Letters to the Editor
leftychris
Published Letters: 354 Editor's Choice: 4
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@AKA Smith
[Read the article: Taking off your bra for national security]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What particular feminists are you talking about? I don't recall that woman saying she was a feminist and that that had something to do with her preference.
I wrote "feminists OR women". Did you miss the "OR" in that phrase? My point was that women will never allow a man to get away with making sweeping generalizations about all women or even a large subset of women based on the actions of ONE woman or even a few women, but they do the same all the time in the other direction. Like the Anonymous who started this gynecology tangent, when she strongly implied that due to a bad experience she regarded male gynecologists as perverts. And not a single woman on this thread called her on it and criticized her for making such an unfair, sweeping, offensive generalization.
Just how OLD are you anyway?
My age is irrelevant to the discussion and none of your business. Old enough to be a parent and out of college for many years. That's all you need to know.
These things really aren't about statistics or logic. People may have many PERSONAL reasons for feeling as they do.
And sometimes those personal feelings are unfair, offensive, unfounded, ridiculous, illogical, or any number of other things. But it's clear that your deep concern for the personal reasons behind the feelings of many people, and the kid gloves you use to discuss them, only apply to the feelings of women. I've seen you take the kid gloves off and put the boxing gloves on when it comes to the PERSONAL reasons for some of the MEN on these message boards feeling the way they do. Yet again, you're transparently selective in your protectiveness, concern, and respect for the feelings and reasons of others.
I never have been much on the "Get over it" attitude. I prefer to be more gentle and understanding with people.
To whom on this thread did I ever say, or imply, "Get over it"? NO ONE, and you know it. You're just twisting my arguments yet again to suit your own purposes. There's a huge difference between telling someone who was sexually assaulted to "get over it" and finding fault with a woman for rejecting an entire group of people and implicitly defaming them due to a bad experience. Oh, and I've seen abundant evidence of your "more gentle and understanding" attitude to people on these threads, especially those who disagree with you. Gentle and understanding! LOL Don't break your arm patting yourself on the back.
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@Anna68
[Read the article: Taking off your bra for national security]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I fail to see what exactly you're arguing. The living conditions of women in Muslim countries has nothing to do with why Islamic extremists and terrorists hate and attack the United States. 9/11 wasn't motivated by Bin Laden's desire to march into Peoria or wherever you are and force you into a burqa and then into a mosque. It was motivated by his desire to drive our military control and political influence out of the Middle East.
Please pick up any available book on logical debate and fallacies. There are several good ones available. Then read it very closely. Thank you.
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I'm with Robert Franklin
[Read the article: Guilty of murder or seeming unmatronly?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is all so tiresome. The girl's disappearance is a terrible family tragedy, of course, and if her parents truly had nothing to do with it, then I sympathize with them deeply (although the leaving them alone in the apartment while at dinner when the resort had a babysitting service available is troubling and borders on the inexcusable.) However, the global crisis this case has become thanks to the media is nothing short of nauseating. How many other kids in Britain alone have turned up missing or murdered since Madeleine disappeared? How about the USA?
Enough froth and noise and idle speculation about this case by people who know nothing about it except what they're spoon-fed by the media. Can we just make the sensible assumption that given the intense media scrutiny of this case, if the Portuguese police consider the parents to be suspects, then they have some legitimate reasons for doing so? That doesn't mean they necessarily have legally conclusive proof, but surely it's an insult to say their investigation has been driven by little more than their wives' envy of Kate's hips! (Or whatever the hell it was.) That smacks of more than a little Anglo-American condescension toward the silly and incompetent and shallow Mediterranean folk!
FWIW (very little, actually) I suspected the parents had some involvement from the very beginning. The story made little sense to me, the fact they left the kids in the apartment struck me as very peculiar, and the faces and mannerisms of the parents (and particularly the mother) struck me as all wrong. Just a gut feeling, but watching her during interviews and press conferences made me cringe. There was just something...intuitively wrong about her appearance and mannerisms, kind of like Susan Smith and Patsy Ramsey as AKA Smith referred to earlier in this thread. Watching her, I just had the overwhelming feeling that the mother knew much more about the situation than she was letting on, and was hiding something. Does that mean she actually killed the girl? Of course not. And I find it hard to believe that one of the parents killed her and concealed the body on a resort holiday without the other being intimately involved as well. So I'd focus on BOTH parents, and I don't like the disproportionate attention and criticism that the mother has received as opposed to the father.
But, in all honesty, it's the mother who gave me the biggest gut reaction. Sometimes facial expressions and mannerisms speak volumes, and hers gave me a knot in my stomach from the very beginning.
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fetboy, you'd better not part with all your panties!!!!!!!
[Read the article: "Panties for Peace"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You can send some of yours to be part of this protest, but please, please, please not the floral-print, lined, silk panties with lace trim. You look way too cute in those ;-)