Excuse me. "victim" my arse.

She's 21, very poor, and uneducated. It seems to me there was some kind of breakdown in communication. You have no idea what she was told and/or what she understood about the contract. It seems to me these people were just looking for some woman to exploit as a baby vessel and it blew up in their faces.

Might want to add in that abortions appear to be illegal in Thailand unless it will kill the mother or is a result of rape/incest.

For me, an important part of being "pro-choice" is a person's right for autonomy with respect to their own body. I am surprised at the number of comments stating or implying that the surrogate should have had to have an abortion even if she did not want to have one.

I'm pretty sure abortion is illegal in Thailand, so where was the woman supposed to go?

Yes! Thank you, especially for this:

Does your cat happen to know my husband? He carries the cat around the house when my cat wants to catch a bug but is too fat and lazy to jump and run...the thrill of the hunt is so majestic when a 6'2 240lb man runs full speed around the house lifting a cat toward the ceiling.

Madeleine Albright is infamous for her reply to the question posed by 60 Minutes' Lesley Stahl about the sanctions against Iraq in May 1996.

So, basically, Ms Albright agrees with Dick Cheney, Newt Gingrich and John McCain, who have all said the same thing recently.

Nice try on the victim blaming there. I love how some people think Palestine simply should allow Israel to blockade them, impose economic apartheid, refuse to acknowledge their country's existence and allow Israeli citizens to invade their country without fighting back at all.

Are we seriously going to make this about being "SEX POSITIVE" instead of about the muder of Palestinian women and children and how this is blatantly sexualizing the grossness of war? Now watch people come on here and try to defend how these women aren't actually objectifying themselves because "choice" while 3.1…

Meanwhile, Palestinian women are busy wondering when the next rocket is going to land on their house and their kids.

OH SO BEARS DON'T COUNT AS "REAL" WOMEN???

and I thought you didn't need feminism because you're a bear.

I don't need feminism because I like having no legal recourse when my husband beats me.

I'm a little uncomfortable with this article constant references to the "Muslim world." The Muslim world is not a monolith nor is it homogeneous; its incredibly diverse and has all sorts of tolerated gender and sexuality variations in its borders. There are the hijras in Pakistan and India, who often hold special…

The second, third and fourth Thursdays of October 2013 were great times to be me.

Damn it. Stop supporting bad science reporting!! The study has nothing to do with flatulence besides the commonality of hydrogen sulfide. The PR office at Exeter spun it this way so the AP (and places like gawker) would pick it up. These scientists never claimed nor would they ever claim that farts cure cancer. As a…

Maybe it's the ravenclaw in me, but I've always though that being cunning was a great attribute. Maybe because I see it as a sign of intelligence. =) But I've always been an advocate of the "Slytherin =/= evil!" camp. (Probably because part of me thought I might be Slytherin, and I'm not evil!.)

All right. Now that I'm finally home, here's that response I promised you. Warning to everyone: it's about to get loooong-winded and rambling and has nothing whatsoever to do with makeup or plant biology.