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Published Letters: 624 Editor's Choice: 32
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Perfectly logical.
[Read the article: Wal-Mart's "Faded Glory"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's disposable clothes for a disposable demographic.
(And yes, the first time I saw that brand name some years ago, all that registered in my brain was WTF???)
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@Six Shooter
[Read the article: Wal-Mart's "Faded Glory"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]For the record, I have bought Faded Glory clothes -- believe me, they literally embody the disposable concept. I was not patronizing the Wal-Mart demographic; obviously more and more of us every day belong to it.
I was making the probably too subtle point that the economic powers of this country consider the rest of us disposable, as in, "let them eat Little Debbie snack cakes; let them wear clothes that last two washes."
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Street wise.
[Read the article: The ladies love street harassment!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So one comment from a pitifully insecure woman from the most sexually twisted corner of the universe, Los Angeles, is evidence that indeed some women want strangers on the street to talk to them like whores?
Okay, whatever you say.
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@Patrick Morgan
[Read the article: The ladies love street harassment!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My post was not directed to you. It was a response to Judy Berman's article.
To clarify, of course women like male admiration, just as men like female admiration. Through the years I have had many strangers smile at me, say hello or come up with some charming one-liner. Those are nice things that happen, and they come from polite men who have a clue about boundaries between human beings, who know how to register passing interest without offending, intimidating, or making a damn fool of themselves.
But catcalls are as low-class, demeaning and infuriating as the word itself implies. Show me a woman who enjoys them and I'll show you a woman who's pathetically grateful to be acknowledged at all.
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@Patrick
[Read the article: The ladies love street harassment!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well,I can't speak to the hotness obsession (and the mindbogglingly shallow definition of hotness) because it doesn't even factor into my life.
I am not hot by today's definition, probably never have been, never tried to be. Yet I have been approached mostly in delightful, sometimes intriguing, and occasionally enraging ways by men all my life. And I suspect that is the experience of virtually all American women.
Truthfully, I just think CNN needed to do come up with something stupid in its race to Foxify itself. It seems like it should be pretty obvious what kind of male attention is wonderful and what is not.
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And...
[Read the article: If I die, I want my friends to raise my children]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you and your husband are frequent fliers, take separate planes.
I'm not kidding. There are a lot of couples who do this, so that in the event of... well, you know...
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"none of my Jewish friends"
[Read the article: Are the Jews good for Barack Obama?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What a fraud you are, "ShawnM," with your "none of my Jewish friends supports Obama" routine.
As if you have a single Jewish friend.
I could rattle off ten of my Jewish friends and relatives in 10 seconds flat who are voting for Obama. What a fake you are.
How about if Salon readers take up a collection and pay you more to get off this website than the GOP is paying you to stay on it? Whaddya say?
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We're too sexy for our shirts.
[Read the article: My husband wants a different form of eroticism ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How and when did men get the idea that wackjob sexual thoughts that occur to them years after "I do" just have to, have to be realized by their mates?
Our moms didn't have to put up with this crap.
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You are all who matters here.
[Read the article: My brother abused me -- now our parents want us all together again!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yeah, yeah, 50 is nice. Screw both your parents. Their neglect/abuse/cluelessness is what allowed your brother to act so despicably with you in the first place.
Let the three of them pretend they're just a happy shiny family, wish them all well in that C.S. Lewian sense, and keep the mental health you have fought so hard for.
If I sound flippant, I don't mean to. I wish YOU well, in the "hell with parents who let one sibling ruin the life of the other" sense.
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Not that this helps any, but
[Read the article: I'm a mom who needs more solitude]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm just like you. That's why I didn't have kids.
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@Rayinkorea
[Read the article: I'm a mom who needs more solitude]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks for the hot tip about despair.com. I'm still laughing; those guys are gooood.
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A day late, a few trillion dollars short (and incalculable misery)
[Read the article: Now, McClellan a harsh critic of Bush]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Geez, NOW this closed-mouth putz is talking? Thanks for nothing.
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Way more Sicko than our health care
[Read the article: Scott McClellan on the "liberal media"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Somebody needs to diagnose this mysterious Mr. McClellan. Exactly which mental illness is characterized by total happy immersion in a grand hideous scheme perpetrated upon two entire peoples, followed by feigned puzzlement and disdain for those who played along with it?
And which Big Pharma company is working on some pretty-colored pill to cure this?
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Editorial liberties:
[Read the article: Obama speaks Spanish in new ad]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There were only two persons in world history who sounded better "live" compared to "in studio". And those men's names were Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan.
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yes, so very sexy
[Read the article: May '08: The Manolo riots]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]SITC is quickly becoming a victim of its own bad pr planning. In a laugh out loud column in its for-real pages, the Onion's gal about town was less than turned on by the promotional martini event at Penn Station.
After a taste or two of the highly annoying tv trailers, I gleefully look forward to the critical pans.
(Yes, I am a killjoy. Is there a martini for that?)
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Those strangers you call parents.
[Read the article: Should I confront my father about his affair?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Just keep quiet. With any luck your mom's been cheating on his sorry ass for ten years.
You never really know your parents, you just really, really don't.
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@Claudia
[Read the article: Should I confront my father about his affair?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You are absolutely right. Mom deserves to know whether she can count on this alleged husband of hers in her old age or not.
(But I still hope she's getting her jollies with some 30-year-old.)
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@mad cartoonist
[Read the article: Should I confront my father about his affair?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You misunderstand. Let me clarify. When I say I hope Mom's fooling around with a 30-year-old, I am by no means fabricating an excuse for Dad's adultery. I am fabricating Mom's revenge.
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Do it or don't, but don't do it anonymously.
[Read the article: Should I confront my father about his affair?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What's up with the "send this information anonymously to your mom" advice? I'd be more freaked out by some creepy faceless, nameless missives informing me that my marriage is a joke than by the info itself.