Canada - Cross-Dress/Transgender Niche Retailer Beating the Recession... [2008-12-04 PRWeb]

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Cross-Dress/Transgender Niche Retailer Beating the Recession

Niche retailers, like Genie The Crossdress Store, are beating the recession odds by focusing on a tight targeted market. By retailing specifically to the transsexual, transgender, transvestite and crossdress community, Genie the Crossdress Store has seen an increase in sales when big box store are crying about poor sales.

Ontario, Canada (PRWEB) December 04, 2008 -- With big box stores in Canada and the United States bemoaning their excessive inventories and slow sales, some niche retailers are holding their own and even growing their businesses.

Genie, The Crossdress Store, has seen increases in sales over the past few months, even with the fears of recession tightening people's pockets. By catering to a very specific audience, owner Nicolle Robinson feels she can beat the recession woes.

"We aren't trying to be everything to everybody like major retailers," she explained. "By choosing one specific audience and really getting to know them and their shopping needs, we are able to sustain our business in the face of recession."

Small and entrepreneurial business marketing specialist, Wendy MacQueen, owner of Mormac Brand Re-engineering, thinks Genie, The Crossdress Store and other niche retailers are doing the right thing to survive.

"Niche retailers have the best opportunity to survive a recession," Ms MacQueen noted. "They can focus very clearly on their audience and use their marketing dollars well through targeted campaigning."

Use of social media and online relationship management helps Genie, The Crossdress Store keep costs down and serve their customers in the environment where they want to shop.

"As you can imagine, cross-dressers, transvestites, transsexuals and transgenders usually want to shop in the privacy of their home where they don't have to worry about discrimination or negative reactions," added Ms. Robinson. "Being part of this community myself, I have full appreciation for the discretion needed to satisfy the customer. We have recently stepped away from the EBay environment and now sell primarily through our own website, enhancing the opportunity for privacy and discretion."

"Niche retailers who don't really know their audience are at risk, but ones that do the research and interact with their customer, have the strongest chance to survive," Ms. MacQueen stated. "Retailers like Genie, The Crossdress Store, don't sell luxuries. They sell the every day items of people's lives - and people don't stop living their lives because of recession. As a niche retailer, you just have to tailor your messages and your product line to reflect your customers' needs."

Genie, The Crossdress Store, can be found at www.the-crossdress-store.com.

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Contact Information:

Nicolle Robinson
Genie, The Crossdress Store
http://www.the-crossdress-store.com
519-898-2997

Wendy MacQueen
Mormac Brand Re-engineering
http://www.mormac.ca
519-898-2997

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Britain - Office for National Statistics could ask Britons if they have had sex swaps or are "undergoing the process of gender reassignment... [2008-12-04 The Telegraph]

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Thursday 04 December 2008

Office for National Statistics to calculate size of Britain's homosexual population

Members of the public are to be questioned about their sexual orientation in a range of surveys by Government statisticians which will create the first accurate estimate of the size of Britain's homosexual population.

By Martin Beckford
Social Affairs Correspondent

London's gay community celebrate at this summer's Gay Pride Festival Photo: DAVID ROSE
People answering questionnaires about their employment status, their living costs and how much they drink or smoke will also be asked whether they are heterosexual, homosexual or bisexual.

The enigmatic category "other" is also being included to cater for the "very small" number of people who say they do not fit into the first three groups.

Future studies could also ask Britons if they have had sex swaps or are "undergoing the process of gender reassignment".

The Office for National Statistics, the organisation that collates data for use by Government, says the new questions are essential to meet equality laws and to find out if people from minority groups are discriminated against.

The answers received will also create the first comprehensive picture of how many homosexuals live in Britain, in which areas, and how old they are.

The ONS insists trial groups have been happy to answer the highly personal questions about their sexuality, and says their privacy will be preserved.

Karen Dunnell, the National Statistician, said: "Better measurement of equality is essential if we are properly to analyse, understand and address inequalities in society.

"Testing has shown that the vast majority of people are willing and able to answer the question.

"ONS puts great emphasis on maintaining confidentiality of data. In this case, special show cards are used to ensure that even someone in the same room as the respondent at the time of the interview cannot know how they have answered."

