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Friday, August 10, 2007 04:56 AM
Original article: Fatal enhancement

I know her!

She works with me. Her tits turn the corner before the rest of her.

But - she does get attention from the men. And that was what she paid for.

She also gets lipo, botox and freaked out when she got a freckle on her nose. I keep wondering what she is going to do once she hits her mid-30's. I can't help think of this person when I read the original study - nothing she does to her body will result in a long term good feeling. She still sees the same person in the mirror.

Friday, August 10, 2007 09:20 AM
Original article: Fatal enhancement

Breast/Boob

Breasts are what women have.

Boob is what they buy for cosmetic reasons.

Calling the amalgam of breast stretched over a silicon bag filled with fluid a "breast" is not accurate. A "boob" is what is should be called.

Unless of course, the reason for the implant was to repair a birth defect, a mutilation or cancer. Then I think we should honour those women with the word "breast"

The women with boob jobs? They are just boobs.

Tuesday, August 14, 2007 05:37 AM
Original article: Working women's wife envy

forget gender wars

The truth of the matter is - we all (for the most part) are far too busy and would ALL love to have someone at home to handle the day to day things that are required for maintenance and provide little real satisfaction unless they are all done. All that repetative constant need, be that inside or outside chores.

There is another truth - women and men are more likely to slip into traditional marital roles, which means that when there is more time to be put into work, the men in traditional situations, can do it with out all hell breaking loose at home. Women are betwixt and between - work more, and have homelife spiral into chaos which will take much more time to straighten out later, or try and maintain that balance which would mean not putting the time into work.

It is those times I wish for a "wife"

The main problem as I see it - we are in a employment environment where balance between life and work is merely a blip on the company handout. Words.

And in truth? Everyone's life suffers - those in traditional arrangements or not.

Tuesday, August 14, 2007 08:05 AM
Original article: Fatal enhancement

it's worse than that

If you have small breasts - you are defective and need to be fixed.

If you have large breasts - you are fine until 25 max, then 10 years of mentrual cycles and gravity (not to mention possible pregnancy) will have begun work on your breasts making them "unacceptable - you are defective and need to be fixed.

If you get your breasts enlarged by sewing a foreign object under them - you may have those attractive breasts men see in the magazines or computer games, but you are considered defective and should seek help to fix that insecurity/vanity/neediness problem.

And if you base what an "un-defective" woman looks like by what you see in the (flesh) media: if we have pubic hair - defective. If we have labia that doesn't look like a 13 year old's - defective. No puffy lips? Defective. Look our age? Defective. Defective. Defective. Defective.

There is much profit to be made if society convinces women AND men that real female bodies are defective as they are naturally.

This is so destructive to the psyche of any female growing up in this society, that I wish there would be a backlash. But that won't happen, will it. Not as long as men are brainwashed into believing the airbrushed, surgically enhanced and photoshopped, shaved and cropped and injected women are the desired form.

Just remember even Angelina Jolie had her breasts enlarged during film editing for the first Tomb Raider movie.

Even Angelina Jolie is not "good" enough.

Thursday, August 16, 2007 01:07 PM

Remember the Hummer ads?

The ones where the man was desexed at the supermarket by some man who was buying steak when he was buying tofu? Or the woman demoralized by another woman butting ahead of her in a line?

They both were shown "taking charge" by rushing out to buy themselves a Hummer.

I think those ads got pulled REAL quick when feedback demonstrated that the message the consumers got was that weak shallow people buy Hummers to compensate for their shortcomings.

The Viva Viagra ads have that same feel - that someone thought this was a really cool bit but the consumers will get a bit of "ick" out of it.

Monday, August 20, 2007 11:43 AM

wondered the same thing

She was interesting - more interesting than the inbred Royal brunch - but I never got this whole martyr thing.

She worked a certain look, she made sure the Photogs were about when she wanted publicity, she had her pet projects that she supported as a wealthy woman, she made one after another bad romantic choices . . . I find it interesting what type of women find her their "Billie Jean", and what kind of women look at her more along my view.

She wanted to be a Royal. Her family did her wrong by pushing it but ultimately she wanted it too.

I was 19 at the same time she was and was astounded that she accepted the Royal Exam and publication world wide of the state of her virginity.

That should have been enough for any 19 year old woman, no matter how brain washed on Princess stories, to run like hell away from the In-Laws from Hell.

But - she died a very rich woman and I can always remember when Mother Theresa died as the world annually celebrates Di's Tragic Passing.

Wednesday, August 29, 2007 02:10 PM

BlockBusters for Free!

They could lend their movies for free and I would still pay for the convenience Netflix offers.

Not everyone can get to a Blockbusters store, certainly not me easily, which is why I joined Netflix to begin with. That and the total library with rated and unrated versions of movies.

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