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Sunday
07Feb2010

Super Dame | Katie Couric | Harper's Bazaar

Did you see the photo of Texas powerhouse socialite Lynn Wyatt in Style | Sensual Living?

The Smart Sensuality women are in high gear. FYI,  we don’t mind being the butt of jokes, as long as we’re on the cover of Sports Illustrated.

As for the damsels who are crying ‘foul’ — be nice girls — you ain’t seen nothing yet. We’re just getting warmed up, ladies

Somebody’s got to restore women in America to their former ‘bring home the bacon’ glory.

Drowning in the ‘Are We Happy Yet?’ self-indulgence of ‘poor me’ American women has got to go in our complicated world. Talk to our military women in Afghanistan or Iraq. Cry on the shoulders of women in the Congo or Haiti.

Let the damsels weep in their beer about being stressed out, because Smart Sensuality women like Katie Couric and Lynn Wyatt are up for the challenges of life.  The March 2010 issue of Harper’s Bazaar features Katie Couric looking as fierce as Demi Moore.

Call her a ‘cougar’ if you must Huff Po. Smart Sensuality women like Couric don’t mind being dames, babes and using every trump card in their arsenals to be effective 21st century females and turning back the erosion of women’s rights in America that damsels embrace.

When sexy, successful women have no heart, as Katie Couric displayed buckets of, on the ground in Haiti, walk away. You’re looking at a Modern woman who not only looks the part, but seeks the Tin Man with a big bonus. She’s empty inside, and you have every right to rain on her parade.

Put brains, beauty, sex appeal, courage and heart in the brew and you’re looking at the best kind of female.

Fine, let every woman be who she wants to be. There are plenty of men who like weak women. We know  the poor-unlucky-me girl Jennifer Aniston has a legion of fans lending female life support on yet another love-affair gone south.

We’ll take respect. American women may not coo over Angelina Jolie, especially in the never-ending menage-a-tois of Aniston - Pitt - Jolie, but they respect her and find her formidable.

We’re putting Katie Couric, Demi Moore, Meryl Streep, Angelina Jolie and all the Smart Sensuality women on a pedestal, because somebody’s got to fight for the moxie girls, the women who unapologetically celebrate being sophisticated, intelligent femmes in action around the world.

Katie Couric in May 2010 Harper’s BazaarTears are rarely in our arsenal. Couric calls herself a joyful person. “I mean, hello? Yes. I am. I am! And unashamed that I’m not cynical or dark or ironic.”

Bazaar describes the quality, Katie Couric’s ‘strength behind the sweet’. Think Hepburn, Bacall and Beyonce.

Frankly, I like this Smart Sensuality version of Katie Couric, and so does Washington Post writer Robin Givhan.  We’ve noticed the past year that Givhan’s been doing some real heavy lifting in writing about women.

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Saturday
30Jan2010

God Damn It David Brooks! Feminism Is NOT a Pick-up Line!

I love David Brooks! I have no time for Chris Matthews, but this morning both men are in the same sexual-politics dungeon.

Neither guy believes that women have any place in American politics, based on their vocabularies. If I were a boycotting woman, I would shut them both out of my ears.

Unfortuantely, Brooks makes too much sense and must be spared. For a moderate Democrat, these words may seem contradictory, but yes — I listen to Brooks, not Matthews.

Hearing and reading these guys, only one pronoun exists in their vocabs: and it is ‘he’. The word ‘she’ doesn’t stack up in their vision of American politics, based on their own words.

NYTimes columnist David Brooks The truth hurts, but I’m facing it. 50 years after women marched all over America, I read in today’s David Brooks NYTimes column ‘The Perot Option’:

There is a specter haunting America: the specter of a saner, updated version of Ross Perot. He is lurking out there, ready to ride the free-floating anger and distrust of Washington. He is out there now in one of his homes or private jets, getting madder by the day. He is large of ego, full of money and cranky in mien.

When he enters the arena, he’ll say that Washingtonians, all of them, are a bunch of failures. Over the past five years, Washington has tried to reform Social Security, immigration, health care and energy policy. All of these efforts have either failed or are close to failure — thousands of people working millions of hours and in all likelihood producing nothing.

He’ll point out that Washingtonians, all of them, breed selfishness. Republicans refuse to accept tax increases. Democrats reject spending cuts. They’ve put the country on a highway to a fiscal crisis, and there are no exit ramps.

When he comes, he’ll present himself warts and all. Yes, I’m an obnoxious S.O.B., he’ll say. But you need me right now. Yes, I am a blank slate, but people are so desperate that they’re voting for blank slates. When he comes — this billionaire Simon Cowell, this political Bobby Knight — he will change the political landscape, at least for a time.

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Sunday
24Jan2010

'Unmade Bed' Women | More Sex | Fewer Dust Mites

Prepare to laugh. Sex & Culture and Green Beings are teaming up again at Anne of Carversville.

The day began with a smile, reading that Sharon Stone said that Meryl Streep looks like ‘an unmade bed.’ Stone professed that she meant no offense, but the remark sounded like Iman saying saying the First Lady Michelle Obama isn’t beautiful - in a true beauty sort of way.

