Letters to the Editor
Janice78
Published Letters: 119 Editor's Choice: 6
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Return of the Patriarchy
[Read the article: Giving birth to the conservative ruling class]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, first of all, I wasn't aware that the patriachy had been missing. That aside, this seems like a silly and disengenuous argument. To begin with, kids surely don't always adopt their parents' politics. My conservative dad's record is one conservative kid to two pinkos.
But I also have to wonder about who in the red states are having a lot of kids. It's my understanding that conservative leaders tend to be from the ranks of the white, privileged and educated. Isn't that a group that tends to have fewer kids overall, regardless of their political views?
Plus, living in a red state doesn't make a person "red." I'm sure we've all seen those more-detailed maps that show just how purple most states really are.
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Can you believe that slogan?
[Read the article: A message -- or many -- from the Democrats]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Together, America can do better"
The WaPo article says the most troubling aspect of this lame excuse for a slogan, to dem leaders, is that the syntax is awkward. Really? Is that really the worst thing about it?? It's no wonder republicans so easily paint us as the wimp party. I mean, they lifted it from Kerry's LOSING presidential campaign, for crying out loud! Wasn't that a big, red flag? My cat has a better learning curve. People are angry. Our party leaders should be talking about taking America back from the corrupt, lying hypocrites who are bent on destroying the constitution and taking us back to the age of the robber barons. They should really stop listening to a bunch of beltway consultants who can't win elections. Argh!
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Hillary, please don't
[Read the article: The Hillary juggernaut]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As much as I'd love to have a (Democratic)woman in the White House, I really don't want it to be Hillary Clinton. I think she's a sell-out and an opportunist whose "principals" blow with the wind. She has all of Bill's bad qualities (being selfish and weaselly)and none of his charm. We don't need someone from the DLC camp who governs by polling sample. We need someone with guts who can motivate the base and capitalize on Bush fatigue.
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Spoilers
[Read the article: Finale wrap-up: "Veronica Mars"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why are people who haven't watched the episode yet reading articles about it? The headline clearly says "Finale wrap-up."
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We need leadership
[Read the article: Bush? Never heard of him]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"If serious dem candidates were to 'take a stand' it might well scare off those idiot swing voters who are the only chance dems have to take back Congress and the presidency."
Real leadership isn't taking polls and contorting yourself into what you think people want. Real leadership involves stating your own beliefs and working to convince people that you're right. As George Lakoff might say, it's about reframing the debate. Or, as someone on the West Wing once said, you don't want to be like the French radical who says, "I must find out where my people are going so I can lead them."
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Feminism today
[Read the article: "Strident" and proud]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think one of the main problems is that today's feminist movement is associated only with abortion rights, and that focus is leaving women to struggle through the rest of their choices alone. For example, the work of previous generations has lead to the expectation that women will work and raise families, but we're not doing enough to help each other do that. We're left as individuals to cobble together our own child care arrangements and lobby our bosses for maternity leave instead of banding together to make laws about this. Not that feminist groups aren't trying to do that, but I think all that gets lost in the shuffle of the "culture wars" that are focusing on abortion and sex.
I'm going to trot out an old-school feminist phrase here: "The personal is political."
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PMS and chocolate
[Read the article: Going out drinking? Wear nice undies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't know where to send this, so I thought I'd just post it. In case you haven't seen it, I thought this piece from the Washington Post was right up Broadsheet's alley.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/12/AR2006071202076.html
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What about this?
[Read the article: Saving women from rape, one cigarette at a time]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What about all those women who get hammered in bars and then go home with guys who sexually assault them? Wasn't there something in the New York Times recently about how women, especially college-age ones, turn into big sluts when they drink and are just asking to be raped?
Did the pro-smokers ever think of that one?
Maybe going outside for a cigarette will sober a woman up enough to realize the tool at the bar who's trying to get her to do tequila shots isn't Prince Charming and probably has a roofie in his pocket.
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"Gross"?
[Read the article: Hide that breast!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A reader thinks boobies are "gross"? Was this reader an 8-year-old boy?
Sheesh...
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House
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I finally caved and bought the first season of House on DVD. I've been holed up in my apartment all weekend, totally cracked out on House. And now I'm setting my Tivo to find all the season 2 reruns so I can be caught up before the third season starts.
It is a beautiful thing.
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This guy has to be kidding
[Read the article: Breast-feeding: Bad for marriages?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This reminds me of that episode of Sex and the City about how the women were all afraid to "do a number 2" at a boyfriend's apartment. The notion that women aren't allowed to have gross bodily functions - we're not allowed to sweat, fart, grow hair, etc - just ticks me off. Someone should follow the grand tradition of "Everybody Poops" and write a book called "Every Mother Pushes a Baby Out of her Vagina." (sorry to the C-section moms out there)
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So what this Forbes article is really saying...
[Read the article: Unhappily ever after]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Seems to be that men should just cut out the middle, um, man and marry their mommies.