Sue must be a happy lady

I heard on the news this morning that a woman is suing Monash after one of the staff accidently dropped her nine embryos on the floor. Seven of them died and the remaining two were implanted but didn't survive.

What is the world coming to when we are no longer able to allow any margin for human error? Sure, it would undoubtedly have been devastating for the woman concerned, but is suing going to make it better for her? Is money going to fix the emptiness in her heart?

Thirty years ago IVF would not have even been an option for her. We are incredibly lucky to live in a time and a country where this sort of medical technology is available. This expectation that humans have to pay every time a mistake occurs is just unreasonable. It's not going to heal her hurt.

I wish people understood that. People don't understand other people, all we understand is money. This is a mad society.

We all know no-one really looks like Barbie

And here's why:

The 'design flaw' - Barbie's legs are 50% longer than her arms, whereas the average woman's legs are only 20% longer than her arms meaning that if Barbie were real, the length of her legs in proportion to her torso would make her unable to walk and she'd be constantly falling on her face. Consequently, It has been estimated that only way a real Barbie could walk upright would be to walk on all fours, as her feet are so proportionately small that her chest would pull her continually forward onto her toes.

Second, if she were human, while crawling around, Barbie would need help looking around as her neck is twice as long as the average human's which would make it impossible to hold up her head.

Thirdly, Barbie weighs about 45.8 kg and is 213cm in height, meaning she would have a Body Mass Index of 10 and would lack the 17 to 22 percent body fat required for a woman to menstruate or have children, if she wanted them.

Lastly, Barbie's body would have room for only half of a liver and only a few centimetres of intestines, as opposed to the usual 7.9 metres. The result: chronic diarrhoea and death from malabsorption & malnutrition. In case anyone wants to look like a Barbie, a healthy woman would need to add 61 cm to her height, subtract 15 cm from her waist, add 13 cm to her chest, and 8 to her neck length. As the recently deceased Body Shop founder, Anita Roddick once told us - there are 3 billion women on the planet who don't look like Barbie; only 8 women come close.