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Loose Lips
Britney Spears is super excited to be working with Madonna in a video segment for Madonna's upcoming tour, but she is excited in "a grown up way." What exactly does that mean? Like, she didn't pee her pants or something? • Famous boring person, John Mayer, once hooked up with a fan at one of his concerts. But this was "before cameraphones were around" because, since then, he has only been dating gorgeous celebs. • Angelina Jolie's hospital room in Nice, France reportedly has windows that have been coated with an insulating material to make it "impossible" for photographers to take photos. [People, People, Daily Express]
crap email from a dude
"I Could Be Writing To Tell You Your Feature Is Tasteless, Promotes Sexism, And Secures Its Readership By Offering Slanderous And Sensationalized Accounts…"
People often wonder what the fallout of a Crap Email is like. We don't often know! This guy contacted us once, thinking his ex-girlfriend had changed her name to Anna Holmes, even though her name was not Anna; when he finally figured out the deal he good-naturedly defended his doghouse-building skills and retreated back into his proverbial own. Truthfully, he seemed really nice, and I felt a little bad. The same cannot be said for "Christopher Davis," the Ayn Rand prostrating author of last week's "I Am, Right Now, Involved In Something More Important," which many of you felt to be the Douchiest Email Of All Time. Here is definitive proof it was not! A tale told in two parts: one note sent to his ex girlfriend after discovering his Crap Email on our site, one sent to us. (And yes, I bought Ayn Rand's journals last weekend and have been crafting a primer on why she is to be avoided. Although that will seem rather unnecessary in a moment.)
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teach your children well
Parents Still Messing Up Their Kids, Kids Still Having Sex
It's fairly well-established that having a close relationship with your kids (or, if you're a kid, with your parents) tends to keep those pesky teens from engaging in risky behaviors and delay the onset of sexual activity. The real question no one has really asked until now is what the definition of "close" actually is. It turns out that the definition of close might have a lot more to do with how you walk that line of showing them appropriate respect with still being a parents rather than being a strict parent. As my parents have been finding out since I've been writing here, being strict really doesn't keep your kid from having sex. According to a study by Stephanie Madsen at McDaniel College, parents fall into 4 camps: the permissive ones (whose kids run wild); the ones who set strict rules about their kids' dating habits and sexual contact (whose kids run wild); the ones who have unhappy relationships who try to set rules about their kids' treatment of the people they're dating (whose kids run wild); and those parents who are more focused on parenting and supervising their kids' transitions to adulthood without trying to relive or remake their own (whose kids are the most normal). More »
save your life, cheap!
How The He's Just Not That Into You Guy Actually Helped Me Get Over My (Married) (Strip Club DJ) Ex-Boyfriend
Tormented? Driven witless? 99 problems but therapy bills ain't one? Welcome to "Save Your Life, Cheap!" in which we write about the dumb things that get America's uninsured through hard times. AA meetings, James Joyce, Ani di Franco, suicide hotlines…anything nonalcoholic can apply, the more embarrassing the better. Which brings me to: self-help. In our first installment, Sephora Spy's Loren Hunt reviews the $1 book that got her through the worst breakup ever.
So, it's probably safe to make the baseline assumption that self-help books are not the kind of thing that anyone reads because they think it's cool. For some reason, self-loathing became more inherently cool than trying to fix problems, which would explain the aura of lameness surrounding self-help books: the corny covers, the corny catchphrases, the corny jacket photos, and the corny titles, which are invariably presented in a corny (and really large, readable) font. There are no cool self-help books. Cool people do not write self-help books. Happy people write them. And they could give a fuck who thinks they're cool. And you know who else doesn't give a fuck who thinks they're cool? A 23-year-old stripper who just used up every last shred of self-regard finally "breaking up" with the three-timing strip club DJ she had been fucking for the past year. And that, friends, is how I came to appreciate It's Called A Breakup Because It's Broken, the second offering from Greg Berendt of He's Just Not That Into You fame.
