Letters to the Editor
Lynx
Published Letters: 1595 Editor's Choice: 126
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Packers
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I agree, the injuries were the biggest factor in the Packers performance this season. In addition to losing their #1 WR and #1, 2 and 4 RBs this year, they were without their #3 WR for around 1/4 to 1/2 the season and several key linemen were injured as well. Even in a year with fewer injuries, they still need some better players at WR and OL and on D, but they're coming around especially with a much better D coach.
As for why Division winners are losing, 4 divisions makes for a weaker field.
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There's the problem cropping up again
[Read the article: "Women want smaller waists, not bigger IQs"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Brightstar65 said
money and power mean nothing if you cannot have a beautiful young female
"have" being the key word. Women = property in this mindset. A higher IQ will help them ensure it isn't a reality, "better" looks doesn't help there at all. Remember, for every Cindy Crawford (as mentioned above as a good example) there are hundreds of starlets that never get past waiting tables in Vegas or end up in strip clubs 'cause all they have are looks.
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Problems?
[Read the article: "Women want smaller waists, not bigger IQs"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You said I have problems? When you can't refute an argument you resort to shifting attention? Congratulations, you may have what it takes to be a Republican.
You said "I never treat people like property, though I do know many women who treat men like property"
This may be true, but in your earlier post you stated fairly emphatically that all you care about is appearance. This is setting yourself up to be treated badly. You'd give up everything you have to be "hot" and thus get a "hot" woman, though whether they'd be interested if you were broke is questionable. You don't ask if she's smart or nice or kind or even if she'd actually like you. You just want to "have" her. Maybe you won't treat each other like property, but what would you actually have?
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Putting words in your mouth
[Read the article: "Women want smaller waists, not bigger IQs"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"I would give up all my money, power, brains and personality to be hot"
"money and power mean nothing if you cannot have a beautiful young female."
The above are quotes from you, brightstar65. To me this says all you care about is appearance. Not at thing is mentioned as desireable but that. And most everything else is to be sacrificed for it. Rephrasing is not "putting words in your mouth".
My issue however is not with any of this or with you and your desires, it is with your choice of words. theannalog stated that I was overlooking the romantic and sexual meanings that the word posesses. I'm overlooking them because they are irrelevant in this context. Many other words could have been used other than "have" to indicate desire, romance, sexual intent and interest. The one that was used is the one that also indicates posession. Not even "have the love/interest/attention of" but "have" the person as object.
How we think of topics and how we speak of them helps shape our views. Stating you wish to "have" someone instead of "love", "know", "date", "marry" or even simply "fuck" leaves an image of ownership that relegates a person to an object to be desired like a car or tv.
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Not so Brightstar
[Read the article: Do women want male brothels?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"I wish you feminists would deal with reality for once instead of constantly making fantasy statements just for their effect on your arguments"
You know, what's good for the goose is good for the gander.
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Now that's funny
[Read the article: Now I ain't saying she a gold digger ...]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Patricia Schwartz said:
Don't conservatives ever sit down and think about what they're doing and make sure it all makes sense?
No, they don't. Money and power for them. That's about all that enters their little brains. Everyone and everything else is a tool to achieve that.
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Real Radio
[Read the article: You don't know Jack?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you live in the NYC/Northern NJ area, WFMU is what you want to listen to. You can listen to it anywhere on-line, but that doesn't work in the car, yet. This is what it really sounds like when they "play what we want to play". The format is so varied that there has to be something for you at some point in their schedule and everything is archived on-line so if you want to know what band and song was playing and you miss when they announce it (and they do announce all of it unlike the corporate stations) you can go look it up!
http:\\www.wfmu.org
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Blah Blah Blah
[Read the article: My lunch with an antifeminist pundit]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]From the article:
Q: But isn't that social conditioning?
A: I did it, and I did not feel I was socially conditioned
She might not have felt it, but it was there and it was strong.
She's big on interrupting questions too, isn't she? All that nonsense about how if there'd been no feminism everything would have worked out fine is just so much hot air. Just take a look at the transition from the 40s to 50s. Women in the workplace to women forced to stay home.
She's just yet another person of privilege that can't understand that not everyone is just like them. She trivializes domestic abuse, thinks that all women have the choices she does and refuses to acknowledge that there are people with circumstances other than her own.
As for the "Stay together for the kids" crap, what's better for the kids? Seeing parents hating each other and miserable every day or going their own ways and being happier?
Someone should take a trip outside her little bubble and try to put herself in other people's shoes.
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Women and SF
[Read the article: Science fiction for women]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Women have been involved in SF for a very long time. My mother introduced me to it when I was quite young as it was some of her favorite reading. If you go to any convention, the halls and panels are well stocked with women. In fact, the Guest of Honor at this years World Science Fiction Convention in Aneheim, CA is Connie Willis. Ms. Willis is one of the best writers alive today, in the SF field or indeed any field.