Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 10
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Lay off him
[Read the article: The past won't let me go]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Everyone's ragging on Cary because he was honest. That seems mean and spiteful. The letter affected him personally, and he admitted it, admitted to something not particularly flattering to him. He could have given a light, flippant, Ann Landers-style answer ("Your parents are obvious control freaks. Please seek counseling"), but instead he spoke from his heart.
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Statistics?
[Read the article: He or she?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Two percent out of every 1000 babies" is a silly thing to say. Do you mean "two out of every thousand babies" or do you mean "two percent of babies"? (Two percent strikes me as high.)
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Bias
[Read the article: Behind the Pillow Angel]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Rebecca Clarren writes, "Already at least three other families have approached doctors at the Seattle hospital, asking them to create their own Pillow Angels..."
No.
Ashley became a "pillow angel" when her brain stopped developing. She was a "pillow angel" before the surgery and remained one afterwards. Her parents coined the term to describe her life with a brain that did not grow, not her life with or without a uterus and breasts.
This sentence seems to me evidence of deep bias against the parents.
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LW's interpretation is too specific
[Read the article: Men on eHarmony seem obsessed with women who are "clean"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In my mind, choosing "I can't stand someone who is not clean" over "can't stands" involving someone's basic character means one thing: "I can't stand performing oral sex on a woman."
I don't think that follows. If I were a guy writing up my eHarmony profile, and I wanted to covertly express the idea that I hate cunnilingus, I don't think the "I can't stand someone who is not clean" check box would be definitive enough for me. As if these men were thinking, "Wow, the perfect solution! I'll just check this box and every eHarmony woman I meet will know never to expect me to go down on her! Whew! Glad I got that taken care of!"
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From a special-needs parent
[Read the article: The baby I turned away]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You'll probably get a lot of letters from special-needs parents, like me, who will haughtily tell you that you chose to miss out on the biggest adventure of your life. But if I had had a choice -- if I had known what was ahead of us before my son was born -- I can't say whether I would have chosen him or let him go. I don't know.
I think we all believe our lives are supposed to be as easy as we perceive others' lives to be.
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Not sure it follows
[Read the article: Why Google only tells you what you already know]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It seems to me the study might actually show that what people are averse to is documenting that they've changed their minds. Especially after they've said they are confident in their answers.
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I think you mean...
[Read the article: Real men eat asparagus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...real men.
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It's not you, it's not the relationship, it's him
[Read the article: My husband constantly upstages me]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Whoever suggested narcissistic personality disorder is dead-on. He can't have normal relationships. He has to be The Star all the time.
I believe that, if you want to be happy, you'll have to get out of this marriage. I don't think you can fix it.
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"Lagaan"
[Read the article: I'm on vacation. But you can help out!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's a big-budget Indian movie from 2001, nominted for the foreign film Oscar that year, and it's got everything: a love triangle, a villain with menacing eyebrows, a scruffily hansdome hero who can do no wrong, an edge-of-your-seat sports competition, along with the requisite song and dance numbers that Bollywood is so good at. My 6-year-old used to watch it every afternoon dressed in a towel with a scarf on her head (her version of a sari), singing along in Hindi. We don't speak Hindi, she had just watched it so often that she had memorized it.
Great music, too.
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Vampires represent initiation
[Read the article: Touched by a vampire]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]After they bite you, you change from human to vampire, just like after you have sex with someone you change from virgin to, well, take your pick: mother or whore or just plain woman.
I read the first book and what struck me most was that the story is obsessed with that initiation even as it postpones it: Bella and Edward have a hot-and-heavy romance, but Bella is still a human virgin at the end. What that tells me is that the author (and the people who love these books) want to remain adolescent, remain in childhood, revert to an earlier, easier time when you didn't have to make hard decisions.