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"They Said If My Parents Didn't Give Them Money They Would Rape Me"
It was difficult to decide what to clip from last night's television premiere of the film The Greatest Silence, which documents the years-long epidemic of rape in the Congo. There were the dozens of adult victims...the rapists themselves...and of course, filmmaker Lisa F. Jackson, who, according to at least one female critic, shouldn't have inserted her own experiences into her cinematic story. (Whatever, lady.) In the end, we decided to focus on the following: Maj. Honorine Mungole, a one-woman SVU unit who investigates the despicable crimes; 12-year-old Safi — who was raped last year after soldiers entered her home to loot it; and Mathilde, 4, a large-eyed moppet who was assaulted by a man in her village. (A full HBO screening schedule for the film can be found here.)More »
hearts of gold
Philanthrophy And Fashion: Padma Lakshmi Wears Them Well
Just because Padma Lakshmi has it all — a gorgeous face, a perfect body, an enviable career — doesn't mean that her life is perfect 24/7. Recently, when she was going through her divorce from writer Salman Rushdie, Padma was so depressed that she couldn't get out of bed. In the April issue of Glamour, Padma says that her unhappiness inspired her to get out there and do something, and she decided to get involved with the AIDS charity Act Now India. "I thought to myself, Hey, if anything, this will keep me from just lying there crying all day," Padma says of her newfound philanthropy. She spent her Delhi days touring orphanages filled with children with AIDS. "One look at these children," says Padma, "and you think, OK, I don't have it worse than these people. I should just get over myself." But Padma is no stranger to hardship herself. More »
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Kitten Born With A Birthmark Love Note
A kitten was born in California this week with fur markings that look like they say "I <3 ." or "I Love Dot." What makes that such a big deal? The kitten's mom is named Dottie. Too cute! (Also, hearts on baby animals seem to be a trend: First there was the chihuahua from Japan with a heart-shaped spot on its fur, then the piglet born just this past February with a similar birthmark.) Clip above.
Heart Of Darkness?
A note from a reader: "Saturday morning, the Today show did a fashion segment with an editor who I think was from Lucky magazine and she was pretty insulting in one of her "recommendations" for adhering to this season's styles. [The editor] was showing a new tribal look from Old Navy, and when the Today show anchor happened to say, "So you should only wear one piece of this?" the editor said, 'Oh you shouldn't wear FACE PAINT or CARRY A SPEAR." The March issue of Lucky does have a small "how to wear" item on tribal prints, but we're looking for a video clip for confirmation (and are coming up short). Anyone? Update: It wasn't an editor from Lucky but someone from People's "Style Watch". Watch the video: Offensive? Or innocent? [MSNBC]
A note from a reader: "Saturday morning, the Today show did a fashion segment with an editor who I think was from Lucky magazine and she was pretty insulting in one of her "recommendations" for adhering to this season's styles. [The editor] was showing a new tribal look from Old Navy, and when the Today show anchor happened to say, "So you should only wear one piece of this?" the editor said, 'Oh you shouldn't wear FACE PAINT or CARRY A SPEAR." The March issue of Lucky does have a small "how to wear" item on tribal prints, but we're looking for a video clip for confirmation (and are coming up short). Anyone? Update: It wasn't an editor from Lucky but someone from People's "Style Watch". Watch the video: Offensive? Or innocent? [MSNBC]
This Little Piggy
Just in time for Valentine's Day, a piglet was born with a series of heart-shaped spots on him. Usually such biological anomalies are from places like Japan, where all things cute seem to originate, but this little guy is from a farm in Gloucester, England, and was given the appropriate name of Valentine. [Daily Mail]
Just in time for Valentine's Day, a piglet was born with a series of heart-shaped spots on him. Usually such biological anomalies are from places like Japan, where all things cute seem to originate, but this little guy is from a farm in Gloucester, England, and was given the appropriate name of Valentine. [Daily Mail]
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Diddy Is "The Only Reason" Roberto Cavalli Came To Fashion Week
- Who knew Roberto Cavalli was such a big Diddy fan? Said the Italian designer at the Sean John show: "The only reason I'm still in New York is for Puffy. He is an artist and always puts on a real show. Maybe someday he will come to my show." [WWD, 7th item]
- The British Fashion Council's demand that all models walking London Fashion Week show up with a "certificate of health" may lead to a model boycott because, duh, models do not get paid to be healthy. [Telegraph]
