The cherry-chocolate thing rings strangely with me in the story too, to be honest, and I can't quite figure out why... We don't see Doyle eating like that in the eps, but that doesn't mean that he couldn't have a fetish for chocolate-covered cherries... I'm pretty sure there were chocolate covered cherries back then, so it can't be that... Maybe it's the way he does it, which I know is all part of his fumbling attempted seduction of Bodie, and it's just not going right at all, so maybe it's that awkwardness I'm feeling...
I'm not sure that chocolate in general is a "girlie" thing - I've known lots of guys who love chocolate! They're not as vocal about it though, and I've never seen/heard any of them treat it in the same way as many women treat chocolate (guilty pleasure/shouldn't-break-my-diet/mustn't-eat-this/hide it somewhere in the house etc), mostly they just get on with eating it, and you can tell they're enjoying it a) cos they buy it and b) cos they look like they're enjoying it as they eat it! *g*
What does bug me in fics is when the lads are given those stereotypically female traits about something like chocolate or dieting or whatever. Men do diet, but they do it in a very different, less vocal way, than women do, from what I've seen. (Same sort of way they use moisturiser etc these days - they just get on with it as a practical thing, rather than talking about it... that said, maybe I've just not heard those conversations since it's a more recent thing - well, except that my ex-, yonks ago in the 80s/90s, used to nick my moisturiser, so not that new... the quantity of choice for them is, I guess, and the openness about it in marketing.... But I digress (who, me?)
So... there are times in fics when I'm perfectly comfortable with the lads thinking about their weight - and actually I was in Fire Held High and Away, because although Bodie thought about it and joked about it, he clearly wasn't angsting about it...) and others when I just want to scream...
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I'm not sure that chocolate in general is a "girlie" thing - I've known lots of guys who love chocolate! They're not as vocal about it though, and I've never seen/heard any of them treat it in the same way as many women treat chocolate (guilty pleasure/shouldn't-break-my-diet/mustn't-eat-this/hide it somewhere in the house etc), mostly they just get on with eating it, and you can tell they're enjoying it a) cos they buy it and b) cos they look like they're enjoying it as they eat it! *g*
What does bug me in fics is when the lads are given those stereotypically female traits about something like chocolate or dieting or whatever. Men do diet, but they do it in a very different, less vocal way, than women do, from what I've seen. (Same sort of way they use moisturiser etc these days - they just get on with it as a practical thing, rather than talking about it... that said, maybe I've just not heard those conversations since it's a more recent thing - well, except that my ex-, yonks ago in the 80s/90s, used to nick my moisturiser, so not that new... the quantity of choice for them is, I guess, and the openness about it in marketing.... But I digress (who, me?)
So... there are times in fics when I'm perfectly comfortable with the lads thinking about their weight - and actually I was in Fire Held High and Away, because although Bodie thought about it and joked about it, he clearly wasn't angsting about it...) and others when I just want to scream...