Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 4
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unfair to women too
[Read the article: Airlines ban men from sitting next to kids]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When Air New Zealand started this policy, many locals pointed out that this discriminated against women too. Who wants to sit next to a whiny kid? No man will have to any more, but if you're a woman, tough.
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Bet
[Read the article: Story Minute]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I bet this cartoon gets eight letters in response.
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A branding problem? How pukesomely superficial.
[Read the article: Brand-aid]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Branding? Image?
The brand and the image are tarnished because of the actions of the American state (war, torture, propping up dictators, imposing trade barriers, ...).
The question is not who will best project an image of America's supposed values, but who might actually implement them.
GWB had a marvellous brand at one point: the affable regular guy with common sense who you'd love to have a beer with. Well, look where that got you.
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It's a question of where the incentives are
[Read the article: Lust in translation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There is a much less generous reading possible.
In any ambiguous situation, people are going to choose the interpretation they like best.
If you're a man who wants to get laid, you're going to hear an ambiguous message in a way that keeps that desirable possibility alive. That doesn't seem particularly creditable, nor an innocent mistake - it's just normal self-centredness at work.