Flap Your Lips Friday
Posted by Michelle Moquin on December 28th, 2012
Good morning!
Female Orgasm: Serving an Evolutionary Function?
Why do women have orgasms? Most of the time, I’m so occupied with answering questions about why some women don’t have orgasms that I rarely stop to think about why women do have orgasms. It’s a good question, really. And sexual scientists typically don’t agree on the answer. But I came across a couple of studies recently published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior that discuss an evolutionary explanation for the ever-elusive female orgasm.
Dr. Puts and colleagues conducted a review of the literature on the evolutionary function of female orgasm. There are two main evolutionary approaches to explaining female orgasm: the byproduct hypothesis and the mate-choice hypothesis.
The byproduct hypothesis states that female orgasm doesn’t have a direct evolutionary function; rather, women experience orgasm because of men’s adaptation to it. The idea is that men were given sensitive orgasmic penises to reward them for spreading their seed. And recall that everyone, regardless of being biologically female or male, is born with the same anatomical structure. For the first two months after conception, the genitals are undifferentiated. So because male and female genitals are developed out of the same structure, women also get the benefit of this pleasure reward. For more details on this, check out The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution.
The mate-choice hypothesis states that female orgasm has evolved to function in mate selection in order to better attract mates who will be invested long-term or to select higher quality sperm for higher quality offspring. A variety of studies have suggested that female orgasm increases the odds of gettingpregnant. Interestingly, another recent study also published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior found that women who faked orgasm performed a greater number of mate retention behaviors than women who didn’t fake orgasm, perhaps offering more evidence to support the mate-choice hypothesis.
The main argument against women’s orgasm being explained by an evolutionary perspective is how infrequently it happens during intercourse. Most women require additional stimulation in order to climax during intercourse (usually in the form of clitoral stimulation), and you’d think that if it were adaptive, an orgasm would be a little easier to come by.
Additionally, compared to masturbation, penile-vaginal intercourse is pretty inefficient when it comes to producing an orgasm. If female orgasm were really an evolutionary adaptation, one would think the opposite would be true.
The main question I am left with (which is a common theme I find missing in most evolutionary explanations), is ‘where is the pleasure?’ Female sexual pleasure certainly isn’t considered as an adaptation or an evolutionary function in itself. There is some evidence to suggest that female (and male) orgasm aids in pair-bonding through the release of the anxiety-reducing and calming hormone oxytocin, especially in women, but that’s about as close as any of this literature gets to female sexual pleasure.
I’ll conclude in a similar way the scientific article was concluded, by saying there is still a lot of additional work to be done in decoding the possible function(s) of female orgasm. I’m certain of one thing — this won’t be the last time sexual scientists disagree on the topic of female orgasm.
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December 28th, 2012 at 11:00 am
Fuck the procreation idea. My best orgasms are self induced – with both hands.
December 28th, 2012 at 11:55 am
Yeah, you should keep using those Handy. Can’t imagine a woman who would want some of you.
December 28th, 2012 at 11:56 am
Here’s the kind of rulings you get with a woman’s input.
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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Wednesday denied a request to block part of the federal health care law that requires employee health-care plans to provide insurance coverage for the morning-after pill and similar emergency contraception pills.
Hobby Lobby Stores and a sister company, Mardel Inc., sued the government, claiming the mandate violates the religious beliefs of its owners.
In an opinion, Sotomayor said the stores fail to satisfy the demanding legal standard for blocking the requirement on an emergency basis. She said the companies may continue their challenge to the regulations in the lower courts.
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You tell’em girlz
December 28th, 2012 at 12:02 pm
Best Exercise for COPD Patients
My friend’s dad suffers from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), as well as back pain, so it’s hard for him to move around and breathe easily.
Of all the types of workouts that he has tried, group aquatic exercise is the one that he has stuck with the longest.
Heading to an indoor pool isn’t exactly convenient for him—he needs someone to drive him there…and then he has to change into his swimsuit…and afterward, he needs to shower and change…etc.
It would be much easier for him to simply go for a walk around the block or putter around in a weight room!
But apparently there is just something about being in a pool with an instructor and other folks just like him.
He says that he likes the social aspect, the heated water is soothing and he finds the activity more fun than working out on land—I suspect that it makes him feel like a kid again when he splashes around.
So I was pleased when I saw a new Australian study that shows that aquatic exercise builds more endurance and decreases fatigue and shortness of breath more substantially for people like him than land exercise—and this finding may apply to people with other sorts of respiratory problems and chronic conditions, too.
