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Is Speed Racer A Feminist Film? • Ohio Students Get Moms Drunk, Arrested
Christina Ricci calls her Speed Racer character a "feminist ideal." • An Indian bride-to-be rejects groom for poor math skills. • Bus driver and artist wants to change name to "In God We Trust." • Almost one-third of U.S. parents are clueless about infant development. • Malaysia drops proposal for restrictions on female travel. • Erin Brockovich is still around, sets sites on allegedly toxic housing community in South Carolina. • Finally: A pole-dancing Wii game is in the works. • Parents with mental disorders linked to autistic children. • Overweight mamas have longer pregnancies. • Yankees fan kills man with car after Red Sox-Bronx Bombers argument. • University of Minnesota puts on mostly whitewashed production of The Wiz due to lack of black students. • Teens who like alcohol may grow up to be heavy drinkers, Captain Obvious reports. • Moms' Weekend at Ohio University lets college kids introduce their moms to the wide world of binge drinking.
state of the unions
Cindy McCain's Marriage Is Not Exactly A 'Straight Talk Express'
Potential First Lady/onetime pill-popper Cindy McCain hit up Leno last night, appearing elegant in a canary-yellow pantsuit (shades of Hillary?) and eager to talk about her husband's candidacy, including concern over his advanced age and her family's reaction to his repeated presidential run. Cindy was agreeable enough, but over the course of the 12-minute interview (quite long for Leno) we noticed a theme began emerging: that of deceit in the McCain marriage. From lying about her age, taking pilot lessons and drug use, Cindy has quite the chronicle of tall tales! Clip above.
hell's bells
Is Surviving A Sex Change The True Sign Of A Good Marriage? Or Just Insane?
Yesterday the New York Times ran a story about one of those married couples that stays together after the husband gets a sex change. I'm not sure how many married couples like that there are; it's one of those things that I feel like I'm hearing about all the time, but it could be the same married couple I saw on Oprah, but they're journalistically important because of of their legal implications — their rights and legal statuses differ from state to state, and there are all sorts of ways they can be discriminated against, not that most people are that concerned about transsexual same-sex married couples losing their spousal rights when they cross state lines when it's still okay for cops to shoot unarmed black men, because the real reason you want to read about these people is that they stayed together. Through a sex change. Their marriage survived. A sex change. All the same qualities that attracted them are still there, they claim. Just now they go bra-shopping together! More »
Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend
Remember the 3 Reasons Why Smart Women Love Baseball? Here's number 1.1: couples who watch baseball together may be more likely to stay together. At some point in the 1990s, Howard Markman of the Center for Marital and Family Studies at the University of Denver, did a survey — "for fun" — when Denver was considering bringing the Rockies to the city. And based on his "results", he concluded that "you're 28 percent more likely to get a divorce if you live in a town that wants a professional baseball team." Yeah it's probably bullshit, (you can read more here), but as a soon-to-be-married major baseball fan, I can use all the excuses to go to the ballpark I can get. [Divorce360]
clips
Why Marrying A Rich Old Dude Who Won't Fuck Will Not Solve Your Problems
Meet Tricia Walsh-Smith. She's a playwright, but I guess the tragedy is that this YouTube video, in which she asks the assistant of her greedy hateful rich theater-owning old ex-husband who never wanted to fuck (even though she was 25 years younger than him!) what she thinks she should do with the Viagra and condoms she found, will probably go down in "History" as her sole contribution to the universe. Or is it a tragedy? No of course not, there's no such thing as tragedy. Or no, actually... More »
leftovers
Brigitte Bardot Is A Racist; Churchgoing Girls Are Apple Polishers
• Sure, yesterday was Black Day, but it was also Cake and Cunnilingus Day! • A blind man stabbed his fiancee for not wearing her engagement ring. • Mothers experience less eating problems than their drunk and childless peers.• The "D.C. Madam" was found guilty of prostitutin'. • Famous Muslim-hater, Brigitte Bardot, is on trial again for racist slurs. • The girls involved in a playground beatdown of a 10-year-old girl may face expulsion from school. • Gay couples are having trouble obtaining divorces. • Saudi female students and housewives plan Olympic dreams with controversial basketball team. • Social Darwinism? Girls who attend church religiously, are (possibly) harder workers.
hells bells
Big Wedding, Yes; Boob Jobs & Botox, No
You know, every time someone writes about weddings our commenters [And me. -Ed.] are all, "I would never spend any money on a wedding!" and "I can't believe anyone would lose weight for their big day, how superficial!" and "I am so unmaterialistic and wonderful I'm getting married in a burlap sack at the bottom of a big hole in the dirt because weddings are stupid and they should really be about true love and blah blah blah." But seriously? Fuck that noise. I totally want a huge-ass wedding and a pretty, poofy dress and I'll probably try to lose five pounds by joining some retarded gym program right before the wedding. There, I said it. But I promise not to go as apeshit as the women profiled today's Guardian. More »
one is the loneliest number
Single Women: Psyched Or Sad?
In today's Sydney Morning Herald, columnist Samantha Brett writes about the "Hollywood Freemale." What the hell is a freemale, you ask? It's a stoopid term coined to describe a woman who is single and loving it. She's female, and she's free — of males! Get it? Anyway, Ms. Brett points out that single women in Australia now outnumber married women for the first time since World War I. "Marriage is not the gateway to adulthood anymore," says social historian Stephanie Coontz. And celebrities are leading the way, since there are single stars like Jennifer Aniston, Cameron Diaz, Kate Hudson and uh, the Pussycat Dolls. Jen Aniston reportedly said being single is great because of "the unknown. I love the discovery of what will be happening." Drew Barrymore says being single "makes you a better lover." Cammie Diaz claims: "I love being alone and being by myself. And I'm really good at it too." But are these Hollywood freemales — and other non-famous single ladies — just kidding themselves? More »
Domestic Disturbances
A new study shows that chore-disparity between men and women still remains. Married ladies do, on average, seven more hours of cleaning than their hubbies. University of Michigan researchers found that being married saves men an hour of housework a week, while married women with children do even more than their fair share of cleaning than the female half of a childless couple. According to Reuters, scientists "found that young single women did the least amount of housework, at about 12 hours a week. Married women in their 60 and 70s did nearly twice that amount, while women with more than three children spent 28 hours a week cleaning, cooking and washing." [Reuters]
