“I don’t drink black coffee.” “What? Since when?” “Since I started drinking it, during the High Middle Ages.” “But…I’ve been giving you black coffee.” “And I have been hating it.” I frown. “Are you sure you don’t take it black? Like a real man?” His eyebrow lifts. “I wasn’t aware of the proven correlation between virility and coffee intake.” “Oh, there isn’t one. But you’re supposed to be warped by toxic masculinity and not know that. And I’m supposed to be the one who enlightens you.”