WATER WORKOUTS: LESS PAIN, MORE GAIN
The new research focused specifically on people who had both COPD, an all-too-common respiratory problem that is the third-leading cause of death in the US, and an additional chronic condition that makes exercise difficult—such as obesity, joint problems or back pain.
But there’s every reason to think that the study’s results will apply to people with other sorts of medical issues, especially those with respiratory conditions, said lead researcher Renae McNamara, BAppSc (Phty), a respiratory physiotherapist in Australia. Future studies will need to examine that.
Researchers were interested in finding out which type of workout would help people find the most relief—land-based exercise (a mixture of walking, cycling, aerobics and dumbbell lifts) or water-based exercise (aquatic calisthenics done in chest-to-neck high water in a pool heated to 93°F).
The patients were split into three groups. One group did one-hour water exercises three times a week for eight weeks with a trained physiotherapist.
Another group did land exercises for the same amount of time with the same trained physiotherapist. And a third group performed no exercise (the control).
At the end of the study, when each group was asked to perform a walking test to measure endurance, members of the water group could walk 118% farther than they could at the start of the study, on average…the land group’s distance improved, too, but by only 53%…and the control group actually got weaker—their distance was 13% shorter.
Also, the people who had been exercising in a pool saw a 9% decrease in shortness of breath and a 13% decrease in fatigue by the end of the study…while the people who had been exercising on land saw only a 4% decrease in shortness of breath and a 3% decrease in fatigue.
CONTRA-CONVENTIONAL WISDOM
So why did water workouts come out on top? “Water may have helped more for a few reasons. First of all, you have the effect of buoyancy, which supports your weight and reduces impact on your joints,” said McNamara.
“Warm water also helps with pain control and increases blood flow to muscles. Plus, water offers resistance to all your movements, so your muscles work harder, and that strengthens them.”
What’s ironic is that it wasn’t all that long ago that people with COPD were warned not to do water-based exercise. Doctors worried that the water would compress the chest and that the exertion would stress the heart.
But studies that have analyzed COPD and water exercise under controlled conditions (as in, when patients were under the watchful eye of a health professional) have shown that these fears are unfounded, said McNamara.
GET YOUR GOGGLES ON!
Now that we have these study results, if you suffer from COPD as well as obesity, joint problems or back pain, you owe it to yourself to talk to your doctor or physical therapist about trying pool-based therapy with a trained health professional.
(If you have COPD but none of those other conditions…or if you have one of the other conditions but not COPD…or if you suffer from a different type of respiratory problem…you may still find pool-based therapy to be more beneficial than land exercises, so it’s worth a try, said McNamara.)
Group classes are usually easier to find than individual classes (plus, they tend to be cheaper and more fun). But either type of class is useful.
To find one, call your local YMCA (www.ymca.net) or a community recreation center that has a pool or a hospital with an aquatic rehab center.
You might find, like my friend’s dad, that all it takes is a little water to ease your pain and help you stay active.
Source: Renae McNamara, BAppSc (Phty), clinical specialist physiotherapist, pumonary rehabilition, clinical and rehabilitation sciences, University of Sydney, and department of respiratory and sleep medicine and department of physiotherapy, Prince of Wales Hospital, New South Wales, Australia.
December 28th, 2012 at 12:02 pm
Best Exercise for COPD Patients
My friend’s dad suffers from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), as well as back pain, so it’s hard for him to move around and breathe easily.
Of all the types of workouts that he has tried, group aquatic exercise is the one that he has stuck with the longest.
Heading to an indoor pool isn’t exactly convenient for him—he needs someone to drive him there…and then he has to change into his swimsuit…and afterward, he needs to shower and change…etc.
It would be much easier for him to simply go for a walk around the block or putter around in a weight room!
But apparently there is just something about being in a pool with an instructor and other folks just like him.
He says that he likes the social aspect, the heated water is soothing and he finds the activity more fun than working out on land—I suspect that it makes him feel like a kid again when he splashes around.
So I was pleased when I saw a new Australian study that shows that aquatic exercise builds more endurance and decreases fatigue and shortness of breath more substantially for people like him than land exercise—and this finding may apply to people with other sorts of respiratory problems and chronic conditions, too.
WATER WORKOUTS: LESS PAIN, MORE GAIN
The new research focused specifically on people who had both COPD, an all-too-common respiratory problem that is the third-leading cause of death in the US, and an additional chronic condition that makes exercise difficult—such as obesity, joint problems or back pain.
