Letters to the Editor
Pyehole
Published Letters: 25
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My hatred for Hillary is not mysogonistic
[Read the article: The C-word as a political tool]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why is it that when a powerful woman is despised, that it assumed that the hatred comes from a general hatred of women?
I LOATHE Hillary. I hated her when she was part of the whole "you got two for the price of one" thing that they pushed after Bill was elected. Mind you, I voted for Bill. I didn't vote for Hillary but she acted like it was her right to step into a position of power and influence. I despise her for that. I despise her for making such a mess of the health care issue that they were forced to retreat from it allowing the problem to fester for several more years as it was too hot to touch after she tried to exercise influence on it.
I despise her for being such a patently transparent, pandering politician.
I HATE HER VERY EXISTENCE. I WOULD VOTE FOR ANOTHER MEMBER OF THE BUSH FAMILY FOR PRESIDENT BEFORE I WOULD VOTE FOR HER.
None of this has anything to do with hatred of women, yet it never fails that when a story is run about the dislike for her that misogyny gets thrown out as the source of this reaction.
Can't I just hate somebody for the sake of hating them?
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Still not buying that it is mysogonistic
[Read the article: The C-word as a political tool]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So if I call a man a "Cock Sucker", does that make me some kind of man-hating sexist?
The attacker has simply chosen a very effective means of expressing a message that leaves no room for doubt as to their position and the depth of their animosity.
I'm sorry. While I see your point, I'm still not buying it.
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No decent equivilant
[Read the article: The C-word as a political tool]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You're right, there is no decent masculine equivalent for the word. If there was, and my goal was to say the most inflammatory thing that I could imagine about a man I would use it. Were a graphic design also part of the exercise I don't see how a stylized set of male genitalia would be out of the question. That would come not from any general dislike of men, but instead from an attempt to create the strongest reaction in people I could possibly get. That is exactly what is happening here.
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Shenanigans
[Read the article: Quote of the Day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I call shenanigans.
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Paranoia?
[Read the article: A new low in Clinton bashing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A special kind of paranoia? No, I don't think so. It's a more run-of-the-mill and prudent form of paranoia that I suffer from and that makes me think that it isn't necessarily a slip of the tongue.
I remember during the Clinton years in the White House what kind of visceral response the Clintons inspired in the right. At the time I thought they were the crazy ones. After watching this election cycle I have to admit they were right about the Clintons, I do believe they are capable of just about anything as long as it gets them what they want.
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An entirely appropriate response
[Read the article: Parental consent laws gone amok]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This woman should have been prosecuted. To try and place the responsibility for this to the 16 year old is simply unacceptable and beggars belief. This woman not only interfered with the ability of the parents to deal appropriately with the decision their daughter was faced with but committed a crime in the process. The authorities were completely justified in bringing charges here.
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get over it at some point, would you please?
[Read the article: Clinton's campaign is cold, but sexism is still hot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I recall saying about George Bush before his first "election" that everytime I heard him speak, I wanted to punch him in the face. I've seen those exact same words in reference to Hillary used on Salon.com as evidence of misogyny. Would you just get over it already? She's out because she ran a horrible campaign and she's a far more polarizing candidate than her supporters would like to admit.
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Horrible campaign
[Read the article: Clinton's campaign is cold, but sexism is still hot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The only thing that counts is the end result. Remind me. Where exactly did that masterful campaign strategy get her in the end?
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It was all to be expected
[Read the article: Clinton's campaign is cold, but sexism is still hot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you didn't think that Obama was doomed to suffer insults and slander about his ethnicity or false claims about his religious background then you are truly naive. Anyone who thinks that politics isn't going to be a knock down dirty fight was doomed to get a rude awakening. Hillary Clinton knows this, she has known it all along. Heck, she was one of the people out there spreading that kind of innuendo. Or did you forget: "He's not a Muslim......as far as I know."
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Dogs & cats.....living together
[Read the article: Theatrical battle of the sexes?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wait, what? A Broadsheet piece that calls shenanigans on a claim of sexism?!?! My head threatens to explode. Dogs & cats, living together. Is it a cold day in hell today? What IS going wrong with this world?!?!?!
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It's evolutionary biology at work
[Read the article: Wankipedia]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I refuse to feel guilty for my enjoyment of looking at beautiful women. Millions of years of evolutionary biology has determined that I should respond as I do, what do you expect me to do about it?
Get over it. Truth is, if we didn't look you'd be just as offended if not more so.
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She didn't lose because she was a woman
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]She lost because enough of the electorate chose somebody else. It's called Democracy in action, get over it already. This has nothing to do with her being a woman, it has everything to do with not wanting to see the same 2 families living in the White House for 24 years.
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Broadsheet is a broken record
[Read the article: Beating up on women never gets old for Fox]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Can't you just treat this as a plain old partisan attack? Why does it have to be misogyny? It's kind of like the old saw, when all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a nail. Apparently, every unpleasant thing that happens involving a woman is misogyny where the Broadsheet writers are concerned.
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smells like stripper
[Read the article: What's that smell? ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Strippers smell like cocoa butter lotion.
MMmmmMmmmmmmm....stripper....
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Why?
[Read the article: All my traveling makes my husband jealous]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why are you married to this person? Really?