Letters to the Editor
lmwalker
Published Letters: 5
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What's sauce for the goose...
[Read the article: Working dads unite!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In light of the finding that elite men might bail on the workplace, do you think the NY Times will start a series of articles about the failure of patriarchy? One point neglected in the recent furor over women leaving their professional jobs is how very unpleasant corporate culture has become -- or perhaps has always been. My own opinion is that the workplace is somewhat more unpleasant for women than for men, but hey, maybe the demands of 24/7 have sufficiently upped the irritation so that men feel it, too. Pehaps staying home with the kids is just the female face of early retirement.
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Fuck
[Read the article: Sexiest Man Living 2007]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Fuck. My boyfriend actually hid the AARP brochure when it showed up on my 50th birthday. But you guys have no mercy. I've never even seen pictures before of half the guys on your list. And why did no one include your own Cary Tennis? Or Vincent D'Onofrio's Bobby Goren? Sexy is a guy who can listen!
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Copy editors on Xmas break?
[Read the article: Irving the Snowchicken is coming to town]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hi,
The story is fun, although what struck me about it (maybe it's that MA in Popular Culture again) was that Noxon's Wonderday celebration didn't seem very different from the usual secular Xmas. A fantasy creature comes in the darkest days of the year; in preparation, the family decorates the house with botanical debris and hangs nether garments by the fireplace, where the creature fills them with gifts. OK, "pants", as David Letterman will tell you, is a better comic key-word than "stockings" but the progression from shoes to stockings to pants, sartorially, is not all that far. No wonder the kids can sing all the same Xmas songs as everybody else. If Mrs. Noxon really wants to get rid of Xmas she's going to have to do a lot better than that! But I bet a fun time is had by all, the tale is told amusingly, and, you know, the holidays are hard enough. If this works for the Noxons, well, mazal tov to them.
My complaint is that it looks like Salon's copy editors took a snow day. Chickens have wattles, not waddles; it's tikkun olam not alum; and Cedars-Sinai, not Cedar's. And the joke about "the holiday whose name shall not be mentioned" would be just a little funnier if it got the Voldemort reference right. This is the kind of stuff your editing staff usually takes care of. What happened?
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Maybe that explains it
[Read the article: The tragic story of LaVena Johnson]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Part of the debate over gays in the military that always troubles me is the argument that gay male soldiers would rape their comrades. The idea seemed to be that all men, gay or straight, were inherently rapists, and that the mere presence of the gender to which one was attracted was enough to break down all rules of social order. It has always seemed to me to be an unfairly low assessment of men and soldiers.
Given the experiences of female soldiers, however, I have obviously been foolishly naive. The opponents of allowing homosexuals to serve openly in the military were apparently judging gay soldiers by their own behavior.
I knew feminism would expose women to some new and different dangers. It's a tragic failure of our military establishment that they also face one of the oldest and most brutal.
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Yes but
[Read the article: John McCain's female card]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hey, Gary,
Nice article. But if the 47-year-old Obama is "young", how come the 44-year-old Palin is just "youngish"? When you're bitching about identity politics, you probably shouldn't use a verbal construction that draws attention to itself in service of a classic double standard.