The opposite sex

February 13, 2009 8:05 AM

Lille Mand - Eight year old Mathis writes an essay for school entitled, "How to Understand Women." (via Neatorama) (It will be slow to load. Also, there is brief shower nudity so NSFW)
posted by caddis (12 comments total)

Isn't there a real life version of this story, where the essay was picked up for a book deal?
posted by grobstein at 8:46 AM on February 13, 2009

The file has been renamed due to excessive linking. I don't want to help that, so I suggest searching Google for lm.mov site:rasmusheise.dk The movie is in that list of files.
posted by emelenjr at 8:54 AM on February 13, 2009

Forgot to close the italics. Sorry.
posted by emelenjr at 8:55 AM on February 13, 2009

> Isn't there a real life version of this story, where the essay was picked up for a book deal?

There's this, which is close.
posted by xbonesgt at 9:27 AM on February 13, 2009

I just saw a story on xbonesgt's link at the Beeb this morning. I haven't looked at the original link, but the BBC story makes it sound formulaic and absurd.
posted by SirNovember at 10:08 AM on February 13, 2009

It's "Mathias." (my own brother's name, so that popped out at me)

Cute story.
posted by HopperFan at 10:54 AM on February 13, 2009

Yes, it is Mathias. You'd think I could at least keep typos out of the main post. There is no future in editing for me I'm afraid.
posted by caddis at 11:50 AM on February 13, 2009

The video file has been removed from the site.
posted by zsazsa at 1:16 PM on February 13, 2009

A little Googling, like I mentioned above, reveals that the file has only been renamed.

http://rasmusheise.dk/NewFiles/
posted by emelenjr at 2:30 PM on February 13, 2009

All right, that was cute.
posted by Joey Michaels at 3:23 PM on February 13, 2009

I thought it was pretty creepy, actually.
posted by sevenyearlurk at 4:37 PM on February 13, 2009

And not cynical at all.
posted by pointilist at 9:32 PM on February 14, 2009