Letters to the Editor
George R.
Published Letters: 4
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Whence Cometh This Prejudice?
[Read the article: I'm no bigot, but you should meet my buddies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Interesting poll. So, people know themselves to be enlightened, but "the masses" out there are not.
Where do we get this idea? Gloria Steinem once said "Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life." Obviously, she must have said this a long long time ago, like back in the 70's when Ms. Magazine was young and discovering new inequities every day, back when women actually were excluded from many opportunities to develop their talents, back before women comprised more than half of America's medical students and law students.
Wrong. She said it on January 8, 2008. Gender is the most restricting force in American life. Forty years after Steinem & co. led the "Womens Liberation" movement, precious little has changed. Women are still restricted by their gender, the most restricting force in American life. To hear Steinem (and her ilk, the professional feminist writers) tell it, you would think we lived in a world where women are still forced to bind themselves up in whalebone corsets, for the sadistic pleasure of their menfolk.
It's no wonder people honestly believe that that faceless "they" out there would never vote for a woman for president.
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Whose Head Is It, Anyway?
[Read the article: I'm a med student, but my boyfriend has just a high school education]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let me see if I get the gist of your story. You find this guy attractive, you laugh all the time, you travel together well, every day is fun. You argue well. He adores you. He treats you well. In fact, you feel he is “everything that I felt was missing in my last relationships.”
He sounds like a recipe for disaster. Dump him.
But seriously, G, it sounds like the authentic you is arguing with your parents, who now live inside your head. I would evict them, then see what you feel. If you want to dump him, dump him, but not because ghosts inside your head do not approve. You should actually evict your head-parents in any case. Otherwise, you’ll never know why you say, think, or feel anything, or even who is saying, thinking, or feeling it. Even on a doctor’s salary, that sucks.
You ask, “Will I be happy with this person in one year, five years, 10 years down the road?” I heard a phrase once that seems to fit here: “Are you planning on causing trouble for yourself in the imagined future?”
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Feminists still don't get it.
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Holy cow, you guys (gals). Hillary Clinton is horrible! Not because she's a woman. Because she is herself. When feminists make Hillary emblematic of all women, of course they'll be pissed off. Democrats distrust Hillary, they have picked somebody else, so therefore it's because they hate women! Unassailable logic? No, a leap of faith that reinforces the feminist's paranoid world view.
By the way, to answer Amanda Fortini's rhetorical question posed in the excerpt, "who wants to view oneself as a victim?" --answer: feminists. (Remember the early '70s feminist dictum, "Feminist consciousness IS victim consciousness.") Ask the question in the reverse, "who does NOT want to view oneself as a victim," and the answer is: most women. The feminist would patronizingly say, "Those women just need to wake up. Here, let me help you raise your consciousness." The arrogance of the feminists is that they truly feel that they alone speak for women. To a feminist like Fortini, the only possible reason a woman could have for rejecting feminism is that she is asleep, in denial, unenlightened, solipsistic, whatever. Feminists truly are the Nation of Islam of women.
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What part of "duh" do you not understand?
[Read the article: I want more commitment from my married girlfriend]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Jesus, man. She's married. How dumb are you?
Dear Cary,
Every day, I throw myself down a flight of stairs. It hurts. Why? Can you help me find a way to keep doing this only make it not hurt?
Signed,
Bewildered