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    Image of rodmanstreet rodmanstreet
    05:09 PM

    In reply to Lilly's Kids: What's Christmas Without Reinforcing Gender Stereotypes?
    A Disney Princess Blender? If Belle is spending "happily ever after" making protein shakes for the Beast, I'll eat my hat. #lilyskids
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    05:09 PM

    In reply to Lilly's Kids: What's Christmas Without Reinforcing Gender Stereotypes?
    One Christmas I was staying at my grandparents' house, and (so the family legend goes) I told my grandmother that I wanted a toy truck for christmas. She said "No granddaughter of mine is getting a truck!" and gave me disney princesses instead. My parents heard and went out and bought me three trucks.

    I love my parents. #lilyskids
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    Image of Tippi Hedren Tippi Hedren
    05:08 PM

    In reply to Lilly's Kids: What's Christmas Without Reinforcing Gender Stereotypes?
    I don't know what this fake vacuum business is all about. My mom had me cleaning "for realsies" when I was younger than that kid. #lilyskids
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    Image of Cesybabe or Nirvanah Crane Cesybabe or Nirvanah Crane
    05:06 PM

    In reply to Lilly's Kids: What's Christmas Without Reinforcing Gender Stereotypes?
    Having just spent two days doing the end of year clean of my flat, most of that re-doing what my male flatmates had attempted to do, I plead with parents- please teach both sexes equally how to clean a house. If I have to show a 21 year old male one more time how to empty the vacuum cleaner, I may cry.

    (Yes this is my cleaning is not just for girls argument. As I sit here smelling of Ajax and with a years worth of dust in my hair, I feel I'm entitled to make it!)
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    Image of JLady JLady
    05:05 PM

    In reply to Lilly's Kids: What's Christmas Without Reinforcing Gender Stereotypes?
    One Christmas I got a a tool kit (with real, though child-sized tools) and a Fisher-Price kitchen.

    I guess my parents were equal-opportunity gifters. #lilyskids
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    Image of o-line o-line
    04:52 PM

    In reply to Keeping Up With The Kardashians: Khloe Getting Married
    Uhm, Kim has already been married once before. Is she just upset that her wedding wasn't featured on a cable reality show?
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    Image of emfish55 emfish55
    04:20 PM

    In reply to French Women Don't Get It, Or Why Do We Resent Mireille Guiliano?
    At least some of the resentment must stem from the sense many people have that Giuliano's success is disproportionate to her success. Her books are fine, but simple. Plenty of people could have written them -- the conversational tone, the common sense advice, the dash of Francophile. But Giuliano actually did write them (and was helped, no doubt, but access to publishers not exactly available to your average Jane), and she's made tons of money off of them and had the opportunity to write yet more bestsellers.

    It's Dan Brown syndrome. It's easier to hate on someone who seems no more talented than you are. #mireilleguiliano
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    04:18 PM

    In reply to Emma Thompson's Name To Be Removed From Polanski Petition This Week
    Parenthetically, when did Emma Thompson turn into Glenn Close? #emmathompsonromanpolanski
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    Image of ihateyourescalade ihateyourescalade
    04:18 PM

    In reply to French Women Don't Get It, Or Why Do We Resent Mireille Guiliano?
    The "Skinny Bitch" authors deserve more ire here, for 1. Writing a book with "bitch" on the title solely for the gratuitous-titillation factor, 2. Promoting the idea that it's cool to be a nasty, obnoxious, self-centered diva, especially if you're thin.
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    Image of femme-bot femme-bot
    04:26 PM

    @ihateyourescalade: I've never read them. Are they really that bad? #mireilleguiliano
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    Image of Tchotchke Tchotchke
    04:36 PM

    @ihateyourescalade: I HATE those books. My sister came home from college with all of them and I didn't even bother to mask my utter contempt. First of all, the lingo that they use in the books is incredibly grating. (Example: kitch=kitchen). Secondly, their entire pitch is, as you said, that vanity is a good thing and that anything with fat in it is "gross" and therefore, will make you "ugly." The entire series reads like an ED handbook because it combines fucked-up eating philosophies with crackpot science and psychology. Ugh, I could go on for days... #mireilleguiliano
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    Image of ihateyourescalade ihateyourescalade
    04:40 PM

    @femme-bot: Not sure if this will help or hurt my rant, but I've never read them either. I am already skinny and I work really hard NOT to be a bitch. #mireilleguiliano
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    04:14 PM

    In reply to French Women Don't Get It, Or Why Do We Resent Mireille Guiliano?
    This is the first I've heard of this movie and I'm already insulted by it. I'm sure it will be a weight loss journey to a handsome man! With champagne and shoes! And a kiss under the Eiffel Tower! And all because she lost fifteen pounds! By living fabulously in the 7th arrondissement! #mireilleguiliano
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    Image of funzette funzette
    03:55 PM

    In reply to French Women Don't Get It, Or Why Do We Resent Mireille Guiliano?
    I will never trust a woman who tells me to eat small portions of high quality, non-diet, non-ersatz food and then tells me to make an apple tart out of cabbage leaves instead of pastry.

