That, and the metric system. Hanging on for dear life.

I’ve had five non-elective surgeries in the past two years, so yes, I am very well acquainted with the risks. I also know the difference between minor day surgery, and major procedures requiring lengthy hospital stays and complex pharmaceutical interventions. That’s the difference between your example of a nose job…

You didn’t read through and commented, and other people will jump to tell you so without reading the other comments first... and on and on. It’s like the circle of life, but shittier.

Oh, to be a fly on the wall of the bio-ethics committee meeting when this case was discussed...

All of this right here.

Nose jobs don’t typically come with a two month hospital stay and months of followup doctor visits, not to mention years of powerful anti-rejection drugs. False equivalency.

I wish I had more stars to give you for this. Having just spent two years recovering from a catastrophic illness, it is hard for me to imagine someone SIGNING UP for that level of medical intervention (especially in a country that lacks socialised medicine) especially while caring for three little kids at home.

It’s also judgemental and insulting to tell a person that her opinion is worthless, when the chance exists it’s based on personal experience.

I can’t believe the level of haterade that’s being thrown in your direction. Very similar sentiments were expressed in comments on the original story, but I don’t recall anyone being called a “spiteful bitch” over there. You’re allowed to have an opinion, and it’s shared by quite a few, despite the pearl-clutching…

I LOVED Cloud Atlas. Loved it. Stumbled out of the theatre starry-eyed, and eschewed listening to my iPod for the next few days because it was distracting me from thinking about the movie. But... a friend whose taste I normally share felt actually insulted at being robbed of the time it took to watch it, that’s how…

I wrote my last response to you before reading this of yours, and as one cancer survivor to another, let me just say I’ve never been sadder to have a hunch confirmed. My sympathy to you, and all good wishes that you’re recoved and well.

If you’d ever lost the use of a hand (I have, for a couple of months) you’d have a more compassionate understanding of why folks would do anything to regain the use of it. As to fertility, and the pursuit at all costs thereof: I suspect you might know more about that than I do. Just a hunch. Not a judgement, please…

A well-worded and thoughtful response, except for the sarcastic first sentence. I never said it was hard for me to imagine; I asked you why you thought it was an easily-imagined probability.

Co-signed. Nudity is not the same as sexuality and has nothing to do with sluttery or the shaming thereof. (I’m biased. I draw and paint naked people on the regular, who even- gasp!- get paid money for posing, and I don’t know a damn thing about their private lives.)

Why do you think some women would turn down a hand transplant but ask for a uterine transplant? You say there’s “probably a lot” so I’m curious.

Maybe she really wanted to find out what period cramps are like? I jest (obviously), but folks who are commenting that all she ever said is that she wants is to be pregnant are, it seems to me, being awfully precious.

Check the kid’s other screen credits: her mom’s doing everything she can to get her on camera. She may have had a twinge of conscience when the racial implications became clear during rehearsal, but she may also have seen it as a golden opportunity to both get the child on the most-watched stage in television AND get…

That’s... wow. Let’s go with “extremely not cool.”

Don’t forget he’s also got that brandnew *totally awesome* full-back tattoo of a bitchin’ Chinese phoenix, yo! That’ll slay the groupies fer sure!

I love her dress, maybe even the portholes? Am puzzled by her hair, which is normally bouncy and glorious but looks all flat and lifeless here. So does her expression in this particular photo: she looks (like they said of T-Swift) like the waxwork mannequin of herself.