The most national recent census, carried out in 2001, made it possible to count the number of homosexual couples living together for the first time although it did not ask specifically residents' sexual orientation.

However following a review of equality data, the ONS has now decided to ask its thousands of respondents about their sexuality in its population, labour force, housing, living costs, general lifestyle and opinions surveys, starting in January.

Those taking part will be asked to choose from the categories "Heterosexual/straight", "Gay/Lesbian", "Bisexual" and "Other", although they will also be allowed to decline to answer.

The ONS said: "The category 'other' has been included as testing has shown that there is a very small group of people who find that the answer categories provided do not describe themselves and that they would prefer to use another term."

It went on: "The size of the surveys means that, for the first time, it will be possible to provide reliable estimates of the lesbian, gay and bisexual communities at a national and regional level as well as be able to carry out detailed analysis of the age, sex and other aspects of these communities."

However Norman Wells, the director of the Family Education Trust, claimed the ONS should not be intruding into people's personal lives and feelings.

He said: "It is regrettable that the Government's statisticians have embraced a misplaced notion of equality that has led them to dabble in the subjective realm of attraction, inclination and feeling rather than limit their focus to objective reality."

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US - Film - "I Think We're Alone Now" - Just a string of reality-TV moments about an ASD and an intersexed couple... [2008-12-05 Globe and Mail]

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FILM: REVIEW

Just leave this alone now

LIAM LACEY

December 05, 2008

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I Think We're Alone Now
Directed by Sean Donnelly
With Jeff Turner
and Kelly McCormick
Classification: NA
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Six years in the making, director Sean Donnelly's gimmicky documentary I Think We're Alone Now blends a kitsch pop-culture hook to the appeal of the freak show, as he follows a couple of mentally unstable fans of the eighties pop star Tiffany. Apparently unconcerned about the ethics of giving attention to stalkers or putting a camera on fame-obsessed mentally unsound people, Donnelly's film offers no insights, just a string of reality-TV moments.

Turner is a 50-year-old bachelor with Asperger syndrome, who shows the characteristic symptoms of verbosity and social maladjustment. A born-again Christian, conspiracy theorist and fan of the pseudo science of radionics, he interprets Tiffany's 2002 nude pictorial in Playboy as proof of her open declaration of love for him. He also believes he communes with Tiffany's spirit by putting a bicycle helmet with wires on it on his head.

Kelly McCormick is a 38-year-old from Denver. Self-described as an "intersex hermaphrodite," McCormick has long, dyed-blond hair, but otherwise appears to be a man with breasts and feminine hips. She is currently taking female hormones and wants to make the surgical transition to being a "complete" woman. McCormick, who has substance-abuse problems and dramatic mood swings, lives in a sparsely furnished apartment with walls covered with pictures of Tiffany, smudged from being kissed about the lips. After a bicycle accident, she says, she awoke from a 16-day coma convinced that she was destined to be with the pop star.

To double the fun, the filmmaker brings Turner and Kelly together to attend a Las Vegas concert to room together and squabble like junior-high girls about which one has a deeper bond with Tiffany. Turner is condescending about his purportedly close relationship with the star; Kelly is unable to sleep as she paints on makeup in anticipation of meeting her idol.

Tiffany, now a mother in her late 30s, who still lives off her former celebrity, did not do an interview in the film, but appears several times onscreen. We see her giving a free concert, where the camera lingers over other middle-aged men staring rapturously at the one-time teen idol, as she sings I Think We're Alone Now. We also see Tiffany at a convention, autographing copies of her Playboy pictorial and gamely interacting with creepy fans.

Though she previously had a restraining order taken out against Turner, we also see her meeting him and smiling patiently as he bear-hugs her and kisses her cheek. In an interview, the director has said her manager declined to show the film to her because he thought it might scare her, which seems far more poignant than anything in the film.

I Think We're Alone Now concludes with a mildly upbeat ending - no one gets hurt; one of the characters even seems to improve - which allows the documentary to be filed, like its subjects, into the category of benign oddities. "Harmless" is about as strong a defence that the film can muster.

