Letters to the Editor
lonewolfy
Published Letters: 472 Editor's Choice: 20
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Katie and Hillary == Bonds & Vick
[Read the article: Was Katie Couric railroaded?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Does it TRULY serve the championing of gender & minority rights when a minority or female who fails / makes a misstep is automatically beatified as a victim or racism or sexism?
Katie Couric fails to make the CBS Evening News the #1 network news show in ratings. (She gets $15 million a year - and the show stays in the cellar at #3.)
Is she being pushed out because of failure to meet standards?
Nooooooo....it's only because of the evil sexist patriarchy.
Hillary Clinton was crowned the next Dem presidential nominee/President once she announced her candidacy in early 2007. Instead, an upstart called Barack Obama is giving her the struggle of a lifetime in competing for the nomination.
Is it because many voters have serious misgivings about Clinton's voting record, electability and platform?
Noooooo......it's only because of the evil sexist patriarchy.
Barry Bonds is as vilified as Mark McGwire & Roger Clemens. Michael Vick is tarred and feathered by the media and by animal lovers.
Is it because the former used steroids and sullied baseball's home run records...and because the latter committed indescribable acts of cruelty against dogs??
Noooooo......it's only because of the evil racist oppressors.
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~~sighhhh~~ When these knee-jerk reflexive defenses by well-meaning feminists and anti-racism activists finally cease, the progressive movement as a whole will earn a lot more respect...both from within (e.g. me) and from outsiders alike.
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I agree about the "black-and-white" oversimplification
[Read the article: Attack of the "freemales"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]These articles make it seem like to be single and happy is to reflexively eschew or turn one's nose up at relationships and marriage.
I am a 29-y.o. single guy. I am comfortable being single/independent. I am largely okay (if not super-happy) with my life.
Does this mean I am against romantic relationships and marriage? Does thie mean I think getting married will imprison me and stifle my life?
Hell no. I would like to meet a nice girl, fall in love and spend the rest of my life with her. I'm happy as a single - but I would also be happy(-ier?) in a healthy romantic relationship.
Articles like these reinforce tired, sexist, irrational notions that spouses are the old ball-and-chain - and that marriage by definition constrains your ability to pursue dreams, etc etc. What a bunch of crock.
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Yes, Virginia - you CAN be a happy single who is also open to finding love.
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@ Wanak70
[Read the article: Attack of the "freemales"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Happy freemales and happy bachelors are in the right way. Learn meditation. Travel. Work. Meet people. Enjoy and don't get trapped into a conventional lifestyle. Life is much richer than that.
You're setting up a false choice here.
Why does marriage equal compulsory conventional lifestyle?
Does becoming married somehow automatically prevent one from meditating, traveling, working or meeting new people?
(These are rhetorical questions, btw - and the answer to both is NO).
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I'm good friends with a married couple who work regular 8-to-r jobs and own a duplex. They also went to Kenya and Sicily last year...and both are practicing Zen Buddhists.
I'm friends with another married couple who both volunteered in the Peace Corps. They now teach English in China - and haven enjoyed traveling to far corners of the world *gasp* together.
Conversely, I know many single people who live dreadfully "conventional" lifestyles; they aren't out there finding themselves or saving the world...they're in nightclubs seeking hookups and getting shitfaced - or watching "Sex & the City" reruns and thinking they're as fabulous as the show's characters.
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The stereotypes you espouse are as close-minded and limiting as you claim the institution of marriage to be.
Just because one chooses to spend their lives (mostly) in the presence of a loved one - and just because you choose to legally marry that person - does not mean you cannot do anything and everything you want. If your mate is right for you, he/she will understand, support and encourage you.
A "rich" life is within everyone's grasp - single, or married.