Letters to the Editor
sseaberg
Published Letters: 2
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Judgmental Journalist v. Naive Student--who do you dislike more?
[Read the article: May they please the court]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The law student was a bit tacky and naive considering our society's prurient, juvenile, faux-astonishment when cofronted with nudity or sexuality (particularly from a woman who's supposed to be intelligent).
The poor girl should have known better, but the fact that this incident will follow her and negatively affect her career says more about our society than it does about her. It also says a lot about the sad state of relationships among woman that this journalist was so happy to jump on the judgmental bandwagon. Welcome to sisterhood--this woman seems all too eager to enforce nonsensical social judgments.
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Prudish and ignorant
[Read the article: Another day, another sex scandal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What a prudish and ignorant article. Of course, elected officials have sex and it is disingenous to assume that competent politicians are also eunuchs or immune from personal problems.
It's insulting and rather prudish to assume that competent individuals couldn't possible have unconventional sex (threesomes, gay, etc).
In a rational society, the public would only be concerned with the public policies of elected officials. Only their spouse should be concerned with this type of private behavior.
The public turns a blind eye to real offenses (violations of civil liberties and pre-emptive wars), while lapping up sensational dreck about elected official's private lives.
And while we're at it, let's abolish outdated and intrusive sex laws that make prostitution illegal. When not coerced it's a business like any other.