Letters to the Editor
BettyBoop
Published Letters: 96 Editor's Choice: 9
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RW your are frothing at the mouth
[Read the article: The dude vote]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why does this topic make you people so enraged? I just don't understand the crazy vitriol from Obama supporters. Like you, I will support the Democratic candidate who gets the nomination, even if (in my case) it's Obama. And guess what? I'll be watching him. I hope you will be too.
BTW, Obama's voting history in the Illinois Senate aren't really Hillary talking points. There was an extensive article about it in the LA Times before the California Primaries. Also, you don't address his six "accidental" votes. (Oops! Pressed the wrong button . . . again.)
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This has become a story about a father who has 96 daughters
[Read the article: "Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]but only cares about his one son, who can't give him the time of day. The father wants the son to inherit his position as mayor of Whoville. Since when can't girls be mayor? I hated that this change was made to the book. Plus: the chief villan is a mother, with a baby in her pouch. It's really misogynistic, this movie. I'm surprised no one's noticed. No wonder Hillary is taking such heat.
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No, Seuss is not. Suess was a genius.
[Read the article: "Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hollywood, on the other hand? Yeah. Misogynistic.
In the book Little Cindy Loo-Who (I think that was her name) was the final "yop" that allowed the little world to be heard. Not this dark little boy who'd invented a noise machine that enabled the world to be heard. The message was twisted in a sad way. And I didn't enjoy having to explain to my son and daughter that the girls couldn't be mayor because they were girls.
Juliebird, I understand that people like you don't want to believe sexism is still around. If that's what you want to believe, don't let me stop you. I don't care.
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Thank you Gary Kamiya for a brilliant essay
[Read the article: Rev. Jeremiah Wright isn't the problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Personally, Obama's association with Wright pushed me toward him, not away. I've never seen Obama as being for real. Handsome, confident, well-educated and slightly superior, Obama's always seemed like a member of the privileged white establishment to me, despite his taupe complexion. But that he listens to a guy like Wright, and is married to a woman who said "for the first time in my life I'm proud to be an American," well, he's sounding more and more like the real deal to me: A true liberal in the American sense, with a genuine desire to do the right thing for all human beings despite the brayings of "traitor" of the patriots.
People, whether within corporations, schools or countries, who insist on only praising the establishment are very dangerous; anywhere you find them in abundance is a place on the verge of doom.
Thank you Gary, for a piece that deserves an award.
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Agree to a Degree
[Read the article: Pretty heads will roll ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I just finished the first season (via Netflix). I have already picked up that Henry is somewhat angst-ridden by his treatment of Katherine. But Henry, as depicted in this series anyway, is a shallow beast. Oh, and he doesn't really think women are particularly valuable; so, how sad can he be, really, to see Katherine go? It's not like he saw her daily in those 20 years he was married to her. He'd long quit sleeping with her. He's sad, but not that sad. There will be no moments at the swimming pool watching the birds; he's not that deep.
I am thoroughly enjoying this series. It is what it is. It delivers the escapist goods for the high-brow crowd; it is no day-time soap.
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Wow Cary, you really are so unsophisticated
[Read the article: The strange case of midnight renegade oleander gentrification camouflage]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]. . . maybe she watches the TV, watches Obama and thinks, maybe, just maybe, something will go right in her lifetime.
Good god, man. Maybe she likes Clinton? At any rate, all y'all are taking the white guilt a little far here. Yes, the oleander bullshit sucks. My advice is help the neighbor get rid of oleander if they want the help. But maybe they welcome the shelter. Don't romanticize this: the white rescuer coming to help the downtrodden black woman and her sick son. That's just embarrassing for you (and them).
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I've read this before
[Read the article: Have a daughter? You wimp]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I knew about the association between high-testosterone mothers having more boys about seven years ago. I get annoyed when stuff like this is trotted out as groundbreaking.
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Baby Einstein is fascinating to babies
[Read the article: The parent trap]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I used 'em, but not to make my baby smarter. I used it to give myself a freakin' break. My babies were engrossed. I took a shower, or maybe just sat there and stared at the super low-production valued Mozart. To this day, both my kids can hum Mozart, Beethoven, Bach--and identify the composers when they hear them on the car radio . . . is that really so terrible? I don't think so. Yet I certainly don't attribute their good intellects to Baby Einstein for god's sake. They're smart because they have smart parents.
But yeah, the marketers do prey and I like this article for pointing this out. The baby-proofers. Good god. I had a cash-strapped friend who spent twelve-hundred bucks to have a railing installed in front of her hearth to save the baby from bonking it's little head on the fireplace. That's just idiocy.
As far as the classes: I felt so crazily isolated after the birth of my first. When he was six weeks old, I joined a mommy and me support group and it was the best thing, to this day, that I've ever done for my kids (now 5 and 8). I learned so much from other moms. We met in parks. We talked about how hard it was to transition from being a corporate big wig to a milk machine. We were sad together about our bodies. We were overjoyed together about how much we loved our babies. Moms need to get together in some organized way. I swear, it should be mandated. One member of our mom-gang had post-partum psychosis. She told us about how her son would appear as a demon to her sometimes. We marched her into the pediatrician's office, and then drove her to her psychiatrist appointments and she got help. Her boy is fine now.
I guess I'm saying this: if it brings you together with other moms, it's OK to spend the extra bucks. If it claims to raise your kid's IQ, it's probably bullshit.