He opens doors for you, pulls your chair out for you, and pays for dates.
He golfs with his dad and goes out on the boat with his family on the weekends.
He calls his mom "ma'am."
He got into every school he applied for, because he was on the football team, the basketball team, AND a member of National Honor Society in high school.
His fraternity throws the most kick-ass parties this side of the Mason-Dixon line.
And he wears bowties.
What is this wonderful, seemingly unreal creature I am referring to? The southern gentleman, of course. Southern gentlemen are few and far between. Many men claim to be southern gentlemen, but they don't actually fit the bill, 98% of the time because they're only trying to get in your pants or because they're just plain rude. A real southern gentleman exudes confidence and makes everyone around him feel comfortable.
The best example of a true southern gentleman was written in 1899 by John Walter Wayland for the Chicago Sun-Times (yes, I know this is the creed for SAE):
The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble another; who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others, rather than his own; and who appears well in any company, a man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe.
- John Walter Wayland
Everyone loves southern gentlemen, but sorority girls love them the most.
Keep it classy and fabulous!
xoxo,
Laura
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