Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 4
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Zinn Revealed American History Years Ago; Horwitz Expands
[Read the article: Is everything we know about American history wrong?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Howard Zinn did more than "cover this ground" many years ago. He is the first historian who turned American history (as we learned it in public schools) upside down with his emphasis on the lived experience of the American and indigenous peoples, rather than the treasured myths and lies produced those who govern us.
Like any nation state throughout the world, our government fills the brains of public school students with pap and propoganda, twisting our history of genocide against indigenous peoples, our legacy of slavery, and the continued use of state violence against its own citizens into an idealized tale of our progress march toward truth, justice, equality, and national superiority.
If we are "number one," it is not because we are freedom-loving democracy. It is because our police and military have ruthlessly crushed hundreds of thousands of human beings underfoot for hundreds of years and into the modern day without pause.
If Americans would only learn the truth about American history from historians like Zinn and journalists like Horwitz, we might be capable of recognizing the horror and injustice of the American government's ongoing imperialism and terrorism toward indigenous people of color by US military and police actions. So it was at the birth of our nation, and so it is today.
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Questions about Viagra and Female Sexuality
[Read the article: On Viagra for women]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm trying to figure out what it is that researchers and lay people think Viagra will do for women.
To my understanding, Viagra has no effect on the libido in either sex; it only enhances the ability of individuals to achieve erections of the penis and clitoris, which contributes to more efficient orgasms. Is this correct?
Or is Viagra attempting to increase vaginal and vulvar engorgement and possibly lubrication as well in the phallocentric belief that female sexual desire and orgasm is all about insertion of the penis?
If anyone out there has the expertise to answer these questions, I would love to hear from you. Thanks!
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Feminism is not a woman in the White House
[Read the article: Zombie feminists of the RNC]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Excellent article! The problem with the vast majority of responers is that they are confusing a woman in a leadership position with feminism.
Feminism is a collective movement for ensuring basic rights and full social and economic equality for biological females. It is not and never has been about the success of a token female in the White House who is not committed to working in a collective movement for women's civil and human rights.
Feminism is not about Sara, Hillary, Oprah, or Madonna. A feminist can only exist within the feminist movement. Outside of the movement, a woman can claim to be a success, but she cannot make any valid claims to being a feminist or to supporting feminism. A female leader certainly can be anti-feminist, and that's what we have found in the new Phyllis Schaffly named Sara Palin.
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Vice President or American Idol?
[Read the article: Fresh blood for the vampire]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Palin is no feminist, just a reactionary "pro-life" fundamentalist politician with breasts and a vulva. Palin's sex and winning personality doesn't in any way qualify her to become the Vice President of the US. We are not voting for the next American Idol, we are voting for the next President of the United States.