Mugshot Monday 12.03.12

Fiddy Cent.


Back when he was Nickel..

'Livin In The Projects' Barbie

The Pill: Soon To Be Sold In Stores Like Condoms

The surprise announcement from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists could help bolster efforts by public health officials to make the pill more widely available. Proponents of making the pill available over the counter argue that oral contraceptives are some of the safest and most effective drugs on the market but political pressures make accessing them far too difficult. For example, most doctors prescribe the pill for one year and require women to receive a full pelvic exam before renewing that prescription. Add in the fact that insurance companies often only dole out pills one month at a time. It's easy to see the savings associated by putting the pill on the shelves.

Doing away with institutional inefficiencies is one motivator behind the announcement. Another is the fact that half the nation’s pregnancies each year are unintended, causing significant strain on the public health system.

“It’s unfortunate that in this country where we have all these contraceptive methods available, unintended pregnancy is still a major public health problem,” Dr. Kavita Nanda, a scientist with the North Carolina nonprofit FHI 360, stated.

In order for such a reality to exist, a company would first have to be granted permission by the government. Then there is the issue of cost. Obamacare requires FDA-approved contraceptives to be available without co-pays for women enrolled in most employer-provided workplace insurance plans. If the pill were sold without a prescription, it wouldn’t be covered under that provision. ACOG addressed this issue, noting that on average, uninsured women pay $16 per month’s supply.

Making the pill available over the counter and without a prescription may be just the answer to the endless litigation by religious extremists to the contraception mandate.

Sounds like a plan. A Plan better than 'Plan B'..

Disney Princesses Re-Done by the Best..

Harrods Department Store is the mother-effing man. The windows at their legendary Knightsbridge store are amazing. Beyond amazing, they have taken their Disney princesses and glammed them to the point of no return.

They composed an elite team of 10 womens wear designers, including Versace, Roberto Cavalli, Valentino, Oscar de la Renta and - Elie Saab, to re-create the iconic Disney Princess dresses.

The results are, of course, magical, with Saab's Aurora (Sleeping Beauty), Marchesa's Ariel (The Little Mermaid) , Versace's Cinderella and de la Renta's Snow White.

I love the art of reinvention..

Lip Un-Equipped..

A man that says "I don't eat pussy.." is a man that DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO. PERIOD.

You wouldn't be afraid of these wet lips would you?

So on your mark, get set..

Men -O'Pause..

Female Superhero Car

If I were a female superhero, this might be my car..

Vroom Vroom Vroom suckaaa

Urinals Shaped Like Womens' Mouths?

Yuckums.

I can only wonder what she was thinking.

Carry on..

10 Oct 2012

The Ananas Bar and Brasserie, a stylish French restaurant in the Rocks district, said the urinals were "a commonly used European design piece from female Dutch artist Meike van Schijnde" but would be removed. 

Dutch artist Meike van Schijnde with one of her urinals 



A spokesman said the two urinals – shaped as bright red, wide-open womens' lips – were supposed to be “playful”.

"We sincerely apologize if they have caused offense,” she said. “They are being removed today.”

The urinals – described by feminist critics as offensive and misogynist – comes amid an ongoing debate in Canberra over sexism in Australian politics.

An Australian feminist publisher and commentator, Anne Summers, said the toilets were “asking men to put their d---- in these mouths as urinals”.

"Misogyny is very widespread, and this is just an example of misogyny," she said. "The concept is pretty challenging and confronting.”

Another prominent Australian feminist, Meredith Burgmann, likened the urinals to "schoolboy grubbiness" and noted they were not surprising given the recent "outpouring of misogynist incidents".

The design of the toilets received notice after the Sydney Morning Herald restaurant critic, Terry Durack, described them in the introduction of his review of the three-week-old restaurant. “Can we talk about the urinals first, and get that out of the way, please?" he began. "Weirdly, they come as no real surprise here at Ananas, merely adding to the extraordinary collision of statements and intent... What a flirtatious show-pony of a restaurant this is, hell-bent on making an instant impression.”

As for the food, he said: “There's a lack of spontaneity in the cooking that diminishes its ability to be delicious.”

In 2006, four urinals shaped like women's lips designed by another artist, Rudolf Scheffel, were removed from public toilets in Vienna after protests from women's groups. They were later sold on eBay.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/9598020/Sydney-restaurant-removes-urinals-shaped-like-womens-mouths.html