We note that she's still desperately seeking...

According to Lori Gottlieb, all any woman wants is to be married. It's time all those singletons learned to settle for second best. And The Guardian thought this was worth wasting newsprint on why? (Its natural home is probably Observer Woman).

Are we really entirely surprised that someone who is self-admittedly in search of 'Mr That One Will Do, He's Breathing' has not yet found a man who is prepared to front up to matrimony in the expectation that he will be widely recognised as 'Not Mr Dream Man, But Good Enough' (not even Mr Close Enough for Jazz).

And that's without going into the creepy assumption that everybody is really like her, just lying about it. I should like to rub her nose against Dr Petra's post yesterday, which was about sex education and the ways the messages can be undermined, which include 'Here’s what I like, you’ll like this too (Aka ‘our sexual experiences are all the same’)' and 'One size fits all'.

For entirely unrelated reasons (which I forget) I was thinking this morning about the film Laurel Canyon, which I remember for having a splendid middleaged woman character, played by Frances McDormand, who was a respected professional in her field (record producer), far more interesting and sexy than the younger female characters though not conventionally attractive. (It's years since I saw it so may have forgotten details, but that was what I took away.)

Another 'is this woman from Planet Zog or am I' moment reading Lucy Mangan's column: she reports that Jennifer Love Hewitt is on record as saying

"After I broke up with my ­boyfriend... a friend Swarovski-crystalled my ­precious lady and it shone like a disco ball. Women should vajazzle their va-jay-jays!"

The bogglement is bogglesome.