Exploring an oxymoron

According to The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition:

A rhetorical device in which two seemingly contradictory words are used together for effect: “She is just a poor little rich girl.

Some other common examples are deafening silence, military intelligence, and bagpipe music. (Those last two are in jest...)

Last night, Linda treated me to an evening at the Temple for the Performing Arts to see The Male Intellect: an Oxymoron. The one-man show explored and discussed a lot of the differences between how men and women see things. Set up as a man who'd been granted his request for more space and got more than he'd intended, the actor tries to figure out what he did "wrong" and how he can get a little less space. Along the way, he also shows us several of the lessons he's learned from other men. His "feminine side" speaks to him from time to time as well. As the story unfolds, I think a lot of us saw ourselves and others in the characters and had a good laugh at some of the antics. It was a nice evening out.