Letters to the Editor
Juliebird
Published Letters: 1767 Editor's Choice: 103
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I think
[Read the article: Cleric: Your sexy outfit is killing me!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]my subject heading of my last post communicted what I thought about yiour theiry plainly enough.
You live in a fantasy world where everyone is trying to get off in a constant state of heat. Fortunately, life is not a constant replay of "The Devil in Miss Jones."
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everything sounds better in French
[Read the article: Women at work and other stylistic concerns]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Vagina" has always seemd like a really clinical word to me, and doesn't really sound beautiful. (I don't think "penis" is a poetic word either, but it's far less medical-ese-sounding than "glans," "anus," or "prostate").
The only word I really object to is c*nt. Even typing it out feels too violent, too ugly. To me, it sounds like being stabbed. By a berserker Viking. Which is not a fantasy of mine.
"Yoni" is softer sounding, but, I feel dopey saying it.
But, the French word is a cognate. "Vagine." The first syllable sounds the same in both languages. But the French word is 2 syllables, not 3. The "g" is softer than the English soft g ("zh") and the "-ine" is pronounced "een."
Not that I go around talking about my "va-ZHEEN", but in my head, it sounds more feminine, more alluring.
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oh, oops!
[Read the article: Women at work and other stylistic concerns]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]that post is for the "vajayjay" column, obviously.
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everything sounds better in French
[Read the article: Feminists want "vagina" all to themselves?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Vagina" has always seemd like a really clinical word to me, and doesn't really sound beautiful. (I don't think "penis" is a poetic word either, but it's far less medical-ese-sounding than "glans," "anus," or "prostate").
The only word I really object to is c*nt. Even typing it out feels too violent, too ugly. To me, it sounds like being stabbed. By a berserker Viking. Which is not a fantasy of mine.
"Yoni" is softer sounding, but, I feel dopey saying it.
But, the French word is a cognate. "Vagine." The first syllable sounds the same in both languages. But the French word is 2 syllables, not 3. The "g" is softer than the English soft g ("zh") and the "-ine" is pronounced "een."
Not that I go around talking about my "va-ZHEEN", but in my head, it sounds more feminine, more alluring. Maybe that'swhat he means by "warm and fuzzy"?
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AHEM
[Read the article: Cleric: Your sexy outfit is killing me!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"the laws against [prostitution] were mostly not enforced until women got the vote"
Stats, please?
Because prostitution has been legal, illegal, ignored, encouraged, prosecuted, tolerated and more for centuries before women got the vote.
Boston Harbor and the greater Colony of Massachusetts, 1620-1695: illegal. Punished prostitutes and "loose women" by public shaming: maybe not a literal Scarlet Letter, but time in the stocks, public whippings, a slice off the nose; or for the real unlucky ones (like Bridget Bishop) by accusation of witchcraft and hanging until dead. And not a vote among the distaff sex.
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you back up your own claims, or don't make them as facts
[Read the article: Cleric: Your sexy outfit is killing me!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm not your research assistant.
Can you point to other societies where prostitution was vigorously punished only after women had a voice in the legal process?
Or is this coincidence of events an anomoly?
(Anyone else remember China's recent public shaming of a city's prostitutes? Is that a state of idyllic gender equality?)
(OMG, girls, anonymous is on to us! He figured out our grandma's secret plan: get the vote for women so we can outlaw prostitution and then make men sexually miserable for all time to come Bwa haa haaa! Pretty soon he'll figure out we really *do* control all men and all things, and then the jig really will be up! Quick! Someone offer to sleep with him!)
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any WOMAN w/o trying IS ensured reproductive success
[Read the article: Cleric: Your sexy outfit is killing me!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm sure you mean "recreational sex" and not actual "reproductive success", which would be a viable pregnancy.
Given the infertility rates in the US, I think we can agree that *many* women, with *lots* of trying, still don't achiece "reproductive success."
I am amused beyond measure that you think sexual congress can/is/should be achieved "without trying." Even at my most ready-for-it phase, I "tried" to attract desirable partners: by practcing scrupulous hygeine (ie, shaving all the way up), dressing to attract, painstakingly doing my hair and makeup, flirting, taking an interest in what they guys are saying, going places that I wouldn't choose to go for myself alone ("Hiking? Sure! I love hiking!" "Football! OMG, sounds great!" "A Phil Collins concert?! Erm, ok! He's ... great!") And there were still nights when I went home alone. Unrequited desire is hardly a male-only trait. (And no, it's not because I wasn't "hot." I was. And, still am.)
You seem to feel that all men are entitled to the physical act of sex without any other attachment. But you don't want to hire a pro (too much effort, even if it were legal, I assume). And you perceive this lack of instant gratification as a anti-male agenda of the feminists.
Likewise, you assume that all women not only can, but want, this same level of robotic exercise. And because (you think) we can, women have an unfair advantage over men.
Get some help. Before you rape someone.