Fodder: (Noun) A person or thing regarded only as material for a specific use.

Charlie Sheen and Brooke Mueller were reportedly so eager to have a son (Sheen has three daughters with Denise RIchards and a previous girlfriend) that they tried a procedure known as "sperm spinning" to boost their changes.

According to the National Enquirer, the pair paid to have the star's X and Y sperm separated, and Mueller was inseminated with just the Y sperm, giving their chances of having a son an 80 per cent boost.

And a source close to the couple claims it worked. Sheen himself hinted that Mueller is carrying a boy, when he announced her pregnancy in August, by saying, "Brooke informed me two days ago that very soon we'd be producing our own version of Two and a Half Men." (Source)

Maybe it's just me, but I think it's kind of superficial to care if the kid is a boy or a girl. What's really important is that the child eventually be used as leverage to fuel an inevitable, horrifically messy divorce. So if you think about it like that, doesn't really matter what gender your bouncing baby bargaining chip is -- I'm sure a girl can deliver messages to mommy about her being a whore just as good as a boy can.

Denise Richards out with one of Charlie Sheen's other Bargaining Chips: