I have seen the future and it is filled with older women and younger men.

There is such a double standard out there.  Men can get as old and wrinkled as they wanna be and they can get a young women.  NO one says a word.

Now, we have uncovered the opposite and it’s all the talk.  It’s the cougar and she ready to pounce.

I don’t have a problem with that, as long as it’s someone elses’ mom.  But, when it’s my mom…sheesh!

There are those out there, like myself, who are adult children.  We may be blessed enough to still have our moms around and while our moms are letting loose as they get older, we seem to be taking on the more “responsible” and “reserved” role of daughter or son.   We are probably all the things our parents could ever wish for.

We take care of our lives and stay out of trouble.  We got to work and use coupons when we grocery shop, like mom taught us.

We wash behind out ears,  say “please” and “thank you” and feed the dog, like mom taught us.

We have made it this far with our mothers loving discipline and watchful eye.  We may have even had meddling mothers who wanted to “fix” the entire world for us.  Then, something happened.

Whether it was divorce, by death or another reason,  mom is single again.  Single and on the prowl.  But, she’s not looking for they guy with the salt and pepper hair that’s around her age.

She’s looking for that hot, young guy with the six-pack and firm beach body.

What the hell happened to our mom?

Where does that leave you and I?  We are sitting there like sticks-in-the-mud, with this scenario running in our minds.  Mom is lusting after young guys. WTF?

And our nice little responsible ways have put us on guard.

Hey mom, we got to that “we know better now” phase, but mom has reverted back to 15 or 16 yrs-old that we have to keep and eye on, know where she is at all times and makes sure she “Doesn’t do anything I wouldn’t do!”

Here we are.  How do we cope with this “teen-aged” mom of ours?  Her partying, dating and…wait.  Sex.  She might have sex with this guy.

Alright!  I have had it.  Here’s 3 ways I have learned to cope with this “Cougar” mom of mine.

Support You Local Mom:    If she asks for your opinion about her new guy, find something “polite” to say about him.  Yeah, you may not like her new guy, but support her.   

If you notice something about him that seems a little strange or that find awkward about him,  find a time when you are casually talking to bring this up.

Don’t become an overbearing “parent” of a daughter or son.     Be there to listen to her tales about her dates and whatnot about the new boyfriend.  If you can’t handle hearing about her s-e-x life, then kindly let her know that her sex life is TMI for you.  Remember when you used to rant or rave about the hot dates you had?

Remind Her Of  What She Taught You: Yep,  I remember all the nights my mom couldn’t understand why I wanted to stay out all night with my boyfriends even after high school.  Now I understand why!  It’s friggin’ dangerous out there.  Take some time to look back at all the no-no’s you had as a teen.  As pissy as I could get about them, I understand…now.  So, I bring all of it right back up ad throw it right back at my mom.  With love, of course.  And, yes…I support her this way.

• She may need to be reminded of being careful when she is out on a date.
• She needs to be reminded to call when she comes home.
• She needs to be reminded that she needs to keep her cell phone on in case of an emergency.
• She needs to wear clothing that is sexy, not slutty.
• Don’t wear too much makeup and look like a clown.

Yes, mom…You taught me well.

Mom, It’s Me Or Him, Not Me And Him!: Don’t make your mother choose bewteen you  or her new guy.  Keep your judgements out of the convo.  Don’t give her hell about this guy.  If she is having a safe time (emotionally and physically) then she is doing fine.    If mom is happy, the world is happy.  She is probably already feeling the pressure of being older and has the desire to have her relationships bewteen you and her new guy to become cohesive.  Your mom may talk a good game, but she probably wants you to accept the new guy without being judged and she wants to love and be close to the both of you.  Mom is a big girl.  If she needs help, she’ll let you know in one way or another.

Namaste

Seriously

Actress Sarah Jessica Parker and Grant together Huj enjoy dinner and wine while watching fishy seems to matter to many people, but to Jessica’s husband Matthew Boarderik not mind it at all.

Fall into the category of men Huj Grant, whose surroundings – to see his girl friend or wife, men began to burn, but Sarah Jessica Parker to Matthew’s Boarderik not even bother with them at all on. Jessica these days to have dinner with Grant and Abhinta Huj can be seen drinking wine.As with both the reason for his forthcoming film ‘U Did The Rmogs Hiar Abaut? “ Is.Living in New York where he husband – his wife plays, which became a murder witness because of contract killer is on target. In terms of security the city is sent from a secret location, where they face several problems. As more time with Huj Shuting Besides Jessica spends. Jessica and Matthew have been married 12 years and the two twins born two months ago, his family has. Before he is a 6 year old son.

