Letters to the Editor
deering
Published Letters: 1056 Editor's Choice: 19
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Because a truly _good_ mother starts pumping out those kids when she's in her twenties...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]...and doesn't worry about making a life or enough money so she can give those kids a good home. Or she does like the mother in last week's SUPERNANNY and has kid after kid without thinking about whether she can parent one, much less six. Yeah, that's real unselfish parenting there...
>We train young upper class women to be first model students -- high achieving, goal oriented -- then we train them to be model corporate employees (ditto -- and hey, LeCastor, you win!).<
Oooh, those edumacated women. They use their brains so much they forget they are emotional creatures whose greatest worth is as mothers--and nothing else. What next, Laurel--are you going to warn us that women shouldn't exercise or do sports because it will damage their reproductive systems--rendering them infertile and inhuman un-women. LOL!!
>Better yet: I am waiting breathlessly for LeCastor, who is still in her 20s, to hear her biological clock ticking and get "baby fever". Yes, dear, it happens even to lawyers and MBAs and physicians and nuclear scientists. Because all holy hell will break loose, even with all your millions, because you don't have the emotional parenting skills (let alone the unselfishness) of a spoiled Golden Retriever. I pity your boyfriend.<
And I feel sorry for you, because you hate and fear women who don't buy your "a woman is only as good as her womb" bullshit. I'm amazed you haven't quite gotten the message, but there are plenty of women who 1) don't want children; 2) are more productive fufilling their talents than being mothers; 3) are just as good as you and your breeder-uber-allies crew--in fact, they are better because they don't spend their days jealous, unfufilled, and judgemental--or doing a lousy job of raising kids because they just had to follow "The Script."
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Hey, it looks like Laurel has been busy elsewhere...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]"So I don't understand why more women don't relax, enjoy the innate abilities most of us possess (as well as the ones fewer of us possess) and revel in the things most important to life at which nearly all of us excel: tenderness toward children and men and the weak and the ability to make a house a home. (Even I, who inherited my interior-decorating skills from my Bronx Irish paternal grandmother, whose idea of upgrading the living-room sofa was to throw a blanket over it, can make a house a home.) Then we could shriek and swoon and gossip and read chick lit to our hearts' content and not mind the fact that way down deep, we are . . . kind of dim."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/29/AR2008022902992.html
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@LeCastor
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Oh, yeah--this wench is a pip, to say the least. :P The comments on this drek have been a hoot--and rightly so. :)
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@LeCastor...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Boy, those Manhattan Institute right-wing scum have been busy little bees of late. Just last week, Heather MacDonald (a MH member) unleashed that "rape isn't that big a deal/college girls are sluts" screed in the LA TIMES. This week, we get _this_ Allen bint (who's also a MH-er) spewing her hatred. Creeps never sleep...:).
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Hee--and _this_ is how the POST is going to attract much-needed female readers?
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yeah, guys--you just keep on keepin' on like that. :)
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Brightstar, you and this ignorant wench have a lot in common...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]...but since I refuse to spend the next week or so listing them all, let's cut to the chase. You both detest what you are; you loathe women as a result--and you pass your hatred off as hard-won wisdom, even though you can't think rationall for beans.
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Er...that's "rationally."
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]But, hey, I don't make nearly as many spelling/grammatical mistakes as Brightstar on any given day...:)
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In the immortal words of Keisha from NEW JACK CITY...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Rocka_bye_, _bay_-bee...:)
Wait? What?! No chance to see Kansas suffering in Douglas Sirkian-land??! No, SALON, you can't do this! There are realms and realms and realms of cliches yet for this thing to mixmaster; exposition to mangle; narrative to...yikes!
(deering flees from a mob of SALON KOF posters who are insisting with great vigor--and a lot of clubs--that she ever-so _do_ shut up)
Never mind. :)
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@revatt
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]>"We're getting canceled? Well, we'll show you! We're not going to tell you the secret of the universe!"<
They already revealed the secret of the universe--if you're well-connected; have no shame; and have even less shame after that, you can have any old mess published and get _paid_. ;)
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And because one can never re-read Mark Twain too often...:)
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]"I may be mistaken, but it does seem to me that ('Kansas O'Flaherty...Secret Agent') is not a work of art in any sense; it does seem to me that it is destitute of every detail that goes to the making of a work of art; in truth, it seems to me that (it) is just simply a literary delirium tremens.
A work of art? It has no invention; it has no order, system, sequence, or result; it has no lifelikeness, no thrill, no stir, no seeming of reality; its characters are confusedly drawn, and by their acts and words they prove that they are not the sort of people the author claims that they are; its humor is pathetic; its pathos is funny; its conversations are–oh! indescribable; its love-scenes odious; its English a crime against the language.
Counting these out, what is left is Art. I think we must all admit that."
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@Fleetwood
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]>Perhaps the best way to placate the complainers would be to take them back to those glory days of comic scarcity?<
"I've had [it with] this business: 'Anything is better than nothing.' There are times when nothing *has* to be better than anything." :)