Letters to the Editor
Gams on Glass
Published Letters: 279 Editor's Choice: 6
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Debaser
[Read the article: Barack Obama in suspended animation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You are full of it. I am an Obama supporter, but even I see that it was Obama's campaign who introduced race into the campaign. It was after the Clinton win in New hampshire when Jesse Jackson Jr. said that, to paraphrase, although almost exactly, that Ms Clinton's tearing up would "need to be looked at very carefully in light of other occasions like Katrina when she did not cry" especially in light of South Carloina where 45% of the primary electorate is African American.
This was Obama.
Now, as far as the Clinton's playing anything up regarding race to achieve more votes: I suggest you look inot how such racial coding has occured in the past. There has never been any keywording for LBJ being the real instigator of Civil Rights legislation.. never once in the history of politics has that been an acknowledged code-wording for racial solidarity so if that was an attempt at racially coded terminology, it sure was a bad one. Nor for that matter did it occur at a heavily covered press conference and would have missed all the presumed target ears had it not been for the Obama campaign bringing it to everyone's attention.
The simple fact is that the Obama campaign has by far been the greater user of the so-called 'race card'... and so be it. As I said, I am an Obama supporter. But just because one has a preference means one must sispose of all logical faculties in thrall to your chosen candidate. All too many of my Obama brethern seem all to happy to do so.
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Lynx
[Read the article: When Pearl Buck tangoed with Mike Wallace]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you don't see any slurring of Mike Wallace in Leonard's post, I guess we live in two different worlds as it was not hidden. As for your own slight to me, I have no idea what that was all about ... just because I thought Pearl Buck said some less than impressive things. Clearly you havea thin skin regarding something I am uncertain of.
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maisieslim
[Read the article: When Pearl Buck tangoed with Mike Wallace]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Seriously? I read your link... I know that as well as anyone. I scarcely think that is relevant at all. Because I thought Pearl Buck was full of crap during that interview I am some sort of Paglian woman-basher? For the love of god, this reactionism on the message boards is insane. Clearly some responses to other people's posts indicates that the writer has already acted out a conversation that has never happened. I'm sorry: Buck was full of it with her assertions that women are categorically less romantic and more practical than men. This is not to say women are more so, but merely that her presumption to assert a psychological or genetic difference that defines women would find itself right at home in the president of Harvard.
I'm really not sure why you decided to post a link to me asserting the obvious: that women are oppressed worldwide, but it is insulting to say the least, and not based on any statement I have asserted in the least.
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Slightly off topic
[Read the article: When rape is just another workplace dispute]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But what if with the facking feces. I just read an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer about a young man who immigrated from Sierra Leone. Quite incorrectly, he was involved in some petty crime. He was jailed, and a tormenter of his decided to rape him. He was rescued (way too late) but was covered in feces and spent several days in hospital because the rapist had crammed his own feces down his throat.
Now, this may sound callous, but: Look, I would never rape anyone, male or female. But if I WAS to, I can't imagine feces would be involved....
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Why would a woman want to join the army?
[Read the article: When rape is just another workplace dispute]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Same reason many men do, or anyone gets a job any number of places: money, education and health benefits.
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Max Mosley
[Read the article: Israel's Nazi-porn problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Frankly, I think the horror regarding max mosley is despicable and tantamount to sexual oppression. The man grew up in a household where his father was a fascist and his mother killed herself in honor of Hitler. For all we know, Mr Mosley is, himself, completely free of sin, so to speak, regarding racial or fascistic bigotry... in the same manner that those who engage in BDSM sex may be innocent of raping of beating people.
Mr Mosley was clearly impacted by his history (and for that matter may feel great shame for his forebearer's doings) and that may be played out in his sexual fantasies. It has been shown in some studies, the voracity of which I am unable to testify to, that those who have been victims of sexual abuse are more likely to have BDSM or power related fantasies or fetishes. I scarcely think you ought to so readily impugn those people as human beings, and, by all accounts, Mosley was a solid human being of upstanding character.
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Damn
[Read the article: Do you have one-night-stand eyes?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I really need to read the article. At the bar last night, I didn't get even close to 72 percent success rate trying to pick them up, no matter how late it got or how much I had drank.
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Glass Houses II
[Read the article: Obama says he would have gotten rid of Penn]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"I can no more dismiss Mr Penn, than I can dismiss my husband who cheated on me repeatedly in front of the nation"
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"It made me wish I lived in New York, too. There is no other place like it."
[Read the article: "The Visitor"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That is an utterly groan inducing statement. lots of places are like it, and I am no stranger to New York City.
Frankly, as soon as I saw the image I was pretty sure this would be another 'New York story.' Almost all of these are awful and infused with the writer/director's illusion the he or she has seen something in themselves that only New York can provide.
For the love of god, moviemakers... stop making so many films 'about' New York... frankly, it also reeks of laziness, intellectual and otherwise.
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oh... irony... riiiiight
[Read the article: "The Visitor"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]heh... I did it again and responded to a message without fully reading.... I went back and see all the irony in loper's post.
Really need to read things before I shoot off at the gams... err, mouth.