Letters to the Editor
AKA Smith
Published Letters: 4698 Editor's Choice: 83
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Life in the Kitty Culture
[Read the article: Her sexy T-shirt says "Kitty Not Happy" -- is that OK at work?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Betty Boop was more Gen-X. Juicy and Kitty are for the younger set. All are about fashion and sex, but not the way some people want to read it. For some people here Sex equals Pussy, period. Which goes to show how limited they are. They should maybe diversify a bit.
I think the Kitty Culture is really about power and control and that the sex part of it is more sidebar than the issue itself. The Kitty Culture probably has much more to do with young women distinguishing themselves from their mother's generation than it has to do with sex and guys. Old feminists (like me) thought that women should downplay their sexuality and play up their brains. My daughter's generation's response is along the lines of "Take your brain out and play with it because we can have sex and promotions too."
They're right.
Just as the entire culture is more openly sexual, so is the workplace more tolerant of sexual expression. However, Kitty Not Happy and Kitty Has Claws is much more about power than it is about sex and that is why some fellas have their knickers in a twist. Such Kitty sentiments say: "You'd better pay attention to Kitty 'cause Kitty can have your job and still turn you down when it comes to sex." In other words, men's opinions about what women have a right to wear and how they get to express their sexuality and their intelligence is much more marginalized.
The LW's fears about this obvious shift may have more to do with his attitude about the growing workplace power of younger women than about his sexual attraction to said t-shirt wielding Kitty person.
As to who actually composed the LW's rather silly letter: Round up the usual suspects!
Over to you Brightstar.
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What about Cheney?
[Read the article: Reporting for duty, sir]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He's the war engineer. Shouldn't he get to be on the front lines too?
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It's one of those "evolving" stories.
[Read the article: Her sexy T-shirt says "Kitty Not Happy" -- is that OK at work?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Look folks! The LW has given himself a promotion in his latest missive. Suddenly he has THE POWER.
Sure he does.
Over to you Mike Dover.
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And the charge may be
[Read the article: Under investigation: Alberto Gonzales]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]obstruction of justice by the AG?
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I agree with you Allie.
[Read the article: And babies make 16]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It is insane, but do we want to protect women from doing insane things? That would sure make a bushel full of new laws.
I don't think these women set out hoping for these dreadful outcomes, do you? Instead, they set out with too much hope.
What I would do to bring pressure to bear is that I would try to determine if my medical insurer covered such matters and what the insurer's policy was. This is because I would not want to subsidize such insanity with my hard-earned dollars.
(I am only imagining here that I actually could afford medical insurance. As a self-employed sole proprietor with a slim profit margin, I cannot.)
We will no doubt have to make some tough choices eventually about what is covered and what is not if we get some sort of better government health insurance program. When I was on Medicaid, I was not allowed to get my genecological health care from Planned Parenthood -- my usual provider. We need to be extremely careful about wanting the government to step into these matters. Remember the slogan "Get Your Laws Off My Body!"
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HeatherEastman, I hope I would not accuse someone of hypocrisy . .
[Read the article: And babies make 16]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]with whom I was merely having an honest disagreement. I don't think people in this thread who are responding with understandable outrage to the subject at hand are hypocrites. I merely hope that they would think a bit about making such choices a matter of law.
We who are prochoice have much to lose if we panic over the messes made by emerging technologies and greedy people. To me, it is of utmost importance to keep our eyes on the real issue of our right to our own reproductive choices.
As to harm to children, I will tell you frankly that I think probably 50% of the people who have children have not thought through the overwhelming responsibilities of parenting. I would say as many as 20% make damn bad parents to their born children. However, we don't give parenting tests to prospective parents, do we?
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The women who do this sort of thing will shop around until . . .
[Read the article: And babies make 16]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]they find a medical professional who will give them what they want.
By coincidence, yesterday I was looking for an old essay by former Mormon and feminist Sonia Johnson when I came across a site established by ex-Mormons. One of the posters was cartoonist and former Mormon Steve Benson, the grandson of "The Prophet" Ezra Taft Benson. Steve was writing about how the Mormon church not only requires its female members to have lots of children, but they are also encouraged to keep having them until they produce a boy.
I don't know if any posting here have ever lived in a Mormon community (there are several in Arizona), but the pressure to make babies is enormous. Mormon women who might be determined to have children but are not getting pregnant right away (even when they are young and have time) would likely seek out Mormon doctors who believe they would be doing God's work by enabling these women to turn out as many children as possible.
Roughly the concept is ensoulment, which is one the Catholic church and some other religions use to justify their opposition to abortion and even forms of birth control. Mormons take it a step futher. There are "spirits" waiting to take human form. Having as many children as possible aids these "spirits."
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Brightstar, everyone knows you're not happy.
[Read the article: Her sexy T-shirt says "Kitty Not Happy" -- is that OK at work?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You have made it abundantly clear in post after post. I just didn't realize your name is Richard. Just a hint: Speaking about yourself in the third person is not going to get that date with whomever that you have been whining for endlessly in almost every other post.