Battle of the Sexes: Using the Men's

It’s 1am, you’re drunk and your bladder is too. She’s screaming for release and you feel as if you really might explode.

You look down the line you’ve been waiting in for what feels like forever. It’s packed. Women are dancing around ahead of you, holding their na-na’s and chatting away. The three stalls you’re all waiting for are stubbornly ‘occupied’.

This is a bad situation.

You look over at the lone guy walking out of the men’s stall – behind him there’s no line. You peek in without moving from your spot. No-one’s there.

But is it ever okay for women to use the men’s bathroom?

The answer to this is usually probably not, but I’ve thought of some scenarios that make it okay (sort of) to do it like a dude (not literally):

1.       You are absolutely, 100% positive that if you do not go right now you will pee. Everywhere.

2.       No-one is in the men’s bathroom, and it’s going to stay that way.

3.       The women’s is out of order (DRAMA).

4.       You own the bathroom.

But other than that, sadly, it’s not okay. You’re going to have to hold your kooka until that toilet is ‘vacant’.

You could risk it, but you’ll probably get booted out (take it from someone who knows), or maybe just maybe you could not drink as much. Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa yeah, right.

Beautiful hairless creatures

Type into Google ‘beautiful naked woman’ (yes, I actually Googled that) and immediately you’ll be bombarded with images of women with no hair on their bodies.

With the exception of head hair (which should be long and flowy), society (and Google) is continuously telling women that no hair = sexy.

No arm hair, no leg hair, no hair down there.

But where did this pressure come from and why do we feel the need to spend so much $$$ on waxing, shaving and laser treatment?

In 2003 The Economist published an article about women with no hair ‘down there’. This was the beginning of the hair free women-era and the youngest girl the hairdresser interviewed had waxed was 12. TWELVE.

Back then they thought it might have just been a fad. But here we are nine years later still doing the same thing.

What is our culture coming to if a TWELVE YEAR OLD feels the need to get waxed? Didn’t she only just hit puberty blues?

Yes, women are supposed to be the fairer sex and delicate creatures with soft and smooth skin but STILL.

Is it porn? Celebrities? Movies? Magazines?

The double standard? (of course there’s one)

For men, hair = manly. 
  
Bastards.

So what we can gather from this, I guess, is that even though it’s completely natural to have body hair, you shouldn’t have it (if you’re female) – and beauty is pain, right?

#YOLO.

Am I not pretty enough?

Tired of the way you look? Sick of feeling self-conscious/inadequate/not beautiful?

Maybe it’s time to start mirror-fasting!

Straight out of New York, this is the newest ‘diet’ (term used losely) craze to hit the homes of hundreds of women around the world.

Mirror-fasting New Yorker Autumn Whitefield-Madrano, says she started the trend because “I’d become aware that I had a mirror face.

“Whenever I saw my reflection I’d open my eyes a little wider, suck in my cheeks a little and tip my chin down in an effort to make myself look more like I wanted to. It made me feel really vain.”

Basically, the trick to the trend is to avoid mirrors all-together. This includes phone screens, shop windows and anything where any type of reflection can be seen.

Mirror-fasters claim it has helped them to separate their looks from their self-esteem and is “probably the most powerful secret to feeling beautiful.”

Guess you’d save a lot of money on makeup too!


More here & here

Sexy VS Skanky

Cut-out clothes are the norm these days. Designers seem to be taking a dress and snipping it for that ‘barely there’ look.

HOWEVER. Since I’ve been running around the town at 4am on a Sunday morning for a few years now (ha), I’ve noticed that cut-outs can be sexy...but only if you know how to do it right.

This is a prime example of ‘less is more’. No, not less fabric; less cut-outs.

According to Cosmo fashion guru ‘Glamo’ (yeah, wtf) girls should only be showing their delicate parts: back, shoulders, boobs (think peek-a-boob).

Side thighs and stomachs? N-O. NO.

And that crop top look? Yuck.

So basically, if a dress has the back cut-out – sexy. If the dress has the back, stomach and boobs chopped away – skanky.

And just a side note: always show off your sexy pins (just not in a thigh cut-out way).

Glamo says a delicate one-part-of-your-upper-body-showing is best, and sexier. Leave something to the imagination ladies.

Here’s Cosmo’s take: