Letters to the Editor
Rachel Avery
Published Letters: 87 Editor's Choice: 13
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In any case...
[Read the article: Prostitute patrons fight sex trafficking in Turkey]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Turkish men seem to have an old-fashioned view of women. They don't mind using prostitutes, but they want the woman to be doing this willingly."
Old-fashioned or not, and however the speaker meant this, I say GOOD FOR TURKISH MEN.
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Here's an idea
[Read the article: Why am I obsessed with celebrity gossip?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How about a volume of clever celebrity poetry? If you could get a deal allowing you to include some good photos, drawings, or oh! caricatures! you might have a hot little item on your hands. It's fluff, true, but on the off-chance it could gain you a little scratch to finance more substantial projects, it could be a worthwhile project. At the very least, it might introduce you to some aspects of your creativity you haven't seen before. It would get you back in the habit of being productive, too.
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Now wait a second
[Read the article: Bring your infant to work?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]children did not thrive and prosper and develop and mature all that well or for all that long simply because mom strapped baby on to go work the fields
No, going to work with mom didn't do all that for them, but it didn't do them any harm either, unless mom worked in a coal mine or something. They got hurt by the lack of antibiotics, vaccinations, decent food, education, etc., as I'm sure you're aware.
I think what people are getting at is that most babies (though there are certainly exceptions) can get plenty of stimulation by just being toted about in such a manner that they are free to look at and listen to whatever is happening around them. They don't need an adult pushing things around for them, telling them what to pay attention to, and basically making them the center of the goings-on. They need to feel included, but all this catering to them seems to get a lot of little ones I know more anxious than if they were just allowed to take it all in on their own. Hard to be laid back when people are cramming stuff at you all the time.
Really, I wouldn't mind kids in the office, as long as the policy was managed well. My worry is that some companies, especially larger ones, would try to create a one-size-fits-all program, and it would be too difficult to deal with those that didn't fit. It would take an awfully graceful and sensitive manager to handle some of the problems that would surely arise. But hey, it does anyway.
If they start screaming, I'll stuff my iPod in my ears and keep working, just like I do when the adults around me start in. ;-)
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Pfft
[Read the article: "You poke it, you own it"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As if that strange, watery fluid counted as a manly drink anyway. Men (and women) of intelligence know better than to drink it to begin with.
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Maybe it's simple
[Read the article: Madonna: Crazy for sinew]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is it possible that she's just nervous about being able to see fifty just around the next bend? Her career does seem to have depended on maintaining at least the illusion of youth; that's just how the pop scene usually works.
And there are all of those younger women her husband could start yearning after.
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Not quite the right analogy
[Read the article: Judge upholds pharmacist's termination]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This isn't so much like a Muslim bartender refusing to serve alcohol, since there are so many thousands of other kinds of prescriptions a pharmacist could actually fill. This is more like an Orthodox Jewish butcher refusing to serve pork.
That said, an Orthodox Jewish butcher would probably be working at a kosher shop. If these guys don't want to sell birth control, why don't they just start their own pharmacies and run it however they want. Those of us who aren't interested in supporting their cause can get our prescriptions filled elsewhere.
That probably means those people won't be getting jobs at all those small town Wal-Marts, but you don't hear kosher butchers whining about their job prospects needing protection from being geographically limited.
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Pregnancy Tests
[Read the article: Coercing women in "crisis"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A lot of girls and women I've known to go to these places are going to get a pregnancy test. If they knew that the pregnancy test any clinic or doctor would use is exactly the same as the one they could buy themselves at the drugstore, maybe some of them wouldn't go into those places to begin with (and those people hassle the women that turn out to not even BE pregnant, I assure you).
Planned Parenthood and other organizations should get the word out about that. Young, undereducated, and otherwise disadvantaged women are especially unlikely to be aware of this.
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Not the Army
[Read the article: I dropped out of psych graduate school and don't know what to do!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Peace Corps. See if they'll take you. Get away for a couple of years. It'll give you a much-needed change in perspective.
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???
[Read the article: She's No. 1]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Girls know they have to work harder, walk the line, and do everything better in order to not get into a position where they have to rely on some loser to take care of them.
While the boys just want to be a bunch of losers who can't keep a decent woman around? C'mon. I'm not ready to jump on the alarmist bandwagon yet, but the (sadly common) "street feminism" that I see in all kinds of neighborhoods that says "we don't need any men around anyway" is certainly not helping to get the boys motivated.
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Maybe it poorly executed
[Read the article: MTV2 "satire" puts black women on leashes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But did it occur to anyone that it isn't just Snoop Dog getting satirized here?
Maybe the real live women that actually permitted ol' Snoop to leash them up have also been deemed worthy of parody. After all, they didn't seem to have a problem appearing in public like that.
Oh wait. I guess they didn't actually choose to be there. Snoop's girls are all victims. Lured in by the charm and masculine power and perceived superiority of the Snoop.
I can't believe I just typed that with a straight face.
No, some women are just foolish, stupid, and shallow, and willing to let foolish, stupid, shallow men (and women) convince them to participate in tacky, undignified stunts. So yes, it's fair game for satire. Just like most other willful public behavior.