American women are getting fat and angry

Several major women’s clothing retailers have stopped carrying size 16 clothes and some of their fat customers are irate.

Size 16 is very fat.

American women have been getting fatter and fatter. “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports, in 2002 the average American woman weighed 164 pounds—nearly what the average man weighed in 1960.”

Read the article linked to below to get an idea of how angry these fat women are about these stores’ not carrying their fat clothes.
On a related note, a guy friend of mine paid over $1,000 joined an organization that set him up on lunch dates. After going out with three heifers, he asked the outfit if they wouldn’t set him up on dates with women who weighed more than he did. They never set him up again. Maybe they didn’t have any women who weren’t fat.

http://www.doublex.com/section/life/real-reason-ann-taylor-hates-plus-sizes

Ex-wife demands $53,000/ week alimony

Marie Douglas-David wants $53,000/week in aliimony from her soon-to-be ex-husband.   According to the usual New York divorce law charade, she tallied up her expenses for the court and they came to this substantial figure.  Here are some of the highlights:

“Mortgage and maintenance fees and rent for the Park Avenue penthouse, the Hamptons retreat and properties in Sweden account for $27,300 a week, according to a financial affidavit she filed with the court. And then there’s travel ($8,000), clothing ($4,500), a personal assistant ($2,209), horse care ($1,570), domestic help ($1,480), entertainment and restaurants ($1,500), health and skin care ($1,000), dry cleaning ($650), flowers ($600) and a trainer ($250).”

As one source put it, she only wants to live in the style to which she has become accustomed during her marriage.  If this is indeed the NY divorce law on calculating alimony, it’s uncommonly stupid.  As a standup comic (a guy) once put it, “I can’t just call up my ex-wife and say, ‘I’m coming over for sex’ just because I got used to regular sex during the marriage.”

And to those women who complain 1) what about the children, or 2) she spent all those years with her husband, so she deserves the money, I respond 1) there were no children, and 2) the marriage lasted only six years.

As I have said before, divorce law is often quite Marxist; it calls for ar a redistribution of wealth in many cases.    

http://www.nypost.com/seven/12192008/news/nationalnews/really_high_maintenance_144934.htm

New website for keeping track of your wife or girlfriend’s PMS

This post is mainly addressed to husbands and those guys who may become husbands someday.  It will tell you something about the risk of your wife becoming a real bitch during PMS (prementrual syndrome):

 

That’s how PMSBuddy.com pitches itself. To wit:

PMSBuddy.com is a free service created with a single goal in mind: to keep you aware of when your wife, girlfriend, mother, sister, daughter, or any other women in your life are closing in on “that time of the month” – when things can get intense for what may seem to be no reason at all.

http://pmsbuddy.com/ 

Hat tip: Freakonomics.com

For those of you who haven’t yet married, during PMS time your wife may become extremely irritable.   The reason for keeping track of these times is that you can make yourself scarce if possible.

It’s a little secret of marriage that a wife can make a guy’s life miserable if she chooses to do so.  Girlfriends don’t do this nearly as much, presumably because they realize on some level that the guy will be reluctant to get married if he realizes how much bitching he will be subject to.

The horrors of a bad economy: girlfriends and wives of formerly rich guys have their Bergdorf’s allowance cut in half!

Another victim of the bad economy: wives, girlfriends and mistresses of formerly high-flying investment executives:

Dawn Spinner Davis, 26, a beauty writer, said the downward-trending graphs began to make sense when the man she married on Nov. 1, a 28-year-old private wealth manager, stopped playing golf, once his passion. “One of his best friends told me that my job is now to keep him calm and keep him from dying at the age of 35,” Ms. Davis said. “It’s not what I signed up for.”

They shared their sad stories the other night at an informal gathering of Dating a Banker Anonymous, a support group founded in November to help women cope with the inevitable relationship fallout from, say, the collapse of Lehman Brothers or the Dow’s shedding 777 points in a single day, as it did on Sept. 29.

In addition to meeting once or twice weekly for brunch or drinks at a bar or restaurant, the group has a blog, billed as “free from the scrutiny of feminists,” that invites women to join “if your monthly Bergdorf’s allowance has been halved and bottle service has all but disappeared from your life.”

