You’d be forgiven for assuming that these footage have so many followers as a result of seeing the previous Shameless star lug round armfuls of peonies permits individuals (me) to think about he’s shopping for them for us (me), and that he’s on his method over with takeout for 2 and one thing else regular, like an engagement ring, hidden inside a photograph scrapbook of our relationship.
You’ll be fallacious.
Again in 2016 (bear with me), there was frequent chatter on-line a few particular breed of straight man, one with a single stained pillow on his full-sized mattress (which, evidently, didn’t have a mattress body). The sort of man who by no means bothered to purchase hand cleaning soap (simply used bathe gel), whose kitchen cabinets contained two plate-bowls, a mug, a fork, and three large tubs of cookies and cream protein powder. A person who, when you introduced any of this up, would make out prefer it made complete sense for him to be extremely explicit concerning the model of premium olive oil he used and which designer he obtained his white T-shirts from, however nonetheless use the fading bedsheets his mother obtained him for school, 15 years post-graduation. Properly, my concept is concerning this archetype.
I’m going to imagine, from the regularity and scale (huge and inconvenient) of Jeremy’s purchases, that he’s shopping for them for himself relatively than as items. He’s looking the flower stalls for his seasonal faves, choosing up spiky ones, orange ones, leafy ones (paradoxically, I really know so little about flowers that I’m unable to establish his regulars), and heaving all of them house to rearrange in Hay vases whereas he makes soup or roasts a rooster and listens to, I don’t know, Throwing Matches, or no matter males who put on numerous Lacoste like. This completely fictional impression of him—as a straight man who buys flowers for himself after which indulges in arranging them—is the entire reverse of “man with one pillow,” and that’s what makes it irresistible to me, a girl in my 30s.
A straight man repeatedly shopping for flowers for his house is mainly a rejection of the long-inherited and sometimes unconscious perception many lads maintain that making an area look considerably fairly isn’t one thing for them to fret about. (It’s the identical logic that may lead ladies in heterosexual relationships to do extra cleansing, as a result of their companions declare they don’t really thoughts watching TV amidst a forest of outdated espresso cups.)
