What? And females have historically had a walk in the park? Right?

To me, it’s just like when I go to an event that includes saying grace or a prayer. I’m an atheist and anti-theist. I could easily be openly disrespectful and flash a devil sign, or stick out my tongue, or make noise, but I don’t. I simply don’t bow my head, I don’t recite the prayer, and I don’t say “amen”. Might this hurt people around me? Of course! I’m sure there’s religious people who would be deeply offended to see somebody not engaging in group prayer. But that’s simply not my problem. It’s their problem to accept that not everybody believes what they do, and that nobody is required to play long to spare their feelings.

Man starts shitstorm by asking reddit if he's the asshole for wanting to discard the infant he and his wife hired an agency to surrogate

Surrogacy agency makes (afaik) UNPRECEDENTED mistake by using the wrong man's sperm to inseminate his wife's egg.

Man throws a tantrum because the child isn't "all theirs"

Goes through entire post describing a human infant as "it" because his sperm wasn't used to make it

"They" decide to put her child up for adoption because the sperm wasn't her husband's

As for the parents, though, it’s like, yeah, of course you’re the assholes. But, also, this is what happens when we commercialize women’s bodies and turn children into products. They paid for a “product” they didn’t want. This isn’t the first time someone has tried to “return” their product.

Take, for example, the British woman who abandoned one of her twins because she was disabled. She said she didn’t want a “dribbling cabbage” for a daughter so she didn’t take her. She is not a unique case. It’s even worse with couples who go to Asia (and even parts of Eastern Europe) to hire surrogates. If they don’t want the child, there is sometimes not even the “luxury” of adoption or some kind of custody battle, there have allegedly been cases where the child is just abandoned on the streets and is, for all intents and purposes, stateless and orphaned.

andd if you use anti romani slurs I hope you house catches fire genuinely

It won't make her faster but it will make sure she isn't being sexually harassed in the change room by a biological male

It won't make her faster but it will make sure that she has a crowd of female teammates to compare herself to and work to emulate, rather than a male who has a male body that she can't achieve.

It won't make her faster but it will make sure she can enjoy her sport in a safe environment.

She eventually became a successful businesswoman. Her business, Vefa's House, was selling kitchen items that she used in her own TV appearances.

She's the only Greek TV cook who cooked next to Martha Stewart.

When she started to appear in morning TV shows as a cook (that's how she became famous), she was doing it for free. Cooking was probably so under-appreciated by the media 'moguls' of the day that they didn't pay her, they didn't even pay the food she was cooking with, and when she demanded her payment (because she did help increase their ratings) - guess what happened? They refused to pay her, and she quit on her own accord (later on went on to have a separate cooking show of her own. She's perhaps the first cook in Greece - male or female - to achieve that)

She's famous for the simple way she wrote and presented her recipes. She really made it easy for people to learn how to cook! Plus, in the early-to-mid 2000s, she published an entire section of cookbooks with special plastic paper, because plastic was more durable than 'regular' paper in the kitchen and it could be easily cleaned up if dirty!

She's also credited with rescuing traditional Greek cooking. Not an exaggeration. She wrote tons upon tons of cookbooks about the traditional recipes of various parts of Greece and she recorded all of them in writing. Ilias Mamalakis (another famous Greek TV chef and everyone's favourite 'uncle') also did that, but he's more famous for the TV show he used to host where he travelled all over Greece and gathered local recipes.

I saw people on X/Twitter who had met her say that, even if they met her abroad - diaspora Greeks - and they complained about how her recipes were turning out badly because they couldn't find the right (Greek) products she advised on using, she told them precisely which other products to use in that foreign country and also where to find them. That's passion!

She outlived BOTH of her daughters and she ended up raising her grandchildren. Yet she was criticized for still showing up in public with her famous blue eye shadow because, apparently, a woman who's outlived both children and had grandkids to raise had to stay home all day and sink into depression *rolls eyes*

Towards the end of her life, she became outspoken politically and she participated in rallies that supported that Macedonia was Greek. Mikis Theodorakis had taken part in these marches also, but he was criticized less than Vefa Alexiadou - apparently, because his wife and both his children were still alive.

She always showed up with a smile on her face and nicely dressed. Even towards the end, she was still perfectly coiffed and bejeweled, and still the kind person we've always known her to be.

In her funeral, no one from the famous Greek cooks - except for Ilias Mamalakis - showed up. Not Argyro Barbarigou, not Andreas Lagos, not even Akis Petertzikis. Greek TV now is filled with cooking TV shows in her format (literally the "she walked so that they could run" meme), she also supported young Greek cooks by including them in her shows or cookbooks, and not one of these people showed up to honour her.

This is the first time they've donned the bizarre headgear since the summer of 1987, when a trendsetting female West Coast orca kickstarted the behavior for no apparent reason. Within a couple of weeks, the rest of the pod had jumped on the bandwagon and turned salmon corpses into must-have fashion accessories, according to the marine conservation charity ORCA — but it's unclear whether the same will happen this time around.

Researchers think the orcas sporting salmon hats now may be veterans of the trend when it first appeared nearly 40 years ago. "It does seem possible that some individuals that experienced [the behavior] the first time around may have started it again," Andrew Foote, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of Oslo in Norway, told New Scientist.

The motivation for the salmon hat trend remains a mystery. "Honestly, your guess is as good as mine," Deborah Giles, an orca researcher at the University of Washington who also heads the science and research teams at the non-profit Wild Orca, told New Scientist.