Letters to the Editor
Loretta Martin
Published Letters: 80 Editor's Choice: 4
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Has anyone checked the price on a half-page newspaper ad lately?
[Read the article: Our office manager is a dental despot!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The requested donation is surely closer to $100.00 than $10, and perhaps exceeds $100 per person.
These newspaper contests are easily manipulated by a small group of people submitting multiple votes. The vast majority of readers are too busy to vote in such things. If they are coming in regularly to your office, consider that to be their vote for you.
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A hippie ways in
[Read the article: If Britney Spears shouldn't be naked in front of her kids, what about me?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"But you wouldn't be sitting watching television naked with your kids cuddling up to you. Parents can be seductive with children and be inappropriate with children, so it's more complex than just 'is the parent being undressed?'"
Let us remember that it is the mystification of the body by concealing it that has so supercharged "nekkidness."
Parents cavorted naked with naked children for who knows how long in all cultures before Puritanism came along. And were probobly saner because of it. Clothes were invented to protect the skin from abrasion, insects, cold. They have been largely disassociated from their original, natural purpose.
Why on earth is it a crime to not wear clothes? It's as irrational as the marijuana laws.
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Right on, Cary
[Read the article: My girlfriend's daughter is dressing like a stripper for Halloween!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is one answer of yours that I am in total agreement.
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i click yet it does not play
[Read the article: Scott Bateman: Actual audio from "Self Preservation in an Atomic Attack"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]i click yet it does not play
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In agreement with Cary and know1uknow
[Read the article: Cops arrested my partner for felony heroin possession]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"I also ask you LW, how could you let your child hold the pain of loss of the other mom in silence? Are you as gleeful with the child that she is gone? I can't help but wonder why this child would not tell you how they feel?" - know1uknow's letter
What more is there to say?
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Lw should not respond to the email
[Read the article: My partner is being stalked by a trolling MILF]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Those who urge LW to ignore and dissgard the email are sooo right. Silence says eloquently: "You are not a threat. You are nothing."
Might drive the coworker up the wall.
PS where did LW learn the term MILF? Does she view porno sites?
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Not enough information to make assumptions about the BF
[Read the article: My partner is being stalked by a trolling MILF]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Some correspondents are assuming in their advice that the boyfriend is not interested in the other woman. I think the LW should be transparent with her BF that this woman irritates her immensely, and that she will not abide another email. Let him know where she stands.
But with the other woman, ignore her. What Miss Manners calls the "direct cut."
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If the LW might possibly be a gay man, then...
[Read the article: My partner is being stalked by a trolling MILF]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Will someone please explain why this jealous behavior is okay in a gay man but not in a het woman???
Do gay men have a license to be hysterical and catty? Does it add to their charm? What's the deal?
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Hope LW did not send that email...
[Read the article: My partner is being stalked by a trolling MILF]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"I would just politely respond, thanks for your well wishes, but this is my personal email and I would appreciate you directing all business correspondence to boyfriend@mail.com and cc him on it. Don't ask her how she got your email, pretend you don't give a damn."
If I were the MILF and I got this message by return email, I would lose any respect I had for the the LW. Because she would appear to be some nitwit pod person.
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yet another possible outcome
[Read the article: My partner is being stalked by a trolling MILF]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Quote from previous letter: "The MILF is confused and uncomfortable. Her salvo wasn't noticed! She hasn't rattled the inhabitants on the other side of the wall one bit! It's almost like she's unimportant, like what she does doesn't matter to them."
OR: The MILF doesn't blink and deletes the email.
BECAUSE: The MILF is merely an older woman who sees the BF as her son (sort of). Maybe he doesn't fit in at work and she talks to him because basically she feels sorry for him. It simply does not occur to her that the young man might seriously be sexually interested in her. She's relieved to know he has found a girlfriend and joshes him about her "competition."
Of course he is obtuse or prideful enough not to understand a simple offer of friendship from a WOMAN.
So please, LW, take the good wishes at face value until she boils the rabbit and gets out the knife.
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Liberal vs Conservative?
[Read the article: I'm a doubting teenager]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]LW wrote: " My friends and I rarely discuss social mores. People in my family assume that we have the identical principles that all pious, good Christians should have. Our opposing views confuse me. Now I carry around feelings of guilt about thinking the way I do. Sometimes, I feel like my liberal views are well justified. Other times, there's a voice that's telling me I'll burn in hell when I die. I also doubt the sincerity of my thoughts: Are my liberal views my independent thoughts, or are they just a silent way of rebelling against my parents and fitting in with more liberal-minded people? "
You, LW, sound like a person who thinks for herself. Unfortunately you may find it difficult to find like-minded individuals. (Ironic, huh?)
But you may be fortunate to find friends with open minds.
Remember to keep them. Together you can learn to laugh at the voice telling you to burn in hell. Together you can realize that the voice telling you your thoughts are untrustworthy ("silent rebelling, etc.), is itself actually one of YOUR THOUGHTS! So if they are all your thoughts, your conflicting thoughts, how do you know which to believe?
Do you really label your thoughts as "liberal?" That is such a perjorative these days. Why not just call them "your" thoughts. That way both inherited and acquired (or original)thoughts can co-exist in your mind. You don't have to be either "liberal" or "conservative;" you can be "you/unique."
I hope you attend a school where great literature is still taught. Reading views from a different culture, a different age, helped me put things in perspective when I was in high school.
Your letter is bound to provoke some interesting responses from readers. You sound like a terrific kid.