But there’s every reason to think that the study’s results will apply to people with other sorts of medical issues, especially those with respiratory conditions, said lead researcher Renae McNamara, BAppSc (Phty), a respiratory physiotherapist in Australia. Future studies will need to examine that.
Researchers were interested in finding out which type of workout would help people find the most relief—land-based exercise (a mixture of walking, cycling, aerobics and dumbbell lifts) or water-based exercise (aquatic calisthenics done in chest-to-neck high water in a pool heated to 93°F).
The patients were split into three groups. One group did one-hour water exercises three times a week for eight weeks with a trained physiotherapist.
Another group did land exercises for the same amount of time with the same trained physiotherapist. And a third group performed no exercise (the control).
At the end of the study, when each group was asked to perform a walking test to measure endurance, members of the water group could walk 118% farther than they could at the start of the study, on average…the land group’s distance improved, too, but by only 53%…and the control group actually got weaker—their distance was 13% shorter.
Also, the people who had been exercising in a pool saw a 9% decrease in shortness of breath and a 13% decrease in fatigue by the end of the study…while the people who had been exercising on land saw only a 4% decrease in shortness of breath and a 3% decrease in fatigue.
CONTRA-CONVENTIONAL WISDOM
So why did water workouts come out on top? “Water may have helped more for a few reasons. First of all, you have the effect of buoyancy, which supports your weight and reduces impact on your joints,” said McNamara.
“Warm water also helps with pain control and increases blood flow to muscles. Plus, water offers resistance to all your movements, so your muscles work harder, and that strengthens them.”
What’s ironic is that it wasn’t all that long ago that people with COPD were warned not to do water-based exercise. Doctors worried that the water would compress the chest and that the exertion would stress the heart.
But studies that have analyzed COPD and water exercise under controlled conditions (as in, when patients were under the watchful eye of a health professional) have shown that these fears are unfounded, said McNamara.
GET YOUR GOGGLES ON!
Now that we have these study results, if you suffer from COPD as well as obesity, joint problems or back pain, you owe it to yourself to talk to your doctor or physical therapist about trying pool-based therapy with a trained health professional.
(If you have COPD but none of those other conditions…or if you have one of the other conditions but not COPD…or if you suffer from a different type of respiratory problem…you may still find pool-based therapy to be more beneficial than land exercises, so it’s worth a try, said McNamara.)
Group classes are usually easier to find than individual classes (plus, they tend to be cheaper and more fun). But either type of class is useful.
To find one, call your local YMCA (www.ymca.net) or a community recreation center that has a pool or a hospital with an aquatic rehab center.
You might find, like my friend’s dad, that all it takes is a little water to ease your pain and help you stay active.
Source: Renae McNamara, BAppSc (Phty), clinical specialist physiotherapist, pumonary rehabilition, clinical and rehabilitation sciences, University of Sydney, and department of respiratory and sleep medicine and department of physiotherapy, Prince of Wales Hospital, New South Wales, Australia.
December 28th, 2012 at 12:04 pm
Why do some of your ladies have to be so hard on Zen Lill? She has paid her dues to be here, and her posts are very informative.
I sense a little green-eyed monster emerging.
December 28th, 2012 at 1:23 pm
What’s the matter Lois? Are you the green eyed monster too? Uptight biddy that can’t get off? Both men and women want a piece of this. Keep on hating hater! You cant touch me in the land of oohs and aahs.
December 28th, 2012 at 1:39 pm
I knew there was some hidden homosexuality in there somewhere. One of them “down-low” boys no doubt.
A real hidden sweet one no doubt. Dodging but looking for that hard on up the ass. Bet you can pound the woman almost indefinitely because you can’t get off on pussy. You need that hard one shoved up your tight white ass.
Only that can touch you in the “land of oohs and aahs.”
December 28th, 2012 at 1:41 pm
Our country was once a country of laws, common sense, and a place where religion could be practiced freely with no repercussions.
Religion and values are under assault because our President needs no resistance from anyone to further his agenda and to ruin the best healthcare system in the world.
Someone has to pay for his agenda and the majority of Obama voters are not suppose to feel the pain. No hope; no change; no future!
December 28th, 2012 at 1:45 pm
How stupid can these religious fanatics be? Sick time, maternaty leave, etc. costs employers billions each year. You would think they would want birth control.
Yet, they are ok with the little purple pill being paid for by insurance companies. What better form of birth control than ED.
Besides, it must be God’s will (everything is Gods will when it supports their cause) and they were not meant to have anymore kids.
I bet they would even pay for free vasectomies. It’s all about the women and having control over them.
