Letters to the Editor
dick dworkin
Published Letters: 820 Editor's Choice: 3
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At least the Reformed jews do? Maybe I'm crazy though.
[Read the article: Vatican to women: No stinkin' girls allowed!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They do but those who claim exclusive connection to the real truth, in this case the Orthodox, have about as much respect for reform Jews and what they do as a bible banging gay bashing fundie has for a gay unitarian.
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Contrary to feminist caricatures, most of us aren't actually looking for total world domination.)
[Read the article: The education gender gap]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No, just to have everything your way, (i.e no "discrimination" "sexism" "objectification" etc) an entirely different thing.
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Kind of like getting a dog to walk on it's hind legs. The real question is why would it want to?
[Read the article: Older women: Sexy or scary?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If it has a choice betweeen starvation, no sex(extinction), or walking on it's hind legs all the time it will probably walk on it's hind legs thus demonstrating how incompetent dogs are at walking.
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this is why a prominent insider saying it matters, they can't refuse to talk about it because it is all "partisan"
[Read the article: Interview with former "Donahue" producer and MSNBC pundit Jeff Cohen]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]and when they are forced to talk about it they are revealed.
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What you do in office does not belong to you, it belongs to us: we paid you for it. Your experience in office is not yours to be sold.
[Read the article: Scott McClellan comes clean]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is absurd, you can't "own" someones experiences. You can prevent them from revealing certain information or you could even make them agree not to do certain things as a condition of taking certain jobs, but even in the unlikely event that it was constitutional to prevent anyone who works for the govt. from ever talking about their experiences it would mean 1) No one sane would ever work in govt. 2)We would never find out most of what the people in govt. were doing.
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Since most careers are dead ends
[Read the article: Women trade dead-end relationships for dead-end careers?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]that will be the kind that most people have.
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There is going to be a really big backlash.
[Read the article: Is Wii Fit the new striptease?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Not if people have a CONVENIENT way to blur their faces and do other things to preserve their anonymity and therefore protect themselves against punishment/being made an example of by those who are trying to force people to behave "properly".
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n which people choose to flaunt their body and give their sexuality a public aspect
[Read the article: Is Wii Fit the new striptease?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]the question, Mel, is why this is considered a ridiculous extreme.
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the disconnect is simple to explain:
[Read the article: Why political candidates should be sucking up to women]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As long as anyone has the power to make them unhappy women are powerless and oppressed in their own eyes. Men are programmed, by both culture and biology, to understand that the world, or more specifically the people in it, don't exist for the purpose of making them happy (it's based on reproductive role, women know that NATURE can be tough i.e pregnancy and childbirth but they expect the role of other PEOPLE to be supportive; because men don't have to go through that they DO have to fight for opportunities and be rejected).
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and therfore don't have the deep seated feeling on an emotional level
[Read the article: Why political candidates should be sucking up to women]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]that there is something "unnatural" about other people not doing what they want them to.
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A more accurate number would be one that reflected the actual amounts of disposable moneys after expenses that are available to the different groups.
[Read the article: Why political candidates should be sucking up to women]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]For most men that would be zero: ALL money is spent on necessities either by the definition of both or the definition of the woman i.e. for her they are necessities and for him that means they are necessities too, if he is going to have a life.
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I strongly suspect there were better avenues than this
[Read the article: More on "the YouTube divorcée"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why do you assume this. When people have no money and no way to live, or at any rate no way to have a life, they tend to get desperate. Everyone needs their own.
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since there are as many women as men and they have as much money why has the product been tailored to a male audience
[Read the article: Sex and the box office]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]is it because when couples go to movies the man usually pays (even if this is true it's unclear why this would lead to him making the choice, at least in my experience). Once a product is pitched to a particular audience then only the people who like that product show up to have influence on what is produced. It's like talk radio, once it became right wing only wingers listened to it.
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it's not the same situation but when Brokeback Mtn came out lots of people predicted big changes in what would get made
[Read the article: The superheroes of "Sex and the City"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]and that movie doesn't seem to have given birth to a new genre. Is it just my lack of awareness or did that movie have no effect at all on the industry.
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I don't know how much money the people involved have but a lot of the letter writers don't seem to be aware that for most people most of what they are suggesting can not be done
[Read the article: I'm an exhausted caregiver on the point of collapse]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]because the resources to make it happen simply do not exist for people to finance or to do ANY of this privately. Either old people can stay with it enough to manage with a little help or they are taken care of with whatever public/insurance resources become available to them WITHOUT the use of paid advocates etc. because most people don't have the money to pay for them. People have to work every day to survive, they can't dump it and travel to take care of ANYONE.
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if you really want to spare your kids this you probably can unless you get alzhiemers(sic)
[Read the article: I'm an exhausted caregiver on the point of collapse]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you stay thin, maintain good cardiovascular fitness, maintain good joint flexibility, maintain muscle strength, (all of the forgoing can be done by anyone who is willing to eat right and exercise unless they have a congenital disability or are in an accident) plan ahead, and are determined to be self sufficient even if it involves accepting limitations you probably will be able to keep going on your own until you are close to death. It won't always work this way of course but very few people do all these things and those who do are much more likely to have a good result. The second, (or possibly the leading depending on how the evidence is evaluated) cause of dementia are vascular problems and mini strokes the vast majority of which are due to damage to the cardiovascular system due to poor eating/consumption habits and lack of appropriate exercise.
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she's not very attractive
[Read the article: A giant vulva bicycle taxi hits the streets of Finland]
[Read more letters about this article: Here](and what I am comparing it to doesn't involve surgery, I don't think)
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First, I was dependent on keeping my aunt's good will
[Read the article: I'm an exhausted caregiver on the point of collapse]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is an important point: it is entirely impossible to say what should be done or what could be done without taking into account who has the legal and financial power in the situation. When people are legally competent and in control of the money there isn't much you can make them do no matter how out of it they are. When they don't have the power you can FORCE them to do the "right" thing but they may very well get VERY pissed off and stay that way. Without knowing which type of situation is being discussed it is almost impossible to comment intelligently on what can or what should be done.
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Reminds you a little bit of the whole "Does size matter debate," doesn't it?)
[Read the article: Your fuel efficiency is so hot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Actually it doesn't, because size really does, or at least it can, mattter.