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Britain - Stage - Graham Norton reveals his La Cage aux Folle alter ego... [2008-12-06 The Times]

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/theatre/article5252905.ece

From The Times

December 06, 2008

Graham Norton reveals his La Cage aux Folle alter ego
Graham Norton explains why donning drag for his stage-musical debut makes him feel absolutely terrified – and relatively butch

Alan Jackson

(Jude Edgington)

He is being fitted for a wig, sitting on a high chair before a dressing table. From this distance he appears to be completely naked. “Let’s take you over to say hello,” the publicist suggests, and, taking a deep breath, I duly follow in her wake, smiling and pointedly making eye contact with the vividly painted and powdered television star in that via-the-mirror way in which you communicate with hairdressers or taxi drivers. “Delighted,” says Norton, turning round in preparation for climbing down from his perch. (“Whatever you do, don’t look down,” I tell myself.) The scrape of high heels on bare boards as he does so is at least partially reassuring, and a subsequent glance floorwards finds him also to be wearing American Tan tights over what appear to be incontinence pants. “A few more minutes and then [here he shoots me a significant look] I’m all yours.”

To borrow the title of one of the comedian/presenter’s past Channel 4 chat shows, that delivery is So Graham Norton. No one filters the same fruity mix of sharp wit and innuendo through a persona of campness as he does. Like Frankie Howerd and Kenneth Williams before him, he is a knowing commentator on the antics of others while remaining non-sexual and, hence, non-threatening himself. It’s a neat trick, one on which until recently he built his whole career. Then came a multimillion-pound contract with the BBC, not to titter over smut late at night with visiting celebs, but to front primetime light entertainment fare such as How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?, Any Dream Will Do and I’d Do Anything, in which unknowns vied to be cast in West End shows. Newly mainstream as a result, it’s therefore a surprise to find him venturing sequin-clad into the world of theatre, starring as Albin in the musical La Cage aux Folles.

This is not Norton’s first experience of cross-dressing. The Guinness salesman’s son from Bandon, County Cork (a town of 5,000, its previous best-known inhabitant was a Victorian novelist, Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, who died of typhoid there in 1897), used to put on his sister’s clothes when just a tiny tot, “because they were prettier”, he once explained. “I was just trying to brighten up a dull wardrobe.” And then, in the early days of his post-drama-school career as a stand-up, there was an appearance at the Edinburgh Fringe in a one-man show titled The Mother Teresa of Calcutta Grand Farewell Tour. “But that was just me and a few tea towels,” he says. “I’ve never before done actual drag and it’s quite a shock, I can tell you. You look at yourself as the slap goes on and you think, ‘It’s me. It’s me. It’s still me.’ Then comes a tipping point – the lips? The wig? – and suddenly it’s, ‘Oh my God! Who is that?’ ”

It was the experience of working on those search-for-a-star BBC TV shows that softened Norton up to the idea and made him decide, “Actually, musical theatre isn’t as freaky as I thought. You work with people who are entirely normal in every other respect but who also perform in that world and you find yourself thinking, ‘Maybe I could do it too…’ ” His first step was to begin vocal training with a renowned coach, Mary Hammond: “Let’s name and shame her, ’cos it’s her fault too if I bomb.” Then the casting director David Grindrod asked what kind of production Norton would be interested in being considered for. “And there was only one, this one. I’d been along to see it at the Chocolate Factory with Douglas Hodge as Albin and like everyone had absolutely loved it – the reviews have been amazing. When I said it, I had no idea a West End transfer was on the cards.” Kismet, in other words.

La Cage aux Folles is a warm-hearted, uplifting, gently educative farce originally published in 1973 by the French writer Jean Poiret and later developed into a trilogy of French-Italian films, a stage musical and, in 1996 and under the title The Birdcage, a Hollywood vehicle for Robin Williams. It tells of a gay couple, Georges, the owner of a nightclub showcasing drag acts, and Albin, its star attraction, and all that befalls them when Georges’s son from a one-night stand brings his fiancée’s conservative parents to visit.

“The role of Albin [which Norton will assume in January] is a showcase for a fun, camp extrovert, and while Graham is many things, chief among them are certainly fun, camp and extrovert,” says producer David Babani, who has seen the show transfer from the acclaimed Menier Chocolate Factory, South London, to the Playhouse Theatre in the West End. “He’s absolutely perfect. I genuinely can’t wait to see his performance.”

