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Old, Dried Up Broads "Less Bitchy" Than Young Babes
According to a very small and questionable study, researchers in the U.K. are claiming that women are less cunty after menopause. Or rather, as the beloved Daily Fail puts it: "women become LESS bitchy as they get older (and yes, it's to do with men)." More »

9:30 AM on Wed Nov 12 2008
By Jessica
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Most discussed 63words: Yeah, I'm pretty sure that whoever did this study has never worked at a grocery store. They should try that more »
Loose Lips A super pregs Gillian Anderson bit it last night at the London premiere of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. Don't worry, she's ok! And she promises that she isn't going to name her baby anything stupid. "I have chosen [a name] but I don't think it's crazy," she told reporters. • According to the Daily Fail, Jennifer Aniston is trying to reconcile with John Mayer and has been contacting him, as well as hitting the bottle in the middle of the day to deal with her upset. Allegedly Aniston has a "penchant for afternoon cocktails." Who doesn't! • Is it wrong that we sort of love Susan Sarandon for saying "It's so much fun to be able to beat up your daughter on film"? Apparently she has some fisticuffs with real life daughter Eva Amurri in the forthcoming Middle of Nowhere. It's more fun "to play Hook and not Peter Pan," Sarandon added. [People, Daily Mail, Daily Express]

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When Being Yourself Doesn't Get You A Man, Be Someone Else
Men all like one kind of woman — soft, cuddly, girly, pink and oh-so-feminine! They want to be needed, have their egos stoked, feel in charge, be in charge and look at exotic, well-made-up creatures who flirt and bat their eyelashes and don't challenge them intellectually and are incapable or passive/submissive. Thus, us hard-charging ladies need to better strike that balance between being intelligent, capable human beings and being girly-girls so that we can find husbands. Or so says the Daily Mail's Anna Pasternak, whose journey to feminine self-discovery started in her closet, passed through a few Botox injections and some psychobabbly life coach claptrap, and ended with her out to dinner with a male friend who already liked and appreciated her company. Sounds like fun! More »

4:30 PM on Mon Jul 28 2008
By Megan
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Latest by Flackette is a Red State Elitist: @lucyjae: First date with my boyfriend, I reflexively ordered a Maker's. Then a country fried steak - because it is more »
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Conservative British MP Calls America "The Abortion Capital Of The World"
To quell the rising rate of abortion in Great Britain, Tory MP Nadine Dorries has begun a campaign to reduce the limit for late-term abortions from 24 weeks to 20 weeks. Dorries' snappy marketing campaign to push this piece of legislation is called "20 Reasons for 20 Weeks." The right-wing Daily Mail published all 20, and most of Dorries' tactics include the display of the sad-teeny-feet of babies born before 24 weeks. Zoe Williams of the Guardian pokes holes in these 20 Reasons, calling them "so flawed, often so illogical, so savagely misogynistic and so repetitive." Here's just one example of Dorries' and the DM's tenuous handle on the truth: they say that "two-thirds of GPs support a reduction in the time limit," but Williams points out that 77% of the British Medical Association voted to keep the limit as is. Dorries argues that "If we don't [lower the time limit for abortion] there is no question that we will overtake America in the next couple of years, making us the abortion capital of the world." But is America really the abortion capital of the world? More »

12:00 PM on Wed May 7 2008
By Jessica
5,748 views, 204 comments

Latest by bowleserised: @ASmallTurnip: Very true. There must also be researched focussed on why they don't finish cooking, no? more »
fetal positions
Forget Boner-Killing Bloody Vaginas: Childbirth Can Make Men Mentally-Ill
"Why Men Should NEVER Be At The Birth Of Their Child" blares the headline in today's Daily Mail. But if you assume that the accompanying story immediately launches into an appeal for a return to "modesty" and warnings about how witnessing childbirth can kill a man's libido, you'd be wrong. (That crops up in the third part of the piece!) Nope, Reason No. 1 that men should be banished to birthing ward waiting areas is that their pregnant partners can't multitask. "A labouring woman needs to be protected against any stimulation of the thinking part of her brain - the neocortex - for labour to proceed with any degree of ease," writes Ob/Gyn Michel Odent, who is said to have presided over some 50,000 births. "A woman in labour needs to be in a private world where she doesn't have to think or talk. Yet, motivated by a desire to 'share the experience', the man asks questions and offers words of reassurance and advice." The other bad thing about inviting big boys in the birthing room? Witnessing such a thing can make them mentally-ill. More »

