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From Ananova (they of the original, speaking "Hello, World" aninimatrix, missing now from their website) has this bit of 'earth-shattering' news: Women aren't getting compliments, anymore, spontaneously, from shell-shocked men in the workplace.

Men have become too concerned about political correctness to give a compliment to the opposite sex, a new survey says.

You think, maybe, that's because there is a backlash to the women's movement, maybe the Ann Marcotte-style Feminazis have ruined it for the rest?

Some 12% said no one had paid them a compliment in the past three months, the poll for Loire Valley White Wines found.

Christine Webber, a relationship expert, said: "While it may seem somewhat frivolous, a compliment is in fact a vital ingredient for well-being.

"The trick though is to be able to pay someone a compliment and make them feel good about themselves, rather than coming over as smarmy or, worse, a bit lecherous."

Yeah, fit the compliment through a head of a needle. If there is any lapse in correct syntax that might step just a smidgeon out of place, then bring down the PC lawsuits, and the recriminations ad nauseum. Women just might be seeing that backlash in the lack of compliments.

That backlash might be affecting other things some women are missing. Now I have to explain the real reason I was visiting Ananova dot com in the first place...

I was actually checking out Ace's newest post in my Google Reader (the most remarkeable Feed Reader I've ever seen, and I love to play with new software), following his link to a new device, called Vortex Vibrations, that attaches to a vacuum cleaner, and by producing a "rapid and gentle vibration", allows a woman to get "multiple, back-to-back orgasms lasting up to a minute a time - and it does not even touch the skin." WT[no]F?

Being both mechanically and electronically capable and curious, I had to see what the thing looked like. I expected to see something like whatever the hell is in this Dishwasher over at Cowboy Blob's site...

Not much there in the link's picture to go on. Does it help, I wonder, if the subject is hirsute?

Anyways, here's a American woman, who hasn't had any action in 15 years, vacuuming her carpets, who winds up looking longingly at her vacuum cleaner; she then has an imaginatary seventh-inning stretch, and voila! next thing you know she's in love with her hosed partner-for-life.



You have to wonder: why hasn't she had any compliments paid to her, since her divorce 15 years ago? Are men in Denver just too Politically Correct to help out a gal?

Or does she have other issues?

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