History Forum / General / British History / October 2005

"In 2003, we had "Girl With a Pearl Earring," in which Colin Firth's
Vermeer erotically paints Scarlett Johansson's Dutch maid, and Richard
Curtis's "Love Actually," about the attraction of unequals."

"The witty and sophisticated British prime minister, played by Hugh
Grant, falls for the chubby girl who wheels the tea and scones into his
office."

"A businessman married to the substantial Emma Thompson, the sister of
the prime minister, falls for his sultry secretary.  A novelist played
by Colin Firth falls for his maid, who speaks only Portuguese."

"Art is imitating life, turning women who seek equality into selfish
narcissists and objects of rejection rather than of affection."

"It's funny.  I come from a family of Irish domestics - statuesque,
6-foot-tall women who cooked, kept house and acted as nannies for some
of America's first families."

"I was always so proud of achieving more - succeeding in a high-powered
career that would have been closed to my great-aunts.  How odd, then, to
find out now that being a maid would have enhanced my chances with men."

"An upstairs maid, of course."...

"Cosmo is still the best-selling magazine on college campuses, as it was
when I was in college, and the best-selling monthly magazine on the
newsstand."

"The June 2005 issue, with Jessica Simpson on the cover, her cleavage
spilling out of an orange croqueted halter dress, could have been June
1970."

"The headlines are familiar: "How to turn him on in 10 words or less,"
"Do You Make Men M-E-L-T?  Take our quiz,"  "Bridal Special,"  Cosmo's
stud search and "Cosmo's Most Famous Sex Tips; the Legendary Tricks That
Have Brought Countless Guys to Their Knees."

"(Sex Trick 4: "Place a glazed doughnut around your man's member, then
gently nibble the pastry and lick the icing . . . as well as his
manhood.""

"Another favorite Cosmo trick is to yell out during sex which of your
girlfriends thinks your man is hot.)"

Maureen Dowd
The New York Times
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'Nuff Said....

D. Spencer Hines

Lux et Veritas et Libertas

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