Letters to the Editor
NicoleM
Published Letters: 40 Editor's Choice: 4
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In case you didn't know. . .
[Read the article: Introducing Salon's cheeky new women's blog]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Everybody who works in an office does this. Hell, practically all of America does this. You find something weird or funny or interesting in the news, and you send it on to your friends and family with your snarky comments attached.
Here's the difference between you and most of the rest of us: we know that nobody but our friends and family cares about our snarky commentary.
You people work for what used to be a really good online publication. Write an article about how Mary-Kate dresses like a grandma now or don't. If you don't have enough snark to fill a whole article, why should we read it? To see how clever and funny you are? Because, as we know, "Women are funny." Girls are cute. They like pink and celebrity gossip and boys. They like to be called broads because that's sassy. And they're funny!
In case you haven't figured it out yet, I think the whole premise behind this blog is astoundingly sucktastic on more than one level.
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What is WITH you people?
[Read the article: Catfighting your way to the top]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Really, are you trying to piss your readership off today? Do you want us all to unsubscribe so you can take a long vacation to Cabo?
I don't know about Rebecca Traitster, but I don't catfight. What with not being a cat and all. I don't want to be all stick-up-my-ass feministy because I know that's not cool these days, but the whole "catfight" thing is so offensive. I hate it. I would explain why, but a) I shouldn't have to and b) it would be lost on the Broads anyway.
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Joan Walsh weighs in.
[Read the article: Introducing Salon's cheeky new women's blog]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In the Table Talk thread found at http://tabletalk.salon.com/webx?14@@.773ad94a/1274 , Joan says, "Why the sudden storm over Broadsheet?" This is after she claims to have read all the TT posts and all the letters here.
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Rebecca--
[Read the article: Introducing Salon's cheeky new women's blog]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Have you been reading the Table Talk posts on this topic? If not, I suggest you do. You might also want to join the conversation. There are a lot of people there who are upset about a lot more than the pink.
You (and everyone else) can find it here:
http://tabletalk.salon.com/webx?13@@.773ad94a/1500
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Rebecca--
[Read the article: Introducing Salon's cheeky new women's blog]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think our disagreement isn't about the allowing, though. It's about the organizing principle of the blog: women's news. It's that organizing principle that you find flawed and retro that I find progressive and exciting.
Okay, that's great. It's good that you like your blog. Here's my question: does anybody at Salon care in the least that so many of your paying customers DON'T like it? Aren't you here to give us what we want? You people seem to think that you're here to give us what YOU want, which would be fine if I weren't paying Salon for content.
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The way things are going lately. . .
[Read the article: Welcome to the next 10 years of Salon]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ten years from now Salon will either be gone or it will have merged with Glamour magazine.
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GG--
[Read the article: Our Jennifer fixation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Some of us are actually PAYING for this crap--see the little green stars? That gives us every right to complain if we don't like what we're paying for.
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Speak for yourself, writerinLA.
[Read the article: I'm married with kids -- and in love with a prostitute]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"We all walk in this guy's shoes. It is the plight of our time. And we all try to medicate it away whether its drugs, alcohol, prostitutes, or buying a new IPOD."
Because you sure as hell don't speak for me.
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I opted out.
[Read the article: The stay-at-home mystique]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]For a couple of reasons, which I'll get to in a moment. But I wanted to say at the outset that my life doesn't sound anything like the Total180! people's. And also that I would never in a million years buy a magazine with a "!" in the title. Especially a women's magazine. That's way too perky for this curmudgeon.
Back to opting out, it wasn't so much that I opted out of the work force (because I do work part-time), it was that I opted out of the lifestyle race. I don't need to work a fancy job so that other people will "respect" me, and I don't need a McMansion and a brand-new car and Jimmy Choos and a pantload of credit card debt to go with all of that. *That's* what I opted out of. My husband and I live comfortably but modestly on his salary, and that's fine with both of us.
The other reason was that I grew up in very crappy daycare. Daycare is fine if you can find a quality childcare situation and if your kid likes it, but I know exactly what it's like to be away from your parents most of the day and miserable about it. I wasn't going to do that to my kids if I could help it. I can help it, so there you go. I don't think some parents really appreciate how stressful full-time daycare can be (note that I said CAN BE, not IS) for kids. And like somebody said upthread, you don't get to pick whether you get the kid who can't wait to get to daycare or the one who bawls and grabs your leg as you're heading out the door.
One more thing--I don't think my job is that hard. But I have an easy kid, so that makes a huge difference.