Letters to the Editor
moinkk
Published Letters: 5 Editor's Choice: 1
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Crown attorney is not the attorney for the victim
[Read the article: A large penis is the best defense]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think you made an error in this piece. The attorney mentioned, Bhavna Bhangu, is a crown prosecutor, not the victim's attorney. As far as I know, victims aren't normally legally represented in criminal trials.
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A suggestion I've heard; doesn't quite work but almost
[Read the article: A man's right to choose, take three]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]One suggestion I've heard is to give either parent the right to terminate their parental obligations at some stage of pregnancy. That is, if the father doesn't want a kid, he signs a form saying so during the first trimester. The mother then makes a decision as to whether or not *she* wants the kid, knowing that the father will not be providing child support. Thus, no forced abortions, no one raising or supporting a child he does not want. And similarly, a mother can sign a form saying she doesn't want the kid, and her parental rights/obligations are terminated, and the dad gets to raise the kid alone. The only real problem with this scenario is that she's forced to go through nine months of pregnancy and risk her life in birth in order to provide said kid. If both say they don't want the kid, it's an abortion. If both say they want it, then it's joint parenting, with all attendant rights and obligations.
It's almost right. If only biology were a little more fair, it would work.
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and your point is...?
[Read the article: I married the coach's daughter]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm glad the author has interests in common with his wife. I'm sure it's very good for their marriage.
But I have to ask, so what? Was the point of this article to brag about the fact his wife defies some female stereotypes? Most women do. Even the girliest don't fit every corner of the pigeonhole.
I also wonder about calling her "the coach's daughter." It's possible that being raised in a sporting family helped with her love of sports, but it's a part of who she has become: a person in her own right. Reducing her to an accessory to the men in her life, as either her father's daughter or the author's wife, is trivializing.
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To do list
[Read the article: More women needed at the head of the class]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Dear presidents of universities,
I'm in a PhD program in aeronautics & astronautics at MIT. I will be looking for an academic job next year. Here are the tasks you need to do for me:
1. Provide longer maternity leave. The University of Toronto provides 6 months, and despite some issues I have there, that's going to be a draw. (which may be a good thing, as the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies has never had a female faculty member).
2. Stop the tenure clock for female professors having babies.
3. Let me bring my baby to work with me and breastfeed her at convenient times, even during class and faculty meetings.
4. Restore funding for administrative support staff. Senior male professors have got to stop using junior female faculty as secretaries. And all professors should be working on their research and teaching, not making travel arrangements or photocopying class notes.
5. When you make me an offer, provide me with the same responsibilities, salary, lab space, administrative support, and start-up research funds as an equivalently-qualified male candidate.
6. Don't ask me to provide the food for the committee meetings.
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Tedra Osell?
[Read the article: Looking for kick-ass female heroines?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I had no idea Tedra was writing at Broadsheet. Is this your first post or have I been blind? Congrats on the new gig. And I just noticed another familiar name, Kate Harding. Good on Broadsheet for hiring some of the best voices of the internet.
Are we allowed to mention, Ms. Osell, where we might have read you elsewhere?
And to the author of the first letter, wow, you're a moron.