Hang on...wasn't there something on Jezebel a few months back about a new book suggesting just this strategy? The book had a title like "Settling for Mr. Schlubby" or something. I guess some women might actually approach marriage this way.

EX-actly. I believe this particular logical fallacy is called "proof by example": I and my friends (who are just like me) don't like sex; thus, women don't like sex. "This is a cold, hard fact."

And wait until your kids grow up, and you're into your forties and fifties: it gets better.

So she doesn't claim to speak for all women, but says "And we definitely don't want sex as often as men do. That is a cold, hard fact."

That's no Canadian tuxedo. Google "Justin Timberlake Canadian tuxedo" for the rockingest version of the Can-tux evAR.

I had never heard of BP II (and mental health issues are my hobby!), so I would like to know more. So is the "bi" part of this order between functioning depressed and clinically depressed?

Absolutely.

I get what you are saying, but if I were in this woman's place I would lose my mind over this. I haven't been a fresh mother in over twenty years, but boy do I remember the obsessively overprotective early years. An incident like this (the child's FIRST moment of nurturing) would have made me deranged.

"Let's use the good china tonight!"

He's so freakin' funny. I just have to look at his little smirk, and I start laughing. Funnily enough, I find him sexier in drag than not.

Hahahaha—we're a mosaic, dontcha know, not a melting pot!

No, though an honours degree does help. I've done a couple of graduate degrees at two different BC universities, but I don't have an honours BA.

Very interesting—thanks for the clarification, Cinnamoncanuck. I do know that part of the reason some BC students apply to Ontario and Quebec is that they want to finish in three, rather than four years, and a three-year degree doesn't exist in BC (unless you don't take summers off, I suppose).

In BC, students graduate after grade twelve, and university degrees are four years, whereas in Ontario students graduated after grade thirteen, but their degrees were three years. My question for you, Cinnamoncanuck, is whether the degrees in Ontario changed to four years now that high school ends after grade twelve?

Thanks for fixing it—very readable now!

Her confusion of hyphens with dashes is incredibly distracting...kind of like that guy who puts everything in quotations.

Yeah, talk about late to the party.

I agree. I love musicals as well, and I saw the stage play of "Momma Mia," and thought it was absolutely terrible. I have a theory that the conflict of the truly great musicals involve darkness/evil (racism in "South Pacific," anti-semitism in "Cabaret" and "The Sound of Music," incest in "The Colour Purple,"…

Ha! Even if she wasn't pregnant, I can see not wanting to jump in!

It probably would have done better if Portman hadn't been in "The Black Swan" and won the Oscar. Suddenly, she's elevated to Meryl Streep status, yet she has these two lowbrow movies yet to be released. Neither movie had a chance after that because you'd get "The Black Swan" fans going to see the lowbrow movies just…