Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 13 Editor's Choice: 2
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The "Specialness" of Intimacy
[Read the article: Whole lotta love]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It seems to me that thinking intimacy with another person is about feeling 'special' is a self-involved view of a relationship with another person.
Intimacy is about empathizing with another human being; knowing they feel as you feel and you feel as they feel and feeling connected to humanity through that one person. Caring about THAT person is intimacy, not the way they make you feel 'special.'
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Am I the only one that agrees?
[Read the article: WayLay]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]All of these comments trying to belittle the term 'nanny' seem to just prove her point.
Which, as I take it, seems to be that in the private sphere, in women's domain, power is silly and belittling. But in the public, as with police, it's respectable and manly.
Children as well as citizens both are rightly under the control of a nanny or police officer respectively.
You were children once, and you were under a woman's control most likely. You are a citizen now, and you are under men's control in the form of government. They're comparable, but one is not respected.
And yeah, there's female police officers and single fathers. Which one do you think our culture normalizes?
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I wasn't going to say anything but...
[Read the article: Hit her, baby, one more time]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think I'm the only one who thinks this so I prepare myself for ridicule.
Am I the only one who didn't see any difference between this "bomb" of a performance and every other performance she's done on the VMA's or otherwise? I think it was aol.com that ran a photo that had spliced pictures of her body dancing and writhing half-naked with appropriated "ethnic" jewelry, Madonna costume, etc, from past VMA performances, all in columns for us to compare to the most recent "bomb." And these parallels showed me what I've been trying to get at for days. That each splice of her costume and pose were all the same: silly.
So what's the difference then between this "bomb" and her other performances? What changed?
An earlier commenter pointed out that we, as a culture, decided we don't like her any more because she's trashy, fat, whatever ideal she isn't conforming too and we now think of her as "out of control" that is out of our control. Because of this switch in favor, we've seen through the ridiculousness that has always been there. That dressing half-naked, flashing a bunch of lights, and twisting one's normal, adult voice into a childish squeak and then trying to dance in inhuman bondage stilts is.. you know.. stupid. Just like writhing half naked with a giant 20 pound snake was stupid. Just like dressing up like Madonna and then mocking lesbian sexuality by kissing Madonna was stupid.
She "bombs" everytime, it's just that we are a country of idiots and our ideas of sexuality is that when women do stupid idiotic things, it's sexy. Yet when women who are a little fatter, a little careless as a mother, has a little less hair, and is a little more, dare I say, indenpendent (which we call "controlling"), it's no longer sexy and her charade falls like a house of cards.
It reminds me of the way you know some people that are just hilarious, and if they tell a joke, you are receptive to laughing at it. Yet you know that if your worst enemy told that same joke, you wouldn't think it was funny at all. That is unless you were laughing at them. You'd probably mock her with a group of people that you know are your friends and know you belong with. But in Spears case, her joke was never funny. It just took her gaining 10 pounds for us to realize what a sham our ideas of sexuality and performance are.
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And one more thing:
[Read the article: Hit her, baby, one more time]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Who gives a crap about her as a person and her personal experience? Obviously she's ignorant, yet I feel sorry for people who embarass themselves in public as a rule. Bla bla blah, end of story. This is one person in a world of billions and billions. The interesting and point worth talking about is how the entire country is gossiping about a silly bad dance on tv and practically calling for her head.
That's something to talk about. She obviously represents something to each person that is thinking and talking about her bad bikini stilleto boot dance instead of doing work. Which I will now get back to.
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Tsunami up
[Read the article: The K Chronicles]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hahahah! That's awesome. New talking point! I'm serious, though. I'm going to say that every time I hear the phrase "trickle down."
And those examples in the last panel are genius. That's one problem I've encountered when arguing public policy (one in particular that I comes to my mind is abortion): people, conservatives really, that argue against some sensible policy pull out the most extreme example that we all agree is a misuse of time/money whatever. "BUT PEOPLE WILL USE THE MONEY TO BY LOTTO TICKETS!!!" Yeah. And some will by medicine. And trike rims. And a bed they can sleep on. People aren't perfect, but they deserve economic freedom.
Spot. On.
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Re: Fellow villagers
[Read the article: I'm cheating on my husband and loving it. Is that a problem?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hey fellow villagers!
Let's form an angry mob, grab our torches and storm LW's home! She's a wanton woman! A hussy! Furthermore I hear she was at the church social a fortnight ago without a parasol and gloves! Burn her, she's a witch!
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahhahhahahhahahahahhahahahahahahahhahahahahaha!
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Re: If the LW was a man
[Read the article: I'm cheating on my husband and loving it. Is that a problem?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yes he would get shit. Would he be called a cunt whore bitch? No for obvious reasons.
Asshole? Maybe.
Does that hurt as much as cunt whore bitch?