Letters to the Editor
DurianJoe
Published Letters: 1318 Editor's Choice: 69
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Why sweat the small stuff?
[Read the article: Bill Maher: "Don't show me your tits!" ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As more than a few people here have said, if you don't like the sight of a woman breastfeeding in public, just look the other way. You'll pass by unharmed, believe it or not. The same holds true for people who don't like to see two men kissing, or interracial couples, or anything else that still has taboo associated with it but in the end doesn't hurt anyone at all, but only discomforts people with hangups about it.
I've felt that way about public breastfeeding since the "controversy" first made the news. The point of my letter last night concerning caring for a dying person was that when you deal with things like that, you see how insignificant issues like public breastfeeding are, and what an enormous waste of time and energy it is for people to complain about it. If that's your biggest problem, consider yourself damn lucky.
To the anonymous posters here who went out of their way to actually write letters insulting me for what I wrote last night, I will admit that at first it made me angry to read your letters. I wondered what kind of people would write such things, and then realized that you, whoever you are, are too pathetic to even get angry over, now or in the future. I ended up pitying you instead. Like my subject line says, why sweat the small stuff?
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Annoying activists?
[Read the article: Bill Maher: "Don't show me your tits!" ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And to people who think lactivists are just being annoying, they have to be. People simply don't bother to think and talk about issues until you do something controversial. No civil rights progress has ever been made non controversially, or else the matter at hand wouldn't be an issue in the first place. -- Karey43
Exactly. Activists are protesting something, and that means confrontation and saying or doing things which upset the people who accept the status quo. Does anyone think that the black activists who sat down in all-white diners didn't annoy the local bigots?
However, there's annoying, and there's obnoxious. An activist for any cause needs to know the difference and act accordingly.
One more thing. LeftyChris and Fetboy: get a room already!
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To Anonymous 3:03 p.m.
[Read the article: Genital mutilation: Good news, and bad]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You're a conservative white guy who is opposed to FGM. I'm a liberal white guy who agrees with you.
It's regrettable that you endured grief from kneejerk liberals in your college. Bear in mind that no matter how smart college students are, or think they are, that age bracket is notorious for its self-righteouness. Part of that stems from kids suddenly learning about all the bad things which happen in the world, and wanting to run out and stop it now, and wondering why everyone else isn't running out into the streets yelling and screaming. The good news is that most of these well-intentioned young people, be they liberal or conservative, mature in time. The few who don't lose the grace factor of youth and become the kinds of adults whom the rest of us want to palm strike in the face; a good number become professional political operatives, and in that case, many a palm strike is called for.
Anyway, you don't need to be liberal or conservative to oppose both FGM, and cultural relativism.
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Hey Leftychris
[Read the article: Bill Maher: "Don't show me your tits!" ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"What, you mean at the same motel where you and AKA Smith are making such a racket with the moaning and banging against the walls?"
That ain't AKASmith, that's your wife.
Dude, like you said to someone earlier, relax and take a few deep bong hits. I was kidding around with you and Fetboy. Sheesh!
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Hunters: We conserve animals so that we can have something to shoot and kill.
[Read the article: Condors vs. the NRA]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Unless you're a subsistence hunter who must go out and kill animals in order to eat, the typical hunter is nothing but a person who kills animals for fun. The guys who dress up in camouflage and traipse into the woods on weekends could just as easily go to the store and buy the food they need. Even if they eat what they kill, they do the killing because they enjoy going out there and spilling blood. That's a sickness.
Most people do not hunt, so catering to hunters is just catering to a noisy small minority. California and the other states should do what is necessary to preserve condors and other animals, Elmer Fudd and his cohorts be damned.
Hunters' fees pay to keep predator populations down, and living target populations up. That's not wildlife preservation, that's hunter hobby preservation. We don't need hunters' fees to preserve wildlife. The money is there, it just needs to be spent wisely. Maybe billions every year spent in Iraq could be diverted to the environment. Ya think?
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PSUDain, c'mon, you can't be serious.
[Read the article: The gay voter's guide to the GOP]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You're a gay Republican? Hey, I'm a vegan hunter who raises veal on the side and wears fur underwear! Really, no matter how you try to rationalize it, you support a political party which demonizes gay people just like you.
I guess you can be a gay Republican, so long as you're happy with gays remaining second-class citizens. Otherwise, WTF?
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@ BluesmanMark
[Read the article: The gay voter's guide to the GOP]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm not your typical "liberal" in that I'm not PC, nor am I tolerant of outright stupid idiots that keep voting for people that ruin my country. I personally would be happy if every conservative & libertarian moron would just drop dead. I honestly have no use for any of them. Then perhaps we'd have the chance to properly rebuild our country.
Best thing I've ever read on Salon.
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Silenced, that's a false choice.
[Read the article: Condors vs. the NRA]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A person can support both human rights and wildlife conservation. The two are not mutually exclusive.