This morning, I checked my email and thought that the GMail spam filter had failed me for the first time ever.

I know, the horror.

In my inbox, there was an email with the subject line:

Your manliness will be measured by the size of your important love parts.

Usually, I’d just trash any of those messages about penis enlargement that happen to seep into my inbox. For some odd reason — perhaps because the message seemed to have come from a friend of mine’s address — I decided to open this one. Inside, the message read:

And by love parts, I mean your heart and soul. What did you think I meant, you sicko?

That made me chuckle, but also made me smile to remember that some people still think that manliness is determined by love and caring.

Thanks for making me smile Melissa.

And thank you to GMail for not sending that message to my spam folder. I should never have doubted you.