Letters to the Editor
Anna68
Published Letters: 158 Editor's Choice: 2
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Whoa, Lesley Anne, when did I attack *your* position on abortion rights?
[Read the article: Pro-life doesn't mean unsexy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm Anon 2:02.
I simply pointed out that the pro-life *movement* is also anti-contraception, anti-sex education (and often anti gay as well). These are things that would help women NOT HAVE ABORTIONS.
I'll go even further and say the pro-life *movement* makes common cause with cutting funding for prenatal care for the poor, extensions of TANF benefits and other measures that would help women NOT HAVE ABORTIONS.
If more pro-life people WERE LIKE YOU, I might have respect for the movement as a whole and all the arguments about respecting the sanctity of life.
As it is, the PRO-LIFE *MOVEMENT* supports ignorance, lack of contraception, and lack of support for MOTHERS WITH BABIES.
You say you are not like the so called pro-life movement.
So go you! Maybe you need another label for your position, like "pro-sex/anti abortion" or something.
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selling ones soul in politics ...
[Read the article: Pro-life doesn't mean unsexy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That just goes to show that some pro-life people even *gasp* Catholic Churches are willing to support mothers with babies.
I actually did not fall off the liberal turnip truck! Shockingly, I have met pro-life people before, yes, even *gasp* Catholics, even, *horrors* EVANGELICALS! My God, and I've eaten at their tables, organized with them and worshipped with them (NO!), even though I am a "godless" urban pro-choice feminist! (Because of course only in a Barack Obama speech do we worship and awesome God in the Blue states!)
Pro-life *people* are people who believe life begins at conception.
And too many otherwise reasonable pro-life *people* have made a political deal with the devil when it comes to sex education, contraception and a host of other issues!
I hate that the Pro-Life movement has a reputation for being cold and anti-sex, and I hope the movement continues to improve.
It is a well-earned reputation, unfortunately, and not merely a "perception".
Even the Catholic Church's official stance on sex education and contraception is not productive at all, and its record on sexual violence and abuse is ... wow, can we say a little spotty? And the Evangelical Protestants seem to think that if nobody *mentions* sex than nobody will have it!
Education, contraception and the prevention of sexual violence would prevent many unwanted pregnancies that currently lead to abortion. Maybe not all - but then neither would criminalization.
And if one were to hold that the fetus is a human life just as much as a baby is ... which I don't but I get that a lot of people do ... surely if sex education and contraception prevented *one* abortion that would be worth it!
Unfortunately this logic falls on deaf ears for too many people!
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squishy compassionate women leaders?
[Read the article: Will Hillary bump her head?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Elizabeth I and Catherine the Great. And if we think women would be more more gentle, compassionate leaders, I don't think Hillary is the best choice compared to the men in the race
I'm sorry, just wanted to point out that silly fallacy about women leaders that happened to sit in a paragraph mentioning Elizabeth I and Catherine the Great? To say nothing of Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir and Margaret Thatcher. History suggests that female leaders are tougher and smarter than their male counterparts.
One of the instances where the truism "a woman has to be twice as capable as a man to get as far" works out for the benefit of entire countries.
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Can she leave?
[Read the article: Saudi rape victim punished, again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is barbaric!
Can she get out of there and claim refugee status someplace else?
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Well, and also Garrison ...
[Read the article: Why I didn't invest in subprime mortgages]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm just guessing that you bought your house when the market wasn't as obscenely overvalued as it is now.
And I'll bet at that time, banks had the craaazy notion that lending to people who would be able to pay the loans back was how to run a business.
It is possible to be a personal fiscal conservative in this wacky "neoconservative" age. But its a lot harder. Requires guts of steel and a suspicious mind.
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'nother non-union writer in support of the WGA strike here ...
[Read the article: Who wants to be a millionaire -- on strike?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I also support the WGA strike ... not because I will directly benefit ... like another content developer who burns with jealousy over residuals, I'm never going to see a dime beyond my monthly paycheck for all the work I do in my current place of employment.
But UNLIKE that person I recognize that there are indirect benefits to the strike for all of us who write for a living.
A real discussion is happening about what writers *do* in my workplace for the first time, and the WGA strike is part of the inspiration.
Management in just about every industry I've worked in (radio, print and online journalism, magazine publishing, e-learning and PR so far) fundamentally don't understand what writers do. There is this regrettable notion that "anybody" can write, and that there is no difference between a kid with a BA in English and a 40 year old with 20 years' experience. They don't know how to manage us.
We also only make 1/3 of the salary of programmers and IT people in case anyone cares. When we're working.
These people carry on like we're a bunch of fruity artists, not hard working people with a *skill* worth compensating. They know a good script from a bad script, but not why one is good or one is bad, why one CD gets the clients coming back to us and the other doesn't.
(also Lestat1, don't harsh on Jane Espenson. Marti Noxon was in charge of Buffy Season 6).
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is it about race or is it about class?
[Read the article: Fantasies in black and white]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, obviously its about *both*.
And its a trick that we're even asking that question. Do we blame the poor people for being poor? Or do we blame it all on racism? Are the middle class responsible for their success because of their values? Do poor whites owe middle class blacks anything?
Stupid, stupid, all of it!
Who, meanwhile, is standing around holding an ever increasing piece of the pie, while we all sit around pointing fingers?