Loyalty makes you dangerous—too much like a human being to be respected, not a line item to cross out.

Obviously, there are a lot of reasons. There is a perception, rightly or wrongly, that unions overreached in a number of industries and became as much a part of the problem as part of the solution.

That's like saying the mafia guy coming into your store going "Nice little shop you got here, would be a shame if something happened to it" isn't coercive.

'It's like saying the word "is" over and over until it loses all sense of meaning. You know that you're producing sounds, but you have no idea if you're speaking some sort of alien language no one will ever understand.'

That's because there is no fear or respect for female parts. Penises are the organs that are socially and culturally viewed as vehicles of aggression or a source of pride. Vaginas, it's the opposite: they are constructed as passive, and shameful. So, it's no wonder men at large don't view anything off about a barrage…

It's not that women are SHOCKED by dick pics; it's more of a consent issue—in the early stages of courtship (especially BEFORE you've established a sexual relationship with someone), a dude's presumption in sending you a photo of their genitals without an explicit "yes please send me a photo of your junk" IS a…

If you're open to dating to someone, does that mean you're open to someone exposing themselves to you randomly on the street? Men don't just send these when they've made contact with the woman and they're flirting, they randomly send them into the ether to anyone going around being female online. Some women don't…

We didn't have those in the '70s. You ordered the books from a catalog of really cheap, flimsy paper that you took home to your parents. Then, four to six weeks later, you had books!

Right. Because when I say I want to see a female-led superhero movie, I totally mean that playing a crappy sequel to a pretty good high fantasy RPG is an adequate substitute. While I'm at it, I might as well reread Little Women. After all, the characters are mostly women.

"When you pray, you are not to be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on the street corners so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full. But you, when you pray, go into your inner room, close your door and pray to your Father who is in…

Or, alternatively, live with your personal tragedy and don't exploit other women.

I agree. Your home country sounds more progressive and where abortion could be sought if need be. Unfortunately, for this Thai woman, Oz parents latched onto her because it's no doubt cheaper and then bailed when they found their child had DS despite stranding the poor woman in a country where abortion is illegal.

Down Syndrome is not a "catastrophic birth defect", for God's sake.

Okay, so if the biological parents just decided they didn't want any kid at all anymore, she should have just aborted? Maybe the wife miraculously got pregnant and they didn't want to bother with the surrogacy anymore. Maybe the baby was going to have brown eyes instead of green eyes. Maybe it was a girl and they…

Same. You are already dropping a shit ton of money for those procedures, so why not take the money and adopt a child that is already here? Trust that your genes are not that fucking special that the world would collapse if you didn't have a biological kid.

I agree. The judgment I reserve for the Australian couple isn't that they wanted to abort the fetus, but that they just left him there with someone who doesn't have the resources to take care of his special needs after he was born. They may as well have left him to die in the wilderness for all they knew or cared. …

Ugh. This is such a horrible story where everyone loses. Especially that poor baby.

I find the IVF/surrogacy industry utterly repulsive overall.