3. Marriage doesn’t seem to be as important these days as it once was, so why are people still getting married? Some say it’s a status symbol. Just last year, wasn’t the status symbol having more than three kids?
Watch the 83rd Annual Academy Awards with your kids
You’ve watched all nominated films (or two of them), you’re curious to see what James Franco and Anne Hathaway have planned and you’ve made bets with your pals as to whether or not Natalie Portman will break out her bizarre laugh. The show itself doesn’t officially start until 8:00 p.m., and we can barely stay awake for the Best Picture announcement, never-mind the kids staying up that late, so why not kick things off early with a pre-pre-game and get everyone involved in cheering on their favourite movies and starlets. (Official pre-game here meaning armchair fashion criticism)
Here’s how to get everyone involved in Hollywood’s biggest night:
Assemble a bunch of dress-up clothes: Old Halloween costumes, sunglasses, random sequined items, clutch purses, oodles of costume jewelry, sashes, ties and vests or jackets
Meri Perra blogs about the challenges she and her partner face in trying to raise their girls with feminist values
If you haven’t seen it, and don’t know the Big Thing that happens in this movie, here is your spoiler alert. Otherwise, read on!
In my early twenties, I lived for three things: weekends in Toronto’s LGBTQ village, drag kings and Tuesday afternoons in my women’s sexuality class. The subtext of all of these activities, of course, was the pursuit of sex with women. The times were good.
My group of friends back then had a re-occurring, inside joke. Because every sexuality class, every one, my professor would say the following: “Sexuality is fluid,” she’d say. “A woman may be heterosexual until, say, she reaches the age of 32 and then she may fall in love with a woman and become a lesbian.”Read more...
Check out Alex Eylar’s Lego depictions of the 10 best picture nominees. Bunch HQ is divided on whether the Toy Story 3 one or the 127 Hours one is the best. Via DefamerRead more...
And the last thing we’ll post on the whole Tiger Mother thing. Maybe. The Ottawa Citizen‘s Roger Collier wrote his response to Amy Chua last weekend: Why doesn’t he force his kids to spend hours on the piano or violin? “You don’t become CEO by butchering Beethoven on a baby grand. You become CEO by stepping over colleagues after stabbing them in the back. Besides, we have Guitar Hero IV on Xbox, so we got the music thing covered.”
