This is also really interesting, because here he is, judging the hell out of this margarita. But according to Man Rules, you’re allowed to drink margaritas in Cancun (and only in Cancun). And coincidence of coincidences, Cancun is like the first thing Dean mentions in the very next scene.
He wanted that fucking drink.
Lol, I didn’t know about that specific Man Rule XD As I was watching, I assumed the scene was about Dean not picking the alcoholic drink, while repeatedly in the course of the episode he drinks or wants to drink coffee, or beer. You know, the theme of Dean drinking coffee instead of spirits (the ‘bad alcohol’ opposed to beer that doesn’t count as bad alcohol because it’s invested with symbolical meanings of family, love, etc.). I guess it’s both XD
Men may only order brown drinks. Beer, whiskey, scotch, etc. He might
be able to get away with a clear drink (e.g. gin, vodka etc) but only if
he has the presence to pull it off.
Men are allowed a “girly”
drink if they are on a date, with their gf or wife PROVIDED that she
drinks one too. Also the man is limited only to what she is drinking.
Example, if she orders a margarita, he may order one – but it must be of
the same kind.
Men are allowed a “girly” drink based on
atmosphere ONLY if the other male in company orders one as well. Example:
you are at a tiki bar and the other guy you are with orders a mai tai.
Once again, you are only limited to the SAME EXACT drink he orders.
Also, he may not discuss the drink, ever, outside of the establishment.
Men
are allowed “girly” drinks en masse if he is on vacation in a tropical
locale. Example, in Cancun he can always order a Margarita. In Hawaii
he can always order a Mai Tai. NOTE, he may not order a Mai Tai in
Cancun nor a Margarita in Hawaii.
Men may never, ever, order a Cosmopolitan, an Appletini, a Grasshopper or any other specialty girly drink.
Straight
Tequila is always OK, but the man must realize that he is putting his
life in his own hands here. Tequila has led many men into situations
requiring a lawyer, guns, non-phillips screwdrivers and floor wax.
That’s… an awful lot of rules over something as simple as a drink.
Men are weird.
I had actually read the scene as Dean scoffing at the GLASS that was used. I actually said out loud “that’s NOT a Martini glass, what the hell?”
Omg, that’s it. I couldn’t shake the feeling that there was something wrong with that margarita. The fucking glass. (And consequentially the amount of liquid inside). Yeah, Dean is def snorting because that’s not the way you make a margarita…
I guess there are multiple layers in play: Dean’s contempt for bars who don’t get their cocktails right–>Dean knowing his cocktails+Dean knowing about the Man Rules (thus the Cancun reference)–>Dean pretends to follow the rules of manliness but also knows his non-manly stuff and doesn’t approve of half-assing them.
You’re right, he’s looking at the glass first with that disapproving face. That’s no margarita glass and a margarita wouldn’t taste as good from a glass like that.
Tom Wright is a gift. Jensen Ackles is god’s gift.
Dean: “A
margarita
in a collins glass, hell no. I have standards.”
I’m actually 140% in love with how meta this tiny moment is.
Because you have the mainstream, heteronormative audience that will view this scene through the Man Rules, thinking that it’s the girly drink that Dean is disapproving because he’s a Brown Drink Manly Man. But when you deconstruct the scene, in the context of the following scene and with actual knowledge of drinks, it’s the opposite of that.
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