Monday night's Jeopardy! had a "What Women Want" category, but instead of featuring things women actually want—paid maternity leave, to finally adopt the ERA—it had herbal tea and good-fitting jeans. (It wasn't even a celebrity edition.)
"Talk to them like humans and don't be a jerk," conclude the writers, "Just like dudes in romance novels."
Just kidding! Science still can't figure it out.
A TrueCar.com study of recent U.S. vehicle registrations found only nine cars — all small cars and crossovers — are more likely to be bought by women than men. Volkswagen's Beetle topped the list with 56% female registrants. [LAT]
Chevrolet recently redesigned the Equinox to include some "female-friendly" tweaks. In today's pink-it-and-shrink-it world, what, exactly, does this mean?
A survey of 2,500 women revealed that our "secret turn-ons" include facial stubble and a geeky personality. And more than half of respondents eschew the muscles in favor of a cuddly man, despite what they say in public. [Mirror]
The 76ers are offering a special Ladies Night Out promotion, which almost sounds like a good time (wine and free junk!) except for one thing: tickets include two salads. Would a hot dog really have been too much to ask? [NBA]
A new, highly unscientific study from Matchmaker.com, Date.com and Amor.com found that men are more likely to admit to being "depressed and upset" after a breakup. This somehow prompted Joanna Molloy for the NY Daily News to write this:
What women want - aka, female sexual desire - is a fraught issue in the mental health community. Also: Raisins.
Newsweek ponders "The Pursuit of Sexual Happiness" and wonders what turns women on. I wonder why this is such a big mystery.
Dating site OKCupid analyzed 500,000 inquiry messages and found, as shown in the chart at left, that calling a woman "pretty" decreased a man's chance of getting a response. Women prefer comments about their interests, not looks. [Sociological Images]
Sony Ericsson has finally figured out what women want in a cell phone! Its Jalou phone is shaped like a diamond and features a mirror, horoscope application, and pedometer to "see how far you have walked while out shopping."
According to the Telegraph, British men are the least romantic in the world, and have no idea what women want. But as a woman, I am puzzled, what do we want?
PR companies trying to shill shit for women email us with their announcements, hard sells and hoopla. The result? A smattering of what people think women (or we) want. Crap emails from publicists, after the jump.
Let's start with the headline: "Can an ex-civil servant finally persuade women to buy erotica?"
Anna and I were not the only ones to weigh in on the New York Times Magazine story about research into female sexuality. Much of the female blogosphere weighed in today as well:
Do you want the ads for the crap that you buy to be more female-friendly? Well you're in luck! An ad agency called Womenkind just opened its doors in New York City, and its goal is to "use a network of women to conceptualize and execute ads designed to appeal to females." Apparently 85% of all brand purchases are…
