I couldn't read the fine print on the ad, and from what I saw I just assumed it was a Pro-Choice ad.

From the description, however, I have to wonder ... are the ads even factually correct? They sound like a very misleading exagerration.

Even SNL's Weekend Update is now two women. TV people have realized that if you want to attract the male demographic, then you should put an attractive woman on the screen.

Watched the Food network lately? On that channel, they learned that men will watch cooking shows if the host is cute, so you have girl next door Rachel Ray, Italian hottie Giada DiLaurentiis, and "former pageant queen" Sandra Lee all hosting shows despite being average cooks.

So, I wouldn't celebrate too much. This news is only a sign that advertisers pay more money for the male demographic, and that TV producers have learned that the "valuable" male demographic likes to watch beautiful women on TV.

I would bet that those are not lesbians and that those two "guards" are just guys in costumes.

Did you look at this guy's other photos? He clearly has a history of staging humorous things to take pictures of around Shanghai -- like the guy wearing a Mickey Mouse mask in front of a police line. He appears to be gay, so maybe these are a couple lesbian friends of his? But notice how the kiss is a closed-mouth-on-closed-mouth affair? These do not look like two bonafide lesbian lovers having a lark, but two women who were asked to kiss each other for a photo stunt.

I'm reading Libba Bray's "A Great and Terrible Beauty" right now. It is fairly good, and definately transcends being labeled "fantasy/sci-fi" with corsets.

One of the reasons I like the book is that it is so hard to classify. If anything, it's plot is most similar to Mean Girls only set in Victorian times and with a healthy dose of magic thrown in. Most of the book, concentrates on the competative nature of the girls' relationships with each other rather than on people running around pointing magic wands at each other.

The reason the characters in the book have corsets is that they are Victorian age girls. The corsets are mostly used as a symbol of the societal restraint put upon the girls. It is not as if corsets are celebrated in Bray's book. Mostly they are mentioned as being horribly uncomfortable and a burden.

If you look at the different angled views, you can tell this is most likely not Photoshop. The edges of the first photo are kind of distorted, because it is badly compressed JPEG. But look at the TianAnMenKiss3 image and the way the edges of the models' hair blends in with the background. I can't rule it out, but the edges and the lighting is all too perfectly matched for this to look like Photoshop to me.

Think 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer,' but in corsets and with a heady infusion of historical detail

This is a misleading description of Libba Bray's writing and is causing a few people here to have a wrong impression of the work. It is not as if the corsets are just window dressing added to make the story more "female friendly". They are added because they are an important historical detail in a story set in a Victorian era boarding school. Also, the books are meant for a teenage audience. Talking about corsets is an easy way to illustrate to a younger reader the way the everyday lives of girls in the 19th century were controlled by society's unrealistic beauty standards.

Also, the girls in the book are not made out to be passive victims, but rather people who are upset about what is happening to them, and trying to figure out what they can do to counter the seemingly insurmountable system that seems set up to stifle their lives.

Nominations for each category, only come from members in that category.

So only directors nominate for "Best Director" and only actors/actresses nominate for best actor/actress. The exception is best picture which all members are elgibible to vote on.

When you consider that fields like directing, cinematography, editing, and producing are such male dominated fields, and that acting is the only category in which there is anything close to an equal representation of women, it would be safe to assume that the academy is resoundingly dominated by men.

So the lack of nominated picture about women cannot be blamed on the women members of the academy, since they likely comprise a very small percentage of academy members as a whole.

So, because Uma Thurman once acted in a role in which she was a cold-blooded killer, you aren't offended that she was rewarded a knighthood for being sexy?

In other words, all a woman has to do is pretend to be an ultra-violent killer in order to get a carte blanche from feminists? Wow, you've come a long way baby, indeed.