Letters to the Editor
PJBabiba
Published Letters: 29 Editor's Choice: 4
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Are we back to Salon circa 1999?
[Read the article: The best-laid plans]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't think I've read anything like this navel-gazing sexual stuff since 1999 on Salon. I could be wrong. I'm not a regular reader.
Anyway, most of it was a good read, but I have to nitpick:
"The second I was old enough to know what sex was, I knew I wanted to have a one-night stand...Largely because I had no idea what it entailed."
This is within the first paragraph. What's wrong here? Hmm... she was old enough to know what sex was. Okay... she wanted to have a one-night stand. Okay still with you... and yet she had no idea what it entailed.
Wait a minute! So she did NOT actually know what sex was, contrary to what she said in the opening sentence?
That pretty much knocked this piece from B to a C in my book.
Also, did she never consider just going to a nightclub, like any normal 20-something? Gimme a break, lady. Just because you make things hard on yourself doesn't make your life any more interesting.