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jezenomics
Attention, Hot Fashion Industry Chicks! Hedge Fund Managers Are Desperate Enough To Bone You Now
Great news, gender! The recession is upon us, and investment bankers are being forced to lower their standards! Admission into the ranks of women they will fuck is no longer being exclusively limited to models! For a limited time only, any women in the fashion industry can be screened for (heh) interest. This momentous expansion of the pussy supply is being launched by an outfit called PocketChange NYC, whose charming slogan you will find after the jump, and it kicks off tonight at a bar called Taj. Apply now, because the guest list is already buzzing with potential M&A activity. Will Goldman buy Marc Jacobs? Can Versace find synergy with Credit Suisse? Can Tracie and I pull a Jerome Kerviel and get in on the action undetected? I'm still waiting to hear if I make the cut. (If I puke now, my gag reflexes will be perfectly primed!) (And to think I was just bemoaning the dearth of eligible men in this town!) More »
Chemistry Lessons
Ladies! Are you looking for a younger man? An investment opportunity? Both??? Julia Macmillan has just the thing for you: It's called toyboywarehouse.com. Macmillan, who is 40-something, launched the site 18 months ago, and is looking for an investor. She was disenchanted with sites like Match.com and DatingDirect.com, which she claims tried to fix women her age up with retired golf-players. "Our site is aimed at strong independent women who don’t want a pipe and slippers man,” Ms. Macmillan explains. The good news? Guys are flocking to the site. "There are almost double the amount of men compared with women," she says. And she hates the word "cougar". "It sounds predatory and that’s not what this is about." Meanwhile, Macmillan is currently single. "My last relationship finished coincidentally when I launched the site. I think he might have been a bit jealous." Time to turn to her database of dudes! [Financial Times]
web of lies
Online Dating Expert Reveals Not-So-Secret "Secrets"
Jane Coloccia, now 45, spent eight years online dating. That's about 200 dates. Now she is an "expert" at online dating, which means she has a book, of course: Confessions of an Online Dating Addict: A True Account of Dating and Relating in the Internet Age. Coloccia says, "I would go on three or four dates a week. One Sunday I had three dates — brunch, lunch and dinner." It would be safe to say that she loved the attention. "It does get very seductive as it is nice to open up an email and someone to say you are beautiful and they want to meet you," she explains. Anyway, Coloccia says: "My impression before I did this was that the people online were weirdos, but that is just not the case." Wow, really? People online are like, normal? What a revelation! Plus — you're not going to believe this — sometimes married men will post profiles online! More »
black & white issues
Do Some People Date Outside Of Their Race As A Form Of Revenge?
Monday, Nadra Kareem wrote about interracial dating for the blog Racialicious. Specifically: "Dating With A Vengeance." A few years ago, Ms. Kareem saw a comment on the IMDB page of actor John Cho. Someone wrote, "I hope he dates a white girl." Ms. Kareem explains: "The commenter, presumably an Asian male, explained that he made the statement because it would serve Asian women right if a desirable Asian male ended up with a white woman, since Asian women so often end up with white men." Ms. Kareem claims she has seen more and more comments like this online: People happy that Halle Berry has partnered with Gabriel Aubry, for instance, because, "black men are afraid of marriage, dating white women, in jail, 'on the down low' or dead, the commenters argue." You might think this attitude of dating as some kind of counterattack is crazy. I don't. More »
the whole truth
Lying To Loved Ones: A Good Idea?
Ever lie to your significant other? Does s/he ever lie to you? According to a new survey by the esteemed scientists at Harlequin Romance, one in two American men and women have lied to get out of a date. (What do you use? An old friend is in town, I think I've got the flu, I have to work late?) The study also found that 61% of men think it's okay to lie when a woman asks "does this make me look fat?" (Something you should really never ever ask anyone. I think that just saying the word "fat" puts it in the person's head and then they will always look at you that way.) And so while everyone thinks these little white lies are all well and good, you've got to wonder: Is lying a slippery slope? More »
pot psychology
P.S. No animals were drugged in the making of this video.
"Is Being A Deadbeat Dad An Automatic Dealbreaker?"
It's time for another installment of Pot Psychology, the advice column in which everyone's problems are solved with an "herbal" remedy. (Remember, kids: Don't do drugs!) In this episode, my friend till the end, Rich, helps me dole out advice on stuff like pubic hair, threesomes, and boners. Got a burning question? Send it to tips@jezebel.com with "Pot Psychology" in the subject line. (Please keep them short; they're verrrry hard to read when stoned.)P.S. No animals were drugged in the making of this video.
tales of the city
Meeting Strangers At Bars: Relic Of The Past Or Wave Of The Future?
