Chins Are the New Boobs

Numbers of ‘chinplants’ across America explode as career women want to look good for video conferencing.

Chins are the new boobs according to latest plastic surgery figures.

Chin implants – coined a ‘chinplant’ – is the fastest growing cosmetic surgery trend, according to statistics released by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) and grew more than breast augmentation, Botox and liposuction combined in 2011.

Experts suggest the trend has been prompted by increased use of video conferencing in the workplace which causes employees to focus on their facial appearance.

Interestingly, this Daily Mail piece comes just a few days after a previous one on career women: Do girls only want a career because they can’t attract a man? Provocative study casts high fliers in a new light.  (HT: Ferd)

Forget ambition, financial security and that first-class degree.

A controversial study has concluded that the real reason women pursue careers is because they fear they are too unattractive to get married.

The research team, made up of three women and two men, said that when men are thin on the ground, ‘women are more likely to choose briefcase over baby’.

Hmmm…

Women Rediscovering the Domestic Arts

Wa-Po piece writer upset about it.

Waaaaaaah! (HT: Ray Sawhill.)

Two 47-year-old women misbehaving for meat

One’s a cheap cheeseburger whore; the other’s an adulterous slut craving young meat.  (HT: Ferd and Ray Sawhill)

The first one must have been a vegetarian who caved.

Mmm, vegetarians, remember how good cheeseburgers were?  Of course you do, and you miss them; be honest…

Young Women: Read This and Take Heed

A 35-year-old woman’s rambling, incoherent attempt to deny the realities of the dating market. (HT: Heartiste.)

The Sexual Revolution was Bad for Women

Mary Eberstadt in the The Wall Street Journal:

Why do the pages of our tonier magazines brim with mournful titles like “The Case for Settling” and “The End of Men”? Why do websites run by and for women focus so much on men who won’t grow up, and ooze such despair about relations between the sexes?

Why do so many accomplished women simply give up these days and decide to have children on their own, sometimes using anonymous sperm donors, thus creating the world’s first purposely fatherless children? What of the fact, widely reported earlier this week, that 26% of American women are on some kind of mental-health medication for anxiety and depression and related problems?

Or how about what is known in sociology as “the paradox of declining female happiness”? … Women’s happiness appeared to be declining over time despite their advances in the work force and education.

(HT: The Thinking Housewife.)