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.

Attractive Women Want It All

I know any of you who has dated an attractive woman is thinking, “that’s obvious”.  But there are some interesting insights arising from research performed by the always-interesting David Buss and his colleagues:

“Participants in this study first rated how desirable specific characteristics would be in a potential mate. These characteristics included a variety of positive qualities like having good genes (e.g., good looks, physically fit), good investments (e.g., income potential, education), good parenting skills (e.g., raising children is a priority, desire for home and children), or being a good partner (e.g., being a loving partner, being loyal)…

Results showed that women rated as more physically attractive were also more inclined to rate each of the characteristics as desirable… suggesting that beautiful women want more of these desirable features when looking for a mate…

Interestingly, the finding was not universal across gender. In fact, there were few significant correlations between physical attractiveness and mate preference for men, suggesting that more attractive men do not necessarily demand more from their potential mates.

Why does this happen? For men, attractiveness in women is generally highly valued. Thus, the more beautiful the woman, the more currency these women have in demanding certain qualities in their potential mates. Less attractive women, having less currency, find qualities less desirable and perhaps lower their requirements based on the knowledge that they are less desirable. Since physical attractiveness is not as valued for women, especially in comparison to other qualities like intelligence, beautiful men may not have the same influence over women.”

Several additional interesting details popped out: 

“Two (previous) studies found that women who were younger and higher on self-rated attractiveness specified a longer list of traits that they sought or required in a potential mate than did women lower in these key markers of mate value…

women higher on self-rated physical attractiveness expressed a greater attraction for more masculine faces than did women lower on self-rated attractiveness (I’m curious as to whether these women actually were attractive or just thought they were attractive) …

Women with a lower waist-to-hip ratio express a stronger attraction to more masculinized male faces than do women with a higher waist-to-hip ratio….”

So the bottom line is young, attractive women with a low waist-to-hip ratio insist upon good-looking, very masculine guys who also are good catches in many other respects. These women do indeed want it all.

Hat tip: http://www.eharmony.com/labs/blog/2008/05/beautiful-women-want-more/

Buss, D. M., & Shackelford, T. K. (2008). Attractive women want it all: Good genes, economic investment, parenting proclivities, and emotional commitment. Evolutionary Psychology, 6, 134-146.

Urinal Etiquette

I have been meaning to write a post on urinal etiquette for some time.  It is an underserved topic.  After all, the usual etiquette books, such as Miss Manners, Emily Post, and Amy Vanderbilt, ignore it because those books are written by women.  Understandably, very few women are aware that there are rules of urinal etiquette, aside perhaps from the obvious point of making sure one doesn’t pee on another guy. 

Apropos of this, 1930s-eraUS Senator Huey P. Long was rumored to have gone to a roadhouse in Maryland and found the urinal occupied.  In a drunken stupour he peed through the legs of the man occupying the urinal.  And, as anyone who has peed while drunk can tell you, his aim wasn’t too good.  He ended up peeing all over the guy’s pants, starting a fight.

But I digress.  The urinal etiquette I’m discussing today is more subtle than merely avoiding peeing on another guy.  It concerns which urinal to use.  Most guys keenly observe a set of rules governing which urinal to choose when there are several available. 

These rules don’t really come into play when there are only one or two urinals.  One simply takes the one that is vacant.  If both are vacant one takes pretty much either one.   The rules come into play when there are three or more urinals vacant.   If there are three urinals in the bathroom, all vacant, one is obligated to use one on  either end, avoiding the middle one.   The reason for this is what I’m calling the penis proximity principle (PPP).  A guy wants to create as much distance between his penis and another unsheathed penis.  Or, as my friend G. put it, he doesn’t want “some dude looking at his wiener.”

Thus far, the rules are fairly simple and straightforward.  But what happens when things become more complex.  What if there are four urinals.  The first and third as you walk in are in use.  Does one go to the second, or the fourth, or just stand there trying to inconspicuously kill time until one of the two people in front of urinals are finished?  One acceptable answer is to proceed to the fourth urinal, against the wall.  The guy in front of the third urinal will be next to you, but there will only be one guy next to you.  If you had chosen the second urinal, you would have a guy standing on each side of you.  Of course, for the squeamish there is always the option of going to a vacant stall or just holding it and returning later.

It is a serious violation of urinal etiquette to use a urinal that is right next to someone else, unless there are no others available.  If, say, there are three urinals and one guy is using one on either end, it’s a no-no for a guy to walk up and use the middle one right next to the other guy.  This is seen a possible attempt to look at the first guy’s penis, which is, in the public restroom code, only a step or two away from the Senator Larry Craig wide stance in the next stall gambit.

I will be happy to entertain questions regarding urinal etiquette and the PPP.