The Great Mate Debate: Hell Bent For Leather

Posted by: Greg and Amiira Behrendt
Topic: What’s the allure of bad boys, bad girls, and bad relationships?

Leather, there is something about a man or woman that can wear leather right that is so appealing. Not everyone can wear leather well. I for one (Amiira) look ridiculous in leather. I (Greg) won’t even wear a baseball mitt. But anyone who can pull off a pair of leather pants is a badass and they know it and they are not wasting there sorry time with you when they could have anyone and do!

Our opinion is the allure of bad boys, bad girls and bad relationships is two fold. First there is the challenge of taming the rebel, saving the soul and the romantic idea of pulling someone back from the edge that would surely have been lost without you. And what could be second to that? When that damaged piece of human beauty chooses you to save them, at least for the moment. Being “chosen” by a bad boy/bad girl will make up for every crushing romantic episode you’ve suffered through and validate you as a desirable human being… or at least that’s how the story’s supposed to go. That my friends is sweet revenge! Getting yourself into a total nightmare with an unstable, self-loathing, jack ass who will surely make your life a living hell and run over your heart with a thousand razorblades just to show everybody else that you’re some lame ass’ version of having it all when in fact all you have is trouble.

Certainly there is some truth in the fact that the things we can’t have are the ones that become so appealing to us because if we finally do get then we think we may resolve something we are lacking. And also anyone with a motorcycle, a band. or leather pants who forgets to call you and sleeps with your roommate the day after you've agreed to be exclusive is just good time!

(Note to people who might take this blog too seriously: We in no way mean to imply that all people who wear leather are heartless bad asses…just the ones that look good in it.)