• An man from Guernsey was disciplined at work after he sent an email to female colleagues saying that he was looking for a pretty female roommate to cook and clean for him. • Anna Rawson, a part-time model, currently shares the lead for the opening round of the inagural Bell Micro LPGA Classic in Mobile, Alabama. • The number of female centenarians in Japan is expected to exceed 30,000 by the end of September. • UNICEF has released new estimates that show that the under-five mortality rate of children is down 27% since 1990. • Cpl. Cesar Laurean, the Marine who is suspected of killing a pregnant Marine in North Carolina, will be returned from Mexico to the U.S., a Mexican judge ruled on Thursday. • Prostitutes in Sweden, where it is legal to sell sex but illegal to pay for sex, are looking to pay taxes on their earned income so they can have access to government benefits. • This just in from obvious studies headquarters: Teens who don't use condoms avoid using them because they think they will reduce pleasure. • A Catholic priest in Illinois was arrested on Wednesday for selling and using cocaine in his office and residence at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. • A new study says that kids aged 10 to 11 from privileged families in which the mothers work score worse on cognitive tests and tend to be more overweight than lower-class families where the mother works... although the study did not analyze the type of day care that the children were getting in place of their mothers. • An angry father from Florida attacked his daughter's boyfriend with a metal pipe after discovering the boy nude in his daughter's room. • Vicki Minor is a founder of The Wildland Firefighter Foundation, which helps wounded and fallen wildfire firefighters and their families nationwide. •

Even though this is a clear legislative victory for pro-choice Mexicans, there are still many roadblocks to a safe and legal termination. A lot of Mexico City gynecologists have declared themselves "conscientious objectors" and are refusing to perform abortions, so the doctors who do perform pregnancy termination procedures are swamped with work. Even so: in the year that abortions have been legal in the Mexican capital, more than 12,600 women have had abortions in public clinics.

And that is real progress. Director of the international abortion rights group Ipas, Raffaela Schiavon, who was advising the Mexico City government, says, “This made history in Mexico and the rest of the region…It opens the road for all of Latin America to start visualizing legal paths to abortion."

Mexican Supreme Court Upholds Legalized Abortion Law [LAT]
Abortion Rights Upheld In Mexico City [Kansas City Star]

You shouldn't be worried about "your woman" murdering you unless you've done something to majorly piss her off, right? So yeah. They're playing into some stereotypes. "Don't let" your woman watch insinuates that she needs permission, etc. Stirring things up! Some wonder if watching this show will turn your average woman into a vigilante. Writes Reed:

Several of the series actresses have dismissed that idea. "I think one of the values of the series is that it speaks not only of the depth of the female psychology, but rather it speaks [of] the human condition, no?" said Cecilia Suárez, the actress who plays Ana "Corrosiva," an acid-wielding anti-heroine who delivers a brutal payback to her control-freak plastic surgeon lover.

In a world where injustices against women (wage discrepancies, rape, objectification and marginalization) go unpunished, surely the series provides a vicarious thrill for viewers. Women aren't going to become man-killing hellcats just from watching this show! Just like watching Dynasty didn't turn rich ladies into hair-pulling brawlers. That said, I suspect this may be my new favorite program. Chances are, an English-language version will arrive in the U.S. next year and be called Stabby. (Chances also are that they'll ruin the concept and dumb it down for American audiences.)

The Get-Even Ways Of 'Mujeres Asesinas' [LA Times]

P.S.
Sometimes the women get revenge on other women, btw:

Here's the blood-soaked trailer:

Ms. Rendon, explains writer James C. McKinley Jr., makes a living selling snacks to visitors so that she can then buy food for her fragile, often-ailing daughter from the prison grocery (she considers the food at the prison cafeteria unhealthy.) "I think the best thing for my daughter would be for her to be outside with her grandmother," Rendon admits. "But the truth is I need her. She is something special."

Interestingly, the majority of the women interviewed seem to be mothers to daughters. In addition to Ms. Rendon, there is Diane Merlos Espericueta, also with a toddler daughter, Jacqueline, and Victoria Jaramillo (pictured above), mother to a 3-month-old girl, Frida. And, despite the constant threat of violence in the prison, the prison's warden explains that the children enjoy a protective cloak offered by the other prisoners, even the motherless ones, tapping into what the Times describes as "the collective maternal instinct of the 1,680 women locked up here." "The minors are highly respected by the population," says warden Margarita Malo. "The fact we have children here creates a mind-set of solidarity. I have never seen aggression on the part of the inmates toward the children. Everyone acts as if they could be their children, and they don't want anything to happen to them."

Behind Prison Bars, Toddlers Serve Time With Mom [NY Times]

In the article, while a client from Houston, Texas is recovering from her procedure, she says of her Mexican caretaker, "She's better than a mom." Question: Is this why the immigration policies are changing? So the red-staters can keep the Mexicans giving cheap nose-jobs south of the border, where they belong?
Americans Head To Mexico For Plastic Surgery [CSM]