• A woman from Arizona may be forced to fly more than 300 miles away from her hometown to give birth, because her local hospital insists she must have a c-section. Joy Szabo had a c-section for her last child, and the hospital claims that doing a vaginal birth after a c-section is too risky. •  According to a British study, less than 33% of men wash their hands with soap after going to the bathroom. In order to increase the number of hand-washers, researchers suggest placing messages above bathroom sinks, which either shame the person into washing, or gross them out ("Soap it off or eat it later"). •  A man from the UK - who the Daily Mail dubs "Cruel Graeme Conroy" - has been sentenced to 18 months in jail for forcing a 3-year-old girl to smoke cigarettes. Conroy had a 14-year-old girl film him while he forced the young child to chain smoke five cigarettes, "as a joke." •  A Missouri ninth-grader has been arrested for making a website that called a classmate a "slut" and said she "would be better off if she just died." Missouri is cracking down on cyber-bullying after Megan Meier's suicide. • A woman who was raped as a 13-year-old is speaking out against rape kit backlogs after her kit sat untested for twenty years, much longer than the statute of limitations for her case. • A Berlin brothel is offering an "eco discount" to johns who walk or bike there. • PUMA Amy Siskind says "President Obama seems largely tone-deaf to women and women's issues," and praises the Republican party for "promising stars" like Sarah Palin. • But Jimmy Carter is bullish on Obama, saying that he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize "as much as anyone who's ever gotten it for his achievement already," and that "he's spelled out an agenda that can be adopted by others in Europe and around the world to lead toward increased peace and human rights and the alleviation of suffering. Those are all tangible contributions - even though the fulfillment of all of them has got to require time to realize." •

The promotion, "Sin To Win," is for the new EA release, "Dante's Inferno." One lucky winner gets a night out with "two hot girls," complete with dinner, limo service, and, um, paparazzi, for some reason. Gross. As Ben Kuchera at Ars Technica writes, "I can't imagine what it's like to be a booth babe, especially not at a show like Comic Con. You're being pawed at by huge amounts of sweaty geeks, you have to smile and be pleasant to people who may or may not have showered... it always seems like a hellish existence. What doesn't help? Having your employer offer a bounty if people sexually harass you."

Not only is this promotion gross and a bit sad, it also reinforces the notion that everyone at Comic Con is a horny douchebag loser who just wants to rub up against a Booth Babe for a cheap thrill. While I'm sure there are a few of those champs in attendance, the idea that women are essentially only at Comic Con as a means to get you off and win you prizes does, as one of our tipsters wrote, "nothing to dispel prevalent stereotypes of an industry composed entirely of 15 year old misogynist-dorks."

The backlash is in full swing: Twitter has already taken up the cause, with the hashtag #EAFail appearing as a reaction to the promotion. And even those who note that the job of Booth Babes is to glam up the product a bit have taken issue with the promo: as Joseph Leray at Destructoid writes, "Pictures with booth babes are a convention staple — it's going to happen either way.On the other hand, there's something repulsive about offering people up as prizes in your PR stunt, especially given game culture's bad habit of over-sexualizing its female characters anyway." A Booth Babe posing for a dumb picture is one thing; a Booth Babe being sought out for "acts of lust" in the name of dinner and a limo ride is another.

One can only hope that Comic Con attendees will pass on sinning to win and perhaps pay tribute to Dante's Inferno by simply telling EA Games to go to hell.

How Low Can EA Go? [Technologizer]
SDCC: EA To Prostitute Its Booth Babes For You, The Customer [Destructoid]
EA Puts Sexual Bounty On The Heads Of Its Own Booth Babes[Ars Technica]

Related: EA Provides "Girls," Asks Gamers To Sin To Win [Kotaku]

Still, reality television keeps finding ways of lowering the bar, and Battle of the Bods is the latest show to take its place as The Worst Fucking Show Of All Time. This show makes I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here look like quality television. It even makes the MTV abomination "Next" look classy by comparison.

Here's the premise: women dress up in bikinis and "rank" themselves according to how they think a panel of men (who, by the way, just look like they reek of Axe and say things like "I'm really feeling your energy right now" all the time) will judge them. "How well do women know what men reallllly like?" the hostess, Olivia Lee, asks, before explaining that the women will win cash based on their ability to match their own personal ranking with the ranking of the bros on the panel. It's a pretty disgusting, degrading, and sad set up- the women spend most of the show comparing themselves with each other and desperately hoping that their own personal self-assessment matches up with the view of the dudes, as if their self-worth HAS to be validated by a man.

