I’m thoroughly anti-judge, but I don’t know that this was ever in any way proven. I got the impression that it was more that she was so pro-dad that it came off like they MUST have had a past, not like there was any evidence they actually ever did.

Yeah, totally. I don’t think that particular request has been approved yet (thank god) but how can it even be something you ask for? It’s nuts. I feel so bad for these kids. And even the oldest is years away from 18.

I mean, for all I know she’s a difficult person who does trash talk the dad. But even if all that is true, she still apparently took good care of her kids and they were safe and happy with her.

Apparently the dad requested in paperwork his lawyer filed to send his oldest son to a wilderness survival camp to get him to comply, and to send his daughter to foster care for the same reason. He seems to want to split them up to try to make them more compliant. I mean, it’s pretty horrifying. It makes me terrified…

Yeah. And the kids still aren’t with their mom - I’m pretty sure they haven’t been allowed to see her for months. According to papers her lawyers have filed their grades are tanking while with the dad, and they still just want to go home. Their dad’s lawyer even filed paperwork requesting that they send the oldest kid…

Wow, yeah, if you’re a size 0 you must be anorexic. Scientific fact, right? In reality, your whole comment is incredibly ignorant. If you’re not particularly tall or if you have a naturally thin build, size 0 says nothing about your eating habits. I was a size 0 in college and ate like a football player.

Agree. I just can’t with the sobbing in trials. Even if you’re straight up innocent (which he isn’t) you should be able to pull yourself together a little bit better than that. Maybe it’s my inner puritan but it just comes off as unseemly. And though I know his lawyers used disgusting victim-blaming defense…

Yes, but if the women have passed all the same physical requirement and other tests, there’s no reason having them there should in any way hinder the men. If people are focused on doing their job I don’t see why them having an innie or an outie should matter one way or the other. I mean, women aren’t bitching that the…

That would be lovely, but I’m not holding my breath. As usual it will be up to the first batch of women to basically forge a path for the rest of us, probably with only minimal help and support. I hope I’m just being cynical but...

It’s horrifying, but when regular jobs integrated there was probably about the same level of dissaproval. Our grandmothers had to deal with a lot for us to have even the low level passive sexism we deal with today.

Even his lawyers seem over him in that video.

Let’s go back to the basics, because I think both our positions are pretty simple. Mine is that the biological parents always get precedence, unless they willingly gave up the child or unless they are proven unfit. It shouldn’t be a competition between who is more fit, it should default to the biological parents…

1) Right, but it wasn’t the fault of the parents that the embryo was given to the wrong couple. That is fully on the doctors. They did not knowingly or willingly give that embryo up. It was just an embryo, but it became a child with their DNA and that counts for something (a lot, I think).

Maybe the clinic (since it was really their fuck up?) has to pay for unlimited rounds of IVF for her until she gets the wanted and wished for child of her own? Including if she decides to use another clinic, since they clearly haven’t proven competence. And they also pay for all the medical costs/lost work associated…

Jesus, good, I hope she won a bunch of money. How totally heartbreaking to think you’re finally having a wanted and wished for child, only to have it snatched away at birth. That’s basically the definition of becoming an unwilling incubator. That doctor should have his license pulled. Do no harm indeed.

I disagree on this one. If the biological parents’ embryo was implanted in her against their will, then it is their child morally (and probably legally). They didn’t give a child up for adoption, nor did they donate the embryos. Knowing you have a biological child out there being raised by someone else despite never…

And I can’t imagine it’s particularly good for anyone’s metabolism, ironically. Depriving your body of calories this way probably goes a long way towards having your body go into famine mode and cling to any calorie it can get ahold of.

Yeah. I tend to mind my own business about it but when a friend tells me they’re doing a ‘cleanse’ I have to work at biting my tongue about how unhealthy I actually think most cleanses are. I’m not always happy with how my body looks either, but I don’t think avoiding solid foods for a week is going to make it…

I’m getting a Linda Evangelista vibe off of this photo. Butt aside. Her face looks more interesting than usual, and if it wasn’t for how gratuitous it was I’d like the photos.

Yeah, family is tough. I was going to stay home this Christmas and my family guilted me into buying a ticket I can’t really afford. I love them though. And I’m glad they want me around. I just wish air travel was cheaper in this country.