That reminds me of the reviews for Frankenstein. If you look at the ones before they knew the author was a women vs after it’s complete night and day.

This. For the last...thousand years or so, white men have written the plays. And yes, while women and/or minorities have been in a handful (or gasp) even been the lead in some, most of them revolve around white men because they’ve had a pretty good head start on us when it comes to writing them. I work in theatre in…

Here’s the thing: There are a lot of people who think that, because humanities and arts classes attract more female students at the high school and college levels, women are highly represented in the humanities and arts at the professional level. When the fact is, at the professional level, there’s often less…

I actually think Miley has been very responsible and dedicated to her animals, no? Bieber, though, fuck that guy.

Hold up - Miley is a super devoted and dedicated pet owner. She even went vegan because she couldn’t reconcile having pets and eating animals. Her one dog was killed by a coyote and it destroyed her. She’s a major advocate of adoption and giving good homes to rescues.

my understanding is that Miley is a pretty good pet owner. she has lots of pets sure, but they are all rescue dogs (no glamour breeding like the Kardashians and Hiltons) and she has lots of land in Malibu for them. one dog was killed by a coyote i think but my understanding of having lived in LA for a couple years is…

Because the implication (this is across the board when people are offering unsolicited advice) is that she might be dumb enough to not ask her physician and harm her baby. It’s rude, condescending and unnecessary.

I was going to post the exact same thing!

Wow, I thought I knew everything I needed to know about 50 cent, but I guess I was wrong. A bullet fragment in his tongue?? It all makes sense now...

Exactly. Some of the snobbiest “foodies” I know are American, on behalf of someone else’s culture.

I once had an imported German beer that had cherry syrup in the bottom of the bottle, and the bartender gently swirled it around before handing it to me. Oh my god, it was a revelation. I’ve long since forgotten the name and I’ve never been able to find anything like it.

The French call it “a là Piscine”, and they’re way classier than I am. So, lets go with yes. You do you!

In the end, all I ever really wanted was to look like Christina Ricci in Casper.

Yeah, that’s what I thought.... Is this another example of yellow-washing??

If they went through an agency, then there are probably pre-stated rates for all surrogates, regardless of how rich the recipients are. Surrogates typically sign on before they’re chosen by a couple (at least at the agency I worked with), so they agreed to those rates before it was even an option that they’d be chosen…

Yes, a friend of my wife’s made $50k as a surrogate last year.

Totally outrageous! I get your point about commoditization but I also feel like you can’t really put a price on someone willing to give your child life. $100k is nothing to them. Neither is $150k. If you could afford it wouldn’t you maybe consider paying more just to show your appreciation? Then again that’s asking…

...which, by the way, fly right into full tension with abortion laws. If the fetus belongs to the surrogate, then she has full control over her body, including deciding whether to abort. If it belongs to someone else, then that decision is taken away, and situations could arise where the health of the surrogate may be…

It might vary, but I think $100k is about average. A gay male friend of mine has been looking into it for years and that’s the price he’s always quoted. $45k is an insult. Kim and Kanye are just being selfish and cheap.

In 99% of the world, it’s her baby until she turns it over to someone else. Only very recently have some states allowed the use of pre-birth parentage orders.