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    Image of WaltzingMatilda WaltzingMatilda
    12/02/09

    In reply to Girls & Boys
    Ha! My initial preference for Ben Affleck over Matt Damon has FINALLY be validated. It took years.

    (for this photo only, of course! I'm sorry Ben, but Matt... is awesome)
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    Image of scullymurphy scullymurphy
    12/02/09

    In reply to Girls & Boys
    You can tell Daddy dressed her today...
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    Image of BabyJane BabyJane
    12/02/09

    In reply to Girls & Boys
    Roses are red
    Violet's in blue
    Ben Affleck looks really hot, which I never really saw in him that much before, but here he looks...

    Oh, wait. This was supposed to rhyme, wasn't it?
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    Image of 18thfloor 18thfloor
    12/02/09

    @BabyJane: I've never seen the Ben Affleck appeal until this picture. Consider me the stage driver of that bandwagon!
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    BabyJane promoted this comment 18thfloor was starred 18thfloor was unstarred
    Image of BlondeGoddess BlondeGoddess
    12/02/09

    In reply to Girls & Boys
    Awww, they're both in blue and have pink purses!
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    Image of NotChoinski NotChoinski
    12/02/09

    In reply to Girls & Boys
    Let's hope there isn't a Jennifer Lopez puppet drawn on her hand.
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    Image of NotChoinski NotChoinski
    12/02/09

    In reply to Girls & Boys
    Mr Affleck? Gee - this is awkward - you seem to have a bit of small child stuck on you - here, let me just wipe it off. There. All Better.
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    NotChoinski was starred NotChoinski was unstarred
    Image of ihateyourescalade ihateyourescalade
    12/02/09

    In reply to Girls & Boys
    Call me cynical, but I think Ben-n-Jen deliberately try to get themselves photographed with their child as often as possible. My guess is it's part of their desired image, carefully crafted with the help of a publicist.
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    Image of SunburnedCounsel SunburnedCounsel
    12/02/09

    @ihateyourescalade: I'm pretty sure they just keep getting photographed picking her up from school- not much you can do when the paparazzi knows you're going to be in the same place at the same time every day. I don't think I've ever seen their other daughter.
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    Image of Tchotchke Tchotchke
    12/02/09

    @ihateyourescalade: Yeah, I agree. We've seen lots of photos of Jen with the kids, which I think is probably sincere because a.) she seems to work very little now that she's a mother and b.) in my totally unscientific analysis of celebrities, she seems pretty normal. By contrast, I don't remember seeing photos of Ben with the kids until the infidelity rumors reached a fevered pitch. So, to that end, I think a publicist is somehow involved.
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    Image of rowingrowingrowing rowingrowingrowing
    12/02/09

    @Tchotchke: I was thinking the same thing. I have no recollection, whatsoever, of ever seeing a photograph of Ben Affleck with either of his children.
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    Image of botchick botchick
    12/02/09

    @rowingrowingrowing: Exactly. I swear the tabloids have pics of her and the kids every single week, and I haven't seen a pic of him with this older girl since she was probably an infant. Weird.
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    Little Time Bomb promoted this comment botchick was starred botchick was unstarred
    Image of Little Time Bomb Little Time Bomb
    12/02/09

    @botchick: @rowingrowingrowing: @Tchotchke: Really? I did a quick google image search for Ben Affleck Daughter and was able to find hundreds (207,000 to be exact) of photos of him with Violet across pretty much her whole life. I didn't look at more than 60 but then again that seems like more than enough. Most are taken with a long range lens while the family or just Ben and Violet go about leaving or arriving places.
    I don't care for people using their children as props but these people seem to do the best they can to have a normal pap free life. What I didn't find were any splashy magazine cover photos.
    I just think it's unfair to go about judging people you don't know on this. Saying that he is using his daughter as a tool to crush rumors is a pretty harsh accusation.
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    Image of JerseyGrrrl JerseyGrrrl
    12/02/09

    In reply to Girls & Boys
    Ben clearly doesn't read Details, because that murse is doing nothing for his look. Cute daughter, though, so he got half his accessories right!

    Now, about that brother of yours....
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    Image of cinematheques cinematheques
    12/02/09

    @JerseyGrrrl: yes. I'd rather be seeing a picture of that brother of his...
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    JerseyGrrrl promoted this comment cinematheques was starred cinematheques was unstarred
    Image of JerseyGrrrl JerseyGrrrl
    12/02/09

    @cinematheques: Oh, why settle for just one? I love Irish boys.
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    Image of cinematheques cinematheques
    12/02/09

    @JerseyGrrrl: I had a huge bone-bone for casey in 200 cigarettes.
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    Image of newjewrevue newjewrevue
    12/02/09

    @JerseyGrrrl: How are these two even related? Are they half brothers? They look nothing alike.

    Pondering these questions will take up the rest of day.
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    JerseyGrrrl promoted this comment newjewrevue was starred newjewrevue was unstarred
    Image of JerseyGrrrl JerseyGrrrl
    12/02/09

    @newjewrevue: And require a lot of photo-based research. A noble query.
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    Image of Jack_Burton Jack_Burton
    12/02/09

    @JerseyGrrrl: Ben's got to be happy that someone from his side of the family can act.
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    Image of LadySoprano is a Fat-Fighting Superwoman LadySoprano is a Fat-Fighting Superwoman
    12/02/09

    In reply to Girls & Boys
    Every picture I see of that little girl, she is dressed appropriately for her age, happy, and adorable. Bravo, Jen and Ben.