12:30 PM on Wed Apr 16 2008
By Anna
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Latest by LittleNell: I DEFINITELY wanted my husband in the delivery room--that's why I married an anesthesiologist in the first place. I kept more »
Oh my. Today the Daily Mail wrote about an end-of-term party held by school kids in the North Lancashire village of Wray that turned into a "drunken orgy." According to the Mail "a large number of 14-year-old girls had drunken under-age sex at the party." Subsequently, school administrators at the Queen Elizabeth school have helped some of these girls get the morning after pill. Deputy headmistress Alison Hughes told the paper, "A lot of the children that came to us needed sexual healthcare. These are children we need to protect. Children that approached us to say it had gone on and said it was a very upsetting experience. We have had to help a lot of girls though the aftermath of having unprotected sex that evening - most of whom have told us they were too drunk to be in control of themselves. Thankfully there is a great deal of trust between ourselves and the children so they felt they could talk to us." [Daily Mail]

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Daily (Hate) Mail No one is safe from the Daily Mail's body dysmorphia! First they criticize George Michael for porking up, and now they're down on Michael Douglas for looking old. An absurdly long headline in today's Mail blares, "I'm sexier than ever,' says Zeta-Jones - but her husband looks ready for the plastic surgeon again." Douglas reportedly had a face lift for his wedding 7 years ago, but according to the Mail, he needs some freshening up. Ugh. Has no one heard of growing old gracefully? [Daily Mail]

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Loose Lips Lisa Marie Presley is suing the Daily Mail for writing an article mocking her weight gain. She says the article "forced" her to announce her pregnancy." • Speaking of weight gain, Valerie Bertinelli said she embarked on her Jenny Craig journey because Victoria Principal implied she was chubby. "She asked point-blank how much I weighed... Nervously, I told her, 168, and it almost took her breath away. It was the kind of politely horrified reaction that had turned me into a Hollywood hermit." • Paris Hilton has been wearing a ring on her ring finger with the initials "B.M." branded on it. Some say it stands for Paris's new flame Benji Madden, but in our hearts it will always stand for bowel movement. [Reuters , National Post, Us Weekly]

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British Paper Says Women Just Can't Do Math
A new survey by a numeracy campaign about basic math skills in British adults has been released, and it reports that one in three women have trouble adding sums mentally, while only 18% of men do. The results of the poll help to underscore the obnoxiousness of the London newspaper the Daily Mail: while the BBC report on the survey attributes the demographic gender split to women's lack of "confidence" in their own quantitative abilities, the Daily Mail takes the opportunity to imply that women are stupid and only need math skills for things like buying shoes. "34 per cent [of women]- said she had trouble adding up prices in her head while out shopping," the paper laments. More »

9:30 AM on Mon Mar 3 2008
By Jessica
2,859 views, 107 comments

Latest by csrster: "in American schools, girls and boys are now equal in their math courses." I was under the impression that girs were more »
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Daily Mail: Cohabitation Makes Women Want To Kill Themselves
The British tabloid we love to hate has taken a story about rising suicide rates among single women and turned it into a treatise against cohabitation. The Government's Office for National Statistics in England released a report showing that women who are not married kill themselves at three times the rate of women who are hitched, a major increase since 1980. The Daily Mail then states, "The major difference in the lives of women since the early 1980s is the spread of unmarried cohabitation and the decline in marriage," and quotes an "expert" named Patricia Morgan, author of a study called "Marriage Lite," who says, "Cohabitation is a route to conflict, disappointment and unhappiness." Hey Daily Mail, correlation between the rise of cohabitation and single ladies offing themselves does not equal causation, OK? Leave it to the DM to turn an unbiased study into a way to shame those living in sin. More »

9:30 AM on Fri Feb 29 2008
By Jessica
3,531 views, 190 comments

Latest by PrettyPlease: I cohabitate with my boyfriend, and though he's the first I've lived with, I'm very much happy... I couldn't ask more »