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Living With Difficult Women [Tuesday, Period 5]

As the students arrived in class for the day, Max looked over them thoughtfully. He'd roughly divided them into into three categories: those who got exactly what the class was about and why it mattered, those who didn't, and the difficult women who had somehow gotten into the class through various errors in what he was sure was a massive conspiracy intended to drive him insane. The first group was fine, and there wasn't anything he could do about the third group. The second group, however... well, he was going to make one last attempt to help them move into the first group. Or at least closer to it.

He took a deep breath and began. "Some of you know why the skills this class seeks to teach are extremely important," and some of them were the reason those skills were important, but Max was good at this so he knew better than to actually point that out, "but some of you don't know any difficult women." Which was something Max found hard to believe, especially given the students he knew from Fandom, but he wasn't going to discount the possibility. After all, and again: Fandom.

"So today's lecture will, hopefully, be short while being highly illustrative at the same time."

Max began pacing slowly back and forth in front of the class as he continued. "While some of you don't know any difficult women at this stage in your lives, you're all still young enough that you might one day be lucky enough for that to change." He paused and swept his eyes across the room. "Last week we talked about the difficult women you can't avoid because they're family or because their friends of people you want to spend time with. This week I us to examine those same women from a different angle: why they're worth knowing."

"I mentioned the woman a good friend of mine is besotted with. And I've met few more difficult women in my life, let me tell you." Which was saying something since, you know, it was Max. "But while she's incredibly infuriating most of the time, and seems to derive an uncomfortable degree of enjoyment from driving me crazy, I can't think of anyone I'd rather have break me out of a magically-warded maximum-security prison after I was falsely accused beating a bastard nearly to death." Not that this had actually happened, of course. Max was, after all, simply a lowly soldier.

Though Max probably would have nearly beaten the bastard to death if he'd actually had the chance...

"The point I'm making is that even if you don't know any difficult women right now, you need to pay attention and learn the skills I'm trying to impart to you because it turns out that the women it's useful to have around often turn out to be difficult." And competent, compelling, attractive, or even all-of-the-above. Not that he was about to admit any of that in a room containing difficult women. "It's important to know how to live with difficult women because much of the time simply avoiding them isn't a very good response, especially in the long run."

"Last week we talked about difficult women we know. This week we're going to talk about why it's worth figuring out how to live with them. You may, if you wish, pick a different woman from the one you spoke about last week." After all, who didn't know multiple difficult women? He looked around a bit doubtfully again. "For those of you who don't know any difficult women," he still didn't believe you, really, "feel free to mention a difficult woman you've heard of who it might be useful to know. Now," he pointed randomly, "you first."

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Hannibal King

Hurley Reyes

Arthur Pendragon

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Which Max really hopes doesn't get back to any of the difficult women he knows... present company excepted, of course

Hannibal could work with this lecture a lot better than he could with pointing out flaws in specific girls he knew. At least, here, he didn't have to share any little things in an effort to fulfill the class activity. He could do this one.

You've got your instructions, get to it

"Figure it's worth it because there's a lot more good than difficult," he said, shrugging. "If you can't deal with the bad, you might want to get out before getting to see the good. Or something."

And there was the sex but it wasn't like Hannibal would say that out loud in a class full of girls.

"All people have something to offer. No matter how difficult they might be." Helen offered. Many of the males she knew fell into the difficult category in her mind.

"My issue is more with difficult men," Leia said. Family aside.

Max eyed her with a slight frown. "What do you mean?" How could men be difficult?

"Men who think they know what's best for you," Leia said. No, she didn't have anyone in mind at all for that description, why do you ask? "Men who think of nothing but power." There were also men that didn't think with their brains, but given she sometimes encouraged that, she didn't feel like bringing that up at the time.

"Hear, hear," Aravis said, nodding at the other girl. "Men are hardly exempt from accountability, and I rather need methods to cope with them."

Leia looked over to Aravis and smiled, glad to find an ally. "Yes," she said. "If I were to add up all the 'difficulties' I've faced or will face, I think the men's side would be ten times as large as the women's."

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"I agree. I have met far more difficult men than difficult women!"

Her father and the priests leapt quickly to mind.

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"Because kissing another man isn't that appealing to me," Mat said with a little smirk, "and so that leaves women, and dealing with ones who are wet blankets is hardly interesting."

Max grinned in what was most certainly approval at Mat's response, and he nodded. "That is an excellent point." And one he agreed with whole-heartedly.

"We have differing perspectives," Aravis said, keeping a lid on her temper this week. "I speak as a woman who may be considered difficult, but I can think in a way that the men with whom I live never consider."

"People--" Not necessarily women. "--who are hard to get to know or take work to understand are sometimes the most loyal friends you'll ever have, if you put in the effort," Francine answered, a little surprised at herself that she had an answer besides her usual default to denying there was any difficulty to start with.

"'Cause difficult don't mean impossible and sometimes workin' for something makes it worth more," Ino said. "And difficult people tend to have their reasons for being difficult."

"I think this is, like, the big reason why I don't think anyone I know is really, you know, difficult Mr. Teacher Dude," Hurley said. "I mean, my mom is kinda tough on me. But I'd never say she was difficult or anything because... she's my mom. I love her and she's always been there for me. She's tough because she loves me and wants better for me, you know?"