Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 6 Editor's Choice: 1
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A path to get there...
[Read the article: I have found hell on earth -- an "MBA program"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There is a thing called "The Work" which is "simply" four questions and a turnaround...it can help immeasurably in finding your way through situations such as this one where your mind is judging and panicking and screaming at you to do something.
Because I don't want to seem as if I'm hawking a particular website/person, I'll just suggest that you google "the work inquiry process turnaround" and investigate some of the links you find.
What Cary says is good; this is just a specific method to get yourself to the point that you can continue forward as he suggests. It can put some of those fellow classmates in perspective too.
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Ugh
[Read the article: The mating game]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This woman is simply an idiot projecting her own prejudice onto men.
Stay away from her, guys.
Love? Affection? Companionship? Heaven forbid you should find it (or even notice it) with a man who is too old! And then she complains that THEY are only interested in her womb??
Again. Ugh. No wonder online dating has a bad rep with this kind of person on the hunt.
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I've had it with the commenters on Cary's writing
[Read the article: A pit bull killed her dog and now she's lost to me]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't blame him a bit for making fun of them. He isn't "thin-skinned." Bah. He's been attacked over and over again, by a bunch of whiny self-important people who couldn't write their way out of a paper bag.
Go Cary. It's a heart-rending letter and your reply is right on.
The rest of you nit-picking clueless frankfurters and your "critiques" of Cary are merely unpleasant pimples, the kind of whiteheads bursting with ugly ooze that one is forced to look past in order to see the actual face--ie, those comments that are interesting and worthwhile.
It's time Salon quit trying to be a blog and edited the comments at least to get rid of the repetitive Cary-hating jack-asses. I'm sick of the attacks and the space wasted on them.
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Aunts and parents
[Read the article: Do I have to be a mommy to "opt out"?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There's a lot of concern here about what the parents/sisters might think, dare this loving single aunt center her life on "their" children. But ya know, parents don't know everything. Parents get divorced, have affairs, full-time jobs; they fight, get cancer, join cults...parents are subject to all the woes and frailties of any human being.
This is why in the course of normal civilization (not including ours) there's been no such thing as the nuclear family. LW, you could do no greater favor for your nieces and nephews than to "be there" as an aunt, as the person who takes them for exactly what they are, rather than what their parents dream/want/insist they can or should be. The person they can tell their secrets to, and know they will be safe. An aunt or uncle or grandparent stands in a special place, a little near, a little far--this is not a place of power, but a place of simple love. Nothing is owed, nothing is demanded. It is simply given, out of love and joy, from both sides.
Oh, the parents, yes. They drive everyone crazy. It may be bittersweet and difficult sometimes, when you watch the pointless pain that well-meaning and/or selfish parents can dish out, while you must stand silently by and watch, but to be able to provide that quiet, trusted place of acceptance is worth it.
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Sorry, LotRO breaks different ground
[Read the article: Why can't gay dwarves get married in Middle-earth?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This sort of article is why I let my Premium subscription lapse. How silly can you get?
Been playing the LotRO beta since Feb. Marriage is a non-issue (OTOH housing would be great!), there are kinships (guilds) which are founded on being gay-friendly, there are Christian kinships, French-speaking kinships, and hey, even people from WoW! Really!
Of all the weird topics to pull out of this particular MMO, this one just...odd. It's like writing an article about the lack of easily available sex in the emergency ward or something. It's just...odd.
There are no female dwarves in LoTRO. But then, for once, this is an MMO that doesn't make female characters look like S/M street-walkers with plastic breasts. You can't even see their underwear when they're naked. This is ground-breaking MMO territory.
You'd think THAT might have been a topic of interest regarding the game--that it's not catering to adolescent testosterone. It's attracting an older player-base with a higher female percentage. But no. We get the question of gay marriage in Middle Earth.
Odd. Very odd.
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Thank you Salon for going back to fascinating articles
[Read the article: At her majesty's pleasure]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]After the "Gay Marriage in Middle Earth" I had about given up. But this article, and even the responses to it, are deep food for thought.
I think if most of us had to face ourselves and our worst behavior and worst fears as Mr. Kurth did, few would be able to be even speak about it, much less have the courage to write of it in an open and unwavering manner.
Compare Mr. Kurth to Dick Cheney, Bush and Wulfowitz, those sniveling whining it's-not-my-fault-you're-all-being-mean-to-me cowards. I don't think Kurth comes off the loser.