In this clip, the women are judged on their "booty shake" by a panel of "athlete" men. If you can watch this without wanting to break your computer screen, I salute you. It's pretty fucking infuriating, and only serves to further the idea that women should be judged on their bodies at all times (it's especially sad that these women buy into this shit) and that no woman should be able to formulate an opinion on her own body unless a man is there to tell her if she's right or wrong.

Battle Of The Bods [Hulu]

Mark Southeby, 38, was arrested after he used an online social networking site to stalk and harass young girls. Southeby used Facebook, MSN and MySpace to track a group of teens who lived in the Leeds area and went to the same high school. He went to great lengths to deceive the girls; he used fake names, adopted some of their identities and even cloned web pages on their personal sites. Southeby called the girls multiple times a day, and terrorized one 14-year-old by phoning her to say he was "obsessed" with the clothes she was wearing that day.

He eventually developed an online relationship with one 15-year-old girl, who came to believe that they were dating. Southeby even asked her to perform sex acts via a webcam, but his underage "girlfriend" refused. Southeby also asked one teen to invite her friend over to his house so that he could drug her and do what he wanted with her. This statement is especially worrisome considering his record: he was arrested twice previously, in June 2006 and January 2007, for trying to buy chloroform online.

Not only is Southeby a first class creep, he also has a strange and surprisingly dated fetish. Police found an "enormous number" of photographs of teenage girls wearing Ugg boots on Southeby's mobile phone, and the prosecuting lawyer said in court: "He [Southeby] was particularly interested in Ugg boots, which he later told police he had a fetish about."

Southeby's lawyer says his client is "highly sexed" and would be receptive of any treatment. "It's a matter that causes him daily upset. From his perspective, were it effectively chemical castration that would be a benefit," he said. "The pleasure he obtained from this contact was in having the discussions about Ugg boots with those girls and as he was having those discussions effectively relieving his sexual frustration."

Ugg Boot Fetishist Targeted Girls [BBC]
'Castrate me' Says Internet Paedophile Who Stalked Leeds Schoolgirls [Yorkshire Evening Post]

Because it's not as if Cimbalo does anything in his piece but slag on these women for having the audacity to be attractive, conservative, opinionated and loud about those opinions. In other words, if he didn't agree with us mouthy liberal broads, he wouldn't want to fuck us either, and apparently prefers his women quiet and agreeable. And that - no matter what your politics are - is just gross.

For instance, on Michelle Malkin, he opines:

Worse than fucking Eva Braun.

Which would, actually, be difficult as Braun was cremated and her ashes scattered. But who needs a man with any historical knowledge.

On Megyn Kelly, whose "y" he abhors:

You need to flagellate your genitals for wanting to fuck this woman.

Actually, I've met and interviewed Megyn Kelly, and I found her smart, gracious and extremely pretty.

On Mary Katherine Ham:

You get this one pregnant, she stays pregnant.

Apparently, Cimbalo prefers having unprotected sex with women who plan to abort.

On Amanda Carpenter:

This foul temptress is a walking, talking Faustian fuck bargain.

For one thing, Amanda was also a colleague of mine at Glamocracy where she and I once penned a column together. Politically, we'd be hard pressed to find anything on which we agree politically, I wouldn't call her foul or Faustian (but her husband might call her a temptress).

On Elizabeth Hasselbeck:

You're better served sucking off Regis Philbin.

I'd encourage Cimbalo to try, actually.

On Dana Perino:

The second she says "no comment," your testicles are going to retract back into your body.

Right, because who wants to fuck a strong woman?

On Laura Ingraham:

Vagina dentata would be an improvement.

He really does love the "ball-busting" stereotypes, no? Nothing sexist about that.

On Pamela Gellar:

This shrieking harpy...

Need I continue?

On Michelle Bachman:

Chemical castration has begun to look appealing.

Strong woman=ball buster. Caught that yet?

On Peggy Noonan:

Imagine fucking your grandmother.

Because older women are automatically unsexy.

So, liberal ladies, just make sure you keep your opinions to yourself, never get old, never get a high-powered career and goodness knows don't disagree with Guy Cimbalo or, like George H.W. Bush, he might not want to fuck you. And you wouldn't want that.

So Right It's Wrong [Playboy]

Related: Four Questions for Megyn Kelly [Glamocracy]
Political Time Machine: HBO's "Recount" [Glamocracy]

Earlier: Help Me Choose An Outfit To Keep George Bush Away From My Womb