Iman, too, explained that the remark was actually a compliment. We women have the strangest ways of reinforcing each other’s confidence. Back to Sharon and Meryl.

Saying that Meryl Streep looks like an ‘unmade bed’ led the London Times to contrast the rarer ‘unmade bed’ woman with the ‘pristine pillow’ one. Surely, you see were this story is going. Which camp are you in?

Thinking about ‘unmade bed’ women and ‘pristine pillow’ ones was all I needed to be off and running, because I love the Blanche Dubois vision of the ‘unmade bed’ heroine who towers above the rest of us mere mortals.

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Thursday
14Jan2010

Michelle Obama's First Year: No Redos Required

Samantha Appleton - the White HouseMichelle Obama sat down informally with reporters to discuss her first year as America’s First Lady. Mrs. Obama didn’t know Wednesday afternoon that PETA would agree to take down their anti-fur posters with her photo front and center.

In doing so, PETA may have another objective in mind, as Michelle Obama makes it clear that she hopes to nurture a generation of healthier chidren.

“I want to leave something behind that says because of the time that this person spent here, this thing has changed,” she said. “I hope that will be in the area of childhood obesity.”

The First Lady made it clear that she will campaign aggressively on children’s obesity topics, even if they require her to get involved with policy issues. Mrs. Obama begins her campaign next week by addressing the nation’s mayors on children’s obesity.

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Thursday
07Jan2010

Pine-Sol Reminds Us: Choreplay Is Foreplay

Last November’s Pine-Sol story is climbing fast on our Smart Sensuality charts.

If cleaning men are in demand, it’s time to move our first Sexy Futures story onto Anne of Carversville.

After all guys, Valentine’s Day is coming. Don’t make it about empty words this year. Choreplay or chore play — it’s all music to women’s ears.

How about an inexpensive gift of “cleaning coupons”? You will get far more sex in 2010, handing her a privatized “honey do” list. Cleaning coupons reap far more benefits than $100 worth of short-lived roses. If there’s no sex in your relationship, and you’d like to remedy this perceived problem, a dust mop might be the place to start.

Watch this video for a glimpse of living the good life in a Pine-Sol house.

That’s the Power of Pine-Sol, Baby

If you’re a regular reader, you know that I don’t rag on men generally about housework. Especially younger men have made amazing progress, leaving the greater challenge of women agreeing that in total, the numbers are adding up these days.

Repost from Sexy Futures: Chore Play As Foreplay: Getting It Our Way (Feb 2008)

A recent Real Sexy MSNBC post zeroes in on the extraordinary popularity Porn for Women a cheeky picture and words book, with men donning rubber gloves and grabbing the dust mop.  The subheading proclaims, “Men who share the load (of laundry et al) inspire lust.”

Really? Is a man wearing an apron and rubber gloves the new sex symbol? Is a clean home the key to igniting a woman’s libido?

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Thursday
07Jan2010

Women, Math & Science Do Get Along Well, Mr. Summers

Excuse us Larry Summers. 500,000 test results say girls are equal to boys in math and science — when guys like you agree to let women achieve.

Lawrence H. Summers, President Obama’s chief economic adviser, is best known for his infamous comments about women’s abilities in science and math.

A staunch, highly-credentialed member of the old-fashioned,  “I know what I’m talking about when it comes to women” wing of the boys club, Summers made this infamous proclamation about women’s abilities in math and science while president of Harvard University.

Robert Rubin, Alan Greenspan and Lawrence Summers on the cover of a 1999 TIMESummers argued that the under-representation of women in the top levels of math and science in academia is due to a “different availability of aptitude at the high end.”  This proclamation ended his tenure as Harvard’s president and many people believe he got a bum rap in a politically-incorrect spark that ignited female-centric gender-fury.

Maybe Summers was just plain wrong about women’s brain capacity in math and science. President Obama’s Chief Economic Adviser insisted that he was only quoting scientific research that grounded his assertions in fact.  If the truth hurts women’s pride, they should get over it, argued the old-fashioned boys club.

The new guys sided with women, and there were plenty of them.

Science Daily reports that reality is that girls around the world are not worse at math than boys.

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Wednesday
30Dec2009

Like 'Slim' Browning, the Original LOLA Was a Dame

Writing my Marc Jacobs LOLA fragrance post just now, another LOLA song flitted around in my brain. I always thought gender-bending LOLA was pretty hip but another LOLA was knocking on my brain.

Whatever Lola Wants - Sarah Vaughan

Eureka! Ah yes, LOLA the femme fatale, the Sarah Vaughn version of a confident woman who gets what she wants and understands her influence over the male species. LOLA was a rock-solid dame.

Lauren Bacall as Marie ‘Slim’ Browning, with Humphrey Bogart, in “To Have and Have Not”Recently I watched Lauren Bacall playing ‘Slim’ Browning.  Whatever happened to those iconic women: sexy, elegant, genuinely fierce … not just mouthing the words?

Perhaps Marc Jacobs will give LOLAs a new lease on life.

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