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”Orphaned Baby Deer Makes Us Melt • Indra Nooyi Named Most Powerful Woman By Forbes
• Squee! This baby deer, delivered via c-section after its mother was hit by a car is officially The Cutest Thing, Ever. • Speaking of C-sections, a new study has found that pregnant Asian women whose male partners are Caucasian are more likely to have a Cesarean than white women who have Asian or white male partners. • On Saturday, a Florida man was robbed by four women wearing overalls with no shirt or bra underneath and one larger woman wearing overalls with a long-sleeved shirt. • Sad news: The Louisiana home of author Kate Chopin burned to the ground early this morning. • More »Amsterdam Hosts Pole-Dancing Championship • Texas Judge Orders Woman Not To Procreate
• Amsterdam hosted a European pole dancing championship last Friday in hopes of showing that the activity is a physically-challenging sport for "regular" women. • Ugh: A study of 4-year-olds in Australia suggets that parents are unintentionally enforcing "body ideals" in their children along gender lines (e.g., girls need to exercise more to loose weight; boys need to eat more to gain muscle). • A study of college students reveals that celebrity-loving can boost people's self-esteem because they assign celebrity traits to themselves. • A 35-year-old woman had a stroke after sex due to a possible combination of birth control pills, a venous blood clot, sex, and a heart defect. • More »I Am Fucking Sick & Tired Of Baby Bumps
The New York Sun is kind of the also-ran of New York papers, not exactly known for being groundbreaking, and frankly, I keep forgetting it exists. But it must be around, because Lenore Skenazy wrote a piece today called "Our Baby Bump Obsession," pegged to the birth of the all-healing Jolie-Pitt twin deities who, mere days after being welcomed onto this planet, earned $7 million a piece, much more than some of us will see in our lifetimes. Writes Skenazy: "Babies are hot." But with all the pregnancy updates and IVF info and keeping track of trimesters, she laments, "It has become hard to tell if you're reading a supermarket tabloid or Gynecology Today." And then there's all the tabloids, pointing at tummies, looking for a thing called a "baby bump": More »
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