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CHICAGO - NOVEMBER 19: Mourners during the funeral service of Pfc. Francheska Velez at Mount Olive Cemetery November 19, 2009 in Chicago. Velez was three months pregnant when she was one of the 13 soldiers killed during the shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas on November 5. (Photo by David Banks/Getty Images)

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CHICAGO - OCTOBER 27: Deborah Clark joins thousands of protestors demonstrating for bank reform during rally before a marching to the Sheraton Hotel where the American Bankers Association's (ABA) annual convention was being held October 27, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois. The protestors, most of whom were union members and community activists, were calling for a halt to home foreclosures, limits on bonuses for bank executives and demanding a halt to lobbying against bank reform. The ABA conference runs from October 25-28. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

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U.S. first lady Michelle Obama alights her plane as she arrives at Copenhagen's Kastrup Airport, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009. Michelle Obama has joined the Chicago 2016 bid team who are competing with Tokyo, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro for the right to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. The IOC will choose the winning city in a vote on Friday Oct. 2 in Copenhagen. (AP Photo/Claus Bjoern Larsen, Polfoto)

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CHICAGO - SEPTEMBER 28: Young girls embrace outside Fenger High School during a gathering to remember 16-year-old Fenger High School honor roll student Derrion Albert in the Roseland neighborhood September 28, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois. Albert was beaten to death in a melee involving a group of youths September 24. The beating has grabbed national attention when captured video of the beating was released on the web and to news organizations. Three teens are in custody and charged with the murder. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

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CHICAGO - SEPTEMBER 08: Fans attend 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' Season 24 Kickoff Party on Michigan Avenue on September 8, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

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CHICAGO - JULY 29: Demonstrators protest in favor of jobs they hope will be created by the construction of a Walmart store on Chicago's Southside July 29, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois. Walmart has been fighting to build another store in the city since 2004 but has failed to win approval from the City Council. There is currently only one Walmart within the Chicago city limits. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Like the fact that on Bachelorette.com, this 6" inflatable penis is sold out. Says the listing:

Every bachelorette party should have a six foot tall inflatable penis. In fact, I see more and more of these inflatable penises at the bars and clubs I go to.

Quoth Dodai:

Sad, sad day in America!

The bachelorette party, part and parcel of the Wedding Industrial Complex, has become an extension of the idea that everything is all about You The Bride, and it doesn't matter who you harm or how obnoxious you get in your celebration of winning the ultimate prize of all womanhood: a groom.

Accented with cheap veils, T-shirts, sashes or buttons announcing their status (sometimes all three!), penis paraphernalia and a shitload of booze, marauding bachelorette parties make every effort to command attention at the establishments they choose to gift with their presence and blow-up cocks. The brides-to-be are supposed to give into the worst urges they're told they have is "misbehave" like men supposedly do, as they're soon to give up drinking, fun times with girl friends and general inappropriate behavior for a marriage spent in quiet, sober contemplation catering to their husbands' needs. Obviously, this requires the application of dildos, pawing gay men trying to have a good time (and/or hook up with other gay men) and generally behaving in a way that would be embarrassing to everyone if they weren't already wearing tacky veils, tiaras, beauty pageant sashes and sipping out of penis straws.

Basically, I think those bars have found a very tiny silver lining in a very ugly, black Prop 8 cloud by using it to ban bachelorette parties for being an affront to those who are regularly discriminated against. Now if we can only get them banned for being an affront to good taste, common sense and modern womanhood, I'd be satisfied.

Gay Rights Battle Puts Strain On Parties [Chicago Tribune]

Related: Captain Pecker - 6' Blow Up Penis - Sold Out [Bachelorette.com]

Christine King Farris, sister of civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., center, is mobbed after a cable news channel projected Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama as the winner during an election-night party at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

Kelly Osbourne To Star In Chicago [TimesOfLondon]

• After shooting her for a Dom Perignon campaign, Karl Lagerfeld expressed amazement at Claudia Schiffer's ability to play the diva at the heart of the campaign's storyline. We further express amazement that Karl got over his own whopping diva attitude to actually compliment someone other than himself. [WWD, 1st item]
  
• French designer Roland Mouret relaunching his new line Web 2.0 style on Net-A-Porter exclusively, with Victoria Beckham its celebrity spokesmodel. What vision! [Portfolio]
  
• Catherine Deneuve to design a handbag line! Which means that, sight unseen, some people (read: Jennifer) want one already. [WWD, 2nd item]
  
• Zara says cheap-chic competitors who use celebrity "designers" are cheating — since, um, duh they don't actually design? [Yahoo]

