As Sebastian says, “Can we all agree that if you don’t know what suffrage is, you shouldn’t be allowed to vote?”

Apparently Victoria’s Secret had their big annual fashion show. The CEO said that the theme was “a return to glamour.”

This is not a return to glamour.

Sometimes I wonder if women like this exist to throw our entire gender and all the progress we’ve made under the bus:

A judge has brushed off a Connecticut woman’s claim that L’Oreal Inc. ruined her social life when she accidentally dyed her hair brunette with one of its products.Charlotte Feeney of Stratford said she can never return to her natural blonde hue, a shock that left her so traumatized she needed anti-depressants.

She says she suffered headaches and anxiety, missed the attention that blondes receive and had to stay home and wear hats most of the time.

A Superior Court judge dismissed Feeney’s 2005 lawsuit Monday, saying she never proved her allegation that L’Oreal put brown hair dye in a box labeled as blonde. The company also had disputed the claim.

Take it as someone who has had every color of hair known to man – and a few shades that could only be created by man – a disappointing color job is not the end of life as you know it.  And if you’re too damn cheap to get it done in a salon, you don’t get to complain when it doesn’t come out the right way.  In that case, it’s almost universally user error.  I say this as someone who dyed her own hair for years, and has also learned that for quality jobs, it’s best to pay someone else to do it.

Now you all know that I’m all for the pink gun revolution if that’s what a particular shooter – male or female – wants to own. I’m all for consumers getting what they want. If it’s purple and green squares on a brown and orange background, more power to them and their bad taste.

But I’m going to assume that no woman was consulted in the writing of this release by Crimson Trace for their new pink grips. They claim that the hot pink grips target the “fashion-conscious women.” More like the fashion-comatose.

Seriously boys, when was the last time that you saw chicks decked out in hot pink? Probably not today. Probably not yesterday. Probably not in the last week. Sure, you might have caught a glimpse of some pink in an outfit, but I doubt it was the primary color. If it was, I hope your eyesight recovers soon.

It might have been better worded to say the grips would make a fashion statement. But fashion conscious? Heh.  To me, it indicates that a bunch of boys were involved in the creation of the release, not their target demographic.

And if I’m wrong, please remind me to pack sunglasses if I ever visit Oregon.  I’ll be the one standing out wearing black.

Here’s to working moms:

I have to admit, this is such an exciting time as a woman.  It’s been less than 90 years since women have even had the right to vote.  This week is the 88th anniversary of the certification of the amendment after Tennessee passed the 19th Amendment.  Yet, now we’ve run women as Vice Presidential nominees for both major parties.

And, to be honest, major credit also goes to Hillary Clinton.  When you think about the fact that just a few strategic changes could have given her the delegate lead, we were inches away from having a woman running for the top seat.  While I by no means would have voted for her, I could still respect the achievement in terms of women’s history.

Yes, I’m a feminist.  I believe women should be able to make any choice the want, and I do believe there are a few glass ceilings left to be broken.  I don’t think public office is really one of those ceilings because there is so much else at work, but there are a few.  Even if it’s not a ceiling broken, it’s still a major achievement.

I think about the fact that my own grandmother was born just a few short years after women won the right to vote.  If she had been born just three years earlier, the world for her would have changed in a way her mother could never have imagined.  And actually, her mother only died a few years ago.  So my great grandmother lived to see women earn the right to vote and the first major party female VP candidate.  That’s not too bad for a lifetime.

So make sure your daughters realize what an achievement this really is for them.  This just proves that no roadblock should stand in their way for anything they want in life.

So now that John Edwards has admitted to sleepin’ around during his campaign, I can’t help but take pity on him.  What he doesn’t realize is that he just keeps digging himself in even deeper – at least with many women.

The first evidence that John Edwards doesn’t get women was when he made the most common mistake many men who have had affairs do – he said he didn’t love his mistress.

Really, this is just an area where men need to shut the hell up if they are asking for forgiveness from their wives.  There’s two ways this conversation can go down:

1. “You didn’t love her?  You were willing to throw away your marriage vows and all of our years together on some chick you didn’t even have feelings for?”
2. “You loved her?  Well, then I guess the foundation of our marriage is broken.  Pack your bags and shack up with her.”

In other words, you don’t win with this defense.  Yes, it’s true that being in love with the mistress does effectively end the marriage.  However, proclaiming that you’re willing to set your wife aside and disrupt the lives of your entire family, especially as a public figure, for a woman you don’t have feelings for is, well, a bit of an insult.