When Norton presents himself for interview at the photo studio wearing a T-shirt, trainers and jeans, his face newly scrubbed, I remark how thrilled the company appears to be that he has come on board. In response, he rolls his eyes theatrically. “Oh, they’re all thrilled now,” he declaims, giving the trademark glug-glug-glug Norton laugh, “but just wait until we start rehearsals. I am almost literally s****ing myself. By the time opening night comes round, there may be nothing almost about it. Luckily, I have my special pants in case of mishap [in fact, he tells me that the passion killers he was wearing earlier are special drag-artist ones, padded at the cheek and hips to give a more womanly silhouette beneath a sequined gown]. I spend most of my working life in a very comfortable, well-supported place and this is so out of that zone. If I’m honest, it’s scaring the bejaysus out of me.

“Truly, honestly, I have no ambition to inhabit this world permanently. Theatregoers can relax, I promise. I’ll do this one thing and then I’ll p*** off again. And that’s if I even survive the run [he is contracted initially for three months]. Everyone loves everything about the production exactly as it is, and the last thing I want to do is come in and kill the beautiful baby.”

None of which explains why La Cage so resonated with Norton that he was prepared to risk a critical drubbing after Douglas Hodge received such acclaim for his performance in the role. (“I can’t help but think that to all those reviewers who’ve hated me for years on TV, I’m going to represent a late Christmas present.”) To understand that, you need to be his 20-year-old self, an escapee from rural Ireland to a hippy commune in San Francisco, struggling to define his identity, sexual and otherwise, and seeing the show there on its first direct-from-Broadway national tour.

One of the four numbers that the character of Albin performs solo is I Am What I Am. “Which these days is a hackneyed anthem drag queens and fag hags everywhere sing at the drop of a hat. But back when I first heard it all those years ago, it was incredibly moving, both in terms of where I was in my own life and where gay culture was – a whole generation about to be decimated by Aids. The idea that what people laugh at and deride you for is also what makes you special is definitely something I can relate to. As a kid, I was very much afraid of my own campness. In terms of self-acceptance as a young man it was my biggest hurdle, and that’s why the song’s lyric and attitude spoke to me so powerfully. Of course, age and experience alters your perspective. Now, at 45, the number that gets me the most is The Best of Times. Seize the moment! None of us knows how much longer we’ve got.”

Norton says that as a self-consciously different child growing up in the small-town Ireland of the Seventies, the only visible gay role models were TV personalities like Larry Grayson and John Inman, “and you really, really didn’t want to be that person”. And when in adult life he began to meet actual examples from that heightened genre gay personae, he felt a similar unease. “I mean, men who’ve not just wholly accepted it. Dear God, they’ve lovingly embraced it. They’ve thrown petrol on the bonfire of their own campness. You know, the constant eye-rolling, the calling everyone ‘she’? And that puzzles me, too. I think, ‘What life choice was this for you? What made you want to be this particular person?’ ” So, on a one to ten of camp, where would he place himself? “Hmmn. I used to think I was an eight-and-a-half, but now that I’ve stepped into this musical world I realise I’m comparatively butch. Reviewers may even say I’m too manly to convince in the role!”

Had he the choice, would Norton be a different man, perhaps one who is more toned down and “straight-acting”? My use of that term from the homosexual lexicon makes him snort with amusement. “So funny, some of the men who apply it to themselves. You hear them say, ‘No one at work knows…’ Oh really? And who is your employer? The Helen Keller Institute? No, I’d say I’m very happy in my own skin these days. Again, I think it’s an age thing. There are very few pros to getting older but that’s definitely one, the not longing to be someone else. You look at young people still trying to ‘find’ themselves and you think, ‘Sheesh, I’m so glad I’m not doing that any more.’ If I were to wish to be anything, it’d be younger and prettier, as would almost anyone else. I’d wish to be the sort of gay man I actually was 20 years ago but didn’t ever realise at the time.”