December 28th, 2012 at 1:45 pm
Thank you Justice Sotomayor ! It’s about time that someone stands up against the 19th century bigotry and greed parading as “religious” belief.
Hobby Lobby should move its business to Iran if it wants to treat its female employees as live stock.
December 28th, 2012 at 1:51 pm
The dems had total control for the first two years and they could not get anything done … This congress is more embarassing than the president…
It is very obvious that the President wants to go over the so-called ” fiscal cliff ” to get the tax increase on everyone across the board to get the revenue he so badly needs to increase his entitlement funds…
December 28th, 2012 at 1:53 pm
The point here is not not whether or not they can provide an insurance policy that covers things they disagree with, it is the fact that they are being forced by the government to go against a constitutional right to freedom of religion.
The government is interfering with rights. Next it might be the right to property, or speech, or voting right or another right that you hold dear.
The question should not be about the specifics but about whether the government has the right to ignore the constitution. It’s the slippery slope issue.
This time you might disagree with Hobby Lobby but next time it might be you that is having a “right” you believe in taken away from you.
December 28th, 2012 at 1:59 pm
Ok from a guy who has been with well more than his share of women, I can categorically say that for the most part, a genuine real and hard orgasm for a woman will legitimately change the way she interacts with you.
Call it love or devotion or addiction, but she wants that feeling again. There are endorphens released as so on and so forth. Women from a sociobiological standpoint are built to find one or very few mates.
Thus it is only logical that she is biologically rewarded for sticking to the same mate. Trust me when I say that when a chick isnt into you, she has a lot harder time getting off.
It seems like common sense from where I stand. But I have been with lots of women…
December 28th, 2012 at 3:09 pm
Law should never dictate working/personal relationships, period. In this case, she should get one year severance plus other perks should be offered, retraining/placement assistance/etc…in a tight environment like they have, why would you want to work with this dude and his protective wife anymore anyway? They’d make the work environment weird and intolerable.
Now, the fuzzy area, they all work in a dental office, for TEN years together, he’s the dentist and has the wife and mother of his children working there, and yes, she could’ve handled herself in a number of ways, not to be labeled good or bad, just could’ve…instead she went the Greek mythology Zeus’s wife Hera road, turning her perceived competition into cows, pigs, etc…in this case – fired.
Now, this story goes wayyyyyy deeper though…how’d the good doc and mizz irresistable come to spend time texting each other about personal and family matters, ten years of that(?) I’m thinking not ten years of it but possibly for some time until the beginning of the emotional part of the affair began, maybe innocently on both parts, though you gotta know what’s what when you’re dealing with texting a man who isn’t your hubby about personal/family ‘matters’, and that person just happens to be your boss (ugh – and he does own the biz so when the shit goes sideways, he has the upper hand). You have to know this part clearly before you indulge yourself or him…in anything (I know from experience on this one, so I know how this can go, I won more $’s than they thought I’d get, I’m shrewd when you try to screw with my right to earn a living : ).
As an aside, and Bart, to your point, yes this would leave it open for a hot male who’s working the back room and maybe the wife’s back room to be fired by a jealous spouse also, in a close office setting that could easily happen that way. Messing with primary significant other comes with it’s surprises (and natural consequences). Picture a woman playing the moral routine and then saying in playful banter mode to cute male, ‘no sex lately cutie that’s like leaving a Ferrari in the garage…’ – uh, yep, hubby might play it several ways (and likely to think about getting rid of him somehow for one!).
Back to these two texting each other about personal/family matters, is that when she disclosed in a moment of vulnerability and intimate bantering that she wasn’t being sexually serviced (like the Lambo she apparently is) at home, I’m NOT saying she ‘provoked’ moral guy into saying anything, we are all responsible for our own behavior though she did say she did not feel offended or sexually harrassed by this whole matter, sure smells fishy to me, how would he have known that info without some disclosure?
I’m going with my gut instinct, they both allowed an opening for an emotional affair, she likely bc she wasn’t on with her man, and him – well, he’s a moral guy (hahaha, oh aren’t they all) but he’s also a testosterone bag (not an excuse, just a reality, you all loved Steve Harvey’s take on men and how they act, he eluded to this behavior, yes?) and didn’t perceive himself as a father figure (likely neither did she, calling a man ‘daddy’ can be hot under certain conditions, you know, for some : ).
Nobody innocently texts their married boss about personal and family matters without a stink eye observation from the wife (who happens to work there), that would be an extremely oblivious act in and of itself.