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Once it was seen as a blessing in certain circles to have a wealthy, powerful partner who would leave you alone with the credit card while he was busy brokering deals. Now, many Wall Street wives, girlfriends and, increasingly, exes, are living the curse of cutbacks in nanny hours and reservations at Masa or Megu. And that credit card? Canceled.

Raoul Felder, the Manhattan divorce lawyer, said that cases involving financiers always stack up as the economy starts to slip, because layoffs and shrinking bonuses place stress on relationships — and, he said, because “there aren’t funds or time for mistresses any more.”

… Some women in the group said the men in their lives had gone from being aloof and unattainable to unattractively needy and clinging.

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Despite the seemingly endless stream of disparaging remarks and shaking heads, some of the appeal of dating a banker remains.

“It’s not even about a $200 dinner,” Ms. Petrus said. “It’s that he’s an alpha male, he’s aggressive, he’s a go-getter, he doesn’t take no for an answer, he’s confident, people respect him and that creates the whole mystique of who he is.”

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/nyregion/28daba.html?_r=2&ref=nyregion

The horrors: no more lavish vacations or spa treatments.   and these women’s boyfriends are clingy.

I think the last paragraph I quoted hits the nail on the head as to why most of these women were with their husbands/boyfriends in the first place (aside from the money and the easy life): these guys were alpha males.

So Much For Hope and Change…

Looks like Barack Hussein Obama is taking his cue from the Republicans. I wonder how much of that reported $150 million inaurural budget could have been spent towards the homeless, hungry and hopeless. Change you can believe in…my ass.

His inaugural address could have been said in seven words…

“I got mine…good luck finding yours.”

http://inaugural.senate.gov/luncheon/

Presidential Question

I wonder if all new Presidents get some action their first night in the White House.

I mean all Presidents except for George W. Bush.

He was too busy planning on f*cking America

If you have to go to the zoo to get an MRI, you’re too fat

A woman in Kansas City (not sure whether it’s K City Missouri or Kansas) had a tumor.  She went to a hospital to get an MRI.  The technician found that she was too big for the hospital’s MRI to scan:

“Ragan’s problem was two-fold: She was too heavy for the table and too wide to slide through the opening.”

The technician suggested that the woman might be accomodated by an MRI at the Kansas City zoo.  The woman and her husband were outaged.

Hint: if you’re so fat the MRI can’t accomodate you, lose some weight.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,479782,00.html

Wives Withholding Sex From Their Husbands

Many wives seem to relish the power over their husbands that their monopoly of lawful sex gives them.  How often do you hear of husbands trying to gain power over their wives by withholding sex.  But you often hear wives “cutting them (their husbands) off.”

This practice was even made a part of the Aristophanes play, “Lysistrata”, in the fifth century BC, when the women of Athens banded together and cut off their husbands from sex until they ended a war.

ROME (AP) – Some women in Naples said they won’t make love if their men shoot off dangerous fireworks on New Year’s Eve. “Se Spari, Niente Sesso” (If you shoot, no sex), as the reported group calls itself, claims to have signed up hundreds of women in the Naples area to combat celebrations that injure or maim hundreds each year.

… Setting off fireworks, often homemade or illegally imported, remains popular in Italy and especially in Naples, even though accidents are frequent and sometimes deadly.

Staiano said that “there are other ways to celebrate.” And if men don’t get the message, women should “send them to sleep on the couch.”

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=2008-12-31_D95DTBIG0&show_article=1&cat=breaking

But it’s not common that a large number of women will band together and effect some major policy by cutting off their husbands access to sex.   Much more common is the individual wife who uses sex to get her husband to do something or not do something, by granting sex for behavior she likes and withholding it for behavior she dislikes.

Guys, if you’re enjoying sex with your girlfriend and think it will continue this way after marriage, you should consider this: several years after marriage, and especially after kids come, chances are the frequency of sex will diminish as well.  

But at this point it will be too late for you to do anything about it, aside from divorce, which cab often be horrendously expensive and generally tends to distance you from your children.

