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“Freemale” To Be You And Me

SimchaJune 9, 2008 //


Cougar, spinster, playgirl, bachelorette. So many slang terms all mean the same thing: a single gal who lives on her own and on her own terms, like Kylie Minogue (chart topping dance hits and spandex booty shorts not required). But a new word has been coined in the U.K. and Australia: “freemale”. A freemale is a woman who stays single and only uses her vajane as an in-door for sex, not as an out-door for babies. The colloquialism, which has just washed up on our shores, is a mix of freedom and female, two words which should go hand in hand already. But what the new lingo “freemale” is actually is doing is taking away an inherent quality of being a woman and being an individual, choice. “Freemale” is making it seem as though women with families didn’t choose that life for themselves. Or, worse yet, we aren’t doing our own thing if we’re just “female.” How does being in a relationship with a man only qualify you as a woman? That’s just major misogynistic BS. Especially as the number of women, 25 to 44, who fit the definition of “freemale” has doubled to nearly 700,000 over the past 20 years. So, while the intention to popularize the Destiny’s Child style Independent Woman movement is good, the terminology could still use a little work. Keep reading »

Thank Kylie Minogue For Your Mammogram!

SimchaJune 5, 2008 //

Kylie Minogue, who just turned the big 4-0 last week, has made women want to wear more spandex, sing at the top of their lungs, and dance like there’s no tomorrow. She’s beaten breast cancer and has also proved that Billboard hits aren’t the only charts she’s been affecting. Since openly talking about her battle with breast cancer in 2005, the Australian medical establishment is crediting her with a 33% spike in mammograms for women between the ages of 25 and 44. (If only gay men could get their moobs screened, you know the numbers would have skyrocketed!) [CBC News]
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Men Want To Marry Virgins

Catherine StrawnJune 2, 2008 //

FHM magazine in Australia conducted an online poll of 57,000 men, and 28 percent of them said they hoped to marry a virgin, while 41 percent wanted to marry women who had five sexual partners or fewer. The survey respondents were mostly college-educated, employed men in their late 20s, which makes me wonder, if Australian men between age 30 and 39 have slept with an average of 9.5 women, how can they expect there to be any virgins left? They’re not helping their own cause. Dr. Gail Hawkes, a sexuality expert at the University of New England said, “You would not be surprised if we saw that in 1960, not 2008.” We couldn’t agree more. [Sydney Morning Herald] Keep reading »

One Small Step For Gay Couples Down Under

Catherine StrawnApril 30, 2008 //

Australia has always seemed like a cool place to me, and now, in the gay community, it’s going to be a little bit more awesome (but just a little). The government said today that it plans to remove discrimination against same-sex couples from 100 or so laws. Under the proposed changes, gay couples in long-term relationships will be treated the same as other couples, as far as taxation, welfare and employment entitlements, and other areas, Attorney General Robert McClelland said. However, there are no plans to allow same-sex marriages. Come on, mate, why not? [Bloomberg] Keep reading »

Divorced Women Are City Dwellers

Catherine StrawnApril 8, 2008 //

Last week, we saw that the less-populated West tends to be more man-filled than the East coast. Now, data from Australia is beginning to make us wonder whether highly populated areas, aka cities, are bad for relationships in general. According to census figures from Australia, in populations of more than 100,000 people, 12.5 percent of women and 9.6 percent of men were from broken marriages. Rural areas of 200 people or less had the lowest proportion of divorced or separated women. This raises a many questions. Is there something about city life that causes people to divorce, or are the type of people who would get divorced anyway drawn to city living? Do less people get divorced in the country because there are fewer options and you’d better stay with what you’ve got if you want anything at all? [SMH.com.au] Keep reading »