- Rachel Zoe threw a total shitfit upon being denied entrance to the fashionably punctual Marc Jacobs show Friday night. There is justice in the world! [NY Mag]
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Victoria Beckham: Now In Vogue
- Rumor has it that Victoria Beckham will follow her appearance on the cover of Elle and the Marc Jacobs ad campaigns with the April Vogue cover. [Sassybella]
- Speaking of: "No size zeros here!" say the Spice Girls when interviewed alongside Roberto Cavalli by International Herald Tribune fashion critic Suzy Menkes in Milan yesterday. Um, sure. [IHT]
- Alessandra Ambrosio is the latest Victoria's Secret angel to get knocked up. Ambrosio is allegedly "several" months along. And to whom did she choose to confide this intimate knowledge? The Hilton sisters, of course. [Page Six]
- Sucks to be Bergdorf Goodman's mens fashion director Tommy Fazio: Sucker got ousted from his front-row seat at the Versace's menswear show Saturday so that Beyonce's bodyguard could have some place to sit. Yeah, maybe you wondered where Beyonce gets off thinking she needs a bodyguard in a room full of emaciated models and juice-fasting gays, but you can never be too careful these days, what with the whole Benazir Bhutto thing. [Page Six]
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"Here At The Hospital, We've Seen Women Who Have Stopped Living"
Anderson Cooper turned up on last night's 60 Minutes with a disturbing report about the Congolese civil war, specifically, the epidemic of violence against women in the form of almost unimaginable rape and torture. (Guns and knives in women's vaginas, people.) Although the epidemic of assaults is old news for some, there were disturbing new details, namely, that more and more civilians are committing the crime and that Congolese officials care so little about the problem that few cases ever go to court. In his report, Cooper interviewed 24-year-old Lucienne M'Maroyhi, putting a face to the hundreds of thousands of Congolese women who have been assaulted, and interviewed Dr. Denis Mukwege, who (despite his simplistic description of rape as "sex as a weapon"), does an admirable job helping to heal the physical and emotional wounds suffered by the women in his care. Clip above.
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If You Cheat, And Don't Feel Bad About It, Are You A Sociopath?
Cheating on a husband or boyfriend may not exactly be exemplary conduct, but there are certainly worse things one can do, morally speaking. And while we're speaking of morals, what if you don't really have them? Or at least don't apply them to situations like these? Morality is subjective after all. There's an interesting question on the matter in Salon's advice column today. A married woman and a serial cheater writes in that not only does her husband not know about her infidelities, she has absolutely no guilt about it. This led advice columnist Cary Tennis to wonder whether she was a sociopath. (He eventually decided that she probably isn't.) According to a piece on Nerve today comparing how differently Americans and the French view infidelity, it makes sense that an American would think that there might be something fucked up with a person who could cheat and not feel bad about it. But apparently things are different in France:People still wonder why Monica Lewinsky was a big deal — after all, the current president's wife, whom he met when he officiated at her first wedding, spent most of 2005 living in New York with her lover.More »
hearts of darkness
In Congo, They Rape Three-Year-Olds
A gruesome new kind of rape is gaining popularity in Congo, and no one knows exactly why.Many have been so sadistically attacked from the inside out, butchered by bayonets and assaulted with chunks of wood, that their reproductive and digestive systems are beyond repair.The latest suspects are a dreadlocked band of shiny tracksuit-wearing Laker fans called the Rastas. And yeah, we'd say it kind of gives us an appreciation for "rapists" like Kobe Bryant, but honestly, these rapes are so horrific it gives us an appreciation for, like, your run-of-the-mill pedophile, or that child pornographer in that one episode of SVU. Most of those guys, at least, work their "craft" with some acknowledgment that their victim is not, like, a beer bottle whose label you tear off and ball up before smashing the bottle into a million little pieces just because you're bored but an actual human. More »
There's yet another social networking site that targets a specific demographic, and it's pissing off people in L.A. because of a billboard advertisement it put up in West Hollywood, encouraging adultery. The company, AshleyMadison.com is intended for married people looking to have discreet sexual encounters with other married people. Oddly, its website boasts its pro-woman stance by professing the company's "belief in individual rights, the human condition, the positive impact of women on modern day society in business, sex and family life, the evolution of female sexuality and the democratic principles upon which this country was founded." [ABC7.com]
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