"Girlfriends' Guides" author Vicki Iovine apparently agrees with Oprah Winfrey: women ARE leaving their husbands to be with other women.
So wrote Iovine in a Huffington Post article Friday.
In a piece cutely titled "Switching Sides Later in Life," the former Playmate of the Month and mother of four explained why so "many of [her] formerly married-with-children Girlfriends have bolted from their traditional family geometry and found true love with other women":
It's happening in the Parent's Associations of my kids' schools, in my knitting group, in my yoga class and it's a big topic in women's 12-Step groups throughout Los Angeles (and lesbianism was not the addiction they were trying to overcome.) Once I became aware of this quiet Pink Revolution, I couldn't not see it everywhere I looked. But it was comedian Carol Leifer's new book, When You Lie About Your Age The Terrorists Win, that convinced me this stunning phenomenon wasn't exclusive to the experimental, artsy, truth-seeking addicts that make LA such a piquant town--newly minted mid-life lesbianism is a national trend.
Much like Oprah before her, Iovine provided no statistical evidence supporting her contention "mid-life lesbianism is a national trend," but offered the following explanation:
A well-known neurologist, Dr. Louann Brizendine wrote in her book, The Female Brain, that when we approach menopause, women cease to gush the hormones that make us want to nurture and caretake everything that breathes, particularly husbands. It's a feeling I admit to experiencing more and more myself, something I like to call the, "Everybody Get Off My Back" Syndrome. For more women than I ever knew, this is the profound moment when they decide that a relationship with a person as equipped as they are to discuss complex emotional issues, feed the cat and check the fridge to see what can be turned into a meal all at the same time is like entering the Age of Enlightenment. Not to mention how much better than men's women's sex toys are.
And the sex is great!
Makes one wonder if Iovine is taking a cheap shot at her soon to be ex-husband. Although he's a successful record producer and the founder of Interscope Records, is Iovine suggesting he's poorly equipped to discuss complex emotional issues, and incapable of feeding the cat OR himself?
Could be, for here's the bio at her own website not yet updated to reflect her divorce:
Vicki Iovine is the happy and chronically overwhelmed mother of four children. (Five if you count her husband, and what wife doesn’t?)
Why is it acceptable for women, even in jest, to regularly accuse heterosexual men of being emotionless boobs who would starve to death without them?
As for lesbian sex being better than heterosexual sex, I'll have to take Vicki's word for it.
Finally, although Iovine has apparently not made the switch herself yet, she comically informed readers how she could be swayed:
Here's what I'm dying to know about mid-life lesbianism--if we choose to become one, can we give up a lifetime of worrying about our weight? Is a female lover more tolerant of the imperfections like cellulite and back fat? If that is true, then the line forms behind me, Ladies!
Paints an attractive picture of the future America, doesn't it?
Of course, since Iovine's work regularly contains humor, it is indeed possible she's pulling our...legs, or is she preparing her readers for her "Next Twenty-Seven" to be spent with a Girlfriend?
Makes you wonder: if and when it happens will it be announced at the Huffington Post or by Perez Hilton?
Stay tuned.
—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters. Follow him at Facebook and Twitter.
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What gay agenda?
May 16, 2009 - 12:05 ET by MrSnugglesWhat gay agenda?
The Timex Crowd
May 16, 2009 - 12:07 ET by ConScott"It takes a licking and keeps on ticking."
A well-known neurologist,
May 16, 2009 - 12:13 ET by bigtimerA well-known neurologist, Dr. Louann Brizendine wrote in her book, The Female Brain, that when we approach menopause, women cease to gush the hormones that make us want to nurture and caretake everything that breathes, particularly husbands.
What a pile of pure bullsh!t.
Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart
Vibrations from the echo chamber
May 16, 2009 - 12:13 ET by JohnMcGrewJust more self-absorbed nonsense from women who assume that all men must be scum and unnecessary because the ones that they are attracted ormarried to are.
For more women than I
May 16, 2009 - 12:16 ET by MidAmericaFor more women than I ever knew, this is the profound moment when they decide that a relationship with a person as equipped as they are to discuss complex emotional issues,....
You know.... sometimes a man has no patience for an endless, rambling, homemade version of 'The View'.
"Why is it acceptable for
May 16, 2009 - 12:48 ET by Indiana Joe"Why is it acceptable for women, even in jest, to regularly accuse heterosexual men of being emotionless boobs who would starve to death without them?"
