Who got the shorter end of the stick there, the fly for marrying the mouse or the mouse for marrying the fly?
I’d just say “Which is more disgusting to you a fly or a mouse?” to make it simpler but I think you really need to get into the headspace of “Which would I rather not marry?”
Well, I try not to fantasize about either one of them. But if I were entirely broke in my spank bank, the insect has to go! At least mammals are warm and fuzzy.
I’m going to buck the trend, and answer the question as the FLY got the shorter end of the stick. Going by the (silly) premise of the thread, the mouse is a horrible entity, taking advantage of it’s much more advanced neurological development to bait a fly into a lifelong (for the fly at least) relationship that it has absolutely no possibility of understanding.
Not that the mouse is any great shakes in that department, but certainly more than the fly! It’s an abuse of power in the relationship!
Answering the question of the last sentence of the OP though, yeah, I’d marry a mouse before a fly hands down. Even in the multifaceted world (see what I did there? ) of anthropomorphic insects, they’d lose to a similarly anthropomorphic mouse.
I must apologize for my mammal based bigotry though.
The mention of anthropomorphic animals made my brain jump straight to Zipper vs. Gadget. I’d definitely go with Gadget. But Zipper is a bro, and tones down a lot of the ickier parts of an actual fly. And he lives a lot longer.
It would not please me to respond to the wedding invitation, so I wouldn’t, and I would happily passive-aggressively ignore it. If you were to hold a gun to my head until I came up with something positive to say about the union, it would be “At least they won’t be living in sin, as so many of their fellow rodents and insects do.”
Well, IDK, flies hang out on walls and they hear things that people desperately want to know. So I kinda feel like that should be part of the calculous.