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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Published Letters: 23
Thanks for the round-up. But why'd you include Bitch PhD's question about the boots, and the other woman's comments about her cats? Are you suggesting that bloggers should restrict each entry to a single topic? Or that discussion of boots and cats should be saved for slow news days only?
(Or did I read sardonic intent where it didn't exist?)
"There is a reason women find it harder and harder to get married these days..."
It's only women like you who are struggling to get married, though. Women who don't feel the need to "package" themselves, don't need to be married to prove their womanliness.
I don't mind the women who sit around debating the merits of various lipgloss brands and competing for the most expensive engagement rings they can harangue a man into buying. But when *those* women start trying to make all *other* women feel like losers, they become as annoying as the Jesus freaks who pass out religious pamphlets at the office.
Tatyana, if you have it all figured out, why don't you just live off your fabulous husband and be happy? You should be glad that "the feminists" are too clueless to take him from you.
Or are you blaming us for the fact that all your "packaging" hasn't worked yet?
I've taught my three children to behave in public. (It's easy. When they misbehave, you pack everyone up and go home. Then you tell them, "We had to go home because you couldn't behave." You don't have to do it more than twice with the first kid. After that, they enforce the lesson with each other.)
However, I do believe that restaurant owners plagued by troublesome children should have the right to make their establishments child-free.
It'll be awesome when we go even farther than that, and I have my choice of restaurants and cafes that are loud-talking-adult-free, aisle-blocking-adult-free, and poor-parking-adult-free, too.
Why do we keep talking about sensationalistic New York produced articles and television shows as if they have any resemblance to American reality? Who cares about what this writer's anonymous sources say or what Maureen Dowd's (completely contradictory) anonymous sources say?
I used to fantasize about living in New York... until I started reading Salon. Because, to hear it from Salon and the NYC publications they constantly reference, New York's nothing but an echo chamber of stupid, shallow, upper-middle-class white people desperate to say anything that will get them attention and maybe get them laid.
Enough.
I think it'd be worth paying for if the prostitutes were skilled.
It's true that simply physiology would make this *different* from the usual brothels. But that doesn't mean it wouldn't be viable.
As someone upthread said:
"It's not about the guy being able to achieve orgasm several times in a day. It's about a guy being able to bring off several women a day, not necessarily with intercourse, duh."
Word. Stock the brothel with men skilled in massage and oral sex, and who cares if they have erections or not? I *love* that the first thing some male posters thought about was the male prostitute not being attracted to the client. Contrary to extremely popular belief, the world doesn't revolve around whether or not a man gets a hard-on.
"I just 'love' it when so many woman with often contradictory personal preferences assume that they represent all women."
Is that in response to my comment? I don't remember pretending to represent all women. But I bet you that my personal preference would be more representative than something you "read somewhere."
Maybe you could start your own brothel for women interested in checking condoms for semen and then let us know how it goes.
My eight-year-old son loves to cook, and I've been wanting to buy him an EZ-Bake Oven, but they only come in pink. He doesn't believe that cooking is only for girls, but he *knows* that pink is for girls.
Jeffrey, maybe you're right about girls being the only ones who want to get married, keep a home, and breed. Maybe we should encourage them to grow up and marry each other so they can perpetuate the human race without interrupting the men's need to fight fires and wreck race cars. It makes perfect sense, doesn't it?
If I were president, I'd decorate my own tree and let my First Gentleman watch.
"telling city commissioners that he was alright with the issue being raised"
Please don't tell me that "alright" is now accepted usage in American journalism. Is it?
What is the world coming to? Forget all the unborn babies and masses of tissue... Someone please think of the children and show them how to spell, or the terrorists have already won.
1. Zhang Ziyi is beautiful (to some) and a good dancer. The artists who busted ass to make her costumes and do her makeup did good work. Why not be inspired by that?
2. Everyone already knows that Hollywood doesn't contain enough non-white stars to faithfully render ethnicity in movies about non-white people. (Lou Diamond Phillips, anyone?) Why pretend it's something new?
Why is this more acceptable/cute/newsworthy than it would be for a 100-year-old man to "wish" to touch a cheerleader?
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