Incest Is Icky, Even If The Resulting Baby Is Adorable

Amelia McDonell-ParryApril 7, 2008 //

On a list of things that gross us the eff out, incest falls somewhere between scalping and the word “cutlet”. That why the story of an Australian father and daughter who had two kids together (the first died, the second is healthy) is making us heave up our Au Bon Pain. But John and Jenny Deaves says they’re just a normal, happy family and want to be left alone! They claim there was a 30-year separation period which explains why their attraction to one another is no different than any other couple (choke, gag) — “I was looking at him, sort of going, oh, he’s not too bad,” Jenny said. “Like you might look at a man across the bar at a nightclub.” Keep reading »

The Daily Squeeze: Sex Contracts, Drinking Water, And A Bitter Divorce

Catherine StrawnApril 3, 2008 //
  • A member of parliament in Australia is proposing that men should carry around sex contracts in their pocket, “next to their condoms.” Women would sign the contract saying they agree to have sex, hopefully decreasing the number of false rape allegations. Not only would women have to sign the contract, but they would also have to write their marital status, whether they have kids, if they agree to being taken to another location to engage in sexual activity, and their driver’s license number. Can’t a girl get some privacy? [Thaindian News]
  • You know those people who carry around bottles of Evian? They’re idiots. New research shows that drinking eight glasses of water a day doesn’t clear out toxins, relieve headaches, benefit the skin, or help you lose weight by making you less hungry. [Reuters]
  • After a court ruled that Branko Zivkov, a Serbian farmer, had to split all of his property with his ex-wife, he used a grinding machine to cut his farm tools and machines in half. “I still haven’t decided how to split the cow,” he said. “She should just say what she wants — the part with the horns or the part with the tail.” [Reuters]

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    The Daily Squeeze: Drunkeness, Pale Skin, And Bad Drivers

    Catherine StrawnMarch 17, 2008 //
  • One in four young men and one in three young women in Northern Ireland said they were drunk the first time they had sex, according to a study. Happy St. Patrick’s Day! [BBC and Health Promotion Agency]
  • Men are subconsciously attracted to fairer skin because of its association with purity, innocence, modesty, and goodness, while women are attracted to darker complexions because it hints at sex, virility, and danger, according to researchers at the University of Toronto. Perhaps that’s why the phrase “tall, pale, and handsome” has never caught on. [The Independent, U.K.]
  • An Australian survey found that men were more likely than women to crash their car because they were distracted. Ha. [News.com.au]

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    Tall Women Have Higher Risk For Melanoma

    SimchaMarch 10, 2008 //

    Sure the 50-Foot Woman can kick anyone’s butt, but now a new study has shown she’s at a higher risk to have to fight off skin cancer too. According to an Australian scientist, Dr. Catherine Olsen, from the Queensland Institute of Medical Research, the tallest quarter of the 5,000 women she studied were 30% more likely to get melanoma than shorties. Dr. Olsen added, “We found this risk greater among women less than 50 years of age.” Is that just because tall women have more skin to show? Well, she and her colleagues from Italy, the USA, and Britain, are just not sure, but being naturally pasty or excessively tanning are still the strongest risk factors. So ladies, if you want to look trendy and orange like Paris Hilton, but not get the big C, you better stick to a spray tan….or you’ll end up looking like a California Raisin like Lindsay Lohan. [Fox News] Keep reading »

    The 50 Gayest Songs Of All Time

    SimchaMarch 6, 2008 //

    In honor of Australia’s 30th Gay Mardi Gras, a website tallied votes to make a definitive list of The 50 Gayest Songs of All Time…and according to this catalogue, my iTunes makes me a bigger ‘mo than Harvey Fierstein! While dance floor divas Madonna, Gloria Gaynor, The Village People, Donna Summer, Diana Ross, and Cher are all honored with two songs each, George Michael, the leather jacket daddy who got “Too Funky” in a public restroom, his car, and behind some bushes, tops the list with three tracks (including one from his time in 80′s pop duo Wham!). To see if you’re a true friend of Dorothy’s…or just a drag queen born with a vajayjay, check out the chart toppers here. [Dlisted] Keep reading »

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