If this were a corporation, they’d just switch up departments and carry on, BUT it’s not, it’s a family owned and operated biz, therefore…mama can act like Hera and get away with it, she’s thinking if she turns enough of the competition into fired ex-employees, they’ll stay away from her man.
You have to tap into her way of thinking, and mind you – 2 of the top ranked ‘likely to cheat’ types traits are (& in both males and females) – 1. attractive (irresistible) and 2. have opportunity (if mama eliminates SOME in-office opps – that also happen to be attractive and not down with their own hubby, she probably feels got him ‘short leashed’ at least during work hours).
I’m not offering up that any of this view is RIGHT, it just is what it is and it’s simple though many layered levels going on here: you’ve got the Zeus/Hera effect, the instinctual drives at work – man drive to chase woman and female drive to be chased by men, these do not go away simply bc you marry, that’s misguided info (he viewed her as a Lambo/she said in article that she didn’t find him sexually harrassing or offensive, and she allowed him in as a father figure and many women have oedipal complex issues in case you didn’t know), and there is the close work contact which probably made it all feel mmmm comfortable – until the emo affair went phys (or was on the very verge of…), then, oh thennnnn, it triangulated – betw dentist/wife/irresistible and then again with irresistible/dentist/her hubby (who conveniently has stayed out of it), and then Hera threw her spell and the woman got fired.
Discrimination and sexual harrassment comes in many forms and many shades of gray (fifty?!), you have to be diligent yourself that you are not throwing out ‘bring.it’ signals…I’m not throwing her under the bus – just got the vibe that there is way more than meets the eye on who did what and when…I know quite a bit about human nature and behavior and it isn’t always cut and dried. To say – oh now bc you’re good looking you’re discriminated against without looking into the details of the story/case is misleading. & now those of you who think I’m saying it’s all her fault can go ahead and find fault with me, the only fault I’m laying out is that she may have gotten in over her head accidentally and Hera didn’t want to work with her anymore…Hera clearly got her way.
…so the other layer here is that almost all behavior within a marriage/relationship is about who has power/control, and how often they exert it is telling. Then there’s liking/disliking – sounds innocous though Hera couldve been in a ‘not liking’ phase w/dentist man much which in turn made him take a shining to the one who was holding him in esteem (again, not saying it’s right, it sometimes just happens at some point or another in long reli’s and it’s how long that phase lasts that could be a game changer) that and respect (and feeling a lack thereof) – this is all aside material to the larger view of this situation and the law.
I already stated my view on law in this matter up top. Is it wrong morally…without all details of the small office environment, etc…I’ll also stick with my statement – why would you want to work with this group again anyway, she’d never get the respect of her position back so why?
& if she were a man, none of this would’ve made headlines, unless the dentist were a gay man or if, of course, Hera (the wife) took a shine to a new male assistant and dentist daddy fired him.
About female orgasm, theo is close to the truth as is possible, it’s a complex subject though yes, a man who gives good luvin’ is likely to have a woman who sticks with him, and it helps if he’s got a nine inch personality, too. Think about that dudes next time you’re left wondering why your woman is protective, could be she wants all those great orgasms for herself only ; )
I apologize for the length of this post…
Luv, Zen Lill
December 28th, 2012 at 3:18 pm
…and ah yes, I’ll state the obvious, yep – mr dentist dude should’ve thought twice before he texted his married female employee though he had 2 things going for him and he likely knew it. 1. he owns the business & 2. likely the wife would forgive him for any trangression, she’s a woman of strict moral religious conduct right?
So, no not making it the irresistible woman’s fault, just saying you have to know who’s who and what’s what.
-ZL
December 28th, 2012 at 3:22 pm
By the way, even if I’m completely wrong and they didn’t have an affair, the man in question is a buffoon of the highest order.
It’s all wrong and women shouldn’t HAVE to watch their backs the way I’ve stated above, I’m just suggesting it bc if it occurs once it’ll happen again…my instincts still tell me there are many pieces to this particular puzzle though…
- ZL
December 28th, 2012 at 3:59 pm
You tell’em Zen.
December 28th, 2012 at 4:03 pm
I thought this had been figured out scientifically years ago! Male sperm (Y) are faster than female sperm (X), but the female sperm are more hardy.
When a woman has an orgasm, the accompanying “squirt” fluids create a better environment (PH, etc.) for the male sperms to survive.
In a harsher environment, the female sperm are more likely to win the race because the male sperm die out on the journey.
