Letters to the Editor
lonewolfy
Published Letters: 472 Editor's Choice: 20
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The vitriol explained:
[Read the article: Bully for Nancy Pelosi!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Broadsheet writers = diehard Hillary supporters (Fair enough.)
Broadsheet view on women who didn't blindly support Hillary = horrendously traitorous harpies who need to be excommunicated from the sisterhood
Broadsheet mood from Hillary's concession until November (and beyond) = sour, sour grapes
QED.
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As I've mentioned before, Hillary is the equivalent of Jesse Jackson & Al Sharpton in the past: candidates who simply could not escape identity politics.
One day soon, women will get their own "Obama" - a female Presidential candidate who can transcend her gender the way Barack transcended his ethnicity. (*cough* Chelsea? *cough*)
And in the same way that the "old guard" blacks like Jackson and Sharpton were initially dour/pissed about Barack's success and popularity, the old guard feminists like Steinem, Ferraro and Traister will be pissed about the new female candidate's success...and will passive-aggressively wished to see her derailed.
But Barack was not derailed.
And neither will be the future candidate, Ms. ________.
The People always want to hear fresh voices - they cannot be silenced so easily. So don't worry, Third Wavers!
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I certainly wasn't offended, but it wasn't funny either.
[Read the article: How gay it would be]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm a South Park fan, and the show has been so spot-on funny and perceptive in its gay-themed and bigot-themed satire (Big Gay AL, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Mr. Garrison) that mediocre pap like this article seems bland and timid by comparison.
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I do, however, applaud anything which strains at the P.C. shackles which the progressive movement seems to masochistically cherish wearing.
C'mon people - pull the proverbial stick out of your collective arsewhorls. Lighten up!
And also: My mother has one painful flaw - she is South Asian.
I wish my mother was white. Then she would cook unseasoned, spice-less pot roast and meatloaf all the time, look up to Sheryl Crow and Kelly Ripa as idols, and nervously cross the street anytime she saw a brown or black man walking in her direction...even though she secretly fantasizes about Michael Clarke Duncan ravishing her in bed, Mandingo-style.
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@bMaggie
[Read the article: Bully for Nancy Pelosi!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I admire Rebecca Traister for keeping this important discussion alive and for writing about it with such flair, intelligence and insight.
Traister clearly did not write this smear piece to keep this discussion "alive". {Although it appears from her past several columns that she's being paid by Editor Walsh to talk about nothing else.}
She did it for pure Mean Girls reasons: to attack Nancy Pelosi because Ms. Pelosi didn't grovel at the feet of the Queen of the Plastics, Hillary Clinton.
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How is Traister attacking Pelosi any less odiferous than, say, Chris Matthews attacking Clinton?
Woman-on-woman hatchet jobs can be just as misogynistic as man-on-woman hatchet jobs - whether the scorn comes from Maureen Dowd, Camille Paglia, Ann Coulter or Rebecca Traister. Just sayin'...
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Aim thy fists outward, Grasshopper...HOO-WAH!!
[Read the article: The K Chronicles ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]C'mon, Keef - you're an American!
If you need blood paint, don't punch yourself...punch someone else!! After all, it's the American Way!
Painting with the blood of vanquished enemies (real or perceived)...Git-R-Dun! Semper Fi! USA USA! Where's the Beef?!?! etc. etc.
;-) <8-P
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On a related note: did anyone watch PBS last nite?
[Read the article: The way of the samurai]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Nova" did a typically excellent documentary on the Samurai warriors and the painstaking art & science of crafting their Bushido blades. Also featured were modern Samurai who work to pass down the skills, discipline and way of life to their progeny and other Japanese youth.
Morbidly cool trivia from the show: in medieval times, the sharpness/quality of a Samurai blade was gauged and standardized by how well it could slice through human flesh and bone.
Hence, the best blades were the legendary Five-Body Blades - with which, as the name implies, a skilled Samurai warrior could slice through the midsections of five enemies...all at once!
Yes: interest in the Samurai in general, I believe, will live on forever...
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I've always heard that "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry at least partly modeled the Klingons and their society on the Samurai.
Does anybody know if this is true? It would certainly make sense...even if in some ways, Klingon culture might seem to be based on stereotypes more than actual practice.
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Stay Classy...
[Read the article: Umm, what is boob punching?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]men have been getting kicked in the junk for centuries
Umm...so the G4 host is being classless for calling breasts "funbags" - but you, in contrast, are being classy in calling a man's genitalia "junk"?
Pot, meet kettle.
I'd write more, but I'm about to write the lyrics to "Taint-ed Love" - a ballad about a heartbroken woman and her itchy perineum.
Take care, Sarah - and thanks for the mammaries!
Classy Wolf