11 Ways I’m Like Our Favorite Ugly Betty Characters

I got tagged for a meme by Kelly at Gossip Girl Report, and it’s a good one.  I figured I’d give it a go.  My mission: list how I am like my favorite Ugly Betty characters.  I must be careful, because I think I’m like all of them, but here goes…

• Daniel – Like Daniel, I am a younger brother, whose older sibling can do no wrong in his father’s eyes.  I’ve never had a sex addiction, but I have an…er…healthy admiration for the female human form.
• Gio – I am a dreamer, and I’m not afraid to act on my dreams.  I see the beauty in people that even they sometimes cannot see, just as Gio does with Betty.  I have an inferiority complex with people of higher incomes or stature (I would have called Betty a “Mode Girl” when I first met her, just as Gio did)
• Hilda – Sometimes I’m not quite as good at things as I think I am.  I am determined to let my kids be who they are, no matter how weird I think their choices are.
• Amanda – I am a musician and singer, and when I am onstage, I perform with the abandon we saw in Amanda when she did “My Milkshake” and “Gene Simmons is my Daddy!”.  I am not adopted, but my wife was, and my own children joined our family through adoption.   I many times don’t have the sense of style I think I do.
• Marc – My parents never understood me, just as Marc’s mother did not understand him.  I love the snazzy one-liner and occasional pop-culture reference.  I think making thunder with sheet metal is pretty cool.  The question I am asked second most (the first would be “are you drunk?”) is “are you gay?”.  I’m not, however.
• Henry – I am kind of nerdy, OK, VERY nerdy.  I hang out with accountants and lower-level corporate types.  I am deeply, madly in love with a girl (my wife) others might dismiss as “plain”, but that is their loss.  I am extremely committed as a father.
• Christina – This one’s a toughie. I’m not Scottish, and I’m not having Satan’s love child.  However, in my corporate day job, I am one of those plebes who is given access into the worlds of the higher-up because of my usefulness to those people.
• Alexis – Er…I’m not really like Alexis at all.  Except, maybe, if I had boobs, I would spend a lot of time admiring them, just as she did when she had amnesia.
• Claire – I’m getting older, and my kids are starting to drive me crazy.
• Wilhelmina – Sometimes, I want what I want, and there’s nothing that’s going to stop me from getting it.  OK, that’s not entirely true; I have a conscience.  But I can be pretty dogged.
• Betty – I am most like Betty.  I was the kid who didn’t go to proms, from a working class family, with no sense of style.  I have gone into the world as I am (if they ever “pretty” Betty up, you’ll find the worst rant you’ve ever seen on this site).  Speaking of rants, when I get angry, I might write a very pointed letter.  And – any success I’ve had in life is because I’ve dared to enter worlds that I just didn’t know I had no business being in.  From running for class president in 9th grade (I got a lot of “joke” votes), to becoming a computer programmer without a degree, to getting on the largest of stages either to speak or to perform, to my being here at UBN, I’m always barging into new worlds, conventions be damned.  At UBN, I’m a straight male (a southern, 40-something NASCAR fan at that) in a pretty female (or gay male) dominated world.  I don’t begrudge the doubts people have, I just try to show them what I can do, just like Betty .  I love Betty Suarez, I see myself in her, because she just goes out there and does it, and makes people question what they think about “the way things are”.

I won’t tag anyone else, except maybe you.  Which Ugly Betty character are you like?