Letters to the Editor
KitchenGirl
Published Letters: 642 Editor's Choice: 39
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@ Fetboy, on spectator's sports
[Read the article: Daily wanking]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Recreational sex (and masturbation) isn't a spectator sport, just watching people have sex (or masturbate) is entertainment, and learning and developing sexual techniques is a hobby.
It was a turn of phrase. Are you this weirdly literal all the time?
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@ Leftychris and male GYNs
[Read the article: Taking off your bra for national security]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, good for you, sister! Because we all know that male gynecologists are all sexual predators masquerading as medical professionals.
Wow, you seemed pretty reasonable til right about here.
I won't see a male gynecologist because I am *extremely* uncomfortable exposing my ladyparts to a man with whom I am not intimately involved. I would not be surprised to find that men prefer male urologists, and would not see a female urologist unless there was no other option.
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John Cleese's 5 Questions
[Read the article: Rejoice! Every "Daily Show" ever is now online]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I look forward seeing again the very first ‘5 questions’ with Bill Murray (the first quest to get all five questions correct).
I loved John Cleese's answer when Kilborn asked him: "Why is English food so bad?" Cleese thought for a moment and replied, in that veddy veddy British deadpan way, "We had an Empire to run."
He got it right, of course.
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Back @ you, Lefty
[Read the article: Taking off your bra for national security]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm sorry you feel that way, but he's a medical professional. He's been trained to see what you're showing him, to answer questions about it, to treat conditions and diseases of those body parts, to make sure that everything is healthy and in working order. He's seen untold numbers of the same parts, for years and years. Undoubtedly he's bored silly by looking at vaginas in a clinical setting. He's not just some random dude off the street, or some drunk frat boy at a party.
I don't care. I didn't say he was going to molest me, or leer, or do anything bizarre or remotely unprofessional. All I said was, I don't want to have my legs in the air for any male other than the one I am intimate with. That's where I'm at, man. That is how I feel about my body.
You're getting yourself worked up for nothing, psyching yourself out for no good reason.
I'm not worked up over anything. I have a female doctor, and I'm very comfortable with her. She's awesome.
In 99.99% of cases at the very least, your visit to the male OB/GYN would pass without incident, in a completely discreet and professional way. If he were a smart and sensitive male OB/GYN, he'd make you as comfortable as possible and have a female assistant in the room with him at all times.
When I was in college, a nurse had to be in the room at all times, regardless of the sex of the doctor.
I think your extreme discomfort borders on silliness.
Huh. Fuck you.
It amazes me how women rant and rave demanding that men not sexually objectify them or reduce them to their genitalia, then they turn right around and objectify themselves and reduce themselves to genitalia by recoiling in horror from the thought of exposing their "ladyparts" to a trained and credentialed medical professional whose job it is to examine those very ladyparts. Good grief!
I am not the embodiment of all women, I am me. I am not ranting about being sexually objectified or being reduced to my vagina. I do not want a man who is not my sexual partner looking at or touching my pink bits, if I can avoid it. If I am dying on the table? By all means, have at it.
And I will continue to call them pink bits and ladyparts because "vagina" and "vulva" are not at all mellifluous, and besides the slang is pretty funny.
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@ Lefty re luggage screening
[Read the article: Taking off your bra for national security]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But after reading your post, I guess you feel the answer is to just get rid of all airport security altogether. No screening, no X-rays or metal detectors, nothing. After all, if security isn't 100% flawless and perfect and airtight, then by definition it's 100% worthless and unnecessary, right?
When 100% of checked luggage is screened, then you might begin to have a point.
The screening process that I experienced at Logan this summer: a woman who didn't speak any English looking at me and looking at my passport photo -- which was taken eight years ago -- and demanding to know why my hair was different (I had it up in a bun that day, it was down -- and nearly 10 inches longer -- in the photo). MY HAIR!!! They are *supposed* to be identifying facial features, and instead they are confused by the notion that someone could have gotten a haircut sometime over a span of 10 years. That was it.
That, my friend, is what they mean by "security theatre". That and the absurdity of having to put all my small belongings into a quart ziploc bag. Go over to the "Ask the Pilot" letters sections to read about the insane levels of idiocy and incompetence regarding security requirements. A couple of my favorites wer the person who was told to get rid of the *empty* plastic bottle, and the other person who was kicked out of of the security line for putting his stuff into a *gallon* sized ziploc bag.
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@ Canuckistan, sexual orientation isn't the issue
[Read the article: Taking off your bra for national security]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Though I do admit, I for one wonder if orientation might be more to the point: how would KitchenGirl feel about a stone dyke vs a totally swish queen (unlikely in an OB/GYN I know) digging around in her yaya?
Interesting question. Sexual orientation isn't actually the issue. My very first GYN visit was with a lesbian doctor. No problems there, except for the part where she told me that a chronic pain problem I have is all in my head. Other than her total failure to take my comments at face value and think that maybe it was something worth investigating, the visit was fine.
It's not a fear of being assaulted, it's more of a notion that these are things that are intimate to women, and I need to have a woman doctor to deal with them.
"Yaya" is a good one.