In the passage from her paper that we have for our class, Jessica Parker (Berkeley GSE graduate and professor at Sonoma State Univ., visiting ED140 Tuesday) writes provocatively, “When multimedia literacies are integrated into school-based learning, the legitimacy of school is directly and acutely challenged.” This is not an empty or purely ‘theoretical’ statement in common parlance: schools around the country and around the world are struggling to reconcile the growing role of multimedia and non-written modes of communication in the lives of youth with school-based curricula that continue to teach and assess students based largely upon standardized practices of writing.

Echoing this reality in her study of literacy practices in post-apartheid South African schools, Pippa Stein writes,

[the] act of repositioning the body as a multimodal sign and resource for meaning in the classroom challenges the hegemony of language, particularly written language, in the ESL classroom. Multimodal pedagogies allow for the expression of a much fuller range of human emotion and experience; they acknowledge the limits of language, admit the integrity of silence, and do not presume closure. I argue from an equity perspective that such pedagogies offer students a more representative base for representation (Stein 2004: 95)

We might all agree on one level that literacies and means of communication are multiplex (to use Ruth Finnegan’s word), and that schools ought to incorporate a greater diversity of representational means into their curricula. But how should this actually happen? If schools acknowledge the “hegemony of language”, then what is to become of curricula based primarily upon written texts and the knowledge they are supposed to contain? What is the future of the five-paragraph essay in a multimodal future? And if ‘performance’ in dance and filmmaking (to take a few examples) is to assume a place alongside ‘performance’ on a written exam, how should performance be assessed?

Site-ul de informaţii Hotnews relata ieri despre rezultatele unui controversat studiu legat de o presupusă manifestare a moralităţii la animale. Articolul reproduce în mare parte textul articolului “Animals Can Tell Right from Wrong”, apărut în aceeaşi zi în cotidianul britanic The Telegraph. În acesta sunt redate, într-un stil popular şi oarecum senzaţionalist, o serie de exemple care ne-ar putea înclina să acceptăm a considera ideea moralitatii animalelor ca fiind cel puţin plauzibilă.

Cercetarea a fost coordonată de Prof. Marc Bekoff, biolog evoluţionist, specializat în etologie cognitivă (studiul comportamentului animalelor) la University of Colorado, Boulder. Rezultatele acesteia au fost publicate în luna martie a acestui an în cartea Wild Justice. The Moral Lives of Animals, apărută la University of Chicago Press. Prof. Berkoff a scris această carte împreună cu eticianul Jessica Parker.

Desigur, aşa cum arată o interesantă recenzie a cărţii, apărută în revista New Scientist, şi semnată Deborah Blum, definiţia moralităţii cu care operează autorii este una strict darwinistă, potrivit căreia acţiunile morale sunt dictate de un anumit cod comportamental specific speciei din care face parte respectivul animal. De asemenea, este clar că cercetarea respectivă promovează o agendă explicit anticreştină.

Oricum ar fi, concluziile acestei cercetări pun în discuţie unul dintre locurile comune ale acelor gânditori creştini care pustulează existenţa unei rupturi radicale între om şi restul creaţiei lui Dumnezeu. Potrivit acestei vulgate creştine, dintre toate creaturile lui Dumnezeu, numai este dotat cu moralitate (capacitatea de a distinge între bine şi rău), creativitate (capacitatea de a imagina şi produce, din elementele create, lucruri noi, care n-au mai existat înainte) şi religiozitate (sentimentul eternităţii).

Dacă rezultatele acestor studii vor fi confirmate, lucru care este încă departe de a se fi realizat, eticienii creştini vor fi confruntaţi cu o problemă complicată, care îi va obliga, poate, să reconsidere continuitatea dintre diversele regnuri în creaţia lui Dumnezeu.

Interesant este că n-am reuşit încă să găsesc un răspuns creştin cât de cât articulat la provocările lansate de această cercetare.

