THE DAILY BLADE: Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
As The Stiletto was walking down E Capitol Street one day
Nancy Pelosi looked at her and said her 100 Hours Watch had stopped cold dead
And The Stiletto said
Does anybody really know what time it is
Does anybody really care
If so The Stiletto can’t imagine why
She’s a single woman, like Condolezza Rice
Another Cockamamie Lib Idea Fails The Real World Test
In one of those rare instances of The New York Times waking up and smelling the coffee, the paper reports that "safe haven laws" in 47 states – which allow mothers to legally and anonymously abandon their newborns at specific locations – have failed to reduce the number of mothers who kill their unwanted children:
Few states track the number of babies abandoned, dead or alive. Some nonprofit organizations in several states compile numbers, usually by patching together media accounts, which may be incomplete, or through medical examiners’ reports. But no national clearinghouse tracks the figures.
New York’s version of the law, the Abandoned Infant Protection Act, was passed in 2000, decriminalizing the act of abandoning an infant, as long as the baby was left at a specified safe place and someone was informed. But lawmakers never mandated a measure for how many abandonments took place. …
Experts on neonaticide say mothers who kill their newborns are usually young, unmarried, emotionally isolated and often still living with their parents. (This is not a comprehensive portrait: homeless and drug-addicted mothers as well as women fearing castigation from their communities commit neonaticide, too.) Most are in deep denial about their pregnancies, and remain so even after their babies are born. They give birth alone and secretly, usually over a toilet, and kill their babies moments after birth …
Another problem is determining whether babies who end up being safely abandoned were ever at risk in the first place, experts suggest.
"It isn’t clear whether every baby that has been turned in would’ve been killed," said Carol Sanger, a family law professor at Columbia University’s law school. Instead, women who leave their babies at hospitals or firehouses might just as well have given them up for adoption or placed them with family members, she said.
The Times quotes a forensic psychiatrist and assistant professor at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia explaining that mothers who kill their newborns "see it as a foreign object; they want it out and done with and gone."
The Stiletto does not finds this surprising – though shocking nonetheless - given the relentless 34-year campaign by NARAL and Planned Parenthood to de-humanize unborn children by claiming they are nothing more than clumps of cells. These groups and their supporters are deliberately vague on just when a clump morphs into a baby-shaped human being so as not raise uncomfortable questions about late-term abortion. But advances in ultrasound technology (caution: graphic images might upset rabid pro-abortionists) are making the Big Lie that has wiped more than 47 million Americans off the face of the earth less and less sustainable.
The Stiletto hopes the day will come when unborn children are regarded by the law and by society as fully human from the moment of conception. Only then mothers who might be tempted to throw their newborns into the trash or to flush them down the toilet will be completely cognizant that they are about to snuff out the life of a human being.
Which Is Sexier – The Violin Or The Bow?
The New York Times reports that anorexia was "all but unheard-of" in Brazil until "the Barbie aesthetic, celebrity models, satellite television and medical makeovers" began to infiltrate the culture:
[U]ntil recently no one here would ever have talked with admiration about having an hourglass figure like Barbie’s, let alone the coat-hanger physiques of the international runways. Instead, the ideal was what is known as 'um corpo de violão,' or 'guitar-shaped body' … thicker in the waist, hips and fanny.
The Times notes that only in the English version of the bossa nova hit, "The Girl from Ipanema," is she "tall and tan and young and lovely." In the original Portuguese, the lyrics emphasize "the sweet swing" of her hips and backside as she walks - "more than a poem, the most beautiful thing I have ever seen."
But an "internationalized" standard of beauty depicted in the media – particularly celebrity and fashion magazines – may be contributing to anorexia among Brazilian girls. One of Brazil’s most successful fashion model, Ana Carolina Reston, was 5’ 8" tall and just 88 pounds when she died of anorexia-related complications at the age of 21.
So why this emphasis on an unnatural and unfeminine body types on the catwalk? Gay men rule the fashion industry, and it is possible that androgynous models are the only women who do not repulse them.
But what if there was something more sinister behind fashion designers’ efforts to foist anorexic chic as the female archetype: Stop heteros (AKA "breeders") from having children. Anorexia and infertility go hand in hand. Menarche occurs when a girl’s body fat content hits 17 percent; regular ovulation - fertility - depends on maintaining 22 percent body fat. When a woman’s weight and body fat percentage fall below levels necessary to sustain pregnancy, she stops ovulating.
Fortunately, the ultra-thin standard of beauty in the fashion world does not translate to the real world – in part, because the vast majority of women will not deliberately become anorexic or bulimic to achieve an abnormally underweight physique. Plus Brazilian men are not alone in their appreciation of curvy women. When a well-endowed woman walks down the street, heterosexual men worldwide instinctively swivel their heads to see whether she has a sexy ass, too. No man bothers to turn his head when a flat-chested woman goes by, because her backside is likely to be equally disappointing.
And neither feminists nor fashionistas are ever going to change this basic male instinct.
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