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I have spent some time with some very wealthy people, through my volunteer work (wealthy donors) and some freinds who are trust fund babies (they don't even work). LET ME BE CLEAR: having money does NOT make you rude, contolling, hating and mean. That is NO excuse. Stop making excuses for this man. He acts with hate and contol and he chose those acts because he's mean, not because he grew up in comfort. Please don't excuse away his acts.
What a lie. Minimum wage would be about $13,000 a year. Residency is FOUR TIMES THAT. You're really more like your husband, lying to get sympathy.
you are a bigot.
So you're YOUNG. And you get nervous aroud awkwardly uncool older people.
You're a bigot.
I feel sorry for hard working folks in your office who have the unfortunate luck to be born before you.
GROW UP. One day you'll be over 40 and god hopes the young turks in the office admire your expereince and institutional knowledge.
Now go grow some respect and humility and don't leave your room til you do, ya immature spoiled shallow self-centered baby.
she has her own office now.
I'm sure the other office people are fighting over who has to share a room with catty Paris Hilton now.
Because part of being a good professional, a good person, a good coworker, is being a consensus-building, working with people who are different from you, appreciating the different perspective different people bring to a team.
STamping your foot cuz you got stuck with the nerd loser like a mean girl in high school might win you this battle, but you'll lose the war of developing a respected professional reputation at this and other universities as well as local theaters and newspapers.
Ousting people because you don't like their age or physical appearance is not only immature, shallow and bigoted, it's illegal in the work place.
You didn't think you "had any rights" because your new boyfriend hadn't granted them to you yet?
Girl, break up and fix yourself first. YOU are a person who deserves to be dealt with with respect and until you know that, you'll keep chooseing disrespctul BFs with disrespectful frinds and you'll be abused (emotionally, if not physically) for the rest of your life.
Stop dating. Start a new attitude. Get some therapy and start a new life where you love yourself, know you deserve respect and DEMAND it. Operate with a no tolerance level for scummy disrepsct.
GIVE YOURSELF RIGHTS, DO NOT WAIT FOR some boyfriend to give them to you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
but you don't either, so how can you expect him to treat you better than you treat yourself. This isn't about him or his freinds at all, but YOU and if you resepct yourself, expect respectful treatment, or accept disrespect.
1. "Since we weren't in a proper relationship at the time, I felt like I didn't have any "rights" "
2. "A year later" [it is still going on]
3. "Even if he thought we were not serious, the fact that we were in a relationship at all should mean that I am off limits."
YOU'RE OFF LIMITS BECAUSE YOUR BF SAYS SO? NOT BECAUSE YOU CONTROL WHO TOUCHES YOUR BODY?
4. "It hurts me that my boyfriend's first reaction is to make excuses for his sleazy friends"
5. "he wants me to just get over the groping incidents"
Since you're a social worker, you know that regardless of the theory of the week, the overriding truth is that social workers ONLY intercede with the parents rights when the parents are neglecting their children. This is NOT the case.
the parents have been good parents and fairness, as well as the law, say you have no right to overstep their parental rights since they are not neglecting or abusing the child.
The world is full of different healthy and legal parenting styles and choices. You have no right to disregard that.
myob and go help neglected children who really need your help.
No, you just say "talk to your mother about that."
tHEN YOU have a very bad doctor.
I've had three family members have moles cut off and biopsied. None had a family history. It's just standard medical practice.
Where I come from, if you have suspicious conditoins, YOU GET THEM CHECKED OUT, regardless of your family history.
Also, regardless of your family history, YOU are advised to follow the same healthy advice: avoid fats, sodium. Exercise. No doc is gonna say: "no heart disease in your family, so go at it!"
No, any doctor will advise ALL patients to live healthily and advise all patents to have suspicious moles, bloodwork, anything checked out.
What stage is it at?
When type of breast cancer is it? The one that's been specifically genetically tagged, or the more preveleant environemental one?
Is it in the lymph nodes too?
What tests? Bloodwork that indicates a heart attack is going on right then? Any ER will do that regardless of history.
That is the part that's hard, but rise to it: FREEDOM means freedom to vote as you like, Even if it's Republican.
People are all for granting freedom when it supports their values, but then balk when it supports people with different ideas.
But the true meaning of freedom is freedom to be a democrat, a socialist, a republican a libertarian.
It's like how the ACLU support's the KKK"S right to free speech. It's disgusting speech, but they have the right to it and we're no better than them if we pick and choose who has the right to freedom.
thank your lucky stars your parents have the right to vote republican. They can't tell you how to vote and you can't tell them how to vote.
That's undemocratic! If your parents said they'd never have anything to do with you if you voted for Obama, you've be crying how antiAmerican they are. HOw hypocritical.