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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 »
Ugh
Remember the woman who was killed last week because her Uggs apparently got stuck in train tracks? Now investigators are saying it isn't the footwear to blame but the woman's boyfriend, who is being charged with manslaughter. Apparently after getting stuck in the tracks, two strangers came and assisted the woman, freeing her, but once her foot was released, the boyfriend encouraged her to go ahead and run in front of the train to cross to his side of the platform, rather than wait for the train to pass. He was annoyed at the idea of missing his ride. [Daily Mail]
rag trade
Camila Alves Spawns More Than Just McConaughey Progeny: A Handbag Line!
- Matthew McConaughey baby mama/former model Camila Alves is doing something to really make a difference: She created a handbag line, called Muxo. "We wanted to create something that was unique and not already in the market, and it took us that long to create this. My main goal was to create something where people didn't have to compromise, that it could be exactly what they needed." Someone grab me a tissue, I think she just gave me a reason to keep on livin'. [WWD, sub req'd]
- Say what you will about the Daily Mail but it did put Anna Wintour on its worst-dressed list. [Daily Mail]
- Naomi Campbell is rumored to be the face of the Fall 2008 Yves Saint Laurent campaign. Maybe it will have an S&M theme? [WWD, 1st item]
- Can we please discuss the placement of Victoria Beckham's breasts in the latest Marc Jacobs ad? [Sassybella]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
daily (hate) mail
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 »
daily (hate) mail
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 »
Nearly one-third of women had C-sections in 2005, a major jump from the number in 1995, when only one-fifth of women delivered babies by Caesarean. The study was done by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and also said that the sharpest decline in natural birth was from women who had already given birth to first child through C-section. Another possible cause for the decline is, like Christina Aguilera, women in America are just afraid of getting their junk torn up by pushing a kid out. Doctors definitely took an X-acto to X-tina! [UPI, Daily Mail]
Daily (Hate) Mail
Do you usually volunteer to pay on a first date? According to the Daily Mail most of you don't really mean it. 50% of women are what the DM calls "cursory purse grabbers" — you pretend as if you're going for the wallet, but really you expect the dude to pony up the price of dinner. 30% of women insist on going Dutch, and 20% of them just sit back and smile while he pulls out the AmEx. It works out though, because 85% of dudes will pay for the whole meal, while 75% of the men surveyed will pay even if the date doesn't go well. Some of us Jezebels are certainly guilty of being cursory purse grabbers. Are you? [Daily Mail]
Do you usually volunteer to pay on a first date? According to the Daily Mail most of you don't really mean it. 50% of women are what the DM calls "cursory purse grabbers" — you pretend as if you're going for the wallet, but really you expect the dude to pony up the price of dinner. 30% of women insist on going Dutch, and 20% of them just sit back and smile while he pulls out the AmEx. It works out though, because 85% of dudes will pay for the whole meal, while 75% of the men surveyed will pay even if the date doesn't go well. Some of us Jezebels are certainly guilty of being cursory purse grabbers. Are you? [Daily Mail]
daily (hate) mail
Do You Cry Because You're Angry, Or Because You're Sad?
