Letters to the Editor
Tara21
Published Letters: 166 Editor's Choice: 11
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@ amerigo
[Read the article: We want a kid but don't think it's right to have one]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Thank God the rubber tree grows here in Mesopotamia." HA HA HA! Good one, you cranky old coot.
To LW: Your question ("do other people think this way?") seemed really weird to me at first, but now I think it's the same as when people wring their hands and say "How can I bring someone into this terrible world?" The truth is that for all our ups and downs, most people are glad they were born -- pain and all. You ought to read some of those books on the psychology of happiness, or the new "Geography of Bliss." Just because you feel pain or have bad stuff happen to you doesn't mean you'd wish to never have been born. It all balances out.
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hoops
[Read the article: I want more commitment from my married girlfriend]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]it sounds like the gf already IS committed to LW. She calls and texts EVERY DAY and uses the L-word, but she just won't say the exact syllables he wants to hear? He's trying to get her to jump thru hoops. Plus it's weird how he wants all this, but hastens to point out he wouldn't marry her.
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it seems normal to me
[Read the article: He's just not that into (sex with) you]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]i'm sick of our culture pushing the myth that everybody wants sex all the time, 24/7. If you're not horny, regardless of age or gender, then you better take a pill to fix it! i think it's normal for men to not feel like having sex sometimes -- especially as they age. Maybe nowadays more men are admitting it.
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big surprise
[Read the article: He's just not that into (sex with) you]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]that the article stating men think about sex all the time etc was published in playboy. i still don't buy it. at the very least, draw a distinction between 'thinking about' and actually wanting to do it whenever they can.
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santeria censored?
[Read the article: I'm really a self-actualized being, but my family is all messed up]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]wtf? my sister and her fam were highly involved with santeria, and yes, they do sacrifice chickens. i don't think that's such a big deal, really. i mean i eat chickens and someone has to kill them and only vegetarians are upset about that. it's a damn chicken for god's sake.
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the poor wife
[Read the article: He dribbles! He shoots! He drives me insane!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]imagine if LW took this typically unrealistic 'advice columnist' advice (not just cary, but most columnists do this). buy the offensive neighbor an ice cream cone and make friends, as tho the teenage neighbor really wants to become best buds with the old guy next door. even if it happened tho, the poor wife -- now she has 2 buffoons making noise, plus loses her husband's company. and yeh, the husband will prob be charged as a pedophile, in our current paranoid age of fear.
I'd also hate to live next to annoying, constant, hours-on-end thumping.
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another vote against ....
[Read the article: I got the writing fellowship -- so now I'm terrified!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... the writer letter-writers. I feel like they're all reruns of each other (closely followed by the 'I have 2 amazing job /scholarship offers!' ilk). And I'm also a would-be writer. I prefer sex scandals and redneck etiquette dilemmas.
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most popular
[Read the article: "Sex and the City"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Samantha is also my favorite -- she's like a big, exuberant, mischievous kid.
I notice in the posts about who is favorite that NO ONE has mentioned Carrie!
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wtf?
[Read the article: U still up?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]what a weird bunch of replies to this article -- maybe written by young defensive men who deep down inside realize that texting does not equal courting? That they're taking the easy way out?
I liked reading the article and agreed with the sentiments. Modern life is impersonal enough without relegating this most personal and inherently angst-ridden process of finding true companionship and maybe starting a family someday to drunken 'fraidy-cats basically throwing their cell phones at each other to signal interest.
Hey, can a club-thunk to the head and being dragged off by the hair be far behind?
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@ parson jim
[Read the article: U still up?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]i'm not sure if you were joking or trying to be snotty, but it isn't helpful to make generalizations about 'today's 'empowered' 'women.' Yeh, we enjoy having the right to vote, to drive, to hold jobs traditionally open only to men, to be paid equally for it, to marry and divorce as we choose. That, my friend, is empowerment. It doesn't mean we are all ax-wielding man-haters, our weapons aimed at the groin. It really doesn't. Both men and women need to chill out and approach each other as individuals, get to know each other, etc.
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@ @ parson jim
[Read the article: U still up?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]OF COURSE being required to sign up for the draft; of course joint custody; Office of Men's Health, I'm not sure that's needed b/c up until recently health studies and research were conducted ONLY with men; Women's Health services have to do with body parts that boys don't have; but sure, it's ok if guys want a special health office to deal with their particular body parts too.
The right to protect male victims of violence, sex harassment? OF COURSE!! Do you think someone would seriously say No?
"Feminism is not about equal rights. It is about gaining benefits at the expense of men and children."
What a sad and misguided statement, dude! Do you seriously believe this??
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the opposite problem
[Read the article: I need more ideas! Where do they come from?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have the opposite problem. "I have a head full of ideas that are driving me insane," as Bob Dylan said. I just don't really know how to make them into structured writing. Maybe me and the LW should hook up, you know?
In the meantime tho, Cary is right -- for this guy, it's prob more about selling than coming up with a new angle. Didn't someone once say there are only 5 different plots?
BTW Cary, my neighbor rides his dirtbike thru my father-in-law's property every nite and "dad" is bipolar and afraid the neighbor will find his meth lab, his only source of income, so he wants me to tell my best friend -- because he's sleeping with her -- to tell the neighbor to knock it off. I want to help out but I also don't want to jeopardize my full scholarship to Yale. How can I quit having panic attacks?