The other defense Edwards is trying to use is that his wife’s cancer was in remission when he started the affair.  Again, this is an answer he never should have given.  Think of the two ways this conversation ends up:

1. Your wife had just battled a life threatening disease and came through with the both of you believing she’d lead a long and healthy life together.  So you started screwing another woman.
2. Your wife is dying of cancer and you couldn’t keep it in your pants to respect your vows and your family as she battles for her life every day.

Really, there is no way to win.  It’s best not to bring those two issues up at all.  One direction shows that Edwards has absolutely no respect for his wife and he’s willing to even hurt his children for a fling that meant nothing.  The other says that the marriage has broken down and rather than acting like a man and addressing it, he just starts playing around on the side.

Before any of you jump on the “women are fickle and can’t be pleased” bandwagon in the comments, it’s important to understand that I’m not saying the damage done by affairs can’t be repaired.  There are certainly marriages – and individuals – strong enough to work through those very hard times.  However, those who have decided to work through it probably didn’t discuss the “did you love her” question.

I couldn’t help but be amused by the first like of this article about the “tacti-cool” bras Breda discovered.

The new underwear was developed as a second barrier of defence after normal bras were found to cause injuries while on duty.

Underwires are dangerous business. They are recommended only for the pros.

Kids these days have no idea how easy they have it.  When I was searching for the link for photos to give context to the last post, I cam across this hysterical account of what it was like being a tween girl with Hollywood crushes back in the 80s and early 90s.

Not only did I spend thousands of dollars on teen tabloids, but now all kids have to do is jump online, click their keyboards and print out free pictures of their crushes! It’s so unfair. Kids these days will never fully appreciate the act of riding one’s bike to the 7-11 to grab a Slurpee while pouring over the magazine rack.

I’m all on board with not treating men like pathetic little children who don’t really matter.  So, where do we draw the lines at being humorous and honest as opposed to demeaning?

It takes a special kind of person to get pissed off watching the Home and Garden channel, and I am just that special person. I love “House Hunters” the most because it’s fun watching people in other parts of the country try to find a 3-bedroom 2-bathroom 1200-square foot house for under $250,000 (in the DFW area, that kind of money buys you a McMansion), but mostly what I love is hating the women I see on these shows. And hate them I do.

In the last 2 weeks, I’ve watched maybe a dozen episodes of “House Hunters”, and in at least 10 of those episodes, the following occurred almost verbatim every single time:

Wife: Oh! This is a nice big closet.

Husband: Yeah, I guess it’s big enough for all your stuff.

Wife: HA HA! I get all the closet space! It’s mine! You get one drawer! HA HA HA HA!

This makes me want to kill some bitches.

They are so proud of the fact that they own 50 pairs of shoes and two metric tons of cocktail dresses, and that they’ve shown their husband who’s boss by hogging all the closet space. You can see it in their eyes, every time, how cutely sassy they think they’re being. It is absolutely revolting.

I’ve seen some of what she’s talking about in both television programming and real life.  However, I also know that context isn’t always delivered on television.

For example, if Sebastian and I decided we needed to air our home buying business to the world in the future, you’d see me make a similar joke.  Why?  Because I have a lot more clothes & shoes than he does.  Now, this doesn’t mean I’m so self-centered that I really take over his stuff and leave him to live out of boxes or something.  In fact, I’ve still got most of my stuff in boxes and bags.  When I do really begin unpacking clothing, I’ll be using the guest room closet.  I could move more stuff into Sebastian’s room, but I just don’t feel a need to right now.

However, what you probably wouldn’t see on the show is a conversation about whether the basement has enough room for his reloading bench and a safe or two.  They might not air a detailed discussion on where we’d store his homebrewing equipment.  The chance of a commentary on a small downstairs closet being great for organized ammunition storage making the final cut is, well, nil.

I take into account that the target audience of HGTV is women.  Women are still seen as the major consumers of the household, especially for the products being directly and indirectly pitched on HG.  You can even see it in the commercials.  Notice how many of the Home Depot commercials feature women tackling home projects?

I think it’s fair to open a discussion about why so many women accept the anti-male attitude at face value, and why marketers get a favorable response to it.  (Face it, if a significant number of women didn’t buy into it, marketers wouldn’t treat men so terribly in the final cut.)  However, knowing enough women who don’t treat their guys like this when you look at the full relationship, I question how much of her anger at the profiled women is misplaced.  It’s very likely that the frustration should be turned toward the show’s producers and the women who love their edits.

I could be reading Rachel’s post completely wrong and her passionate hatred is geared toward all women who might need more closet space than their husbands/boyfriends.  In that case, I’m not afraid to admit that I’m one of those women.  If I have to be one of those women she hates, well, I’m only sorry I can’t hold someone’s attention for a full half hour.