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Loose Lips

Maria — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:40:00 EDT

Whoa! Nikki Blonksy, star of Hairspray, and her father were arrested Wednesday for beating up a woman at an airport in Turks and Caicos over a seat in the airport terminal. ANTM's Bianca Golden (9th cycle) was also involved in the fight somehow. • Pam Anderson is building an eco-friendly hotel in Abu Dhabi where the royal family personally asked her to start a hotel there. Good! We hear they don't have enough Western celebrity-endorsed, over-the-top projects going on in the UAE. • 21-year-old rapper, ~~Lil~~ Bow Wow, is planning on early retirement from rap (don't hear anyone crying salty tears over that musical loss) and plans on pursuing acting so he can be "the next Will Smith." [Us, Perez Hilton, People]

Screw Science: There's Something Sexy About Younger Men

Dodai — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:30:00 EDT

Over on Salon, Carol Lloyd is pondering the pairing of women with older men, specifically, a recent study in Sweden which found that when women are 4 to 6 years younger than their male partners, they give birth to more kids. Martin Fieder, an anthropologist at the University of Vienna, speculates that men evolved a preference for younger women because those women have a longer fertility span. Meanwhile, women might give birth to more children when they choose older partners because those guys are more likely to have greater financial resources. But, says Lloyd: "I've always cast a jaundiced eye on our cultural assumptions that men should be older (not to mention taller) than their wives. It seemed just another manifestation of the gender imbalances that coursed through our workplaces, government and educational system. Of course, when in love, all bets are off." (Lloyd married a man 11 years older.)

Biology and social constructs might explain being attracted to older men, but what explains liking younger guys?

Don't call Dateline NBC. I'm no Mary-Kay LeTourneau. But younger guys get me hot and bothered. Often they have better style, more enthusiasm, a joie de vivre and a straight-up cuteness that can't be denied. Which is not to say that older men don't have appeal. But younger guys just seem so fun. This predilection was definitely exacerbated by working at a teen magazine, where the actors, singers and boys in bands I interviewed were creative, funny, heartthrob-types whose ages hovered around the upper teens and early twenties. A few years ago I dated a guy who was five years younger and he thought I was so smart, so well-traveled, so accomplished, so together. It was an ego boost! (Then I realized he was an unemployed homeless couchsurfer and therefore easily impressed. But he was hot!) And I know I'm not alone. Our own Tracie "Slut Machine" Egan says, "I've always liked guys in their early 20s. When I was in high school I liked guys that age, and I still do. But now it's more about the fact that they can reboot quickly and they like to have morning sex." So while some ladies swoon over George Clooney, Tracie and I will be ogling young'uns like Shia, Emile, Michael, Channing, TI and Bow Wow. Is that so wrong?

Are Women Biologically Drawn To Older Men? [Salon]
Men With Younger Women Have More Children [New Scientist]

Tyra Banks Gives Bow Wow A Creepy Sex Talk

Slut Machine — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:00:00 EST

Tyra might actually be suffering from the writers' strike because she only had one new episode last week. However, she's been known to be a scab before. During the last strike, she decided to go on with ANTM without writers. But the one new episode she did manage to air last week was sort of wonderfully disgusting: She asked Eve, Dita Von Teese, Bow Wow and Omarion questions about sex, and then had Bow Wow sit on her lap while she gave him a truly bizarre sex talk that led me to wonder if she's ever actually had sex at all. Oprah on the other hand, had an interesting week — very enlightening discussions with Dr. Oz about bikini waxes, kegel exercises and douching — and as for The View, well, Sherri Shepherd is an idiot asshole. Clip of Tyra/Oprah above, and more on Sherri after the jump.

Sherri Shepherd is an asshole — an idiot asshole. I'm just gonna put it out there. I watch her everyday and my eyes are just about as bulgy as hers, listening to the shit she says. She may be a nice person but yeah, ultimately she's an idiot asshole, and here's why: When someone makes bold statements, judgments, or decrees without bothering to get the facts of the matter straight and actually refuses to read up on it because they merely heard from someone else that it might conflict with his or her beliefs, that person is an idiot. And someone holds on to such uneducated statements, judgments, or decrees and defends them to the death with no regard for others' opinions, that person is an asshole.

Exhibit A: Sherri Shepherd Believes That Nothing Predates Christianity Last week, the girls were talking about the Greek philosopher Epicurus — who lived about 300 years before Jesus was born — and his thoughts on what makes a person happy.

It's very interesting that family wasn't in there, that spirituality wasn't in there...What about believing in something bigger than you? They still had Jesus back then. They still had God. They had Christians because they threw them to the lions. I don't think anything predated Christians.

So then Joy and Whoopi are like, uh, no, there were the ancient Greeks and Romans to which Sherri said, "Jesus came first before them."

Dude, she doesn't even pay attention to her own religion that she's always going on and on about. If nothing came before Jesus, then how do you explain the Old Testament? Remember the Old Testament, Sherri? That's the book that explains that evolution is wrong.

Exhibit B: Sherri Shepherd Will Not Allow Her Son To Wear A Skirt, Even Just For Play; Will Also Not Allow Him To Be Transsexual While Living Under Her Roof

If I found out a teacher let my son put a dress on, I would be mad as all get out. When you get [sic] 18 and you wanna wear a dress, and you're not in my house, put a dress on. If you wanna be transgendered when you get out the house...I'm his mother, he will not be wearing a dress. Girls wear dresses. We don't live in Scotland. There will be certain behavior that will not be going on in my house.

Whoopi then said, "Sherri, for God's sake if the boy is wearing a dress everyday, it's probably a conversation you should have with him."

Exhibit C: Sherri Shepherd Temporarily Believed The World Was Flat

Is the world flat? I don't know. I never thought about it. You know what I've thought about? How I'm gonna feed my child. How I'm gonna take care of my family. Wondering if the world was flat has never been an important thing to me. If my sons asks me if the world is flat, I guess I would go and look it up.

Exhibit D: Sherri Shepherd Believes In Spanking Children
Sherri has long been a proponent of "spare the rod, spoil the child" but last week, she said that when her son Jeffery was born prematurely, doctors told her that they needed to monitor him, because there was a likelihood that he would be retarded or suffer from cerebral palsy. Based on her conversation about him, it would seem that her child is not yet out of the woods for that, so basically she may be hitting a handicapped kid. WWJD, Sher??