10/01/00 -- When Good Girls like Bad Boys

Or Bad Girls like Good Boys?

Okay, so I'm listening to Denis Leary and thinking about how cool his character in Suicide Kings was, and how cool Christopher Walken's character was.  They're bad guys, sorta, though they wind up being the good guys, too.  And I start thinking about other bad boys, and I start wondering, What is it about bad boys, anyway?

And I'm not sure I really have an answer, but I know I'm not the only girl in the world who likes bad boys, who finds the villain attractive, who thinks the guy on the edge is kinda sexy.

Is it the thought that maybe we can save them?  Change them?  Nah.  I'm not out to change anyone.  And I'm not sure I can save anyone, either.

Is it just that opposites attract?  I doubt it.  I'm not sure who would classify me as a "good girl".  Maybe someone, maybe not.

I don't know.  There's just something attractive about some of the bad boys in the world, about some of the villians, some of the rebels.  There's that edge to them, the haze of danger, the fantasy.

And maybe that's what it boils down to.  We're in it for the fantasy.  Maybe it wouldn't be so exciting to be around the bad boys if we had to pick up their socks and change the toilet paper roll when they leave it empty.