• Not-so-fast fashion: An Italian designer outfitted a gimpy 3-wheel car into her roving boutique. [WWD, sub req'd]
• Permira is thisclose to world domination! Er, we mean taking over 100% of Valentino. If pesky antitrust authorities don't get in the way, they'll have 60.2% of the label. Mwah hah hah. [WWD, sub req'd]
• Amsterdam-based designer Percy Irausquin is apparently one of the hottest up-and-coming names in fashion. Shouldn't he be from Antwerp or something? [Vogue UK]

• Drew Barrymore is the first-ever celebrity face of Gucci, picked because some PR bullshit like "sense of humor" and "sensitivity" and "confidence." We say it's because she's thin now! [WWD
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• Kohl's stock rose 4.4% yesterday, and the predicted continued upward growth is being attributed to mounting momentum from Kohl's collaboration with one of our all-time favorite hard-working sluts, Vera Wang. [WWD, sub req'd]
  
• Getting rejected from Fashion Week sounds eerily similar to being rejected from college. Designers who were declined admission to show in the tents this year received a letter stating: "While we would have loved to present your collection in the tents this season, we have had an overwhelming number of requests for time slots and spaces....Please give us another try next season (Feb. 1-8) when we hope we can be more flexible and accommodating." Hey, designers — take it from us, no one gets off the waitlist for an Ivy....except, you know, maybe Penn. [WWD, 1st item]
  
• The burning questions over Chicago's recent anointment as cool fashion city still loom: Is Chicago designer Maria Pinto cool because she dresses Michelle Obama? Or are Obama and Pinto made cool because they're from Chicago? The world may never know. [WWD, sub req'd]
  
• Stella McCartney will be launching the first-ever virtual anti-fur protest on July 12 (virtual! how Web 2.0! and will be serving Linda McCartney veggie burgers at the actual event (Linda burgers! how old-school!). [Vogue UK]
  
• Fashion deep thought of the day: When a Commes des Garcons model speaks of his tenure, what does he say? "I loved the clothes [Commes des Garcons designers] Rei [Kawakubo] designed for me to wear." Whoah. [Vogue UK]
  
• Marc Jacobs is using models — and not childs! — in his Fall 2007 ad campaign. What is the world coming to?! [Sassybella]

• Americans' chances at getting a fake Gucci bag or fake Chanel sunglasses just decreased, big time. Last night brought about one of the largest counterfeit busts in recent history, with 29 people arrested, $230 million in merchandise seized, and $1 million in cash found and collected. [WWD]
  
• We love J. Crew, but a line of apparel for dogs? Puh-leeze. [WWD, 2nd item]
  
• Jessica Simpson will debut her first fragrance in July 2008. And we suspect it will smell like a tasteful mixture of collagen, hair extensions, tears, and Nick Lachey and John Mayer's crotches, respectfully. [WWD, 1st item]
  
• Nike profits skyrocket 32%. Say thank you, China! [WSJ]

• Not so surprising news: Renee Zellweger is the new face for Saks Fifth Avenue's breast cancer awareness initiative, Key for the Cure. Really surprising news: Renee reports that she wears Juicy Couture "pretty much everyday." So Renee is starving and no better dressed than Paris Hilton? This situation is much more dire than we initially suspected. [WWD, sub req'd]
• The city of Chicago is announcing that it will be staging it's third-annual Fashion Week this year. We have a feeling Oprah will be all over this. [WWD, sub req'd]
• What? Topshop has other designers other than Kate Moss? And what? They are actually designers by trade??? Stop this crazy talk! [Vogue UK]
• Tired Lauren Goldstein Crowe question of the day: "Halston and Harvey Weinstein: Good idea or bad idea financially?" Yawn. Who cares about finances when you have Rachel Zoe consulting on design?! [Portfolio]
• Miuccia Prada goes out on a limb and refers to her designs as "very European." [IHT]

DailyCandy Atlanta has forgotten that it spends most of its time telling us to starve ourselves pretty and suggests we spend our weekend gorging ourselves on fried Twinkies.

DailyCandy Chicago seems to have forgotten that the whole point of DailyCandy is that it's supposed to refer us to something. Saying "Don't get a sunburn" with no external link = not doing their job.

DailyCandy Dallas thinks we should see Space Jam this weekend. You remember Space Jam, don't you? That cartoon/live action movie starring Michael Jordan and the Looney Toons????

DailyCandy Los Angeles thinks we care about bars that serve things other than booze. And more specifically, about bars where we can pick garden plants.

DailyCandy Philadelphia seems to think it makes sense that we'd fork over $10 to lead ourselves on a self-guided tour.

DailyCandy San Francisco thinks that design-your-own-salad spots are still a new thing. Yawn.