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Cameron Diaz thinks your kids are bad for the environment.

Well, no, not really. But she told Cosmopolitan she thinks women shouldn't be pressured into procreating or "shunned" for not having kids because "honestly, we don't need anymore kids. We have plenty of people on this planet already."

While we agree with Cameron that it's b.s. women still get hassled for not raising rugrats, we can think of far better reasons than old Mother Nature for staying childless. Our reasons, after the jump…

1. If you were up last night at 3 a.m., it's your own damn fault.
2. Nothing in your closet has someone else's barf on it. Or someone else's poop.
3. You don't want to keep a spare, clean diaper or a baggie of Cheerios in your purse.
4. You still want to wear a push-up bra-not a nursing bra.
5. You can't have that second mojito if you're breast feeding.
6. It's probably a health hazard to carry around a 10lb baby in four-inch heels.
7. You want to spend all morning

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Last night I watched Tyler Perry's "Why Did I Get Married?" for the first time. (I know, I'm a little late, but I didn't want to get hit over the head with religious talk, as Perry is known for.) It was an entertaining movie, but what really stuck out to me was the theory of the "80/20 Rule," which I had never heard of. The rule says that men can have a wife or girlfriend who fulfills 80 percent of his needs, but he'll go looking for someone else to make up the remaining 20 percent. He'll leave the woman who takes care of him because the chick on the side is more exciting, sexual, and basically new. But soon after, the man will realize the 20 percent he has now pales in comparison to the 80 percent he already had. In a quest to have 100 percent of his needs fulfilled, he ends up with less than when he started. This kind of reminds me of the idea that twentysomethings are too narcissistic to find a mate-supposedly, we want all or nothing in a mate. Do you think there's

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This bag was made for walking. Voilà the heel-bag by Azumi & David. The question is, what shoes do you wear? How are they supposed to compete with that? [High Snobette]

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My favorite sex and relationship columnist, Dan Savage, is now on Nerve and a few days ago he tackled a question from a woman who revealed she started talking marriage with her boyfriend three months into their relationship. Savage balked at this admission. His response, after the jump…

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I was raised by a working, single mother. She went to Stanford, majored in economics, became a public school teacher, wrote a book, and now works as a journalist. She didn't give up her job when she had my sister or me, and she certainly didn't give it up after she and my father divorced. I consider her the ultimate feminist-she's worked her butt off, made a living on her own, and raised two perfect daughters (just kidding). She's my hero. But if she had quit her job when I was born, retiring at age 31, would she still be my #1 role model? It's hard to say.

To this day, I am still trying to figure out what makes a woman strong and independent. Maybe I should talk to Beyonce, who seems to be confident about the definition. I know women who are CEOs, ones who inherited millions, others who are living on welfare, and still more, who married rich. Are some of them "better" than the rest? More respectable? Harder working? Stronger-willed? It could be argued, and

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Yesterday, NPR show "Morning Edition" explored a new a cultural phenomenon you may have heard of called "the hookup." The hookup, the program explains to anyone living under a rock, is a social trend, born of the sexual revolution of the '60s and '70s, women's growing independence, and online social networking. It started among high school and college students but is now popular with recent grads who have entered the workaday world. "Young people from high school on are so preoccupied with friends, getting an education and establishing themselves, they don't make time for relationships," so instead of concerning themselves with finding a mate, they're far more interested in no-strings-attached sex. Naturally, people are having a field day arguing the potential benefits and detriments of hooking up.

On one side of the fence you have someone like Deborah Roffman, who "conducts human sexuality workshops for middle- and high-school-age students and their parents," and says she sees

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It's no secret that people are getting married later these days than in previous generations, and in this culture of hook-ups and "modern female dating anxiety," we're at no loss for theories that explain why. Some people say today's twentysomethings are delaying marriage to focus on careers and build close friendships instead, but another explanation paints a less flattering picture of young people: apparently, they're all just a bunch of narcissists. In an article on The Daily Beast this week, writer Hannah Seligson, explores this theory, writing: "narcissism, even in small doses, has shifted courtship into a high-stakes relationship culture. Now that people think more highly of themselves, expectations of what a relationship should be like have skyrocketed into the realm of superlatives. Twentysomethings not only expect to waltz into high-level career positions right out of college, they also expect partners who have the moral fortitude of Nelson Mandela, the comedic

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In what can only described as sickening news, French luxury goods brand Hermès admitted it has resorted to breeding its own crocodiles to meet demand for its leather bags. According to Patrick Thomas, the company's chief executive, it can take three or four crocodiles to make one bag, so they breed the animals on farms, mainly in Australia, to get enough to produce about 3,000 bags a year. And they can't even make enough bags to meet demand.

You can't really fault a company for doing what they can to take money without expressly hurting the environment-it's not like they're making crocodiles extinct to make bags-but do we really need to carry crocodile handbags in the first place?

I suppose you could compare carrying a croc bag with eating foie gras. Neither is necessary to get through life, and not everyone can afford them. But, if you can, these luxury items make your life a little more special-though, arguably, no better.

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