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It's Friday, Punk

GiggleSugar — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:00:00 -0800

Time to cut loose.

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GiggleSugar — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:00:00 -0700

Lesson learned the hard way: When you're not the sharpest knife in the drawer, you shouldn't take a stab at crime. Literally.

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Not Fake: Hungary Crowns Miss Plastic Surgery

TresSugar — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:00:00 -0700

Perky contestants vied for the crown of Miss Plastic Hungary this week. Only women who have gone under the knife were invited to participate in the artificial-beauty pageant held in Budapest. Botox wouldn't qualify you, but one contestant's surgically adjusted toes did get her included. Reka Urban, 22, won the (plastic?) crown, and she received an apartment in Budapest as her prize. Check out this video from the contest, and tell me what you make of such an unabashedly fake beauty pageant!

Jury Convicts Man For Rape of Sex Workers

TresSugar — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:00:00 -0700

The argument that a woman who does sex work cannot be raped did not sway a jury in West Virginia. This week, the jury convicted Thomas H. Gravely of multiple counts of sexual assault on three prostitutes. The women testified that the father of five threatened to kill them as he attacked them, and jurors viewed a taped confession during which Gravely admitted to holding a knife to their throats and strangling them while he had sex with them.

The defendant did not testify, but his attorney gave a dramatic closing argument, calling the victims "tramps" and "whores." He said:

I would be horrified if any of the women in my life were raped, but I'm talking about decent, honorable women. Not whores who have sex with many, many men for money.

The attorney said that convicting Gravely of rape would lessen the dignity of every woman because the sex workers had turned sex into something disgusting. I guess the defense attorney forgot that "every woman" includes sex workers, too. Thankfully, the attempt to dehumanize the victims did not succeed and Gravely was convicted of the horrible crimes.

At Last - The Miss Plastic Hungary Beauty Contest

TresSugar — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:00:00 -0700

"Ever had plastic surgery to become beautiful? Are you proud of your body? Would you like to put yourself to the test?"

If so, asks this website, perhaps you should enter the Miss Plastic Hungary beauty pageant where women age 18 – 30 (if you’re above 30 you’re in the “dame” category) can compete against other women who have gone under the knife.

In this Bizarro World contest, unlike in other beauty contests, having gone under the knife is not grounds for disqualification - it’s a contest requirement. Botox, by the way, doesn’t count. "The entry requirement," says Reka Bodis, press director of the pageant, "is a surgical procedure done under general or local anesthesia." It's quite “natural,” she continues, to stage such a contest now that so many beautiful women get plastic surgery and prices are more affordable. Hungary is a tourist destination for many in the UK, where plastic surgery prices can be prohibitively expensive.

The contest is open to non-Hungarian contestants as well as Hungarian beauties and debuts October 9.

Stranger Than Fiction: Pair Marries, Wants Divorce Same Day

TresSugar — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:00:00 -0700

What makes this story even stranger for me is that as I read it, I was reminded that I had a dream last night that I got married and immediately regretted it! Perhaps I was having sympathy pangs for the following Polish couple living in Hanover, Germany.

Right after they tied the knot, the 50-year-old groom told his 34-year-old bride that he wanted the marriage annulled and never wanted to see her again. She agreed. (Hmmm. They seem to agree on the fundamentals - if only they'd stuck it out a little longer! You know, like maybe an hour longer.)

Think this is bizarre? It gets weirder. After their civil ceremony, things got pretty uncivil. The unhappy couple began fighting, during which time the disgruntled groom tried to cut his new bride's hair with a kitchen knife. (Which he just happened to be carrying? On the day of his wedding? I'm so confused.)

She called the cops, got a restraining order, and he spent the night in a homeless shelter. Even my dream last night was less baffling than this.

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Plastic Surgeons: The Economy Is Affecting Us

TresSugar — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:30:00 -0700

“Business has definitely been flat,” says Dr. Brian Kinney, a plastic surgeon from (surprise!) Los Angeles. And he's not talking about his breast augmentation patients.