Guess what? Today there was a Daily Mail article we didn't entirely disagree with! The article in question uses Hillary's most recent cry as a jumping off point to discuss the difference between male and female tears. The writer, Carol Sarler, implies that women cry for a number of nuanced reasons, while men mostly weep due to the "basics": "bereavement, heartbreak and Arsenal losing at home." Obviously this is an enormous generalization, but we did a small sampling of Jezebels and Jezeboys, and we found Sarler to be fairly spot on with her assessment! Where she goes off the rails into Daily (Hate) Mail territory is when she says that often women cry in order to manipulate: the oldest derogatory stereotype in the book. Anyway, after the jump, we offer up some of the reasons we weep. The results may surprise you. More »
The odious Daily Mail is an equal opportunity offender when it comes to needlessly pointing out celebrity imperfections! Today the paper attacks George Michael for getting a little girthy since his salad days in Wham! "Do you really need another £200 meal, porky George?" the Mail asks. That's almost as nice as the things it said about Madonna today: "Dressed down for a visit to top London hotel, Claridge's, the singer revealed a pair of stubbly, rumpled legs, which resembled those of fictional character Nora Batty from TV's Last Of The Summer Wine." [Daily Mail via Alex Balk's Tumblr, Daily Mail]
cohabitation nation
Survey Says Living In Sin Is The New Marriage
The annual British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey has just been released, and it suggests that residents of the U.K. are much more welcoming of alternative familial arrangements than ever been before. According to the Telegraph, two-thirds of people think that cohabitation is "virtually indistinguishable" from marriage and only a quarter of respondents think that married couples make better parents than unmarried ones. In addition, although 70% of those polled think there is nothing wrong with sex before marriage, (up from a mere 48% in 1984.), the only area in which old-fashioned values still reign supreme is in the division of household labor. (Only 23% of couples divide household responsibilities evenly.)More »
daily (hate) mail
Would You Be Faithful If Your Partner Became Paralyzed?
When Phil Taylor met his wife, Linda (pictured here), he was a "respected dog handler" and she was a fetching army caterer. Fifteen years after they married, Phil came down with a rare neurological disorder that left him paralyzed. And although Phil tells the Daily Mail that Linda "never left my side and would patiently sit and feed me and even take me to the loo," over a year after he was hospitalized, Linda took up with two different men — one them a friend of Phil's. Although it was shitty of her to sleep with her husband's good friend, we wondered: was it so wrong that Linda wanted her sexual needs fulfilled? We asked Christine Coppa*, Glamour blogger and new mom, who went through the heartbreaking experience of dating someone who suffered an accident and became quadriplegic. More »
modern love
"Liberated Feminists" Or Not, It Takes Two To Homewreck
Today's Daily Mail, the paper we love to hate, has a story about "modern mistresses." Frances Jackson is a 28 year old publicist who loved having an affair with a married man. "Being a mistress fitted perfectly into my life," she says. "I liked having a lover, dinners and dates and spending the night at my house together once a week. But I also loved it that Andrew couldn't spend every minute with me. It meant I could still socialize with my three girl friends." The story claims that Frances and her three friends "swap breathless secrets of adulterous affairs, stolen sex with married men and lavish lies fed to the unknowing victims of their actions." Frances would turn to her friends for advice. "We reasoned that as long as the affair was on my terms and I didn't get hurt then I should just enjoy it." But although the paper paints these single women as dangerous man-eaters, only Frances knowingly had an affair with a married man. More »
Daily (Hate) Mail
Daily Mail headline from this morning: "Enormous Milla Jovovich Is No More - As The New Mum Regains Her Slimline Figure." Thank GOD. We were terrified that this gorgeous, once-pregnant woman was going to eat us all. [Daily Mail]
Daily Mail headline from this morning: "Enormous Milla Jovovich Is No More - As The New Mum Regains Her Slimline Figure." Thank GOD. We were terrified that this gorgeous, once-pregnant woman was going to eat us all. [Daily Mail]
Daily (Hate) Mail
"For Hayley Smith, her third year brought a set of problems most children her age wouldn't even have heard of, let alone been able to comprehend - puberty. While her baby-sized friends enjoyed the simplest of life's pleasures, Hayley spent her time laid up on the sofa with period pains. She also had to put up with other un-pleasantries of puberty, including body odor, greasy hair and mood swings." From a Daily Mail article about precocious puberty, a condition which causes premature maturation in young girls. Poor babies! [Daily Mail]
"For Hayley Smith, her third year brought a set of problems most children her age wouldn't even have heard of, let alone been able to comprehend - puberty. While her baby-sized friends enjoyed the simplest of life's pleasures, Hayley spent her time laid up on the sofa with period pains. She also had to put up with other un-pleasantries of puberty, including body odor, greasy hair and mood swings." From a Daily Mail article about precocious puberty, a condition which causes premature maturation in young girls. Poor babies! [Daily Mail]
