heard a country song on the radio that goes “you be my honeysuckle, i’ll be your honeybee” and immediately my first thought was like “you know when a honeybee pollinates a flower it’s not the *honeybee’s* pollen right???”
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like i assume this is a flirty joke about pollination but if you really think about it what he’s really saying is he wants to “pollinate” her with *some other guy’s* “pollen” which he carries to her on his thighs
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i don’t know why i’m so hung up on this but i’m just really bothered by imprecise metaphors. complimented me recently on how precise a metaphor i used was and i pride myself on that sort of thing
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hmm okay this is slightly better
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When I overthink these lyrics, i hear it as the attraction between the *species* honeybee and honeysuckle,
So like “you and me babe, we evolved over deep time to complete one another in lifetime after lifetime—without each other we’d cease to be, we are in effect a single being”
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I think its just like honeybees love honeysuckle and he loves her. I think youre over thinking it. Kind of like the lyrics to the song 'all I want is you' that are like "if I was a flower growing wild and free all I'd want is you to be my sweet honeybee"
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Fortunately, the nature aesthetics combined with sexual metaphor make such details moot for the average listener, whose exposure to the mechanics of flower sex are a vague and foggy memory from high school.
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flowers don't give birth to baby bees? my Texas-approved biology textbook begs to differ