On Being Debonair
November 9th, 2005
Dan Chou's Story of the Week
What exactly does being debonair mean?
According to dictionary.com:
1. Suave; urbane.
2. Affable; genial.
3. Carefree and gay; jaunty.
Popular culture has, as Dan Neil pointed out, equated being debonair with how a person looks. That is why James Bond is the epitome of a debonair gentleman. “To be debonair would seem to require observing a rigid code of appearances, that you can never laugh too loud, get a pimple or fail to execute the tango perfectly. To be debonair is to be a metrosexual with delusions of grandeur.”
Instead, debonair is much more of how people handle themselves. There are a lot of guys out there who want to be debonair, because that is very attractive to girls. However, I like how this article points out that you can’t buy being debonair. It’s about a person’s character.
It reminds me of our “grilling the pastors” on Friday night (see a few entries down). Some may say that chivalry is dead, and so for those guys who do practice acts of chivalry, they often get misinterpreted as being flirts. Instead, that’s how every guy should act. We all need to be gentlemen. But if we all aren’t, that’s fine with me too — that means those who are will just stick out more. I need to stop thinking about girls.
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