Victor was raised by his mom and two older sisters- oh yeah, his Dad pitched in too.  Dad schooled him in the fine art of spitting, cussing and other related guy stuff.  But by being the only boy and the youngest, he was kind of fussed over.  Well, some might call it “fussed” over, but I think he’d call it being nagged.  He was “instructed” on the importance of many life skills by his mom, sisters and female grade school teachers.  These requisite proper attributes included: to not fight, to be polite, to have manners, to bathe regularly, to cut his finger nails, comb his hair, not to wear stripes with plaids, to not wear wrinkled clothes, to eat his vegetables, to excuse himself, to not burp, to wait in line and not push, to pay attention, to not tease, to wash his hands, to be civil and obey authority.

Well, some of the stuff stuck, but some behaviors are woven too deep into his uncouth male fiber.  But without women, I believe men would still be living in caves, picking their nose and eating raw meat.  The main reason man invented the wheel and fire was to impress women; and we only learned to cook meat because women told us that it tastes better that way.  So there you have it, women have been positively influencing men since prehistoric times.  Thank goodness for our daughters, sisters, girlfriends, wives and mothers.

To Daughters, Sisters, Girlfriends, Wives and Mothers
With Love, from Victor and Boys Everywhere

Daughters make guys better people.  I am not quite sure what it is, but I suspect that we secretly want to give our daughters a better reference point regarding male behavior than the actual base traits we know lie bottled up deep inside us.  We offer them a sanitized and proper yard stick to measure their future boyfriends and husbands by.  So for our daughters, we do our best to demonstrate the behaviors of chivalry and gentlemanliness.  We work hard at concealing our goofy guy side, the rude, the aggressive and the foolhardiness of the male psyche.  These are the parts of the male brain that have dawdled behind on the evolutionary path.