Letters to the Editor
Jessica
Published Letters: 44 Editor's Choice: 5
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August 31
[Read the article: FEMA: Let them eat brownies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Uh, check your calendar. There are indeed 31 days in August.
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Just give us our Plan B already!
[Read the article: Black mark on the red dot?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This kind of news just infuriates me! I live in a relatively large city (Kansas City) and when I needed some Plan B a few months ago I had to give my doctor a list of five pharmacies to call. I have no idea how many he actually called because the one that filled my prescription wasn't even on my list. What if I lived out in Western Kansas? Would I have to drive 3 or 4 hours to find some?
Maybe someone needs to start a Web site that lists pharmacies that a) keep Plan B in stock and b) are willing to sell it.
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To Spike24 and all others who hate relationship/parenting articles
[Read the article: Yes, Maureen Dowd is necessary]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Then DON'T READ THEM. I subscribe to Salon just like you do and I really enjoy these kinds of articles. On the other hand, I could care less about King Kaufman's Sports Daily, but instead of writing letters complaining about him, I just skip those.
Lay off already.
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Mark 'em for life
[Read the article: Pink: It's not just for girls anymore]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Who cares what color they use? I'm for any means available to alert people to the presence of pedophiles. I say put a big tatoo on their foreheads! (OK, maybe not a tatoo, but you get my drift.)
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Life
[Read the article: Pink: It's not just for girls anymore]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Why not just give them a life sentence in jail"
That would be OK with me too. Oh, wait, people with a life sentence often end up going free anyway since the prisons are too full of drug users.
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What about all the children?
[Read the article: Pink: It's not just for girls anymore]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't think men who have consensual sex with girls only a couple of years younger should be marked.
While you're worrying about protecting the rights of pedophiles, keep in mind that given the chance, they will reoffend. Think about the victims: http://www2.oprah.com/presents/2005/predator/profiles/profiles_victims.jhtml
Oprah has stories of all these children who were attacked by KNOWN sex offenders.
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Male-Female Ratio
[Read the article: What it feels like for a girl -- in China]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It will be interesting to see what happens in China in a few years when all those boys grow up and have no one to marry.
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Or is it salary?
[Read the article: The glass ceiling at home]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Are women choosing to stay home because they want to more than men do, or because they earn less than their husbands? Maybe if there wasn't a salary gap, you'd see more dads staying home while the moms go to work.
I must be an anomoly because my mother works while my step-father took early retirement and my step-mother (a VP) works and my father stays home.
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Poison?
[Read the article: A new debate over the abortion pill]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Am I the only one who suspects that these women were poisoned to make it LOOK like RU-486 is dangerous?
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Ew.
[Read the article: 607 days 'til we can legally play "tonsil Quidditch"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]'Nuf said.
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Why DO men love bitches?
[Read the article: Meet the drama kings]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I totally agree with oxymoron and Torontonia. My male friends all enjoy making fun of high-maintenance women, but they do seem to be the ones who get married first. I think that really men and women really aren't that different in that there are some of each who constantly yearn to be with someone who doesn't really want them. (Psychotherapy anyone?)
I'll have to admit that I used to be one of these people and spent 4 years with a drama king. Life has gotten much better since I decided that the most important characteristic to look for in a man is someone who really wants to be with me. Once I realized that it's not the things that men (or women) do for us that are important, it's finding someon who WANTS to do them, I became much more successful in love.
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Please cut her some slack
[Read the article: I wish my stepchildren would go away]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To everyone who is attacking the LW:
Don't you think she KNOWS she is damaging her step-children? She did write for advice, didn't she? Instead of being critical, how about a little constructive advice?
As someone who grew up with truly horrible step-parents and who is on the verge of becoming a step-mother herself, I hope I have something useful to say.
First of all, I totally agree with the person who suggested that she find something special to teach each of her step-kids. Once I realized that he was old enough, I started reading the Harry Potter books to my boyfriend's 7-year-old. And guess what? Now he loves to read! It feels really good to know that I had this influence on him, and reading the books gives us something to bond over.
Secondly, when you're frustrated with them, take a minute to put yourself in their shoes. I remember right after I met the kids when one of them said I looked like their mother. Obviously, this was not music to my ears. Then I thought about it. Don't all little boys think their mother is the most beautiful woman in the world? They were actually paying me a compliment!
As for whether or not you should try to be a surrogate mother or not, try baby steps. First, try to be their friend. Then maybe like an aunt. Do you think you could love them like an aunt?
For everyone's sake, I wish you good luck.
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ADHD
[Read the article: I wish my stepchildren would go away]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Does anyone wonder why the rise of feminism (as practiced today) has mirrored the rise in selfish, fucked up ADD children and parents who just don't give a shit?"
Ahem, ADHD is a brain-chemistry problem. It is not caused by parenting good or bad. Correlation does not equal causation. There is a lot more awareness of ADHD these days, that is why there are more diagnoses.
I'm not even going to address your asinine feminism comment.
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MMMWWWUUUUAAAA-HAA-HAAAAA!
[Read the article: Alito's advice on how to stop abortion]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Please tell me he did not actually write this.