Animal Husbandry

Recursos bajos, bajos bajos: Hablar de lo mal que estás con tu actual lo-que-sea como método de levante.

Me sorprendería que hubiera gente tan miserable, pero acabo de recordar que Someone Like You tiene toda una escena al respecto:

Every bull begins a relationship with certain cards up his sleeve. Aces. Tools of seduction by which he lures a new cow. One of the most notorious examples is the current cow sob story. Allow me to deconstruct the essential elements.

-You're so easy to talk to, not like my current cow.

This is key to understanding the myth of male shyness, for though you think he is flattering you, he is actually flattering himself, showing how open and sensitive and honest he is.

-I just try so hard and... Well, I'm sure she doesn't mean to be such a cold cow.

Just in case you're starting to think he's a coldhearted, home-wrecking womanizer, he'll throw this in just to prove he's putting his current cow out to pasture for good reason, and that he's actually tormented with guilt at the thought of abandoning her.

-What's that thing they always say about the love of a good woman?

That, once offered, it's guaranteed to come back... and bite her in the ass.

(Había olvidado cuánto me marcó esa película)

(Y, como siempre, creo que las mujeres somos igualmente capaces de esa canallada -quizás aun más que los hombres-)