    Also, how cute is this picture of a proud daddy?
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    LadySoprano is a Fat-Fighting Superwoman was starred LadySoprano is a Fat-Fighting Superwoman was unstarred
    Image of CurtCole CurtCole
    12/02/09

    In reply to Girls & Boys
    I will not think home-wrecking thoughts,
    I will not think home-wrecking thoughts,
    I will not think home-wrecking thoughts.
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    Image of Chamalla,barren crone Chamalla,barren crone
    12/02/09

    @CurtCole: Seiously. I could watch a marathon of Gigli and Reindeer Games after seeing this picture and still think Ben Affleck is the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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    Chamalla,barren crone was starred Chamalla,barren crone was unstarred
    Image of Scout Scout
    12/02/09

    @Chamalla,barren crone: perpetually drunk much?

    * I'm teasing *
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    Image of L'Chaim! L'Chaim!
    12/02/09

    @CurtCole: That's ok, hon. I'm thinking them for you.
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    thesciencegirl promoted this comment L'Chaim! was starred L'Chaim! was unstarred
    Image of SomeAuthorGirl SomeAuthorGirl
    12/02/09

    @CurtCole: I just drooled on my desk. It's bad.
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    Image of Sanfo Sanfo
    12/02/09

    @CurtCole: He's wearing a "Boy's Club" shirt! HE'S OURS.
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    Image of CurtCole CurtCole
    12/02/09

    @Sanfo: High Five!
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    CurtCole was starred CurtCole was unstarred
    Image of sybann sybann
    12/02/09

    In reply to Nick Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn Talk Half The Sky With Oprah
    Did anyone else think that the conclusions reached by the show (lift up one woman and you save her entire community) was overly simplistic? We are no more perfect creatures than are men, so lifting up one woman may result in nothing more than lifting up that ONE WOMAN - there's NO guarantee that she'll be the kind to pass it on or use the opportunity for the good of others.
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    Image of LazyHippo LazyHippo
    12/02/09

    @sybann: You can lead a former child prostitute to a clean water pump, but you can't make her share the water?
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    sybann promoted this comment LazyHippo was starred LazyHippo was unstarred
    Image of sybann sybann
    12/02/09

    @LazyHippo: You can give a child prostitute a scholarship, good education and a doctorate in medecine but it doesn't mean she'll go back to the village to practice!
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    sybann was starred sybann was unstarred
    Image of slauza slauza
    12/02/09

    @sybann: There are a lot of statistics showing that most women who receive micro-loans use the money well. There are many real success stories. They didn't mention that a woman who ends up with a herd of cows, for example, might be killed, her herd stolen by men. The plan may be idealistic but better than doing nothing. There's no way to change social oppression in someone else's culture, so the solution has to be economic.
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    sybann promoted this comment Edited by slauza at 12/02/09 3:13 PM slauza was starred slauza was unstarred
    Image of sybann sybann
    12/02/09

    @slauza: I didn't say it wasn't - I said (in my first comment) that I was disturbed somewhat by the assumption they were making that it was inevitable.

    Since women are primary caregivers of children they are most likely going to be concerned about more than themselves (and just buying beer and candy - which was what was said about the men), but it seemed that it was implied during the show that it always was better to help a woman.

    I can certainly get behind the effort - and have made micro loans myself - with NO expectation of repayment or even thanks.

    It just seemed to me that (again) an Oprah show wasn't telling an entire story entirely truthfully.
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    Image of Scout Scout
    12/01/09

    In reply to Nick Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn Talk Half The Sky With Oprah
    whew! I just read every comment and all my tiny pea brain kept playing over and over was an image of Kristoff and WuDunn on one side of a couch, Oprah in the middle and LaToya on the other side... and LaToya kicking ass and taking names. Intelligently responding and challenging the status quo. Not letting
    anyone off the hook and offering sound, logical alternative ways in which we should be approaching change and resolution.

    Oprah was flustered. Kristoff was beet red. The audience was slack-jawed. Everyone was WIDE AWAKE!

    I'm pushing rewind and play.
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    Scout was starred Scout was unstarred
    Image of Everything MidnightBikeRide does is a balloon. Everything MidnightBikeRide does is a balloon.
    12/01/09

    In reply to Nick Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn Talk Half The Sky With Oprah
    I think it's sad that the conversation on this comes down to "eh, they could be doing less." Really? I think that most American TV viewers already have the vague perception that people in distant lands are poor and oppressed for, uh, some reason (don't worry about it) and that it's way sad, man, and that if you buy this t-shirt or donate the cost of your cup of coffee or whatever we can... something something, who knows. And people do donate, a little bit, and that helps some people out, a little bit. That's already happening. And until somebody acknowledges that that's band-aid on a huge gaping wound that has deep roots in fucked-up policies that we westerners can hold our own governments accountable for-- it's all that's going to be happening. To parade the victims-without-aggressors heartstrings stuff as groundbreaking efforts against poverty is to be complicit. Same deal when we look at that problem and we're like, "hey, what do you expect from TV?"
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    Image of PilgrimSoul PilgrimSoul
    12/01/09

    In reply to Nick Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn Talk Half The Sky With Oprah
    Well, Latoya, the answer is plainly no. I really think that most men and white people and even, hell, people in the developed world generally, are simply unwilling to admit their complicity as a first step. And without that admission I don't know that there will ever be structural change.
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    Image of limber limber
    11/25/09

    In reply to Health & Wellness
    That kid's just an absolutely beautiful little girl.

    Part of me hates seeing her, because if I'm seeing a photo then she's being stalked by cameramen, but the rest of me is charmed by the fact she looks like a pretty normal, happy child. All the time.
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    Image of phantom lady phantom lady
    11/25/09

    @limber: Ben's look, meanwhile, says One step closer and you'll be shitting that camera for days.
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    Image of Little Time Bomb Little Time Bomb
    11/25/09

    @phantom lady: I love him for that.
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