Letters to the Editor
Lestat1
Published Letters: 502 Editor's Choice: 21
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Why insult wanting of quality as a fetish?
[Read the article: This blade slices, it dices]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I had always been told that Japanese knives were the best, then German. Why can't a county be the best at something, espcially if there are thousands of years of practice behind it and why is it is a fetish to want the best?
I have the Henkles set because I received it as a wedding present.
If something is going to last me over 20 years, I have no problem spending a lot of money on it. My current set is about 5 years old and my home sharpening isn't working anymore so I'm going to need to find a knife sharpener person. Aren't we supposed to be throwing away fewer things?
I didn't used to cook a lot, so knives didn't really matter to me. Now that I spend a lot more time cooking from scratch, I am very aware of how the quality of the knife affects how much time you spend chopping stuff and how many cuts you end up with. Cheap knife that you can't keep sharp, hello cuts. Ever had your knife slip off an onion, I have and never again, never.
I've never owned a Japanese knife, so I cannot compare between the set of Henkles I have and one of the ones written about here. Though if I do ever need to purchase a new knife, I will look into a good quality Japanese one, I like the idea that they are lighter. I prefer the lightest knife we own to do most of my work, my husband prefers the heavier chefs knife. Though who the hell needs 42 knives? Put them in the dishwasher, oh hell no.
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I suppose what I meant Patrick
[Read the article: The veil meets American pinup art]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is basically, look at what women wore in Sixteen Candles.
Then take a look at what the girls are wearing in Mean Girls. See the Halloween scene, Lohan's character becomes a zombie bride, all the other girls are wearing skimpy mouse, bunny, cat costumes. Lohan's character feels left out and is not embraced into the party like the rest of the guests.
It does seem interesting that as women have gained more achievement in school and in jobs, that the media is showing us a much sexier version of young women and ladies.
Take a gander at what the girls wore on 90210 and then watch One Tree Hill.
True, no is forcing a western woman to don mini skirts and high heels. Though the nature of humans wanting to fit in, wanting to be liked and appreciated, is that many women may now feel that if they want to be well liked, popular, succesful, they are going to need to wear sexy clothing. There is also the case of it being very hard to just find jeans and pants that aren't low riders. It's not force in the sense of Sharia law, but it can feel like a kind of social forcing of you don't fit in if you don't wear this type of clothing everyone will ignore you if you don't wear this, if you aren't this weight.
Take another example of Cary's advice column. One day a woman wrote in that because of her style of dress, lack of make-up her boss was constantly accusing her of being a closeted lesbian and talking about her sexuality behind her back.
On an episode of Real Housewives of Orange County, the woman who owns an insurance company took her assistant who she praised as being a really hard worker and a blessing to have a full makeover because she needed to be taught how to dress.
Now the woman did appreciate the make-over(except the brazilian wax part) but her body languae showed she was slightly uncomfortable in the new style.
Also, see Clueless. Cher meets a new girl who dresses in the skater/stoner/grunge style. Cher just has to make her over, once the girl is made over into hip clothes and hair, now she is noticed, now people want to be her friend besides Cher.
So yes, women do have a choice on what to wear and to ignore all the ads of fashion magazines and the fashion depicted on TV shows and in movies. Though women who dress outside the mainstream, will often pay a price.