We are talking at a moment when Britain’s cultural landscape has been altered (in the short term at least) by the fallout from the Russell Brand/Jonathan Ross Radio 2 debacle. Is he friendly with the two? Does he think they were at fault? “I know them but it’s not as if I have their numbers in my phone. I haven’t spoken to them about it. Listen, when you’re working at that end of the comedy spectrum, which I am a lot of the time, things are sometimes going to go wrong. I’ve done an awful lot of prank phone calls myself so yes, I do think, ‘There but for the grace of God…’ But I’m lucky enough to have always had producers around me who’ve protected me from myself. After the event, it’s all too easy to say, ‘What on earth were they thinking of?’ The whole point is they weren’t thinking. They were just in their zone, doing what makes them so brilliant, only this time it went wrong.”

At this point, I describe my experience of interviewing by telephone the out actor John Barrowman. I found him to be funny and engaging but also unexpectedly and explicitly sexual in some of his replies to innocent questions. Shortly afterwards, I saw him interviewed on TV by Ross and he was similarly entertainingly ribald, at which point it occurred to me that as a gay man you can get away with such behaviour when you are still young and pretty, but that there may come a time when to attempt it puts you in danger of appearing slightly… “Creepy?” For want of a better word, yes. So has Norton’s move towards a more family-friendly image been prompted by concerns of what is age-appropriate? He pantomimes deep consideration of the question. “Channel 4 is a place for young people and I felt I was getting a bit long in the tooth.

“My chat show [these days to be seen on BBC Two] is still silly, but it’s a slightly more grown-up version of silly than before.” So no more live link-ups to niche performers in the US who expel ping-pong balls from their orifices? “We wouldn’t do that now, no. Just wouldn’t [if I recall correctly, Lulu, a guest on the show in question, appeared pretty gobsmacked that they would back then]. Hopefully what we do is think, ‘Well, we’re getting a bit bored with this kind of stuff, so let’s stop before the audience gets bored with it too…’ Humour evolves. I meet people who tell me they’ve grown up watching my show. They were 12 or 13 when it started. Now they’re in their twenties and what makes them laugh is different.” Yet throughout all of this, and despite his constant nudging at the boundaries of good taste, Norton himself has escaped tabloid invasion or censure. How? Why?

“The thing is, the paparazzi are quite lazy. They’re not sitting outside every club or restaurant in town. You know where they’re going to be. So clandestine dinners at the Ivy? Hello? If you’re having an affair, why would you go there? If you’re going to roll around in the gutter with your knickers on your head, make sure it’s not when you emerge from somewhere that had photographers outside when you went in!” So is he saying that managing to live under the tabloid radar is simply a matter of him choosing unfashionable venues in or outside of which to behave badly? “No. It’s my not doing the kind of things you need to do to maintain the press’s interest. I’m not going to date a footballer or a pop star. It’s just never gonna happen.” Would he like to? “I don’t think I would,” is the prim reply. “Listen, I just don’t think there’s a public interest in my private life. I have nothing to hide. I’m a very open book.”

The cuttings files reveal the details of only two major relationships in the time since he came to fame, both with younger American men. Currently Norton lives with his two dogs in Wapping, East London, his time and attentions taken up with friends and with work. He describes the new year as looking to be “annoyingly busy”, with two seasons of his chat show to negotiate plus he and Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hosting of a televised search to find Britain’s representative in the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest. But a recent (and still current at the time of writing) Wikipedia entry suggesting that he will be collaborating with Bill Oddie on a show titled Diving into the Deep Holes of Man is, he promises, erroneous. “Unless the BBC is about to pitch it to me and I haven’t yet been told. Just someone’s attempt at humour, I’d say. It made you laugh? Well, there you go. Their work is done.”

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La Cage aux Folles is at the Playhouse Theatre (0870 0606631). The run with Graham Norton starts on January 19

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Britain -  Decline of the real man is no joke... [2008-12-07 Independent on Sunday]

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/article1055541.ece?startindex=-1

Leading article: Decline of the real man is no joke

Sunday, 07 December 2008

According to our report of the threat to the more testosterone-charged of the species, some of us may live to see the last of the real men. What a good idea, one thinks. Toothpaste tube caps always screwed back on. Garages used for cars, rather than snooker tables. No more women being embarrassed by their partners showing off on the beach. No more men of a certain age sucking in their stomachs at the swimming pool when a pretty new lifeguard wanders by. No more comb-overs. No more dirty socks on the floor. It will be goodbye to road rage, hello consideration.

