I have an awesome aunt that likes to send me random stuff in the mail. Lots of times it is just notes, maybe a few articles, sometimes stickers, but whatever it is, its always fun to get ‘real’ mail. Anyways, one of the last envelopes she sent had a bunch of pictures and articles cut out about how to decorate for Halloween and more ideas of what to do with pumpkins instead of just carve them. Loved this.
Amongst the various pictures and such I happened to look at the back of one of the little cutouts and lo and behold, there was the answer to all my problems in life!! According to Woman’s Day magazine they had figured out the three things no woman can live without, perfect! Anyone want to guess what #1 was? That’s right, a husband! Well, not just a husband, but “A very wise husband who always knows the perfect moment to say ‘you’re right honey’”.
Seriously?!?!
Not even taking into account that it is a ‘husband’ we need, and not a partner or wife, but that the most important thing is that the husband knows when to tell us that we’re right?! Obviously implying that the aforementioned husband may not actually think, nor need to think, that I am right, but knows when to say it so as not to induce a fight or discussion? Meaning I have to be humored?
Perhaps if the statement had been ‘A very wise partner who knows just when you need their extra support and comfort, and when you need to scream your head off to get it out of your system, and will stand patiently by in either situation’ I could support it. But this probably wouldn’t jive with Woman’s Day’s target audience. And it wouldn’t have fit in the type space either.
- suse
P.S. I didn’t write down #2 and #3 and I recycled the page already, sorry.
I don’t even know what to say about this. Whatever your views are if you are a nurse or physician or medical assistant or whatever, if you practice in the medical field and see patients you CAN NOT insert your beliefs and will onto the individuals who come to see you!!!! Patients expect to get the full breadth of medical options when they see a doctor, not the delineated personal view of that specific doctor.
Key paragraph:
This story seems a good, although frightening, reminder that the “provider conscience” rule went into effect on Tuesday (January 20th) and isn’t affected by Obama’s immediate order to halt Bush’s pending federal regulations. Until the rule is reversed by the Obama administration, religiously or morally guided medical professionals — like nurse Olona, assuming the allegations are true — will find it much easier to get away with denying women the medical treatment they want and need.
A few days ago I watched 9-to-5 with Dolly Parton, Jane Fonda, the always incredible Lily Tomlin, and lots of big hair. Its a movie about getting back at the boss with some beer, pot and friendship thrown in, too.
See LOTS of big hair
Oh, and Colin Higgins who wrote Harold and Maude also wrote this one, so that’s a good precedent. I really did enjoy the movie. Fonda actually plays an endearing character in a non-annoying way, Parton feels like she’s just being herself (I heart Parton, so ‘being herself’ means good in my book), and Tomlin, well, she brings the awesomeness. But what I found interesting was at the end of the movie when the ladies take control of the office and start implementing their changes. This is the climax of the movie and some of the policies that you see go over their proverbial desk are job sharing/part-time work policies, providing a daycare center for children of employees and giving equal pay to all employees doing the same job (meaning all the ladies be getting raises). Let’s start the discussion with that last one… (more…)
The IT Crowd tackles Lady Problems. Not Sara Palin, but maybe they’ll have an episode about that in the new season. Start at about 3:40 and go to about 5:20 to get the best of “that time of the month” euphemisms that British TV has to offer. Watch the whole episode if you’ve got the time. There’s still a fabulous dance party yet to come!
I always, always think that lady politicians and first lady de facto politicians always get too much flak for their fashion. Michelle Obama’s fabulous, but arm-bearing sheaths (gasp! the lady has arms!). Hillary Rodham-Clinton’s primary color pantsuits (and the woman got it SO much worse when she was in the white house…only the cast of Friends, Farah Fawcett, and Bo Derek got so much hair talk!). Barbara Bush’s gumball pearls and Queen Mother styling. Christine Todd Whitman’s failure to find that perfect balance between the feminine and the political (spoiler alert: there is balance, ladies. they happen to be mutually exclusive in the US of A. it’s a game you can’t win.).
But this. Is. Amazing. Attention must be payed.
...Miss America! Photo from Jezebel
So, you can have it all. I feel a Grand Old Party/National Riffle Association collaboration calendar coming on here! Jindal, put on the Old Glory Speedo in service of your country. And maybe you could be fixing our broken borders, which might require some sort of tool belt?
Can I just say that Alaska, the Second Amendment, and Family Planning are having the Best Week Ever?
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