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Cliques Push Brand-Obsessed Teens • Queen Of Hip Hop Soul Starts Foundation For Girls
Tween Clique books link popularity/boys with brand name items. Prepare for disappointment, 7th graders of America! • Texas graverobbing teens and one adult make bong out of child's skull. • Professional British wedding planner doesn't believe in marriage. • People spend almost $2,000 a year on "pissed-off purchases," one women suggest couples kiss instead. Uh, okay. • Columnist Kathleen Parker says we should "save the males," oooh because they can lift heavy things? • Reporters without Borders asks Iran nicely to stop harassing "cyber-feminists." • Meanwhile in the Mid-East, Saudi women campaign against inconvenient late-night weddings. • Pro women's boxing comes to Japan. • An antidepressant may help teens with IBS. • Being breast-fed may lower a woman's breast cancer risk. • Penelope Cruz is set to become a stunning blonde. • Mary J. Blige starts foundation to help girls with careers and self-confidence.
clips
Tom Cruise Stays Seated For His Sitdown With Oprah
The first part of the much-hyped, two-part Oprah interview with Tom Cruise aired today. Oprah and Tom sat down in Tom's home in Telluride, Colorado, and Tom was on his best behavior. If we didn't already know his opinion of mood-altering prescription drugs, we would've thought he was on some. O and T discussed the infamous "sofa incident" (he claims Oprah egged him on), his public feud with Brooke Shields over her postpartum depression (he claims it "came out wrong"), and his subsequent interview with "glib" Matt Lauer (he claims he felt "pressed"). Overall, he still came off as smarmy, however muted his behavior was.
pot psychology
"Do I Have To Give Myself An Enema Before Anal Sex?"
It's time for another installment of Pot Psychology, the advice column in which everyone's problems are solved with an "herbal" remedy. (As always: Don't do drugs!) In this episode, I get baked with my brother of another mother, Rich, and attempt to tackle issues like anal sex preparation, wedding etiquette, and better forms of birth control. (Note that I said "attempt.") Got a burning question? Send it to tips@jezebel.com with "Pot Psychology" in the subject line. (Please keep them short; they're verrrry hard to read when stoned.)
born rich
Should Depressed Little Rich Girl Just Give It Up And Go On Prozac Already?
Hey guys, you can get out the machetes! It's a poor little rich girl, and she's writing in to a British advice column because she thinks her trust fund ruined her life. "I think it's good for me to be employed but... there is no motivation for me to stick anything out," Francesca writes the Telegraph's Lesley Garner. Francesca is 26, rich, depressed, disillusioned, dilletantish, and anxiety-plagued, but she doesn't want to go on antidepressants because she doesn't "want to surrender ownership of my emotions to some pharmaceutical company." (And isn't that just the bitch that is capitalism? It's much more fun to usher a pharmaceutical company to colossal riches on the backs of popular mood-altering drugs and sugar substitutes...but how to cope once you not only have access to all that dough and all you can think to look at it was, "Wow, that was a really worthwhile endeavor for society, amassing a multibillion dollar fortune convincing 30 million Americans they need depression meds for the rest of their lives." Whatevs.) More »
pillhead
Is Your Antidepressant A Big Crock Of Shit?
A dozen popular antidepressants don't work nearly as well as the "data" doctors cite to tell you they do, according to an FDA review. (The whole graph is after the jump.) The biggest grade inflators were Serzone, Zoloft, Remeron, Wellbutrin SR, Paxil and Cymbalta. Effexor, the drug that shame-ridden shrink confessed to shilling unethically in the New York Times Magazine last fall came in seventh. Which brings me back to an important part I was trying to make when I posted insensitively about fibromyalgia the other day. See, it is often times the people who think they're least susceptible to advertising — ahem, doctors — who turn us all into suckers. More »
polls
Do Antidepressants Really Ruin Your Love Life?
Psychology Today has a trio of articles about antidepressants and love/sex that I feel uniquely qualified to comment on since I am both on antidepressants and in love (and having sex). [Braggart! -Ed.] The main article, "Sex, Love, and SSRIs" wonders whether selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (the class of drugs that includes Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil and others ) "compromise the ability to feel love," because SSRIs inhibit dopamine, which is also responsible for the feelings of elation and ecstasy that accompany falling in love. The author uses the anecdotal evidence of "Megan," whose sexual side effects ruined her relationship with high school sweetheart "Neil." The anecdote felt so weak (a high school love affair dissipating when the pair goes to separate colleges? You don't say!) that I wasn't surprised when she also used a seemingly dubious statistic to back it up: "Approximately 70 percent of people taking SSRIs suffer from sexual side effects." More »
metaphorical maghag
The Glamour Guide To Antidepressants: Vaguely Numbing, Unsatisfying
The November Glamour contains a 12-page guide to "the #1 drug women are taking" — antidepressants, duh — replete with tempting pictures of artfully styled colored prescription pills, and as the one person I knew who had never taken them but probably should have, I devoured it in hopes of learning something new. And I did! Turns out Kentucky and Utah have the most patients taking antidepressants! Utah, really? Is there some legislative/regulatory reason for this? Are SSRIs the Mormon answer to getting loaded? Yeah, they don't answer that. But there was so much more! More »
who wore it best: valentino edition
Claire Danes + Valentino = Only Moderately Blank-Faced
Is it just us, or does Claire Danes look marginally-less exquisitely bored than usual while clothed in Valentino? Maybe her shrink needs to consider couture over Celexa. Also, is it weird that she and boyfriend Hugh Dancy always dress like Freddie and Flossie Bobbsey? More »
dailycavity
DailyCandy Says No To Lexapro, Yes To Lather
We were beginning to worry about the editors of DailyCandy. There were mentions of bacterial infections. Black Croc spats. Had they abandoned their Cosmopolitan-swilling ways, we wondered? But today's editions of the cloying, consumption-promoting newsletter illustrate that the girls may have their mojo back: There's shampoo laced with antidepressants! Chaufferred shopping trips! Psychics! Oh, and skinny jeans! (Ugh, aren't skinny jeans over? If not, could someone please make that happe already?). Today's Cavity, after the jump. More »
broadsides
More Reasons To Be Glad We Don't Have To Rock The Hijab
- Women who dress conservatively may win the affections of men like Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and Iranian clerics, but they're also at more risk of a Vitamin D deficiency because their skin rarely sees the sun. [Salon]
- Potatoes: Not too great for the waistline but fantastic for the immune system! [Telegraph]
- Okay, so women are going to buy the $600 iPhone in droves but they also are the least confident segment of the population when it comes to the economy? Get your stories straight, people. [MediaPost]
