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electriklights
06/13/09

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Mila looks so stunning.
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hippichx sez PEACE PLEASE
06/13/09

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i don't care if the bread winner is a man or a woman, if i see pictures of the breadwinner ignoring the spouse and children i immediately dislike it. this spread makes me hate the woman, and not want to be anything like her. i will not take out a loan so i can afford her clothing!
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serreca
06/12/09

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The thing that bothers me the most about this is the title of the spread: "Mr. Big Gets Downsized". Because being a stay-at-home dad is lower on the rung than working in an office? He's "Big" but now he's getting knocked down a peg or two by playing mom? I don't get it.
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goodcheapfun
06/12/09

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I love every outfit in this spread and the power woman motif is kicking ass.
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philoclea
06/13/09

@goodcheapfun: Here, here!
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Wit is periodically disensouled
06/12/09

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Wow, I really dislike this spread. She looks vain, cold and aloof in these pictures, almost as if she was annoyed by the fact that she has children and is actively trying to ignore them. Cruel, inhuman.

Because that's how working women are, right.
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HereComesMyBaby
06/12/09

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That photoshoot-family is super-depressing. They should've shown a happy househusband, like my future imaginary husband is going to be.
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Dodai
06/12/09

@HereComesMyBaby: word.
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mepo - Robert Cornhole invented it
06/12/09

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Chris Noth's wife is in the 4th pic the one at the park. The lady nearest him. Nice that she was in the shoot.
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varsityblue
06/12/09

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The most ridiculous thing about this is that I am to believe these two produced three blond-haired children.
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HereComesMyBaby
06/12/09

@Brownish With Points: The grandmas on both sides were blond, mmmkay?
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savethemax
06/12/09

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Not only is she a self-centered workaholic, but she's OBVIOUSLY having an affair. How else are we supposed to explain 3 towheads coming from those two?
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Ailanthus-altissima
06/12/09

@savethemax: Blonde is recessive, brown is dominant. Milla and Mr Big might both be heterozygous for the brown hair allele.
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Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny.
06/12/09

@Ailanthus-altissima: Yay DNA and people who know about it. I like to heterozygous from time to time just because I think it sounds cool.
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Ailanthus-altissima
06/12/09

@Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny.: I love saying that word. I had to TA a bio class this past winter, including the genetics portion. Lots of fun, lots of excuses to say "heterozygosity."

Oh and for the other genetics-lovers: I know that hair color is not necessarily simple Mendelian, but this general relationship between blond and brown is fairly well understood. The presence and amount of the, I think, two different chemicals to determine brown v. blond hair color is really complex and neat.
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BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit)
06/12/09

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Mr. I Have an Even Bigger Headache Now.
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greengrey
06/12/09

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I like this. It's cute. I like the clothing. It's a bit more interesting than the photoshoots where the female model plays housewife.

Hey, at least they aren't jumping with a beige background.
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hairsprayhead
06/13/09

@greengrey (is not a star!): I agree. I think this photoshoot is interesting in that it begs to be discussed- Harper's Bazaar isn't saying, "THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE A CAREER WOMAN" or "THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE A STAY AT HOME DAD". They're presenting only fictional scenes between a fictionally married Milla and Chris. Anyone that sees something else from this is thinking waaay too hard about it.

Man, I'm sticking up for Haarper's Bazaar, a magazine I typically can't stand. Ick.
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philoclea
06/13/09

@hairsprayhead: I'll join you two in playing devil's advocate! I think the spread is funny. It's not trying to represent all stay-at-home-dads or all career women. It's playing on stereotypes, and proposing a little "what if"? (And guess what, just because some SAHDs are perfect marvels of housekeeping and childcare, it doesn't mean that all of them know how to do what needs to get done.)

Also, the clothes are absolutely *hot*. That's the work wardrobe I want. And since I need a work wardrobe, I will now probably buy this magazine for ideas, whereas I wouldn't have before.
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misspell
06/12/09

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Her shoes on the title spread are incredible, though me + them probably = broken ankle.

She, too, is incredible. There's an aging portrait of her in an attic somewhere, I think. She looks amazing. And I can't look too deeply into the recession/mr. mom angle of the spread. Bazaar is one of the least realistic mags out there.
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save jinger
06/12/09

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Oh, damn, I was expecting THIS Mr. Big:

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Phyllis Nefler
06/12/09

@save jinger: It took me YEARS before I could watch Sex and The City without thinking of this damn song.
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ginger rant
06/12/09

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As a feminist, the notion that a man is incompetent at taking care of kids offends me. As the "breadwinner" wife of a wonderful stay-at-home dad, the photo spread both enrages and saddens me.
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PhillyLass
06/12/09

@ginger rant: Seriously. My bff is a stay-at-home mom and her husband is perfectly capable of handling their 3 daughters by himself. It's ridiculous to present men as incapable of handling their own children.
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vamusical
06/12/09

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So if the woman is the sole breadwinner, she'll be too self-centered to stop applying lipstick and checking her blackberry to notice the chaotic family of five swirling around her? Sounds nice.
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