Letters to the Editor
captcrisis
Published Letters: 172 Editor's Choice: 19
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Roe was a great victory . . .
[Read the article: Roe, 35 years later]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]. . . for men who treat women as sex objects. To such men, the fetus is not a developing baby but a mass of cells, an unfortunate byproduct of last night's conquest, and abortion cleans that up. It also gave such guys a great line to use on liberal chicks -- "I support a woman's right to choose!" -- because, you know, you have to go with pro-choice chicks, pro-life chicks just don't put out!
No accident that, after 35 years of intense branding of abortion rights as "a woman's issue", most pro-lifers are STILL women, and most pro-choicers are STILL men. And no accident that abortion rights have been endorsed by Playboy magazine, and every other institution and person who trafficks in women's bodies as a business.
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Hear hear, "Stereotypes"!
[Read the article: The abortion doctor]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You said it all, very nicely.
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My point was . .
[Read the article: Roe, 35 years later]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]. . . about men's attitudes, not women's. Male support for abortion rights is easy to understand -- and to many of them, women ARE dupes. What goes unexamined are women's objections to abortion rights. Pro-choicers, too often, avoid talking about such objections except in the context of some theocratic conspiracy, and quickly change the topic to why-aren't-these-people-in-favor-of-contraception, affordable health care, protections against sexual harrassment, you name it. Many of them are motivated not so much by the merits of the abortion question as by hatred of right-wingers.
Whether abortion is an important civil right, as you say, is an entirely separate question. Millions of thoughtful people think that it is -- most of them men. And millions of thoughtful people think that it isn't -- most of them women.
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Rememer . . .
[Read the article: Eeuw! of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Tina Paine? "Would you believe I'm only 10?"
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Gary! Please don't stop writing for Salon!
[Read the article: Sicko]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've been a fan of yours since you wore a beard. Another fine piece!
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"How Is John McCain Like John Kerry???"
[Read the article: How is John McCain like John Kerry?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Once again, Salon's headline legitimizes a right-wing smear -- the "Swift Boat veterans".
Some Vietnam vets have issues with McCain. I think they're misguided, but the disagreements are real. The Swift Boaters were out-and-out LIARS, funded by right wing $$. But now they're elevated to the same headline as the vets who don't like McCain.
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Big news! Activism at UC Berkeley!
[Read the article: Young voters are stoked]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Drive half an hour from Salon's office in San Francisco and dash off a quick and superficial article about activism . . . at the most activist college in the world.
Now, if she had spent a little gas money and gone up to, say, Cal State at Chico, and found a similar scene *there*, I'd listen.
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There's nothing wrong with rubber vaginas
[Read the article: How does a single father ever get laid?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]. . . unless you condemn single women for using dildos. Fair is fair.
If I were you I'd buy another one, and keep it well hidden, and use it as often as you like.
There is nothing to condemn about this guy, except for maybe letting his jerk of an ex have the key to his place. He's a very sympathetic character and his storytelling is engaging and hilarious.
As for the babysitter, there's nothing wrong with getting it on with her, if you go very, very slow and she reciprocates. People tend to hook up with someone who is nearby. It's just the way life is, and results in many happy marriages. A relationship that is convenient can also be good.
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I sympathize!
[Read the article: Make your own candidate]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I still remember my first vote, for Morris Udall in the 1976 Democratic primary.
That's why I registered Democrat. They usually have somebody good running in the primary. He always loses, but at least I get to vote for him before he slips into oblivion.
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Gottlieb's problem is . . .
[Read the article: My shame at being single -- it burns, it buuuurns!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Her ridiculous statement:
"If you're a single 30-year-old woman and you say you're not panicked about your marriage prospects, then you're either in denial or you're lying."
What a jerk.
Just because SHE feels panicked, she thinks every other 30-something woman feels panicked.
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This author is from another planet . . .
[Read the article: In the military we trust]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]. . . where progressives have a problem with the military. No, we have a problem with *militarism* -- the abuse of our armed forces in unwise adventures to compensate for certain politicians' personal cowardice and as an expression of political intimidation.
. . . where John Kerry said that people who didn't work hard in college get sent to Iraq. NO -- he was talking about George W. Bush, who didn't work hard in college, and got so ignorant that he decided on the basis of ignorance and arrogance to send OTHERS to Iraq.
. . . where the public holds the military responsible for Abu Ghraib and other atrocities, yet still approves of it. No -- they realize that these atrocities were committed on orders from the Bush administration. One of the many right-wing myths the author internalizes is that these atrocities were the fault of the soldiers, not the political higher-ups.
Much of what the author says about the military itself is true. But his caricature of progressives' viewpoints rings thuddingly, clangingly false. The caricature may be prevalent where he grew up. It doesn't make it true.
Look at what actual progressives and conservatives THINK. Look at what their positions are -- i.e., the gutting of veterans' benefits by the Bush Administration, the declaration by John McCain that he will keep troops dying in a pointless fraud of a war "for a hundred years". And THEN tell me who has more respect for the men and women in uniform.
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I call bullshit on William J. Astore
[Read the article: In the military we trust]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"The Kerry Quote: I decided to use the actual words Kerry said, not the explanation by his handlers after the fact. Perhaps Kerry really did tell a joke very badly, but I’m skeptical of “What the senator really meant to say” explanations."
You KNEW it was a mangled statement. The man is a Vietnam Vet, for Christ's sake. HE ENLISTED. He walks around with shrapnel in his leg. He was running as being proud of his military service and would not have denigrated the military in public.
Doesn't this mean anything to you -- in an article about liberals' supposed contempt for the military? Yet you repeated another Fox News-style caricature/slander of liberals -- in an article which is full of them.