Letters to the Editor
dick dworkin
Published Letters: 683 Editor's Choice: 3
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animals don't have rights? none at all? not even the right not to be tortured in the most perverted way?
[Read the article: An Olympic disgrace]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If animals have no rights then NO ONE has the right to SET ANY LIMIT AT ALL ON WHAT CAN BE DONE TO THEM BY ANYONE FOR ANY REASON. Since I take it as a given then very few people accept this extreme position the question only remains WHAT SPECIFIC RIGHTS do animals have, or should animals have.
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if an animal doesn't have a "right" not to be treated in a certain way there is no justification for anyone interfering in how anyone treats it
[Read the article: An Olympic disgrace]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]or are you saying that every culture has a right to make a collective decision to do ANYTHING they want to animals, and no one has the right to pressure them?
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if some people are willing to let other people decide how to treat animals and anything they decide is fine
[Read the article: An Olympic disgrace]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]then there is probably nothing that can be said to change their minds. Obviously people who think there is an issue to be dealt with aren't going to change their minds either.
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Animals obviously don't possess the right to live. Lacking that, they have no other inherent rights. They essentially have the status of animate object.
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't know what this means, not much, obviously. Condemned criminals don't have the legal right to live but that doesn't mean there are no limits on what can be done to them.
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come up with another word then that identifies the female supremacist anti male attitudes that people refer to when they use the word feminist
[Read the article: This is what a feminist looks like. This, too. Also this]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]very few people want to take away women's right to vote for instance. Don't try and pretend that it doesn't exist because there is no word for it, or more accurately don't try to prevent people from talking about it because there is no word for it. I agree that the term feminist is not ideal, it means so many things.
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you're right TCF everyone is a whiner the only real difference is that men still want to have sex with female whiners
[Read the article: Welcome to the "menaissance"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]but women don't want male ones.
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break your fantasy mind screed, but some men and women have always lived in blissful egalitarian relationships, well before feminism existed.
[Read the article: This is what a feminist looks like. This, too. Also this]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]it is highly debatable that this was ever widespread. Obviously the current female supremacist solution is less that ideal, at least from a male point of view, but denial of reality isn't going to produce a solution either. If you mean that no one has yet invented ANY system that works well for everyone, that is certainly true.
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kiarnit you perfectly illustrate the problem, women aren't ruling when they decide how men should keep the house
[Read the article: Welcome to the "menaissance"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]they are standing up for their right to have the house kept the way they are entitled to have it. The rule is if you tell someone else what to do and get away with it you are ruling. Women can do as little housework as they like and men can't and don't do a thing about it. Men can't control what women do, no matter how justified they think they would be in doing so. This is the difference.
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But some don't know another way yet to set proper relationship boundaries.
[Read the article: Welcome to the "menaissance"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There is no way they CAN EVER set them because men have no innate leverage; if they make any trouble for the women (in the absence of the man having REAL power which men no longer have) she will cease to be attracted to him sexually and there will not be a relationship (even if they are living in the same house and sharing child care).
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go find 'em, put them on a shelf or mantle somewhere and if she pouts about it, remind her who half the house belongs to and there are always younger hotter women out there.
[Read the article: Welcome to the "menaissance"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]are you serious? Most women can CREDIBLY issue the threat you describe (because they are willing to go without if they have to), most men CANNOT (because they aren't). Does the whole issue really hang on this refusal to see or admit the obvious?
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so you basically acknowledge lestat that they only way men can have a sexual relationship where they have any real influence
[Read the article: Welcome to the "menaissance"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]is when it is with strippers, porn, or with women where there is no long term expectation on either side. I think you are making my point. Do you women not see how you are contradicting yourselves here? Actually I know that you do.
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embryos can and do implant outside a womans uterus, but since the machinery for detatching the fetal blood supply
[Read the article: What do you say about a pregnant man?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]doesn't exist they cause fatal bleeding if they get very large. If this problem could be overcome men could get pregnant.
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smith why don't you tell other women they should admit the truth
[Read the article: Welcome to the "menaissance"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]since you obviously know what it is and since men aren't allowed to say it or at least can't be listened to if they do. I don't know what it would accomplish though, apart from an honest discussion, which I suppose is why no one does it.
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he never went away, except among idiots and liars
[Read the article: The resurrection of John Maynard Keynes ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]well the liars always knew he was there they just didn't tell the idiots.
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why would you indeed
[Read the article: What do you say about a pregnant man?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]far from men getting pregnant I think it is far more likely in the future that NOBODY will. It's on the verge now of becoming like housecleaning; only people without money do it for themselves. In the future the process can probably be automated completely.
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it's a given for any rational person that this will happen if there is no oversight
[Read the article: Is Briana Waters a terrorist?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]the wingers thought that as long as "their people" were in charge they would go after their common terrorist AND culture war enemies and it looks like they were right.
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what in the hell are you talking about....anyway
[Read the article: The resurrection of John Maynard Keynes ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]all govts. most emphatically including the Chinese govt. very much rely on Keynesian economic principles to manage their economies. The only ones who ever didn't were ones which due toweakness, whether innate or circumstantial, were browbeaten into trying neoliberal bullshit schemes by well connected Americans, and they all have learned their lesson now.
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people will always want to PRODUCE their own kids, no question there
[Read the article: What do you say about a pregnant man?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]but I think lots of women would forgo incubating them if they could.
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of course feminist don't belive that they are ruling or dominating when they are in charge that is the whole point
[Read the article: This is what a feminist looks like. This, too. Also this]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]and no amount of bullshit women's studies propaganda will fool anyone with even half a brain. When women get what they want they are not dominating, they are getting what they are entitled too and nothing more. Yeah, we get it.
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I suspect you might be right julie about the perils of artificial incubation, I wonder though how we will know for sure before it is too late.
[Read the article: What do you say about a pregnant man?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If it is done with animals and there are problems we will, but if it is more subtle than what can be detected using animals I don't know if people will all refrain.
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if "Mr Smith" was as picky as "Mrs. Smith" sex would cease and the human race would cease
[Read the article: Welcome to the "menaissance"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]that is the point. Technology will provide a solution to this problem and then sex WILL cease, more than it has already, except among submissive men, bi and gay men, and men who look like Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise (to pick two examples than may NOT be perfectly applicable but I think the point is clear).
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women ARE NOT men with vaginas, if they were straight men could get laid as easily and as often
[Read the article: Welcome to the "menaissance"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]as gay men of comparable attractiveness. I know that some women insist on claiming that they can but it is a lie and every straight man AND every gay man and ESPECIALLY every bi man knows it.
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I wouldn't be surprised if some mechanism had evolved to allow dominant women to produce sons since
[Read the article: Have a daughter? You wimp]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]the offspring tend to have the status of the mother and among social mammals it is universally the case that status matters more for reproductive success in males than it does in females. High status helps men more than women, (a woman can have only one kid a year no matter how high her status is), and low status hurts men more because any female can fine someone to knock her up but not every loser male can find a mate.
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I saw a Jerry Springer once where the wife decided she was a lesbian and she wanted her husband to get a sex change
[Read the article: What do you say about a pregnant man?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"If you really loved me you would do it" She said. I'm not making this up.