Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 1056 Editor's Choice: 19
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Laurel962 = single-people-hating concern troll
[Read the article: I'm a busy single mom and I just don't want to date]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Boy, for someone who extols the joys of matrimony/relationships, you sure have a lot of time on your hands to condemm people who don't want to get hitched. _What_ is your problem, babe? The smugness and outright hostility you feel towards single people comes through in every post you do on this subject--and if someone as busy as myself notices, you can be sure it's right obvious. And for you to cloak it in "I'm only worried that someone as deluded/self-centered as you singles might end up alone and unwanted" syrup just makes your advice even more poisonous-sounding. Come on, 'fess up--marriage hasn't proven the wonderland you thought it was. You can't get over the fact that those selfish single people (like the friend you mention who owned "too big" a house) are happy and thriving. Their happiness just doesn't seem right to you, does it? They didn't abide by the rules, and as a good little wifey you did, so there _must_ be something wrong with them. It couldn't be that your expectations were too high--and that you made marriage your life instead of part of your life, huh?
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Oh, and Laurel, hon...
[Read the article: I'm a busy single mom and I just don't want to date]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...your "insights" are classic insecure "married-bingo" crap. If I didn't know better, I'd swear you were pulling them whole and breathing from Bella DiPaulo's SINGLED OUT--but it's unlikely you would be smart--or tolerant--enough to read it.
http://www.amazon.com/Singled-Out-Singles-Stereotyped-Stigmatized/dp/0312340826/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201128292&sr=1-2
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Yowsa, someone needs to dial down the caffeine. Or the meth...
[Read the article: Virginia schools' Web scandalette: "Get over it, kid!"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]1) Who is supposed to be the adult here, again?
2) One suspects wife doesn't think much of husband's line of work...
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And three inches of snow in Virginia is no joke.
[Read the article: Virginia schools' Web scandalette: "Get over it, kid!"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I went to college in the Norfolk area and six inches of snow was enough to 1) keep school employees from coming into work for two-three days; 2) make the city import road-clearing equipment from the New York/New Jersey area (my home neck-of-the-woods, ironically enough.) Just a couple of inches is enough to make the roads extremely hazardous.
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Eheheh...
[Read the article: "Untraceable"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]>And while we're at it, all passwords can be broken at random by anyone on earth, in less than 15 seconds.<
And everyone's computer boots up 1) uber-fast; 2) in the exact same way and on the exact same site. And nobody _ever_ has problems remember the ninety-bazillion passwords that it takes just to use the web in small ways. And everyone has super-duper-broadband that's speedy as heck and connects perfectly anywhere--one never sees folks stuck using dial-up in a thriller. :)
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Well, that's one mystery solved...
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks much, Heather, for getting at one reason why ABC's shows just don't do it for me. I couldn't figure it out--I've been checking in first episodes of several of 'em (most recently DIRTY SEXY MONEY and CASHMERE MAFIA) for a while. They were well-cast, looked good, were relatively smart and funny. But they just didn't make me want to make them appointment viewing. There were just missing _something_--and it was the fact that basically I didn't care enough about these folks to put the time and energy into following their complicated plotlines for weeks on end. (And the same holds true for UGLY BETTY--as much as the lead is appealing and the show is a nice corrective to THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA-head, I just couldn't work up enough interest to follow it in real-time.) I suspect as well that a lot of these shows play better as DVD box-sets, when you can watch them all in one fell swoop and don't have to put so much into keeping up with them.
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@tomreedtoon
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]>I used to read Rex Reed's movie reviews to hear him do putdowns of actresses - like describing Nancy Sinatra as looking like a pizza waitress no matter how much of her daddy's money she spent on clothes. (Good thing the Sinatras weren't black, since such bitchy remarks directed towards African-Americans would have gotten the old mincing Dr. Pepper swiller branded as a racist.)<
And rightly so. :P The worst in this regard was theater/film critic John Simon, who was notoriously vicious towards actors who didn't fit his "white folks only"/physical perfection mold. And it was JS's "bad luck" to do most of his reviewing during the years when unconventional types like Streisand and Hoffman changed the acceptable media image template for good. One of the last reviews I recall him doing was a nasty slam at Denzel Washington when the latter did JULIUS CAESAR on Broadway. JS acted as if the very idea of a black actor doing the role was a desecration of Shakespeare and all of theater history. Have seldom seen a review that you couldn't half read because of all the reviewer's frothing at the mouth...:)
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It's called payback...
[Read the article: One is the loveliest number]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]>There's nothing wrong with being single but there is something wrong with being bitter and defensive about it and justifying it by trying to hang a whole lot of stereotypical views and notions onto relationships.<
Singles get "bitter" because they get tired of 1) "marriage makes you worthy and special and better than everyone else" crap shoved in their faces constantly, and 2) the assumption that they are immature, screwed-up, bitter, (heh), selfish, and generally abnormal if they don't want to get married. It's bad enough the media rams this message home all the time, but it's an even bigger hell if you live somewhere like the South, where people actively pity/get in your face/patronize you if you are single. Given how much singlehood is still derided in this society, why shouldn't some singles strike back using the same methods that are used on them?
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And Valentine's Day _is_ good for...
[Read the article: One is the loveliest number]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...the fact that Godiva chocolate goes on-sale the next day...:)
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_Yes_...
[Read the article: Punch-drunk Rudy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've been looking forward to _this_ particular crash-and-burn for some time. Giuliani wasn't fit to be a city clerk, much less a mayor--and as president he would have been unthinkable. Somewhere Diallo and Dorismond are laughing themselves sick--and rightly so. Sayonara, suckah...:)