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Saturday, Nov 7, 2009
johnfairfax
Published Letters: 188 Editor's Choice: 37
The thing to remember is that everything is offensive. Yes, absolutely everything. Unless someone with a name like Angry Black Bitch wrote it, in which case it is a daring example of speaking truth to power. Or whatever phrase is in vogue this week.
The politicization of everything is not clever or daring or defiant. Actually, it is tedious, pedantic and, increasingly, stupid.
The point of this study wasn't to discover anything about marriage or couples or anything like that. The point was to discover two things:
1. How many idiots would agree to endure blisters for no good reason;
2. How many silly journalists would write a story about a "scientific" study that proves nothing except there are a certain number of idiots who will willingly endure blisters for no good reason.
Mission accomplished.
"Luckily their thoughtful husbands are gobbling up gift certificates from the office of New York vein specialist Lee Schulman, whose nurses are encouraging him to print up gift cards."
Are the husbands of these women [and do they all have husbands?] really to blame for this? Isn't it possible that the women who want these procedures came up with the idea on their own? Yes, yes, I know the evil and all-powerful Patriarchy-Matrix put that thought in their heads in the first place. [Why can't the Patriarchy-Matrix every conspire to do something useful, like ensuring my Nationals win the World Series some time in the next decade or so?] But at what point do we hold women accountable for their own choices? After all, the gigantically clever and ironic women who write this blog are insightful enough to look down upon cosmetic surgery and the evil husbands who force it upon their wives. So why can't other women share in this wisdom? Is the Patriarchy-Matrix really to blame? Are the evil husbands really to blame? Or should these other women, who, as we recall, lack the wit and intellect of Broadsheet writers, be held responsible for their own choices?
Just asking.
Enjoy the poison this holiday season.
There is only one nozzle I want to insert into a woman's...Oh, never mind.
or good restaurants either, for that matter.
Gwen asked: "Why is this more acceptable/cute/newsworthy than it would be for a 100-year-old man to "wish" to touch a cheerleader?"
Because our culture regards male sexuality as predatory and female sexuality as not predatory. That's why female teachers who molest male students get house arrest instead of a long prison term.
In any case, I don't see anything gross about this old woman wanting to run her fingers thru the young hockey player's head. It's a bit silly, perhaps, but it is a harmless request and it was very good of the athlete to grant her wish. Nice fellow.
"Nor do we suffer the profound physical, spiritual or emotional trauma of miscarriage or abortion."
Physical, I'll give Mr Lewis. However, to write, as he does, that men "suffer none of the profound...spiritual or emotional trauma of miscarriage or abortion" is one of the most stunningly ignorant and offensive things I've read in quite some time. Men don't suffer spiritual or emotional trauma when a pregnancy ends unhappily? Really? I guess when that happens, most men just shrug their shoulders and go back to the football game on TV, eh? It just doesn't bother them much at all if they've spent months eagerly awaiting the birth of a child, only to discover that child will never be born alive, is that it?
Mr Lewis isn't a wise granddad. He's a nasty, cold-hearted bastard. I hope someone drops a cinderblock on his foot.
Jessica wrote: "Homosexuals are not all evil people and they should be tolerated, but that doesn't mean they should get to ruin children's lives, at least not legally."
But it is okay for heterosexual bigots to ruin the lives of homosexuals, right, Jess? Nice of you to allow that homosexuals ought to be "tolerated." However, in my experience, homosexuals don't care about being tolerated by people like you. They just want people like you, Jess, to butt the hell out of their lives and let them make their own decisions, just as all the other citizens of this republic are entitled to do.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The Maine fight was supposed to be the dress rehearsal for repealing California's Prop. 8 -- but gay marriage lost
Once one obtains Seriousness credentials in the Washington media, they are irrevocable no matter one's conduct.
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