So, having an ejaculation while deep inside, and the woman having an orgasm, work together to create a male child since it’s a short trip under good conditions. Ejaculating closer to the vulva (outer area) and the woman not climaxing favors creation of a female child because the sperm must travel farther under less ideal conditions.
Am I just making this up? It correlates with my own personal experience. It also makes sense in an evolutionary way.
When the species is stressed and times are tough, the sex isn’t as good. As a result, there are more female children produced to help increase the population (assuming all females will be impregnated and a few males will impregnate all available females).
So, the purpose of female orgasms is to increase the probablility of male offspring. Perhaps they should study that hypothesis.
December 28th, 2012 at 4:05 pm
Answer is probably a little of column A little column B. It serves as physical function by contracting the cervix, and it bonds her to her partner.
But what is the evolutionary purpose of the clitoris? A woman can have all the orgasms she ever needs if her partner is a good “speaker” and never has to have sex. LOL
December 28th, 2012 at 4:05 pm
The people of the world only divide into two kinds, One sort with brains who hold no religion, The other with religion and no brain.
- Abu-al-Ala al-Marri
December 28th, 2012 at 4:07 pm
Handy, GO TO YOUR ROOM YOUNG MAN AND NO YOU CAN NOT HAVE THE INTERNET TONIGHT!
December 28th, 2012 at 4:13 pm
My theory is that the point of the female orgasm existance is so females could plausibly fake it if they want. If female orgasms didn’t exist, they couldn’t fake one ever, because the guy would know that they are lying.
So they invented the female orgasm so the guy will think they are actually having one when they fake it.
December 28th, 2012 at 4:15 pm
i propose that the female orgasm serves a procreative function through the mechanism of a variable reinforcement schedule. according to learning theory, we learn things through reinforcement.
a variable reinforcement schedule is best explained through the analogy of playing slot machines. people are motivated to play slots because of the big pay day that they will achieve if they get lucky.
the chances are small that they will achieve the big pay off, but they continue to play slots because once in a while they do get lucky and receive the reward. the joy of winning drives individuals to engage in multiple attempts in the future to once again experience this great winning feeling.
during sexual intercourse, the female orgasm is one of the rewards. it isn’t achieved all the time during sexual intercourse, but once in a while it does indeed happen. consistent with learning theory, the reinforcement that female orgasms provide to the sexual partners drives future attempts to achieve the reward again.
the multiple attempts then increase the odds of successful fertilization.
December 28th, 2012 at 4:19 pm
Tis the Season for Feel-Good Films
These forgotten films offer wonderful holiday entertainment. Most are available on DVD and usually are shown on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) during the holiday season.
Babes In Toyland (1934).
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, the classic comedy team, intervene to keep the “old woman” from being evicted from her “shoe” while helping along a romance between Bo-Peep and Tom-Tom.
Holiday (1938).
Cary Grant plays a carefree nonconformist who is engaged to Katharine Hepburn’s snooty sister. Once he gets to know the real person behind the sister’s façade, it’s Kate who wins his heart.
Bachelor Mother (1939).
When a salesclerk (Ginger Rogers) picks up a baby that had been abandoned on a doorstep, her coworkers think that the infant is hers. When Ginger’s employer’s son (David Niven) gets involved, the results are hilarious.
Remember the Night (1940).
Barbara Stanwyck is a shoplifter who is arrested just before the holidays. The court’s prosecutor (Fred MacMurray) takes pity on her and offers to bring her home to his house for Christmas.
The Shop Around the Corner (1940).
If you liked the Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan movie You’ve Got Mail (1998), you’ll love the original, starring Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart, who dislike each other in real life but adore each other as pen pals.
The Cheaters (1945).
A self-centered rich family invites a has-been actor (played by Joseph Schildkraut) to be their guest for the holidays and eventually are taught the true meaning of Christmas.
Christmas in Connecticut (1945).
Barbara Stanwyck stars as a Martha Stewart–type who writes an article about what she plans to prepare for her family for their Christmas meal.
Stanwyck is put on the spot by her boss, who, as a publicity stunt, invites himself and a famous war veteran (and the press) to her Connecticut home for Christmas.
Lou Sabini is a noted film historian, writer and archivist currently conducting film screenings throughout Connecticut and New York.
He is writing a book called Hollywood Exposed, which includes many forgotten films of the 1930s and 1940s worthy of rediscovery. http://www.LouSabini.org
December 28th, 2012 at 4:20 pm
“The employee handled it poorly? How so? ”
She apparently invested a large portion of her life in becoming a poster child for victimhood, despite the obvious difference between the law and fairness.