Seems to me that's the least of the accusations accepted against men these days. On television shows, in commercials, and in articles like this, males are generally portrayed as stupid, boorish, mindless, helpless automatons who only need a bowl of chips and a big-screen TV to be happy. Oh, and a pair of jiggling breasts, of course.
Why? Well, we all know that our founding "dead white guys" were woman-hating, gay-bashing, slave-owning, greedy capitalist pigs. So maybe it's just pay-back.
Or, since "minority" has been expanded to mean pretty much everyone who isn't male, white, Christian and heterosexual, they're the only ones left that can be ridiculed without the risk of being labelled "hateful."
Ain't "diversity" wonderful?
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."-John Adams
i could explain IJ
May 16, 2009 - 12:57 ET by botgbut since you have testosterone poisoning you wouldn't understand
“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” -- Chief Justice John Roberts
IJ
May 16, 2009 - 12:58 ET by Noel SheppardIJ,
Well, what's interesting here is that gay men are considered to be very in touch with their emotions and quite capable of caring for themselves.
As such, it appears loving a woman makes a man emotionally bereft and helpless. Yet, if we loved men, we'd suddenly become in touch with our feelings and more capable of functioning in society.
So, our failing is being attracted to women. But, since women now view themselves as superior to men, how could our attraction to and involvement with them leave us babbling, incompetent fools?
Quite a dichotomy, dontcha think? :-) ns
Noel,
May 16, 2009 - 13:47 ET by Indiana JoeWell, the obvious solution is for all men to become gay, or at least stop loving women.
And, of course, that would solve ALL our problems nicely in about... oh, no more than a hundred years, I should think. ;^)
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."-John Adams
"if we choose to become one"
May 16, 2009 - 13:18 ET by rimsky"if we choose to become one"
Wait a minute, I thought it was always a genetic quirk. So, many women "chose" this lifestyle, eh? Very interesting.
rimsky...good
May 16, 2009 - 13:20 ET by bigtimerrimsky...good catch!
Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart
rimsky,
May 16, 2009 - 13:24 ET by Indiana JoeNo, see, you don't get it. When it's a matter of "choices have consequences," THEN it's a "genetic quirk." But when it's discussed as a medical issue that could be "cured," THAT'S when it becomes a "choice."
You obviously need to brush up on your "liberal-think." ;^)
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."-John Adams
Ophra Winfrey
May 16, 2009 - 13:47 ET by david999This just confirms that Ophra Winfrey is a lesbian
I'm male. I was a nurse
May 16, 2009 - 16:10 ET by snaggletoothieI'm male. I was a nurse for almost 30 years. It was almost all night shifts. And I spent endless nights talking to women. They like to talk about feelings. They will talk forever about who is sleeping with who. Or about who hates who and why. But it is rare for any of them to deal with any complex subject matter. There are of course some very intelligent women but fewer of these go into nursing than once did. The simple ones tend to have a pathological need to see themselves as smarter than any man. The intelligent ones don't seem to have this need to compensate. All women seem to be born with an ability to multitask that is not second nature with men. I suspect this has something to do with their maternal nature. I could see how 'turning lesbian' could seem freeing to them since it would free them from the endless mind game of always creating reasons to prove they are smarter.
These women are idiots
May 16, 2009 - 16:24 ET by motherbelt"many of [her] formerly married-with-children Girlfriends have
bolted from their traditional family geometry and found true love with
other women":
newly minted mid-life lesbianism is a national trend.
Notice she didn't say how many women in her PTA, or knitting group or yoga class.
Sorry, I'm just not buying it.
If women are doing it, it's the ones who are always eager to jump into the latest fad....whether it's swinging, step-aerobics, or Sushi.
And lesbianism is the new fad.
Menopause has nothing to do with it. It just happens that at that time of life, one's kids are gone, and some go looking for a new "adventure." Guys having a mid-life crisis buy Corvettes or leave their wives for other women...no one tries to "justify" it by talking about "Everybody stop asking me for money!" syndrome!
This is just more B as in B, S as in S, in an attempt to justify every stupid and selfish thing that women think they are entitled to do.
They might say "Wow, that sucks!" But at least they'll say "Wow!" -Duff Goldman, the Ace of Cakes
Why don't lesbians and
May 16, 2009 - 23:17 ET by RogerCfromSDWhy don't lesbians and feminists just come out and say what we've all suspected of them for a long time?
WE HATE MEN!
A nation cannot be free without a free, unbiased media. We are not free.
I wonder if after the
May 18, 2009 - 00:22 ET by andycanuckI wonder if after the divorce she keeps the house (probably a mansion) and if she'll be paid alimony? But she doesn't need a man.