Quick Hits Tuesday #3

Yes, I realize it is Thursday. Three-day weekends throw my game. Here's what we've got in this week's roundup.

Susie on Suze. Sex pioneer Susie Bright looks at what recently outed Suze Orman's sexual orientation has to do with the financial advice she doles out: "What Orman is saying, a tiny bit more openly, in her new book, is that she knows most women's money lives are defined by their dependence on men, be they husbands, lovers, or fathers. She is urging women, rhetorically, to cut it off." This was originally published at Queercents but is worth highlighting again.

At Women's eNews, Susan Feiner makes a case for Social Security, saying relying on a retirement funded exclusively by Wall Street investments puts women at a disadvantage. My take? Hello, Symptom, I'd like to introduce you to my friend Cause.

There are so many reasons I'm glad I never got a boob job. The buyer's remorse of cosmetic surgery.

Mombian Blogs For Choice: "There’s something wrong with an administration that wants to say I must carry a fetus to term if I conceive, but will not give me permission or wherewithal to raise that child in a legal relationship with the person I want, whom I know will be a responsible, loving parent." Amen.

Brooke at Dollar Frugal blogs about using personal finance to strengthen a marriage. For the most part these go for any committed relationship. I disagree pretty strongly with her statement that "even thinking about [divorce] is bad for finances." Not thinking about divorce is idiocy, financial and otherwise. Shiner and I have talked about it at some length and we'll be getting a prenup, which will allow us to decide what we think would be fair rather than defaulting to the state, which I do not fully trust in this matter. Far superior than if we blithely assumed we'd be 2gether 4ever and then turn out to be wrong, heartbroken and money-wise screwed. Better to decide how you would want to treat one another when you're still in love than wait until one or both of you wants to set the other one's personal affects ablaze. Try crafting a fair division of assets and liabilities over the smoldering ashes of your ex's mattress, suckah.

SJean over at Stacking Pennies is single, solvent, and damn proud of it. "I enjoy reading other young female bloggers, especially those who are also unmarried, and thinking how just a couple generations ago our lives would have been unthinkable. Though I admit I've had the emotional support of a relationship, I do rent my own apartment, pay my own bills, and really came into my own financially in a way that I simply wouldn't have had I been legally tied to another person." I'm right there with her. I am so glad I've had experience supporting myself, both financially and emotionally. It's amazingly freeing to know I can do that.