The Observer's Nicole Brydson recently attempted a social experiment. She went to a bar. On a Saturday night. Alone! To see if she could strike up a friendship or maybe even a fling. She even wore a frilly dress! "While advising me about my love life, my mother always likes to tell stories about her youthful evenings spent at her local singles bar," Nicole writes. And it's true — recently I've been reading Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City series, and the swinging late 70s San Francisco singles he writes about met everywhere! Not just at bars, mind you; there was even an unofficial singles night at the local Safeway where you could scope out cuties while suggestively squeezing cucumbers. But these days, it seems that stranger courtship is much more likely to take place across a DSL connection than on a couple of bar stools. Though maybe I'm just too timid to talk to strangers. More »
Art Imitates Life
Last August, a crazy online dating story with twists and turns garnered a lot of attention. I (Dodai) wrote that it was "bizarre, completely epic" and "seemingly made-for-the-big screen." The gist of it: A man creates an online profile of a hot young soldier and "meets" a hot young girl via IM. They get engaged, never realizing that each is not whom they claim to be. Last night, Law & Order's episode seemed to be inspired by the tale! Watch a recap here. [Hulu]
arabian nights
Strict Rules In Saudi Arabia Render Romance Elusive, But Not Dead
The New York Times has a series of articles on Love in Saudi Arabia. That's capital L "Love," the romantic kind of love as seen in movies and sung about in pop songs. The articles focus on Riyadh, which has strict Islamic laws. Women and men are severely segregated. Women are not allowed to be in a public place alone, without a man. Men are not allowed in malls because they may see women shopping. Women have only recently been able to drive; they are usually driven around the city in cars with tinted windows, attend girls-only schools and universities, and eat in "family" sections of restaurants, which are partitioned from the sections used by single males. But in a country where half of the population is under 25 years old, hormones and dreams are flourishing. So how do you fall in Love? More »
Pot Psychology
Nerve has another edition of its "Dating Advice From..." column, and this time they went to the Miss High Times contestants to answer readers questions. We're not sure if the girls were actually baked when giving their answers (for our stoned advice column, it's a requirement), but it was still really pot-centric: My girlfriend always expects me to pay for our shared pot. How can I put a stop to this? Stop buying with her. Get your own stash and let her know why you did. If she were a real stoner she would have her own stash too, and this never would have happened in the first place. [Nerve]
some say the world will end in fire
Making Out In Public: Do You Care That It's Gross?
A Memphis high school principal publicly outed a bunch of gay kids when she posted a list of couples teachers had told her were "known couples" in hopes of shaming them out of making out in the hallways. And yes, that is mindbogglingly outrageous — as opposed to merely "sad," which is how I characterized it before I realized many of the couples had no public makeout history — but the ACLU is on it and I feel there is a more important matter at hand, because it is Friday, and a bunch of you are invariably going to be engaging in Public Displays of Affection tonight. And I'm okay with that. This morning I revealed that I had once been kicked out of a bar for making out. I like making out in bars and on street corners sometimes, because making out at home on your couch gets old and inevitably leads to fucking, and you can't run errands or get drunk while you're fucking. But sometimes I forget how it makes others feel. More »
comedy of manners
Dear Ladies: Chivalry Makes "Life More Worth Living"
Do you care if a guy opens the door for you? If he pulls your chair out at dinner? Well a British dating site, DatingDirect.com, surveyed 1,000 British men, and whether you like it or not they enjoy being chivalrous. According to the Times of London, 56% of British dudes "enjoy" paying for dinner on a date, and 34% of men will "frequently defend a woman's honour." There's also an accompanying video to the Times article, where a dowdy middle aged British lady, relationship psychologist Susan Quilliam, says things like "even though women want to be equal and we don't want to be patronized," those little chivalrous gestures are what "makes life more worth living!" Woa there, lady. I'm not going to lie, like many of you, I am a "cursory purse grabber" who likes a dude to pay on the first date. But I wouldn't say that's what makes life worth living. More »
eharmful advice