At the annual meeting of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, plastic surgeons expressed relief that although the economy has contributed to the slowdown of the number of cosmetic procedures in the US last year (falling 12.3 percent to just over 10.2 million), more patients are opting for nonsurgical procedures. Botox, its new competitor Dysport, and soon-to-be-on-the-market muscle-numbing creams will all provide revenue as the demand for invasive surgery wanes ever so slightly. What else is going on in the world of plastic surgery? To find out, read more.

There is one segment of the population in which plastic surgery is on the rise: among nonwhite patients. Describing nonwhites as having long been "underserved," Dr. Julius Few, an African-American plastic surgeon from Chicago, says that when he was growing up, it seemed "unfair" that plastic surgery was available primarily to wealthy white people - but things are changing.

So basically, what we are to take from this news story is that no matter what, plastic surgeons can count on women to spend money enhancing their looks somehow, and now nonwhites, too, have the itch for invasive plastic surgery! Note the rhetoric Dr. Few uses - "underserved, unfair" - as if being able to get plastic surgery were equivalent to getting basic health care.

I wonder sometimes what Naomi Wolf, author of The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women, would think about the mainstreaming of plastic surgery. Not only do few women critique plastic surgery, but some have in fact embraced it as an almost necessary part of being a woman, like wearing a bra or having a period.

Wolf's discussion of plastic surgery in The Beauty Myth was was under an interesting rubric: violence. Why, she wondered, are so many women willing to spend money they might not have to go under the knife - and even risk death - to have a smaller nose, larger breasts, or conform to a beauty ideal?

What do you feel about the mainstreaming of plastic surgery?

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Lorena Bobbitt to Oprah: Why I Threw It Out the Window

TresSugar — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:00:00 -0700

The "it" I'm referring to, of course, is Lorena's husband's penis she had just cut off.

It was 1993, and the nation was morbidly curious and nervous-laughing about a story that seemed too crazy to be true. Beautician Lorena Bobbitt, suffering from PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) after years of enduring spousal abuse, a forced abortion, and infidelities from her husband John Wayne Bobbitt, snapped one night after he came home drunk and, according to her, raped her.

She went into the kitchen, saw a gleaming knife, and cut part of John's penis off. She then got into a car (holding the severed penis) but threw it out the window while she drove. She recently appeared on Oprah and explained why she did it. Curious about the aftermath for all parties involved? Then watch the clip when you read more.

Lorena, as she told the jurors during her trial, realized after her action that she'd done something horrific and stopped the car and called 911. After searching for hours in a field, paramedics found the severed penis, and it was eventually reattached.

Although John Wayne Bobbitt was acquitted in a later trial of charges of spousal rape, jurors believed that Lorena had indeed snapped after years of abuse and found her innocent by reason of insanity.

Lorena has since remarried, had a child, and started an organization to help educate and stop domestic abuse. John's post-severed penis life was a little more chaotic. He was charged numerous times afterward with domestic violence against girlfriends and wives (wow, some dudes never learn!), formed a band called "The Severed Parts," starred in a couple porno flicks - "John Wayne Bobbitt: Uncut" and "Frankenpenis" - and was even briefly a minister in a Vegas church.

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Man Mistaken For Rapist Befriends Woman Who Jailed Him

CitizenSugar — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:30:01 -0700

When a woman points to a man and says she is 100 percent certain that he broke into her college apartment, put a knife to her throat, and raped her, the justice system works to put the monster behind bars. But Jennifer Thompson, who said just that, was mistaken, and her misidentification sent an innocent man to jail for 11 years. Even though Jennifer said she memorized her rapists face and voice, Ronald Cotton was finally released after DNA exonerated him.

Theirs is a story of mistake but also forgiveness. Jennifer felt guilty and also fearful that Ronald would try to punish her for taking 11 years of his life. But he had forgiven her long ago, accepting that she had made an honest mistake.

Now the pair has written a book, and they work together to spread the word that eyewitnesses can make mistakes and advocate for a more accurate police lineup process.

To see a moving trailer for the book, read more.

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Do Tell: Have You Ever Been Mugged?

DearSugar — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:00:00 -0800

Paris Hilton recently had her home robbed, but thankfully, she wasn't home or hurt. Often, having your house robbed is more of a financial trauma, while being held up at knife- or gunpoint can be far more of an emotional trauma. Have you ever been mugged? Was it scarier for the experience, or were you more upset about what you lost? And how did you work to get over it?

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