Letters to the Editor
Juliebird
Published Letters: 2072 Editor's Choice: 107
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@merelymortalmale and others
[Read the article: Roundup: Self magazine Photoshops fitness]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]1. Even though thee title "Women: they're good for business" suggests causation, Tracy Clark-Flory gave an example of correlation: compaines that have more women on their boards do better, business-wise.
She did not say: "By putting more women on your boards, your company's bottom line will improve in the next quarter", which would be causation.
2. Nursing moms need to empty their breasts every 3-4 hours (on average) when babies are under 6 months. Going 9 hours means missing 2 or 3 nursing/pumping sessions.
Breasts that have gone that long without being emptied will do the following:
-Become rock hard and heavy linke candlepin bowling balls.
-Be painful to touch, move or possess.
-Leak milk, which can come in drops or a steady stream, or both. It can soak through nursing pads. It can leak more when the breast is touched (say, you brush your arm against the side of your chest while writing). It's not comfortable.
-Likely cause ducts to become plugged, which is extremely uncomfortable (feels like a bruise over a knotted muscle, or a really painful pimple deep under the skin). This can take hours or days to correct.
-Potentially cause mastitis: an infection of the milk ducts due to plugged ducts. This results in fever, swelling, and extreme pain.
-And, as others have said, potentially cause a serious dip in supply, resulting in early weaning, or at the very least, one very annoyed baby.
All of these put the nursing mom at a real disadvantage to her non-nursing colleagues. She'll be terribly distracted (try taking a test when you have to pee or pass a kidney stone), and she could be distracting to her fellow test-takers. I'm sure she won't have much time to get a leg up n her competition while setting up, pumping, storing milk, cleaning pump parts and packing up.
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@ The Jim
[Read the article: Roundup: Self magazine Photoshops fitness]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Q: Are you saying that all pregnancies are planned?
A: Yes they are. We live in a world with 14 types of birth control and abortion."
According to this study (which repeats information I have seen posted at my OB/GYN office):
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&uid=9494812&cmd=showdetailview&indexed=google
1 in 5 babies born in America in the last 2 decades is the result of an unplanned pregnancy. That's not counting unplanned pregnancies that were terminated or miscarried.
Since you are so blatantly wrong on something so easily challenged, I can't take seriously much else you have to say.
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@anonymous
[Read the article: Roundup: Self magazine Photoshops fitness]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"If Jim had said, "no unplanned births" would you agree with him?"
No.
Otherwise there would be no such thing as emergency c-sections. Or NICUs for premies. Or babies born in the back of cars in route to the hopital. Or babies born to mothers who were ignorant of their pregnancy.
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well, maybe that's the secret
[Read the article: Sex, drugs and my 15-year-old]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Nothing turns a teenager off to anything faster than seeing their parents doing it.
As for our kids, my husband plans to take them skydiving when they're tweens or young teens. He reasons, getting drunk or stoned will pale in comparison to the rush one gets freefalling towards Mother Earth out of an airplane.
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@ anonymous 1250
[Read the article: Balls of their own]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Apparently, you don't read the rest of salon.
Granted, in most parts of the world raising 6 kids, two of whom are brain damaged from an auto accident, on $50k per year *is* considered wealthy.
Just not here.
But that's straying far, far off-topic from Ms Harris' post.
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What's in a name?
[Read the article: Balls of their own]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Um, "Abstinence Clearinghouse" ?!?!?!?
Does anyone else picture virgins stacked like cordwood in a huge warehouse, being moved by forklift to a tacky wedding chapel? Or folding virgins up into a brief case for door-to-door sales, like magazine subscriptions?
Because that's what comes to my mind when I think of "Abstinence Clearinghouse."
If that's what you name your companny (Huh? How does chastity become a product or service outside the sex trade anyway?), then "A Kingth to Remember" suddenly seems downright poetic.
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I wonder what would happen if a man went to a women's bathroom?
[Read the article: Not lady enough]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I suppose he gets kicked out by the retaurant mamagement, since that's what happened to a woman who kinda resembled a man.
My college dorm had unisex bathrooms. It was no big deal. But it was a small dorm. I agree, that if we as a society could behave like frown-ups, unisex bathrooms would be wonderful.
But, since we can not, I see many more potential problems than solutions in public unisex bathrooms. Mostly I see greater potential for sexual predators of all stripes to cause harm. A single-sex bathroom gives people a sense of security: I can take my pants down here, and not worry about being attacked. (Yes, as Tucker Carlson has described, homosexuals of either gender can violate tat sense of safety, but ...)
This case actually reminds me a lot of the public breast-feeding debates. One patron (I am assuming the glaring woman mentioned in the article) was offended by another patron based on appearance, not action or harm. That imagined "offense" led to a very real violation of someone's civil liberties, even toug the lw was on her side.
You can not make policy based upon something so subjective as an individual's gaze or sensibilities.