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Date Posted: 09:10:29 05/15/09 Fri
By MIKE STROBEL - Toronto Sun
"Bimbos" are really taking it on their dimpled chins this week.
The latest blow comes from Britain, where else?
Yes, the land that gave us Spice Girls, Benny Hill and Samantha Fox, who insured her bosom for a quarter-million pounds and once remarked, "I've got 10 pairs of training shoes -- one for every day of the week."
Now, this headline is turning heads in London's Daily Telegraph: Intelligent Women Enjoy Sex More Than Bimbos, Research Shows.
It refers to a King's College study of 2,000 female twins, published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine.
"These findings show that emotional intelligence is an advantage in many aspects of your life, including the bedroom," says Prof. Tim Spector.
In other words, bimbos are a bust, eh, professor?
Yes indeed, he says, the research shows they are more likely to suffer from female orgasmic disorder.
ORGASMIC DISORDER
Come again? Female orgasmic disorder. They can't ... You know. Up to 30% of women have it.
(Funny, I bet another study would show up to 30% of women have inept lovers?)
Anyway, Charles Adler wants to talk about it on AM640.
So, naturally, he calls me. Good choice, Charles. I am known as something of an expert in matters of the heart. In fact, around the newsroom they call me The Professor.
So, I speak with authority when I tell Mr. Adler's listeners it's not fair to pick on "bimbos".
In my experience, a woman who looks bimbo-esque is just as likely to have a working brain as a woman in beige smock and sensible shoes.
Since when are beauty and brains mutually exclusive?
A crowning example this week: The Miss Universe Canada pageant. It's here in the Big Smoke, and for the third year I'm a judge.
Already, the cynics among you are tittering, "Yeah, sure. Bimbo Of The Year."
Think again, you in those sensible shoes.
Here is but a sampling from the resumes of the 57 contestants.
Marketing director, University of Lethbridge, University of Montreal, trauma unit nurse, U of T law, Ottawa U law, dressage equestrian, three languages, McGill, Gamma Phi Beta, Concordia grad, Masters of Science in Nursing student, handbag designer, government chemist, U of Calgary, restaurant manager, neurosciences major, four languages, realtor, molecular biology major, International Study Centre at Herstmonceux Castle in England, public health nurse, astrophysics major, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, six languages ...
Celina Toenz, 18, of Bolton, is a frosh at Western and a black belt in karate. Call her a bimbo and she will break your nose.
Sameet Gill, 21, is in fourth-year chemistry at University of Alberta, speaks three languages and is on the dean's honour roll.
Tara Mobayen, 21, was a gold-medal mathematician back in Iran and now double-majors in biology and astrophysics at U of T.
One lovely miss reports a "photogenic memory" but I think that's just a slip. Or perhaps even her memory is good-looking.
Another says her horse has been the biggest influence in her life other than her parents. You snigger. But I think it's sweet.
Pretty girl loves her horse. Doesn't make her a bimbo.
And why do we assume a pillowy chest means a feathery head?
"It's not fair," says Robin H-C, my life coach. "There's always some basis for a stereotype, but you can't say it's true across the board. Absolutely not.
"We tend to separate beauty and brains and we don't generally anticipate finding both in the same package."
Well, 57 such packages are strutting about the John Bassett Theatre stage this week, chasing the Miss Universe Canada crown.
The finale goes tomorrow. Not Sunday as I doltishly reported in yesterday's column.
Omigod, I'm such a bimbo.
http://www.torontosun.com/news/columnists/mike_strobel/2009/05/15/9464791-sun.html
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