Either she paid a lot of $ to a lawyer and/or gave her case to one not bright enough to understand her legal position. Or maybe just a naive crusader. Earth to this lady, and TCF: life is not always fair—learn to live with it.
She could probably have extorted a pretty nice settlement and moved on. Any competent manager/employer knows better than to hire anyone who has demonstrated a tendency to sue their employer without both a solid legal base and a substantial true injury.
December 29th, 2012 at 12:03 am
Thanks Zen Lill, it was a very informative read. Now if someone could only talk Howie into adding a last 2012 comment about aliens my year would be made.
But since I still have a few hours left on my “Flap Your Lips Friday” time. Here’s a little beef I’d like to flap my lips about. I am with all the jumping on MSNBC by the other networks and pundits because they supported Obama during the election. It’s not the first time I’ve seen or it, so I’m addressing it.
I don’t want to watch CNN or FOX news. Nobody wants to hold Fox accountable ,but MSNBCis supposed to be different.There is Joe S.,Chuck Todd, Andera Mitchell. There is plenty of critiqe.As a dem , Ilike the drone strikes.time to be tough and stand up. We are usually weak.
That’s why repubs think they can push us around.Cenk Uygur can be to left.When everybody else goes to the middle, then I could see it ,but until then, don’t fix what aint broken!!!
December 29th, 2012 at 12:11 am
Aloha, Victor. MSNBC has a variety of political pundits, and many of them are Republican. Only Michelle’s blog and Huff Post give free rein to both sides. Sometimes Huff Post goes over to the dark side, and it’s AOL part of it’s ownership shows up.
When they start critiquing FOX for its everyday, all day President Obama bashing, then I will take this question seriously….has Arianne sold another portion of her shares in Huff to the owner of Fox, one could surmise that that is the case from this idiotic question.
The President’s haters have FOX, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, AOL, HUFFINGTON POST, POLITICO, and many more news organizations carrying water for the Republican Party, why criticize MSNBC for their small amount of support….question why FOX is almost treasonous with their hate and racism…or are you scared?
December 29th, 2012 at 12:17 am
You sound like my parents who think every channel except Fox is biased
December 29th, 2012 at 12:18 am
Perhaps it’s time to change MSNBC to MSRBC, with the “R” standing for race. The far-left network has reached a point where every issue is about race no matter what host is ranting. The latest example of this comes from perennial race-baiting anchor Touré who on Nov. 26 attacked Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham as “old, white, establishment folks.”
To give Mr. Accent Mark his due, here’s that full quote about McCain in all its finery. “He also gave us the horrible optics of he and Lindsey Graham as old, white, establishment folks wrongly and repeatedly attacking a much younger black woman moments after an election in which blacks and women went strongly blue.”
Never one to ignore a chance to paint all Republicans as racist, he added one more dig: “Looks like the GOP is already laying the foundation for losing in 2016.” Just one long bash of McCain.
But he doesn’t have a race card, he has filled the deck with them – just not a full deck. Everything is about race to him.
He dumped the whole deck out, bashing “white people” as a group on Oct. 5, during a spot with equally loony MSNBC anchor Martin Bashir. “If you just have a bunch of white people, you’re gonna come up with alternate realities that don’t make any sense,” Touré said about Republicans. Americans are trying to get past race. Just not on MSRBC.
December 29th, 2012 at 12:34 am
Take that nonsense, Kentucky boy, and run back to Kentucky with it. FOX News spreads hate and racism every-freaking-day, every minute of the day. Republicans will never satisfied with owning a majority of news organizations, their desire for total bias against this President is sickening.
When Bush was in office all Fox did was sing his praises, they NEVER criticized him, and none of you ever bashed the network for its support, even after 911 and all the lies and wars.
When you folks start criticizing the other networks for their CONSTANT Obama bashing, that is when I will agree that MSNBC has gone over the line with their support, until then republicans and their water carriers need to STOP whining about MSNBC.
December 29th, 2012 at 12:35 am
“Kentucky Boy” upset because there’s too much talk about racism: could be Rand Paul posting. :-)
December 29th, 2012 at 12:37 am
Kentucky boy or anyone still up on the Main Land or here in Hawaii, I challenge you to refute anything Mr. Bashir has said with actual facts as opposed to mere opinion, citizen.
You do know the difference between a fact and an opinion, right, citizen?
Take your time.
Aloha
December 29th, 2012 at 12:39 am
Senate Democrats have been sitting on a bill for more than a year that helps law enforcement quickly track down violent sex offenders. In March of 2011, Republican Senator Jeff Sessions introduced the Finding Fugitive Sex Offenders Act in order to give the Marshals Service the tools it needed to track down sex offenders.
