Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 1071 Editor's Choice: 19
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It's lazy thinking...as well as not wanting to face reality...
[Read the article: Katie Roiphe's morning after]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]>The more I think about it, the more I wonder about those who are longing for the good old days. Are they like Katie Roiphe, who appears to be pining for a knight in shining armor to sweep her off her feet? Or would they like to have the free and heavy hand that my grandfather had?<
Eheheh. On an author board I frequent, there's a woman who's a major nostalgia junky in this way. She's lived her entire life down South and has a dominating father. Now, she has a job and a life of her own--but she feels she's been cheated out of what the "good old days" might have brought her: a wedding in the church where her parents were wed; a chivalrous, rich husband who'll always protect and love her; perfect upper-class children; and a nice life as a wealthy Southern matron. She has said she longs for the 1890s, for the most part. She blames feminism for scaring all the "good" men away--or "wrecking" society so that good men don't get made the way they "used" to. She's an interesting study, to say the least--she's independent, but she wants the kind of life one suspects her female relatives would have been happy to dump. A lot of this nostalgia is ignorance as to what the "good old days" were really like. I forget which SF author said it, but he noted that all those folks who'd want to live in Victorian England or medieval times forget that the vast majority of people were servants or serfs doing backbreaking dirty work, not wealthy lords and ladies swanning around in beautiful clothes and perfumed gardens. The same applies to women who think feminism screwed up the "natural" order of things. They have the privileges feminism got them (the ability to have a bank account; leave an abusive husband; have a job in the field of one's choice), but they think if this were back in the day, they'd be some cossetted maiden instead of the overworked maid or frustrated wife they most likely would be.
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Ugh...
[Read the article: No apologies, Katie Couric!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]1) Couric is "miscast," for lack of a better word. And this is as much Les "I like women perky and unthreatening" Moonves' fault as it is hers.
2) I knew she was a bad choice the minute she mentioned she insisted on no overseas/front-line assignments because of her kids.
3) Apologizing for your mistakes is a good thing (God, haven't we all had enough of presidents and others who won't take responsibility for their errors?) But you don't whine and you don't play "poor me"--you say you messed up, correct the error, and move on. It's easy to get self-flagellating if you've been taught you have to be 1) a good girl; 2) perfect. (Hell, I did that a lot my first couple years in the workforce. I just hated that I'd messed up and felt terrible about it. :)) But you learn that abasing yourself to that degree isn't going to fix the problem.
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Hoo, boy...
[Read the article: No apologies, Katie Couric!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]>But I ended up thinking I needed a new eyeglass prescription. They have so much vaseline smeared on the camera lens and the light down so low, Couric looks like two eyes and a mouth floating on a white oval.<
_Thank_ you. I thought there was something wrong with my set (our cable was acting flaky around the time Couric debuted--and when I last channel-surfed her way.)
>Another poster said that CBS paid 3 million to upgrade the CBS set. Are you shitting me? That set is so brown and claustrophobic, I can't imagine what they spent the money on.<
Me either. It looks only a couple of steps up from a broadcast booth. One wouldn't be surprised to see Edward R. Murrow reporting from one of the corners or something...
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CBS was hoping to split the difference several ways...
[Read the article: No apologies, Katie Couric!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]>I still say it was Today's young womenfolk CBS was hoping to snag.<
>>KC's targeted demo is the middle-aged women to whom she hopes to attract to her show as a comfortable girlfriend.<<
CBS was hoping she would have cross-demo appeal. They thought her perkiness would get the soccer moms; her seeming intelligence would get women in general; her cuteness would get menfolk--and younger guys would respond to her MILF quality.
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Try...
[Read the article: R.I.P. Jane magazine]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If anyone has any recommendations for similar edgy women's mags, PLEASE let me know.<
As others here have noted, BUST and BITCH are quite good.
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LOL!!
[Read the article: His stethoscope is loaded]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]>Nonetheless, the fiasco in London is bound to bring new directives from the Department of Homeland Security forbidding doctors and nurses from operating motor vehicles.<
My favorite recent Fox story on this was one of those pundit shows debating if national health care programs support terrorism.
>Anyone who can write 3,000 words deconstructing "The House of Mirth" and find the subtexts and overtones of Sylvia Plath, the Beach Boys' "Fun, Fun, Fun," the journals of Meriwether Lewis, and MySpace has done enough violence and lost his appetite for terror.<
Heyyy, I resemble that remark. Though I preferred to find the subtle subtexts and overtones in the original STAR TREK series...:)
>...but they are ready to answer their country's call and assume responsible positions in the field of healthcare security.<
Not hardly. You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din...:)
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Dude...
[Read the article: My wife was having an emotional affair for years behind my back]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...you are a masochist; she's a sadist...and the emotional content of your marriage apparently is mostly about her jerking your chain. What is there you love about this woman? Is it worth the mess she puts you through?
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David Brooks won't be happy....
[Read the article: David Brooks takes on pop music]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...until the 1890s are back in full swing and he can complain about those deluded-by-independence girls who don't want to marry for money or status. Why does the NYT keep this jerk on? And when is someone going to do an expose on _his_ married life? I bet Ms. Brooks has a lot to dish about...