    There should be a special circle of hell for that. Maybe it's circle 5.5 (between wrath and heresy). #mireilleguiliano
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    Image of Plum-Pie Plum-Pie
    04:08 PM

    @funzette: Cabbage leaves? Really? How? Why? I don't understand... #mireilleguiliano
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    04:16 PM

    @funzette: Cabbage. What? That's just mental talk. #mireilleguiliano
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    Image of RedLantern RedLantern
    03:53 PM

    In reply to French Women Don't Get It, Or Why Do We Resent Mireille Guiliano?
    Huh. When you put it that way, she has every single trait I resent, yet I loved FWDGF. I'm not one to buy weight loss books, but I not only read this one but actually enjoyed it. But whatever. Go ahead and hate her; sounds like there are some good reasons to. #mireilleguiliano
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    Image of ihateyourescalade ihateyourescalade
    04:42 PM

    @RedLantern: The one piece of advice from FWDGF that I absolutely loved was the part where she mocks American women for carrying around water bottles "like peasants." That made me laugh out loud--and I no longer bring water with me on the street. #mireilleguiliano
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    05:13 PM

    @ihateyourescalade: I still carry my peasant water bottle, but in my defense, I drink out of it. #mireilleguiliano
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    03:52 PM

    In reply to French Women Don't Get It, Or Why Do We Resent Mireille Guiliano?
    I wrote some friends to get specifics on the dislike. "Smug" and "superior" were constants. "Inflexibility" was another.

    Sounds like Giuliano's got a case of the Hillary Clintons--hated for stupid reasons people would never hate a man for. #mireilleguiliano
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    03:54 PM

    @pantsless economist...access RESTORED: ding! you win the washer-dryer. #mireilleguiliano
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    04:18 PM

    @pantsless economist...access RESTORED: Please don't compare a diet writer who might as well write for Star magazine with Hillary Clinton. #mireilleguiliano
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    Image of Grim Reaper of the Forest Grim Reaper of the Forest
    04:22 PM

    @pantsless economist...access RESTORED: I hate many smug and superior men. #mireilleguiliano
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    Image of AndPreciousLittleofThat AndPreciousLittleofThat
    04:26 PM

    @Grim Reaper of the Forest: So how long HAS it been since you last watched TV? #mireilleguiliano
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    Image of Grim Reaper of the Forest Grim Reaper of the Forest
    04:54 PM

    @AndPreciousLittleofThat: Actually, I don't have a TV, which might explain my low tolerance for smugness.

    And I swear I'm not a smug TV non-owner.
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    05:07 PM

    @mepo - Robert Cornhole invented it: @itsonreserve: @Grim Reaper of the Forest: OK bad phrasing but what I was trying to say is that there are a lot of people who dislike Hillary Clinton for reasons like "she's a bitch, she's smug," whatever.

    Not trying to say nobody would ever hate a man for being smug, but I'm saying that she faced certain criticisms that men do not.

    I was going on the reasons sadie gave for people disliking her based on "smugness," etc rather than a substantial reason which is much of the criticism hillary faced and faces. So i think the comparison still stands. #mireilleguiliano
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    Image of chinaplate chinaplate
    03:52 PM

    In reply to French Women Don't Get It, Or Why Do We Resent Mireille Guiliano?
    'with, by the way, no kids to mess up the orchids or the trips to Paris'

    Snark snark snark. Hate observations like this. #mireilleguiliano
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    Image of midwestdesigner midwestdesigner
    03:59 PM

    @chinaplate: It stuck out with flashing lights as "Moms vs. Non-moms." Urgh. Yes, if you don't have children, your life is full of wild single activities, but you won't get the best gift in the world, parenthood. And if you choose to have children, you are completing the circle of life, yet are tied down to an orchid-less life, yadda yadda yadda. I wish this would die. #mireilleguiliano
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    Image of badmutha badmutha
    04:15 PM

    @midwestdesigner: I totally read that as "Moms vs Noms," which I thought was rather unfair because just because you like cookies and maybe your Mom tells you that you can only have two, that is no reason to pit them against one another. #mireilleguiliano
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    03:50 PM

    In reply to French Women Don't Get It, Or Why Do We Resent Mireille Guiliano?
    Occam's Razor sez:

    Americans don't like being unfavorably compared with the French, period. #mireilleguiliano
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    Image of KentuckyBabe KentuckyBabe
    04:07 PM

    @AndPreciousLittleofThat: its just an extra thing to hate about french women, they're big eyes and short hair and adorable accents... and the fact that men find them irresistable. If their only steriotypical trait was skinniness maybe i wouldn't have such an irrational hatred. :-) #mireilleguiliano
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    04:11 PM

    @KentuckyBabe: Irresistible, hm? Ever seen a picture of Edith Piaf? ;) #mireilleguiliano
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