen? Gamma asked me.
I pointed to the flower. There, I said. That’s called the stamen. It’s like the flower’s penis. The bee flies in looking for nectar and picks up pollen from the stamen and flies to the next flower and some pollen gets on the second flower’s pistil, which is like that flower’s vagina and ovaries and so on, I said.
Okay, Gamma said.
Honey, aren’t you supposed to use flowers and birds and bees as a metaphor for human reproduction and not the other way around? Alpha said.
i’m totally going to steal alpha from you some day when you aren’t looking. something irresistible about a woman who knows which way to point her metaphor.
she is quite irresistable.
I’m going to have to look up the public health stats for this: what’s the rate of death or serious injury from reckless mis-handling of metaphors in American households? Of course we’d expect Europe to have stricter regulation of rhetorical devices.
Alpha definitely is pretty cool! But I knew that before.
I’m not sure the bees and the flowers are good metaphor at all. Watch bumblebees collecting pollen and nectar — no sensitivity, no foreplay, just Wham Bam Thank You Ma’am.
Of course, sometimes I think that it IS a good metaphor, and that women are just unreasonable.
Now I’m thinking, are the bees kinda like little flying pimps?