Letters to the Editor
Anna68
Published Letters: 141 Editor's Choice: 2
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Yup I thought so Brightstar
[Read the article: And baby makes two]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You were just whining all along.
You don't care about kids at all. None of you anti-feminist men do! That's just another excuse for not doing anything with your own lives.
God knows if *you* got a woman pregnant, we'd hear all day how she "trapped" you and was only after your money.
If you cared about the self-worth boys for five minutes, you'd be out there mentoring boys. God knows there's a need! But it is easier to just sit in your mama's basement or wherever you are and whine.
Grow up or shut up.
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yes, its for real
[Read the article: And baby makes two]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If this is for real, it is worth looking into, since I am choosy about women, do not trust being able to stay married since marriage today is basically strict obesiance by the male to the female, and do not want to settle with just anyone just so I can have a child of my own flesh and blood.
But you won't do it. Because then you'd have to actually be a father.
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Robert Franklin
[Read the article: And baby makes two]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm sure you understand that your friends and acquaintances don't make up a significant portion of feminism or even a representative sample. That's why it's necessary to actually read some feminist literature to find out what feminism is all about.
So if I am a feminist who does not fit your stereotype of feminist then I'm ... not really a feminist???? And I'd know that if I'd read enough????
Okay, that's a new one. I'll give you that.
You know, there was a lot of stuff written in the 60s and 70s on the left right and center. It is one tiny fraction of an intellectual tradition that goes back to the 18th century and has different shades and flavors all over the world.
I find it intriguing that theoretical nonsense from the 70s is well remembered ... but 70s-era initiatives to get deadbeat dads to be responsible for their children have fallen down the memory hole.
Do you know what one of the biggest feminist achievement of the 20th century was?
Dress reform.
It was once a radical, man-hating, anti-family initiative to get women out of painful, health-destroying corsets and smothering petticoats and into loose skirts and trousers. These clothes were dangerous, they made working really hard, especially outside the home. That's why Victorian women got no exercise and carried smelling salts.
Not even the vote so profoundly affected the life and well-being of women on a day to day basis. And today even the most radical, woman-hating anti-feminists have no interest at all in reversing dress reform.
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Whiny whiners whine some more
[Read the article: And baby makes two]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But you would gladly raise the child of another man if denied the right to bear your own.
On what planet has anyone denied you the right to bear your own child, BS? Wicked_sprite and I both explained that it was entirely possible.
(interestingly enough, made possible by the efforts of the very feminists you despise, but be that as it may ....)
However, parenting requires effort. Commitment. Maturity.
Being a "pundit and rabble rouser" by spending all your time on the Internet yelling hateful things about women does not require effort, or maturity ... though I suppose can't fault you for lack of commitment.
But it does not surprise me that you are opting for the easy road.
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AKA ...
[Read the article: And baby makes two]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What gets me in the responses in this thread is that I believe some people simply do not think that Louise Sloan should be a mother BECAUSE she is a lesbian.
I actually think the reaction would be similar if she were straight. In fact it might be even more hostile. Straight women "have no excuse" for not being in a traditional marriage having biological children.
I know of no families without challenges. There simply is no perfect family or perfect situation.
That I agree with.
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Oh, obviously, because women's rights were invented in 1970 ....
[Read the article: And baby makes two]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've read the writers you're talking about, Robert, but I'm not the one who is choosing to ignore large swaths feminist writing. You are.
The Baby Boomer writers have particular set of issues that are particular to the period and culture in which they are writing.
You could just as easily put forward the 19th century authors -- whose main issues included temperance and voluntary motherhood -- as representing all of feminism, now and to come.
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Okay, just checking ...
[Read the article: And baby makes two]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Which is why I traverse the tricky middle road on these boards.
Please go back and look at your own posts. Do you seriously believe that this is what you are doing when you say things like:
Frankly, I ADORE maintaining my self respect by not dealing with such emotional leeches. (unless, I can become good enough at tricking one of said leeches into bed, then scramming away. BUWAAA HAAHA AHAHAHA AAHAHA A AA !! ! ! )
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Dude, you really do know nothing about life under Islamic fundamentalist governments ....
[Read the article: Taking off your bra for national security]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You honestly think that 9/11 and al-Quaeda and Islamic terrorism are motivated by a desire to drive American women out of public life and back into the kitchen?
Nah. That would just be a side benefit.
Bin Laden doesn't give a rat's ass what you're doing with your decadent freedom in the USA--he hates us because of the crimes the US has committed against Muslim peoples and countries for the past 50+ years, and for our support for Israel, and for our support for corrupt ruling regimes in the Middle East that have oppressed their own people.
No, you're conflating the reasonable political grievances that people in the Islamic world have against the west with Islamist fundamentalism. They are an extremist religious group with no real counterpart in western culture, unless you look to crossing hardcore white supremecists with ... I dunno ... the Amish?
Look into the lives of women in Afghanistan under the Taliban, one of the chief supporters and allies of al-Quaeda. Or even in Iran or Saudi Arabia, where there are strong fundamentalist elements in the society (and in Iran's case, the government).
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Thank you
[Read the article: Waterboarding is not simulated drowning -- it is drowning]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That's all I can say. Thank you for being a citizen.