Watching The View

The first topic on The View today was…monkey sex. I can’t make this stuff up, people. A study shows that if a male monkey grooms a female monkey, she is more likely to let him have sex with her. A female monkey also screams during sex to “help” the male monkey along. Sherri said that is like human women faking orgasms. Joy said, “Don’t look at me!” Sherri asked Whoopi if she “helps” and Whoopi said that she only yells if she needs to yell. Elisabeth said that maybe the monkey is saying “Get off of me!” Elisabeth thinks that animals are in love, and it is not just sex, after seeing March of the Penguins. Joy pointed out that the rhino has 30 days of foreplay and that is her kind of animal. She said it shows that you should not judge someone by their appearance. Whoopi said that rhinos get it better than Black History Month, which is only 28 days.

There are signs that show that you are headed to divorce. If you get married at under 25, it may lead to divorce. Elisabeth said that if you are older, though, you are more set in your ways. Joy said that people grow apart as they get older. Sherri said that it might just people don’t want to work on the relationship. Joy said that it should not be work. Whoopi said that you should get married when you “know it’s your time,” like death. She said that her relationships last eight to ten years. Joy said that is her “shelf life.”

Another factor is if you are opposites, you might get divorced. Joy said that if one person wants to go out at night and one is a bookworm, it won’t work. Sherri said that if you have different political or religious beliefs it would be difficult. Elisabeth said that people split more regarding religion when it comes to a decision about what faith to raise a child in. Whoopi thinks you can teach the child both faiths and the child can take time to decide what they believe. Elisabeth said it is difficult to teach a child that Jesus is your savior, versus he was a good guy that walked around and had funny friends. Joy asked what a parent should do if you think that religious teaching is brainwashing. Elisabeth said that she doesn’t believe that and a parent should be their faith, as an example to their children.

Another sign is the feeling that “the grass is greener” in other people’s relationships. Joy said that other couples have their issues, too. Sherri said that a friend told her that while you are dating, you should have your eyes wide open, because when you get married, you have to shut them. Whoopi said that people need to be honest about what little things annoy them, like living the toilet seat up and how someone uses the toothpaste roll.

Women also think that if you get married you will change all the things you don’t like about him. Elisabeth said that men feel like women turn on them, because acceptable things are no longer acceptable. Elisabeth said that if Tim had lived with her before they got married, he would not have married her. Tim is very neat and organized and she is not. Whoopi thinks that he would have balanced that against the good factors about her.

Another issue if you are living in a sexless or mostly sexless marriage. Joy said that you need to say, “Hey, we haven’t had sex in a few years.” Sherri said that she learned in counseling to make appointments for sex. Whoopi said that as women get older, they go through changes, and they can’t do it. If there is no communication about the reason why and that after she gets through it she still wants to have sex with him, then the marriage won’t last.

Patricia Arquette appeared on the show to promote the new season of Medium. She is nominated for the Golden Globe for best actress this year, but is a bit relieved she doesn’t have to get a dress for the event, since it was canceled due to the writer’s strike. She feels bad for the organization running the Globes who worked hard to make a deal with the writers. She added that it is important to support the writers.

Angelica Houston is guest starring on Medium. Now Arquette’s character is getting reward money from families, rather than getting paid by the DA’s office and her character’s husband has also lost his job. It is stressful because they are middle class and don’t have much a nest egg. It adds a lot of tension to the relationship, especially because the husband feels that his role is the provider of the family and he is unable to do that.

Whoopi said that the woman that her character is based on, Allison DuBois, said that she knows everything that her husband is thinking. Patricia thinks that it would horrible to know what everyone is thinking, especially every little mean thing. She also would not want other people to know what she is thinking. Her family has been involved in the show, including her brother directing episodes and her husband acting on the show. Joy said that they have a fascinating family, including her sister Alexis who was born a man, and asked about family dinners. Patricia said that the family doesn’t talk about the business and they don’t have competition among one another. She said that there is a lot of luck involved in acting.

She said that the two girls on the show are very down-to-earth, thankfully. The older daughter has a big episode coming up soon where the character will have a lot to deal with.

Patricia’s second baby was born in a home birth. She said that it was really amazing because she was not forced to be on her back and to have painful IVs in her. She didn’t want to feel nauseous and didn’t want painkillers. She had a midwife present and was two minutes from a hospital if something went wrong.

Next was a fashion segment about “What’s In and Out for 2008″:
Menswear is out, including leggings, tent dresses, high waisted pants, and other clothes that don’t enhance the female figure

2008 is about femininity, with the following things being “in”:

Joy was funny during this segment, liking all the 2007 outfits better. She was even wearing an outfit similar to one of the outfits that was modeled as “out.”

The next segment was “What’s new in the supermarket.” Here is the “must-have” list:

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1. Winnie, Watching the View: “They’d probably I rather watched Garfield”
2. Sally, Style Fix: “Bai Ling’s Got Nothing On Me”
3. Jodie, Gossip on Sports: “The Couple that Watched Baseball Together…”
4. Kate, Babylune:
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5. Mark, Get Incensed: The Most You’ll Ever Get

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