Nos cinemas da Cidade do México, estão em cartaz dois filmes que tratam da sexualidade feminina. Um deles é Sex and City, versão para a tela grande do badalado seriado de TV. O outro é Irina Palm, produção inglesa dirigida pelo diretor Sam Garbarski. Em apenas um deles o espectador encontrará um retrato inteligente e atual da realidade da mulher nesses primeiros anos loucos do século XXI.

Em Sex and City, o filme, as quatro inseparáveis amigas novaiorquinas estão de volta com suas intermináveis discussões sobre sexo regadas a Cosmopolitan. Desta vez, toda a produção de estrogênios está dedicada ao casamento da colunista Carrie Bradshaw, personagem principal da série interpretada por Sarah Jessica Parker.

Em Irina Palm, Marianne Faithfull é Maggie, uma viúva de 50 anos que mora na periferia de Londres. Mergulhada em dívidas e recusada por empregadores em razão da idade avançada, Maggie decide trabalhar em um bordel para pagar a cirurgia do neto de 7 anos.

Em Sex and City, o filme, todos os resquícios de irreverência inteligente que ainda existiam no seriado da HBO foram esterilizados. São as mesmas personagens, nas mesmas situações, calçando os mesmos Manolo Blahnik. Só que, desta vez, a trama parece ter sido transportada para a Ohio de 1950. O sexo deu lugar ao desejo ardente de ter … uma família! Carrie, a colunista linda e liberada, vive para seu casamento com Mr. Big. Samantha (Kim Cattrall) deixou o emprego e a vida de devoradora de homens para se dedicar única e exclusivamente a um garotão milionário, que banca todos seus caprichos (incluindo um anel de US$ 50 mil). Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), a advogada, aparece apenas quando reclama de uma derrapada sexual do marido. Charlotte (Kristin Davis)…bem, ela continua se dedicando, de forma admirável, a manter no lugar a sua cabeça-de-vento. É bem verdade que ela o único personagem que manteve a coerência com a série. Seu único interesse foi sempre ter lá seu kit marido-filhinha-cachorrinho.

Nada contra a opção das moças. Mas, durante todo o filme, só pensava em uma coisa: correr atrás de marido e desafogar as tristezas em uma loja de sapatos é o que nos resta?

Em Irina Palm, Maggie é uma inglesa sem os encantos, sapatos ou qualificações acadêmicas das trintonas de Nova Iorque. Também tem três amigas – algumas ultrapassando a casa dos 50 – mas nenhuma veste Padra. Em lugar de freqüentar os bares da moda do Soho, elas queimam o tempo livre jogando cartas e tomando Earl Grey com leite.

Mas, surprise! Maggie é mais audaciosa, libertária e liberada que Carrie e suas amigas. Para evitar a morte do neto, enfrenta as barreiras internas – sempre as piores – e as sociais e topa trabalhar em bordel em Londres. O roteiro poderia cair no cliché e vitimizar a velhinha inglesa que masturba homens. Não é o que acontece.

O filme não tem pena do espectador. Ao oferecer a realidade tal como ela é, a trama consegue expor, de forma sutil e até bela, o processo de re-conhecimento da mulher de 50 anos em relação à própria sexualidade. No caso de Maggie, esse despertar acontece na maneira mais terrível e amarga – contra o seu desejo, por necessidade, sem amor. Mas o bordel é apenas o pano de fundo de uma história de conseqüencias mais complexas. Maggie rompe falsos moralismos, descobre seu próprio potencial como mulher e, pela primeira vez na vida, faz suas próprias opções.

Irina Palm consegue prender a atenção do telespectador com temas e personagens poucos atrativos em uma sociedade cada vez mais ávida por consumo. Maggie, a dama inglesa, talvez nunca receberá como declaração de amor um gigantesco closet para sapatos (um dos momentos mais “românticos”de Sex and City). Mas ela ganhou, definitivamente, algo melhor: cérebro!

The Sex and The City movie that premiered last week was the popcult objet du jour, and loosed a Tourette’s spasm of web commentary. Some was highbrow (“style-conscious mise en scene”), some lowbrow (“Sarah Jessica Parker Looks Like a Horse”). Most of it was pleasantly mindless. Writers normally devoted to other agenda, from science bloggers to the proprietor of “Binge Eating Disorder Help,” put aside their hobbyhorses for a moment to divert readers with the harmless subject.

