Behold the hamster!!

''Poor George Clooney. Poor tragic, oldster, childless, longterm singleton George Clooney. Did you know he's over 50? Did you know he got divorced over 20 years ago and has not been married since? Instead, he has lurched pathetically, hopelessly from one failed relationship to the next, his biological clock going tick-tock-tick-tock. Meanwhile, his ex-wife, Talia Balsam, who was clearly too good for him, remarried sexy John Slattery from Mad Men and had a son. A family. Ouch! That must have hurt.

But now, lucky George has finally found a woman in the nick of time, and has somehow convinced her to marry him. They got engaged after only seven months of dating, which proves how desperate poor/lucky George Clooney is. I bet he's going to turn into a right Groomzilla now and insist on having a baby immediately.''

''It would be nice, wouldn't it, to live in a world where the media – tabloid and broadsheet – didn't talk about and to unmarried grown women as if they were hysterical teenagers desperate to be saved by their prince, insane with a need to be married NOW.''

It would be equally nice if the media didn't portray unmarried men as naughty schoolboys, terrified of those crazed women lurking around every corner waiting to kidnap them and take them to the altar. But then writing about people as changeable, varied human beings requires thought, whereas trotting out gender cliches from the 17th century doesn't.''

Clooney could have had any woman he wanted. Men age like wine, woman like fruit. The woman who snatched him is a very lucky lady indeed, because she is living the dream. The dream of taming the ultimate alpha male. The writer of this article sounds like a jealous schoolgirl, but then again she is a feminist.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/29/george-clooney-amal-alamuddin-jennifer-aniston-engagement