My parents divorced when I was around 8 years old. It was tough on us and I don't think my mum gave my dad a fair shake all the time, especially in things she said to us about him. But nothing Nigella Lawson can say will be bad enough for her PoS soon to be ex husband, Charles Saatchi. Luckily, her kids are hers from her first marriage, so this awful man cannot get anywhere near them in future.
Yesterday, Saatchi took out a full page ad in the Daily Mail explaining that he would be divorcing the Domestic Diva because she didn't defend him after the recent photos were published of him choking her.
Yep, you read that right. He's divorcing HER because she didn't defend his bullshit publicly.
I don't think there enough ways for me to say F-U-C-K-O-F-F to this sort of garbage. She was clearly a victim of domestic abuse (he's probably been very verbally awful to her if he's been physical), and he's trying to blame HER for their divorce. This is the most meta victim blaming I think I've ever seen.
I hope Nigella gets miles away from this scumbag, and though I don't think I've ever said this before, I hope she takes him for everything he's got. She deserves it.
So, spill it! What do you think of Nigella's husband's comments?
June seems to have been the month of babies here at YMC (and in my life — my baby brother and his wife just had their first baby, too!). Although my birth story wasn't so harrowing (did you see the craziness Sarah Remmer was dealing with while giving birth to her daughter?), it was definitely something.
But let me back it up a bit and talk about how we got here and really announce the baby's arrival in style.
Way back in April, at the spring Baby Time show, Erica introduced me to Cooper and Alison of The Little Picture. They are a newer company who does a bit more than just your average run-of-the-mill maternity photos. The Little Picture takes your family, and creates a lovely introduction video, does photo shoots and the like, but it's a really modern take on something that can be very outdated.
Matt and I never even considered doing maternity photos because we rarely have seen anything we really liked. Until we met these guys. They really took time to meet with our family, learn about us and take wonderful photos of all of us. Like these:
While the photos are beautiful, and very much slice-of-life, they don't even come close to the video that The Little Picture produced to introduce everyone to Lauchie.
Birth Announcement Video ~ Lachlan from The Little Picture on Vimeo.
Heart melting, right? I loved this experience so much and I want you to have this, too. So, thanks to Cooper and Alison, I'm happy to be giving away the same birth announcement bundle that I got. That's two photoshoot sessions in-home with video and photo, with the video, 5 hi-res digital photos from both the pre birth and new arrival shoots, plus a custom set of prints and an 8x8 Little Picture book.
This is a prize valued at over $1,000. For memories that you can share with family the world over. And all you have to do, is in the comments below, tell me the name of the song that we chose to play in our video. It's that simple. Oh, and if you can live in the Greater-Greater-Toronto-Area (maximum 200km from T.O.), that's helpful, too.
And we're giving away one Birth Announcement Bundle from The Little Picture! The prize includes: two creative in-home video/photo sessions, resulting in one 3 min HD video, 5 hi-res digital photos from each session plus a custom set of prints and an 8x8 Little Picture book! To enter, all you have to do is leave a comment below and tell me the name of the song in our birth announcement video. You have until July 26, 2013 to enter. You must be a YMC member and please be sure you've registered your email address in our commenting system so we can contact you if you win.
Yummy Rules and Regs: You must be a YummyMummyClub.ca member to win. Click to sign up! It's free and filled with perks. One comment per member. Entries accepted until July 26, 2013. Contest open to Canadian residents (excluding Quebec). Winners will be picked using www.random.org. See full contest rules.
Last week, Mummy Buzz wrote a piece about Robin Thicke's newest single Blurred Lines in which she talked about objectification and rape based on a piece written by The Independent.
I have to respectfully and completely disagree.
The song, which is incredibly catchy and popular seems to have a lot of people's tongues wagging. The video is ridiculous and features Thicke, Pharell Williams and T.I. dancing around with models in plastic lingerie with hashtags popping up now and then.
But does the song promote rape? I don't think so.
Yes, there are lyrics with phrases like, "you know you want it," or "He don't smack your ass or pull your hair like that." But to me, those sound like sexually aggressive come ons, and not like rape glorifying commentary. Not all sexually charged language that comes out of a man's mouth is because he wants to rape a woman. Some people (men and women) are more into strong sexuality and use language and enjoy sexual behaviour that not everyone else finds to be a turn on. But rape? Nope. Not here.
The way the song sounds to me is that Thicke is telling a woman to drop her phony "good girl" persona, and boring, yet disrespectful man and go after what she really wants. He sounds more like a cocky guy than a rapist. A rapist doesn't tell a woman to go after what she wants in her sexual fantasies. And yes, women can have raunchy sexual fantasies, too. And Jennifer Lai at Slate agrees.
There are far more vulgar R&B songs than Blurred Lines (Hello I Wanna Sex You Up or anything by R. Kelly). These are songs designed to get us in the mood and they won't work for everyone because we all have our own sexual interests.
Catchy with a good beat to dance to? Yes. Rapey? No.
So, spill it! What do you think — is Blurred Lines about rape or just sexual expression?
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