Well, most of them did. A SATC review featuring a photo of “Cynthia Nixon (right) w/Lesbian Partner” alerted us that we’d stumbled into the land of the rightbloggers, where blockbuster movies are not mere entertainments, but fronts in the culture war.

In her epic “Hags And The City” tirade, TV commentator Debbie Schlussel told readers that the “sleazy and low-class” central characters “look like female impersonators in drag,” are “pigs in skirts” and, worst of all, serve as “Delphic oracles to far too many American women.”

While the Oracle at Delphi spoke for Apollo, apparently Carrie, Miranda, Samantha and Charlotte speak for “America’s feminists and the phony mainstream media” who, Schlussel said, give their message “the kosher seal of approval,” thereby covering an extra theological base.

But what is their message? Schlussel didn’t focus long enough to inform us, but some clues could be gleaned from her ravings. “Because they dined in glamorous places, wore trapezoid shaped clothes and $1,000 fancy high heels,” wrote Schlussel, “this somehow made their low-brow, savage behavior, ‘classy.’” So perhaps the message is that the rich can get away with things that the rest of us can’t. Schlussel also said that the inclusion of Jennifer Hudson in the film was meant to “answer the complaints over the years by Black America, that there were no Black women in this fashionable pay cable TV gang of hos.” Add tokenism to the film’s sins. Finally, “If you’ve ever called men pigs or chauvinists or decried their alleged collective behavior toward women, but yet you like this movie, you’re a hypocrite.” SATC is an affront to feminism! Schlussel’s argument seems based on race, gender, and class issues normally addressed by Women’s Studies professors. We hope this doesn’t get around or Schlussel may never appear on Fox News again.

“That sleazy yet hallowed HBO television series ‘Sex and the City’ is now in theaters as a feature film,” wrote longtime culture scold Brent Bozell at Human Events, “and the cultural elites are having a religious experience.” Apparently having failed to score a ticket to this Black Mass, Bozell attacked the original series for its failure to promote marriage: “What this feminist phenomenon didn’t have and didn’t need, apparently, was a woman who would choose to marry young… The series could have been called ‘Sex and the Skittish’ for all the phobias about the boredom and lost independence of married life.” As if that weren’t bad enough, SATC also turned girls into sluts, as Bozell showed with an ABC News story about a 14-year-old who, influenced by the show, had sex and Cosmos till she saw the error of her ways and became Mormon. The precocious teen said, “It wasn’t Sex and the City’s fault,” but Bozell corrected her: “Hollywood can certainly argue that it didn’t make the naughty people act on their naughty impulses. It merely told them it would be glamorous and liberating to do so.” Personal responsibility, it would seem, stops at the cineplex’s edge.

Sex and the City – The Complete Series (Collector’s Giftset)

Kay S. Hymowitz of the City Journal did see the film, and seemed to have enjoyed it, but yet retained an annoying (for her and for us) feeling that the right message wasn’t being promoted. For Hymowitz, it was actually the series that spoke truth to promiscuity: “In the opening credits of the TV show, the pleased-as-punch, fashion-forward Carrie gets splashed by a New York City bus — symbolizing the characters’ inevitable comeuppance in each episode,” she wrote. “In the movie, though, there is no splashing.” We hoped at first that last word was a misprint, but alas, Hymowitz was lamenting the film’s four-way happy ending: “Lacking the urbane and witty realism that made the series television gold,” she wrote, “Sex and the City is simultaneously sentimental love story and starry-eyed liberation fantasy.” Love and liberation! Well, there’s always the director’s cut DVD.

National Review Kathryn J. Lopez didn’t mind the happy ending, but was concerned for the souls of the audience with whom she shared a midnight show of SATC: “They’re delighted — cheering — when nice-girl Charlotte tells [Mr. Big] off, curses the day he was born, hits him with her shopping bags,” she reported. “Mr. Big was one of the last people in the City who needed to be told off.” Worse came after the showing: “‘Oh my God, but he’s soooo cute,’” said one “gal… referring to the decision of Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall) to leave the (soooo cute) guy who loves her because she loves herself more. The next thing I heard was, ‘F*** you, b**ch’ as a group of girls were annoyed someone else got the first cab.” Lopez worried that the swooning, swearing girls were missing the film’s “cultural lessons.” But like Debbie Schlussel, she wasn’t clear about what those were: after writing that “Sex encourages lust for the designer labels and ‘booty calls’” and “the self-conscious lesson Carrie sends us off with is to feel free ‘to write your own rules,’” she concluded that “the deeper message of the film is that it’s not hooking up but true love and marriage and children they want.”

