Letters to the Editor
Erechtheides
Published Letters: 109 Editor's Choice: 8
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Try it?
[Read the article: My boyfriend wants an open relationship]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Open relationships are not trips to Europe.
Cary, would you have given this advice to a 24-year-old woman in the exact same situation?
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They forgot my favorite Daily Show travel guide:
[Read the article: Best fake names ever]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Let's Go Be A Dick In Nepal."
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Rushing to judgement?
[Read the article: What should I say to my husband?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To those who are analyzing this based on your comprehensive factual knowledge that all open relationships are doomed from the start, and those who are saying it's fake because anyone in an open relationship would be groovy and rational and could never get jealous: the LW never says that they have an open relationship. She says "we're pretty open-minded." She says that sometimes "this happens" at Burning Man; that doesn't mean it's happened to them before, nor that they'd discussed it beforehand. It seems like they dealt with it, but it also seemed to me that she was moving forward on the understanding that it was not an ongoing thing, at least not with this particular woman. I know it's much more fun to dissect a big fat target like open relationships, but this may be about something slightly more complicated than that.
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Hmm
[Read the article: Three years of Ahree]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The overall effect of this is quite eerie, but watching the glasses dance is kind of mesmerizing.
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re: Funny
[Read the article: Strippers turn up the heat at global warming conference]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Anonymous: What (straw?) women would those be, exactly?
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ABC?
[Read the article: Early-rising Americans not ready for pretty childless women]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Oh yeah, ABC thinks a WHOLE LOT of its viewers.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/09/11/pathto911/index.html
http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2006/09/08/path_to_9_11/index.html
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Finally....
[Read the article: Tom the Dancing Bug]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]An explanation for this:
http://www.askthepilot.com/snlions.html
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YAK
[Read the article: "Jackass Number Two"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Robert:
Actually, it's a yak. They were planning on using a bison, but apparently someone shot it before the filming date, and the yak was used as a replacement.
I only know this because Knoxville was on the Daily Show last night.
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Uh...
[Read the article: Mommie fearest]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Mazel tov, Heather!
(Better you than me.)
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Woah
[Read the article: Big man on campus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I went to grade school with that kid. When he was actually grade-school age, that is. The world is small and strange.
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straw men
[Read the article: Should abortion be prevented?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm pro-choice, just about everybody I know is pro-choice, and not a single one has ever, to my knowledge, denied that abortion is a painful, terrible thing that should be prevented whenever possible. It is at least as potentially physically risky as any other surgical or chemical operation, and the emotional toll is undeniable and would exist even without the screaming hordes outside women's health clinics.
In short-- I don't know anybody who thinks abortion is an unalloyed good.
Who are these people who are not acknowledging that prevention is important?
Sometimes choosing the lesser ill is all that can be done. I am pro-choice because I believe that it is a greater ill to bring a child into a family that can't support him, potentially ruining several lives including that of the unwanted child from the moment of his birth, than to terminate a pregnancy and keep a potential life from developing.
To me, pro-choice, pro-birth control, and pro-responsible sex education are things that naturally go together.
I wonder if Ms. Kissling's carefree abortion cheerleaders truly exist anywhere.
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No way
[Read the article: Dressing for sexual success]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Mostly, I'm shocked that the Post knows how to pluralize a neuter Latin noun properly, even for the sake of a lame-ass pun.
And anon, good-looking women -do- like sex. Just not with you.
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Actually, since he's getting so technical about it
[Read the article: Traditional values? Hastert flip-flops on Foley, again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Pederasty has not a thing to do with anal sex. The ancient Greeks invented it, and they liked it between the thighs, standing up. More than you all needed to know, possibly. But there it is.
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bill -
[Read the article: WayLay]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The actions done by the male figure are too obscure to understand on a first reading.
Is that so? They seemed pretty clear-cut to me.
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my favorite time of year
[Read the article: Taking back "Slut-o-ween"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm also irked by the "I'm a sexy cat!" costumes, but as others have mentioned, it's a night of pageantry and self-expression, and it's a valid, if insipid, choice to make.
This year, my fiance and I, both female, are planning on going out as Jeeves and Wooster (she does a frighteningly dead-on Bertie impression).
A few years ago I saw a pair of young women dressed as Sigfried and Roy(complete with little stuffed white tiger) wandering near St. Mark's.
There's plenty of creativity about. Let the cat girls, and those who like that sort of thing, have their fun. Make your own.
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To An Jiaoshi
[Read the article: I thought my wife wouldn't mind if I fooled around a little]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I just have to say that "hornivorousness" is the best neologism I've heard in a very long time. Is it your own?
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I call bullshit on "just wondering"
[Read the article: Sportscaster's gay fumble]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Tolerance" of lame-ass, bigoted stupidity isn't tolerance at all; it's playground cowardice.
Believe me, I like a good gay joke as much as the next dyke. And, frankly, I'm not all that worked up about this one. I've heard worse. But in this particular case it's neither funny nor particularly interesting, and the only people getting a chuckle out of it are the ones who giggle nervously whenever they think about two men together; i.e. morons insecure in their own sexuality.
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well, she's right.
[Read the article: Text message breakup]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You really can't.
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hmm
[Read the article: The Senate is set, but some House races are still undecided]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's pretty funny that there's a candidate Buchanan again too, this time around.
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riiiiiiiiiight
[Read the article: The Fix]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Camille Paglia is an intellectual because she's an Aries.
'Nuff said, I think.
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Sadly,
[Read the article: Trent Lott, minority whip?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Lott immediately withdrew his name from consideration on learning that the minority whip doesn't actually get to whip minorities.
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Why would anybody in their right mind
[Read the article: Trial by fryer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]eat at, much less open, a restaurant called Prune?
Ick.
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For a true heir to Pynchon
[Read the article: The fall of the house of Pynchon]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]check out Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon and his Baroque Trilogy.
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proximity
[Read the article: Holy lesbian matrimony!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It doesn't surprise me at all that this happened first in a small town, where everyone knows everyone else. The neighbors knew these women as people, not as an abstract menace.
Familiarity and real knowledge of one another is our best and only hope for any kind of tolerance.
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the gay Ann Coulter?
[Read the article: Perez Hilton's gay witch hunt]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]to the gay community, he's what Ann Coulter is to everyone else -- a crass, self-serving marketer disguised as an ideologue.
We already have one of those; her name is Camille Paglia.
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Oh, Colin
[Read the article: Powell: "Army is about broken"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's too late.
I always suspected there was a real human lurking in there somewhere; you've shown glimmers of it before, but you buckled when it mattered most.
It doesn't do anyone, including you, much good for you to grow a spine now, but I'm kind of glad that you have, anyway.