Yes, it's a cliche. During a writing course I was once taking, the instructor said at some point that cliches aren't entirely bad or inert as long as the writing goes beyond the initial sentiment, and makes a more intelligent claim or extraction.
Men are pigs.
It is so apparent to most people, actually, that I had trouble finding an available domain name for this blog. The site name "menarepigs.blogspot.com" was taken, as was "menrpigs." So naturally I had to do a bit of abstraction. I tried "pigfarm," "thepigfarm" and "oinkoinkoink." All taken taken taken. I thought maybe I'd use "pigpharm" but that would have lead to redoing the banner, which I didn't exactly feel like doing. Eventually, I settled with a line from probably the first song I ever learned, if only I had really listened to the lyrics when I was younger: "everywhere an oink oink."
Men are pigs.
No, it's too simple. All men are pigs. As one and as one who dates them, I know this as fact. All men are pigs. I really can't say it--or type it, for that matter--enough. And I can't seem to intellectualize or complicate the idea to make it more revelatory. If there was one simple truth I can distill from young adult life, it is that all men of any age are boys. And by that, I mean pigs.
Men are pigs.
It is so apparent to most people, actually, that I had trouble finding an available domain name for this blog. The site name "menarepigs.blogspot.com" was taken, as was "menrpigs." So naturally I had to do a bit of abstraction. I tried "pigfarm," "thepigfarm" and "oinkoinkoink." All taken taken taken. I thought maybe I'd use "pigpharm" but that would have lead to redoing the banner, which I didn't exactly feel like doing. Eventually, I settled with a line from probably the first song I ever learned, if only I had really listened to the lyrics when I was younger: "everywhere an oink oink."
Men are pigs.
No, it's too simple. All men are pigs. As one and as one who dates them, I know this as fact. All men are pigs. I really can't say it--or type it, for that matter--enough. And I can't seem to intellectualize or complicate the idea to make it more revelatory. If there was one simple truth I can distill from young adult life, it is that all men of any age are boys. And by that, I mean pigs.