Maybe she just enjoyed the film, but couldn’t leave it at that: for her, SATC was “an important cultural contribution” that had to be stuffed into her preconceptions like a size-6 foot into a size-5 shoe. Perhaps sensing this, Lopez later elaborated on her review, providing a reading list of conservative authors (“Michael and Harriet McManus do a good job of presenting the practical drawbacks of cohabitation”) that probably actually tell the story she wanted SATC to tell — and will tell if she has anything to say about it. “We all have a role to play in cultural renewal,” she wrote. “Even Sarah Jessica Parker, even if she doesn’t know it.”

In conservative paradise, you won’t have to see movies at all: just read the morality lectures based on them, and be culturally renewed. Coming next: Kung Fu Panda presages a religious awakening in China, The Strangers argues for strict interpretation of the Second Amendment, and the new Indiana Jones movie teaches a valuable lesson about the evils of Communism. (Oops — they beat us to it.)

Sex and the City – The Complete Series (Collector’s Giftset)

Heute habe ich mir gedacht, lästere ich mal über die Stars und Sternchen und grabe deren Schönheitsfehler aus – damit niemand sagen kann, dass nur wir als Normalsterbliche Makel haben

Also, Kate Hudson kommt als erste unter die Lupe. Sie wurde vor kurzem vom amerikanischen “People Magazine” zur attraktivsten Frau der Welt gewählt. Trotz ihrer abstehenden Ohren

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2. Sarah Jessica Parker. Die Dame gibt zu, sich selbst schon das ganze Leben lang für hässlich zu halten. Und dann weist sie auf ihre große Nase und ihre Warze im Gesicht hin.

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3. Uma Thurman. Sie ist 1,83 groß und hat Schuhgröße 47 (!!). Ok, klar gibt es keine allgemeingültige Formel für ein ideales Verhältnis von Körper- und Schuhgröße. Aber Schuhgröße 47 bei einer Frau ist schon ein Kuriosum?!

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Das nächste Mal nehme ich mir die Männer unter die Lupe

Ok ich gebe es zu: auch ich bin trotz des nervigen Megahypes ein wenig gespannt auf den Sex and the City Film. Obwohl ich den Trailer gesehen und  die Filmbeschreibung gelesen habe und ich nicht so richtig glauben kann, dass das ein guter Film wird, werde ich am 30. Mai mit meiner Freundin im Kino sitzen.  So wie vor langer Zeit jeden Dienstagabend vorm Fernseher.

In diesem Zusammenhang finde ich wichtig, ein paar Details zum Film zu erwähnen. Obwohl die Dreharbeiten zu „Sex and the City“  erst im September 2007 begannen, war der Kinofilm nur 3 Monate später bereits komplett abgedreht. Wie auch in der bekannten Fernsehserie, welche bei „ProSieben“ lief, wurden die Hauptrollen wieder mit Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis und Cynthia Nixon besetzt.

Neben den oben erwähnten altbekannten Gesichtern, glänzen in der Serienverfilmung auch einige andere Prominente. So spielt beispielsweise die Oscar-Preisträgerin Jennifer Hudson die Assistentin von Kolumnistin Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) und auch der Bürgermeister von New York, Michael Bloomberg wurde mit einer Gastrolle bedacht. Auch Victoria Beckham sollte ursprünglich in dem Streifen mitspielen, was aber daran scheiterte, dass sie „zu“ stark mit den Vorbereitungen zur  „Spice-Girls-Reunion“-Tour beschäftigt war. Wir werden es verkraften können, oder?

A única coisa que gostariamos de saber é por que um comercial do Shopping Cidade Jardim, estrelado pela Jessica Parker do seriado Sex and City, está sendo rodado lá fora para uma coisa aqui de dentro?

Vejam a cena…

Enjoy! 

Idag började inspelningen av filmen ‘Sex and the City’. Filmen kommer att ha premiär i mitten på 2008. Fastnade för Carrie Bradshaw, My Little Pony Parker’s, väska! Vill ha!!!