Letters to the Editor
healthyskeptic
Published Letters: 671 Editor's Choice: 14
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Zoshig in japan
[Read the article: Couric goes to bat for Lohan]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I live in Japan a country where basically all entertainers are of the caliber of a Paris Hilton, LILO or BritSp. -- Zoshig
Ah, no. Like many nipponophiles you sound rather uncultured.
Japan's pop media is as bad as our pop media. Their pop culture icons for teen consumerism are like our "back street boys" and "American idol" and the vapid crap in our teen and fashion magazines and such. Their soap operas and TV is actually slightly better than ours. Their pop music is horrible, but so is ours.
however, if one knows where to look, Japan does have many brilliant entertainers and artists, who are in fact some of the best in the world. And that has been the case for centuries. Just as we do, if one knows where to look.
Japan's visual aesthetics have heavily influenced the fine arts for centuries, and continue to do so. The impressionist and expressionist movements which really shaped modern art were heavilly inspired by Japonism.
Kurosawa was of course one of the most admired and imitated directors of all times. "Beat" Takeshi Kitano is another director known for art films, and he's a popular comedian as well. There are plenty of others.
Japan of course started J-pop of which there is plenty of insipid examples, but there are also highly respected bands in that genre from Japan which have been globally influential. Japan has lots of good underground rock, techno, and hip-hop artists, and some uniquely Japanese fusions. While I find many Japanese jazz artists a bit bland, Japanese consumers are huge jazz fans and a very important for labels such as Blue Note.
Some of the most highly regarded fashion designers known for artistry above commercialism, people like Issey Miyake, come from Japan.
I could go on.
Just because you're clueless doesn't mean everyone is.
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-- Ardeaem
[Read the article: Battered and fired]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Like I said, we'll see when this case is settled, and we'll see who was right. I'm confident this case will be settled in favor of the kindergarten, and all your misinformed babbling about the law will have been worth not a shit.
PS, I'd also lay a side bet you have regular work problems, probably have been fired quite a lot or on your way to being fired, and are a real whiny PITA to work with at your "good job" whatever that is.
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stomach cancer?
[Read the article: Battered and fired]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The last time I worked at a daycare, our managing director had stomach cancer.
Stomach cancer is your analogy for a battered face from DV? Hello? Disease is hard for children to understand, but kindergarten kids shouldn't be exposed to DV at all.
And stomach cancer doesn't call personal judgment regarding family and childcare into question the way exposing one's own children to an abusive batterer does.
For chirst sake, this guy was so bad he was beating her on a public street in front of their children with a flower pot. Obviously she's a victim, but it also says a lot about her personal character and judegement. She was married to the guy, and she allowed this stuff to happen, and that's pattern behavior.
Was this the first time he's hit her? In the face? With a flower pot?!! On the street of all places? In front of their kids?!
How many times has this happened before? How many times has she failed to put an end to abuse, and allowed her own kids to be exposed to that sort of violence?
And she wants to be the Director of a kindergarten? she wants to be the person who is supposed to have the best judgment regarding childcare? You got to be kidding me. It would be like somebody who goes down dark alleys every Sat night and gets mugged, then applying to be police commissioner, to get tough on crime.
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@Dominique
[Read the article: Battered and fired]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Would you consider "currently remaining in a violent relationship, along with my children" to be a good qualification for the CV of a childcare Director? Because, as of her hiring, she was doing exactly that.
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btw, speaking of whiny
[Read the article: Hillary's chest war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Our bodies, ourselves, as they say. That's what we have (or don't, in many cases), and in view of the amount of self-loathing and discomfort many women feel about their racks, too much fretting over how a particularly powerful one gets accentuated, hidden or decorated while traveling a road to the White House seems gleefully minor. -- Traister
"the amount of self-loathing and discomfort many women feel about their racks"
wtf?
Would someone please explain to Traister how whiny and wimpy that is, and how it's just about 180' from any kind of empowerment or presidential sounding issue.
Christ, it amazes me any woman can read BS thinking she's reading about "feminism" and women's issues, when it's really the exact same commercial, tabloid, garbage, for childlike girl-women, filling all the fluff fashion magazines.
But what do you expect from BS fluffers, who can't even tell the difference between COSMOS the science magazine and Cosmopolitan online, as demonstrated in a recent post. What bimbos!
Joan Walsh should be absolutely ashamed she's doing as much as anyone to infantilize women with this fluff.
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@ cordelia525
[Read the article: Hillary's chest war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No, it wasn't balanced.
It was still whiny pseudo-feminism claiming Clinton and women in general are victims for having their cleavage discussed, or that people should pretend cleavage isn't being deliberately displayed.
Most business attire, and even most casual attire, is close chested. For both men and woman. Unbuttoning in a business context will get attention for either gender.