Hang on, though. Do we really want a world where everyone is from Venus and no one is from Mars? Where Frenchmen no longer have any différence to vivre? A land where the man of the house is more Mrs Doubtfire than Mr Atlas? Where pubs no longer echo to loud-mouthed arguing over the merits of back fours and deep-lying strikers, but where, instead, hair-netted old men clack their knitting needles over glasses of lukewarm sherry? Boating accidents where the cry goes up: "Hermaphrodites and children first!" Editions of Top Gear fronted by Jemima Clarkson?

Still, at least there will be no more leading articles on the foibles of the sexes written by men. And most of these difficulties were foreseen and solved by the visionaries of the radical feminist movement in the 1970s. But how are we going to spend our way out of recession if every customer realises they are expected to pay only after they have packed their carrier bags, and only then starts to rummage for a purse? And can you imagine the queue for the toilets?

We may be joking, but this is also serious. As Geoffrey Lean, our environment editor, reports today, a host of common chemicals is feminising the males of every class of vertebrate animals, including humans. For some time scientists have been concerned about the "gender-bending" effects of some artificial chemicals, especially phthalates, used to soften plastics. The latest research, however, suggests that the scale of the problem is greater than anyone had realised.

The new report is a reminder that the challenge of environmental sustainability goes much wider than climate change, which is understandably front and centre of green concerns. The pressures on natural ecosystems of human industrial activity go far beyond the release of billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the air – which, as we reported last week, will not reverse naturally for hundreds of thousands of years. Wildlife programmes on television, once the representations of an innocent world free of humans, have become an unremitting campaign against human overpopulation. But these documentaries tend to focus on the threats to the viability of individual species. Gender-bending chemicals pose a threat to the very mechanism – sexual reproduction – that sustains almost all multi-cellular life forms.

As we report today, and have reported before, the British Government has a record of obstructing the more stringent controls proposed at EU level. This week, our representatives will lead opposition in Brussels to proposed new European controls on pesticides. Many of these chemicals have been found to have gender-bending effects, and it would make sense, on the precautionary principle, to restrict them where possible.

Britain is leading a small group of countries (the others are Ireland and Romania) trying to block a regulation that would phase out their use. Ministers say this would harm British agriculture, but the regulation would specifically allow British farmers to opt out if they had no practical alternative.

The Independent on Sunday does not want to fall into the trap that caught several Conservative MPs saying that a recession is a good thing. But the pause in the relentless growth of global industrial activity provides an opportunity to reconsider our priorities. And the inauguration of Barack Obama as president of the United States next month provides some optimism that the most powerful nation in the world will be working to help the environmental cause.

The declining fertility of males is a phenomenon that produces a nervous reaction, especially among men. But the Government's refusal to adopt a precautionary approach to potentially gender-bending chemicals is no joke.

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It's official: Men really are the weaker sex
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/its-official-men-really-are-the-weaker-sex-1055688.html

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Comments:

The contraceptive pill has to go. We're p*ssing out millions of tonnes of industrial strength oestrogen every year and wondering why fish need support bras. Duh. Mind you, give it three years and all that Viagra will kick in. There'll be randy ladyboy squids washing up on the beach. (Every cloud sliver lining, I guess)

Posted by Urban Ospreys | 07.12.08, 05:28 GMT


It's a muti-generational thing. By the time we catch on to our coming extinction it'll be too late. On the plus side it'll stop global warming.

Posted by Jenny Martel Whiefinger | 07.12.08, 05:06 GMT


OK, here was the good news, male tool box is getting smaller, so, what is the bad news?

But, hang on a minute. If chemicals such as those used in contraceptive pills are the real accomplice (according to this report: It's official: Men really are the weaker sex) and men by using them indirectly in their food-chain are becoming biologically more feminine and less masculine, so their natural sexual interest to other gender should be declining as well. Thus, why women are consuming more contraceptive drugs (as there should be less sexual intercourse between these two genders, well, theoretically)?

On the other hand, women should also be affected and produced less (get hardly pregnant) and have more abnormal fetuses.

But in all we have to be glad to find out the answer for those men who were asking for eternity this question, “Why men have nipples?”

Posted by . | 07.12.08, 03:48 GMT

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