Please note that this doesn’t always hold true.  I have heard of several wives (and personally known some) who prefer sex more often than their husbands.  But I’m pretty sure the rule holds true for most couples.

The global recession has even affected arranged marriages

Looking at the matrimonial page of a newspaper in India is a real eye-opener.  Most of the ads are placed by the parents of the individual who is to be matched.   The girl’s parents usually focus on education and career prospects of prospective husbands.  They are often incredibly specific as to what type of career field and what type of education they insist upon.  They sometimes specify which particular universities the guy must have attended.   For our US readers, this would be like specifying Cal Tech or MIT (but not Georgia Tech).  IT jobs have been highly regarded in India because offshoring provided so many well-paying jobs.

The girl’s parents do this because they want to maximize the chances that their daughter marries a guy who can provide financial security for her.   Here is a snippet from a NY Times article that says girls’ parents aren’t as eager to have their daughters marry a guy in the IT field these days:

In a country where most marriages are arranged by parents, the downturn has even taken a toll on the matrimonial prospects of those in technology outsourcing. “Because there is no job guarantees for I.T. people, for the last six months brides’ families have not been accepting grooms from this background,” said Jagadeesh Angadi, a matchmaker in Bangalore.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/business/worldbusiness/04rupee.html?_r=1&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

Here in the US these sorts of decisions are, of course, made by the individual getting married rather than that individual’s parents.  But, for women at least, the guy’s career is almost always an important consideration.

That makes sense.  If you have the choice between marrying a guy who can provide financial security or marrying a guy who cannot, I’d suggest picking the former, all other things being roughly equal.  After all, who wants to go through life worried about whether the bills will get paid this month, or whether her husband will lose his job and the couple will have to move in with the in-laws.

Research has revealed the 11 secrets of attracting women

 An interesting article in the UK Times discusses the results of a two-year psychological study on the subject of attraction recently published in “Evolutionary Psychology”.

This research concluded that the key to success, for men, is a certain type of wit: self-deprecation. The anthropologist behind the research, was quoted in The Observer, explaining: “The frequent use of self-deprecating humour in sexual context – with potential mates, established mates or sexual rivals – was astonishing … people who used this humour were considered to be more desirable as mates.”  

But the researcher added that if you are not a high-status guy then this self-deprecating humor will backfire.  If you’re rich, charming, and great-looking, self-deprecating humor just means you aren’t egotistical.  The woman can easily see that you have all these qualities.  But if you have none of these qualities, then it just reinforces the fact that you aren’t worth dating.

And now for what you read this post for: the author’s summary of what the research reveals a guy needs to succeed with women.  The article is so good I’ll just quote it:

In other words, to impress, men need to be hugely successful, but pretend that they are not. And this is only one aspect of the almost impossible balance that needs to be struck. Men need to convey sexual desire without sexualising the person in front of them, need to be authoritative, opening doors, paying bills, deciding where to go and so on (recent research found that 60 per cent of women would consider it a bad first date if they paid), yet treat women as absolute equals. They need to flatter without seeming overly impressed, they need to care about their appearance (but not too much), and when it comes to chatting up, they need to take the initiative, and absorb any humiliation that comes their way, without seeming at all arrogant or pushy.

In short, the early stages of hooking up are more fraught with potential disaster than a stroll through the streets of Kandahar, more political than an episode of Question Time, more unpredictable than Gordon Ramsay on ketamine. It’s no surprise that so many men are rendered incoherent and imbecilic by the pressure of it all – and truly some kind of miracle that any relationship manages to begin at all.

I wholeheartedly agree with his last conclusion: it’s a wonder any relationships ever manage to begin.

I think Commenter Kris (by all means read the comments below the article) has a good explanation for much of the difficulty.  He says that women have so many choices that what should be an easy-going talk over a glass of wine has been converted into a job interview.   Most desireable  women insist that a guy meet all of their 23 bullet point list.  If they find during this “job interview” that the guy doesn’t meet points 12, 17, and 22, they will go back to their computers and bring up another batch of hopefuls.  With men heavily outnumbering women on internet dating sites, they always have a surplus of guys wanting to meet them. 

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/article4846940.ece