Letters to the Editor
DoubleE
Published Letters: 31 Editor's Choice: 3
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I'm going to go against the trend here
[Read the article: Pick your pretty poison]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I admit that, while I try to buy the safest products I can, I will not give up wearing cosmetics. Looking attractive has been proven in study after study to be advantageous. Not just where finding and keeping a mate is concerned but in most other areas of our lives as well and most importantly at work. Perhaps this is wrong and we should try to curtail this natural biological tendency to gravitate towards attractive individuals. When that happens I will happily toss out my foundation but right now I'm going to live my life according to the society I live in rather than an imaginary one where no one cares how you look or, yuck, smell.
To those men who have posted that they don't like makeup, I applaud you for your words but again studies show that most of you do. What you don't like are women who look like they wear makeup. Men shown pictures of women with no makeup, natural looking makeup and heavy makeup, overwhelmingly choose women with natural looking makeup as most attractive. If a woman wears the bare minimum makeup it should only add 10 minutes to her grooming; my guy has never had to wait for me.
As far as smell goes, I think women and men are both guilty of smelling too strong or just bad. All I can say is ask someone who will be honest with you about it. Forgoing scent is also an option but it is awfully hard to find products with out it--I've tried and have only partially succeeded.
Finally, since this is salon, I know that the kooks are going to attack me for my opinion. Let me just head one of these attacks off right now. No I am not a bimbo, DoubleE stands for my profession, I am an electrical engineer. The last book I read was "The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next" by Lee Smolin but I also read Instyle magazine as well. What I’m getting at is that people are complex and posters shouldn’t be bullying others to conform to their standards. I certainly support you if you want to go completely cosmetic free, how about you do the same for me and my choices?
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He's not exactly a quality human
[Read the article: Still has a mouth, and still must scream]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So he would shoot anyone who was not well versed in literature? What a narrow world he lives in. I wonder how well he'd get along after killing the physists, engineers, doctors, etc. in this world? You know all those dumbasses.
I think the person who recommended one not try to learn about the personal lives of those whose work we admire was right-on.
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@welcomerain
[Read the article: "Bring Your Daughter to War Day"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Women have been fighting to be represented in all aspects of the military for generations now. It's men who have not wanted them to serve. True, many women don't choose to serve now that most military jobs are open to them, but the military only represents a small percentage of our population so both men and women are choosing not to serve. I also believe that both boys and girls should have to register for selective service. BTW I am a woman.
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I don't think there's much here to be outraged myself
[Read the article: Have a daughter? You wimp]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It does sound like the researcher stretched it a bit with her conclusions concerning personality. However, it is not beyond the realm of possibility that maternal testosterone levels during conception or gestation can effect the gender selection or viability, respectively, of the fetus. I’m no expert but I would guess that it is probably the latter. Many pregnancies are ended very early in the development of the fetus and often the woman never knows that she was pregnant at all. As for an explanation of why women can have children of both sexes if the data is correct, that is easy: hormone levels fluctuate--duh.
Then again maybe I’m not outraged because, while I’m very, I have two boys, and I would say I’m a very confident woman who works in a male dominated field, and my mother, the wimpiest person I know had two girls. That’s right. I’m saying that my personal experience confirms the researcher’s findings and therefore she must be right because my own anecdotal experience is proof to prove or disprove a scientific finding. Sorry, just had to say it, all this outrage over nothing was just
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Sorry the end of my response got cut off. Here's the whole thing.
[Read the article: Have a daughter? You wimp]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't think there's much here to be outraged myself. It does sound like the researcher stretched it a bit with her conclusions concerning personality. However, it is not beyond the realm of possibility that maternal testosterone levels during conception or gestation can effect the gender selection or viability, respectively, of the fetus. I’m no expert but I would guess that it is probably the latter. Many pregnancies are ended very early in the development of the fetus and often the woman never knows that she was pregnant at all. As for an explanation of why women can have children of both sexes if the data is correct, that is easy: hormone levels fluctuate--duh.
Then again maybe I’m not outraged because, while I’m very, I have two boys, and I would say I’m a very confident woman who works in a male dominated field, and my mother, the wimpiest person I know had two girls. That’s right. I’m saying that my personal experience confirms the researcher’s findings and therefore she must be right because my own anecdotal experience is proof to prove or disprove a scientific finding. Sorry, just had to say it, all this outrage over nothing was just getting to me. Now you have something to be outraged about.