Session’s legislation had bipartisan support, 21 cosponsors and was tacked onto the bipartisan Child Protection Act. Yesterday, the legislation finally passed. Now the Marshals Service can more easily track these offenders in real time across multiple jurisdictions and hopefully stop future crimes before they occur.
Why does this matter? For two reasons. First, Obama Democrats and the Obama administration have a habit of going soft on violent sex offenders, specifically sex offenders targeting children. The second being that the administration and Democrats in general accused Republicans all year of waging a war on women, but didn’t adopt this legislation until after the election.
December 29th, 2012 at 12:44 am
Kentucky Boy, did you say Sex offenders that target children? You mean like these:
http://www.republicanoffenders.com
“Party of conservative Christian family values?” Yeah, right.
You were aware that Jerry Sandusky was a card-carry proud member of the GOP as was his boss Joe Paterno, right, citizen?
Aloha
December 29th, 2012 at 9:27 am
Zen Lill#16:
Wow, lady if people only knew how well thought out that post was. My relatives are very pious and everyone of their men have had to be forgiven in their roles as small business owners. Many are pastors or big brothers, or deacons in their churches.
An yes, the scoundrels were forgiven and the women were fired.
December 29th, 2012 at 9:32 am
If I may join the conversation about MSNBC being shrills for Obama my comment would be ABOUT TIME. I mean it is absolutely maddening that all the other news outlets allow the Right to manipulate the conversation about any topic.
Fox News lies and distorts their information, and republicans are whining about MSNBC? MSNBC must be doing something right if the republican water carriers are out and about whining about their coverage. Keep up the good work MSNBC!
December 29th, 2012 at 9:52 am
Zen Lill, your explanation sounds closely like a situation I was in a few years back. I own a business that employs about 18 people. The sexy thing that worked for me used her body to charm me. I began allowing her to come in late or miss a few days. She reciprocated by fucking me on occasion.
We were both married. My wife decided to quit her job and come to work for me. If is very difficult to change one’s habits suddenly. So on occasion I would make a mistake of familiarity that my wife noticed.
She would voice her concerns. We are serious about our religion and she asked me to confide in our pastor if I was having difficulty “staying away from the temptation of that woman.”
I played along and we had the conversation with out pastor. Of course, I didn’t admit to the pastor that we had been having an affair. But like in this instance he as a man probably new if their was this fine piece of willing ass available, I probably tapped it. I mean that is the privilege of being the boss.
Our pastor recommended that I fire the woman. I went to her and explained what had to be done. She had been working for me for almost 16 years. We had been having the affair for 14. She was going to sue but I reminded her that if it came out about our affair, we would both lose our families. She is married and the mother of three, at least one of them is mine. The only boy she has looks so much like my brother it’s scary.
Long story short. We settled. I told my wife that if I fired her she would sue and I felt that the publicity would cost us business. She was insistent that we fire her but she agreed on a financial settlement to spare our children any adverse publicity.
I got rid of the “temptation” without having to admit any thing. I miss the action but, with the wife under foot every day. I have settled in to this fucking life of monogamy.
Rodney
December 29th, 2012 at 10:04 am
I feel you man, that’s why I told my wife “absolutely not.” when she suggested that she quit her job and come help out at our family business. I run a fast food business and I hire a lot of young pretty girls. I crouched it into stuff about all that constant togetherness destroying our great marriage. It worked.
Who would want to own all that candy and not be able to taste a little every now and then.
December 29th, 2012 at 10:06 am
There is no question that MSNBC is the antithesis to Fox News.
December 29th, 2012 at 10:08 am
Connie, if by that you mean the overwhelming content of MSNBC is factual and correct, while Fox News(peak) is anything but as a matter of course, then indeed, your conclusion is supported by the overwhelming body of evidence to date on the matter.
The false equivalency fallacy that MSNBC is no different and therefore no more credible than Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News(peak) is apparently the latest Rovian talking point, no doubt to try and appeal to cynicism and “slay the messenger who dares to bring unwelcome news.”
December 29th, 2012 at 10:12 am
Give me a break man. How can you even say that with a straight face? False equivalency? If anything Fox has hard news during the day that has virtually no politically angle to it, and MSNBC really ONLY does opinion stuff.
I watch both at the gym because they are side by side. I really wish for the future of our country that you liberals would realize that your means simply do not accomplish your ends… :(