Letters to the Editor
Amerigo
Published Letters: 955 Editor's Choice: 60
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Yes, but what is the subtext?
[Read the article: My girlfriend's daughter is dressing like a stripper for Halloween!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Cary's advice seems pretty good to me. Halloween is a time when people let it all hang out, they play a role, or try out a new role. The girl is a good girl, she is college bound, she isn't sexually active yet (we think).
But the LW is becoming aware that his own girlfriend is now damn near old enough to be a grandmother, and that there is a new generation reaching sexual and social maturity, one that cannot be avoided.
Maybe the girl isn't putting out yet, but she probably soon will be, and the LW when that is the case the LW will have to deal with the knowledge of a second sexually active female in the menage.
I am quite sure the LW is a totally decent person who has nothing but the welfare of the young woman at heart, but something deep inside drove him to write to Cary.
Was he expecting a reply along the lines of "yes, you are so right, the little slapper ought to be in sackcloth and ashes", or was he impelled to write out of his own unease at dealing with this newly emergent temptress?
Life is difficult.
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@AKA Smith
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sorry, I am too busy helping her with her math homework to do as you suggest.
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@ fetboy
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I keep a gun and shovel in my house just in case my daughter ever brings home a guy like you.
So you are threatening to kill me, because I politely disagree with you in an online forum? Is that the smart thing to do?
My wife was the smartest women I ever met, and as a result I have smart kids.
Bit lucky that they inherited her brains, they could have got yours.
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@ fetboy
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]My girlfriend never had a father. When she and her twin sister were born, their father never acknowledged their existence and she does not know who he is/was. Sad but true, however her family is close and she has a great circle of female friends who all take care of each other.
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@ AKA Smith
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks for your comment. fetboy can rest easy regarding me and his daughter. As chance would have it, 5-year-olds are not my cup of tea, even brainy ones who know all about dinosaurs and stuff.
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Britney and The Carpenters
[Read the article: "It's Britney, bitch"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A reader comments:
My dear wife, god bless her, is a foreigner and she brings some strange musical tastes to the table here in our great American melting pot.
In the old days it used to be The Carpenters...
I am a foreigner too, and it is totally beyond my comprehension how an absolute classic tour de force like The Carpenters' Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft did not even make the top 30 in the US. Is it too late for a Congressional Enquiry into this travesty?
I guess it was because Karen Carpenter did not have big tits and flash her coochie. One account claims that her anorexia nervose started because a hostile music reviewer described her as chubby. In any case she died of anorexia at the age of 32.
The music of the Carpenters has since been acknowledge as an influence by performers and composers like Madonna, Shania Twain, and K.D. Lang.
Will Britney outlive Karen? Right now it looks like it could be touch and go. According to Byron, John Keats was killed by the critics, though it could have been the TB, but the knives are certainly out for our Brit.
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@fetboy
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]And it is so sad that you, as her BF, don't respect her intellect, intelligence, and mind.
Of course I do, but what is wrong with having a significant other whose talents lie more in the practical than theoretical area? She can cook, sing, and dance, she makes me laugh with her jokes, and she is a delightful person who is a joy to be with, (and full of estrogen), but her reading and writing skills in her own language are worse than mine even though it is my fourth language and her first. She makes me happy and vice versa, but there is no need to falsely claim that I picked her for her intellect or that she picked me for my looks.
The fact remains that throughout the whole of human history men have rarely chosen female partners on the basis of intellect, except in the novels of Jane Austen, clearly an example of wishful thinking on the part of the poor, but supremely talented author whose marriage options were very limited. (One of her brothers became Admiral of the Fleet, another was an admiral, and a third brother was such a cutie that he was adopted by a hugely wealthy childless couple and inherited great wealth.)
Mostly men go for money or estrogen. And cosmetics is a way of trying to fake estrogen enough to catch a man.
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The power of good looks
[Read the article: My girlfriend's daughter is dressing like a stripper for Halloween!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Lots of women from humble origins have succeeded in parlaying their youthful good looks into entrees to wealth, power, and success.
Good looks are not absolutely necessary for upward mobility, but they rarely hurt. And lack of good looks is hardly ever an advantage, except possibly in politics were it does not seem to have hurt highly intelligent but unglamorous women like Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir, Jeanne Kirkpatrick, HRC, and Sandra Day O'Connor.
But a lot depends on how we define success. Margaret Thatcher kicked the butts of the Argentinians in the Falklands War, yet Evita is a successful show, whereas Maggie the Musical has not yet been made.
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Power, not power
[Read the article: My girlfriend's daughter is dressing like a stripper for Halloween!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When men catcall, wolf whistle, follow you around, touch you to get your attention, it's not fun, it's not empowering. When some guy gives you something for free because you are pretty, it's not power, it's pathetic...
Granted, but what about when you are able to win the heart of the most desirable man in your community over other less well-endowed less estrogen-rich female rivals? Compare that to the situation where you are an ugly duckling and he barely notices that you exist.