Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 114 Editor's Choice: 21
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what are women's issues?
[Read the article: Introducing Salon's cheeky new women's blog]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I won't repeat what the (now) seven pages of mostly critique have said. But it seems that Salon is equating women's issues with women, whether they be Rockettes or geishas or various hollywood celebrities. Women's issues don't necessarily have women in the starring roles... C'mon Salon, I know you've taken women's studies 101 (haven't you?).
Why not take a more woman-centered approach to the important news of the day? Why no mention about Rosa Parks today and the important role women played in the civil rights movement? Military death tolls and women's lives? There seem to be hurricanes everywhere...how are they affecting women and how are women coping? A huge new law on bankruptcy and not a peep about the gender issues? Increases in the cost of energy...how are women going to heat their homes and keep them and their children warm this winter? I'm guessing we'll start paying attention after a few tenement fires this winter...
But instead of any of this, we get make-up commentary. We should have both, but the Broadsheet seems visibly absent of anything with heart and soul.
p.s. Do people know that Rebecca Traister talks on VH1 about Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie? This is the type of person Salon has on the payroll for "women's issues"??????
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letters to the editor
[Read the article: Introducing Salon's cheeky new women's blog]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I suggest emailing the main "broad" in charge:
Editor in Chief
Joan Walsh
jwalsh@salon.com
Since clearly nobody (except for Rebecca Traister, who has managed to momentarily pull herself away from her fluff stories to promise us more woman-centered fluff in the future) is reading the overwhelming response to their embarassingly poor execution of a "niche" publication, I strongly urge all Salon subscribers to reiterate their disappointment to the editor in chief. Let's see if they really will "take the ladies seriously" here...
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The food is making us sick
[Read the article: Introducing Salon's cheeky new women's blog]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The so-called sustenance that Traister has now placed in front of us? Brooke Shields. Somebody send this back, please.
I'm not suggesting that women's health issues aren't important. I just don't care for celebrity gossip being mistaken for real news. Guess what? These celebrities will do and say anything to keep their names in the news. And articles like Traister's just feed the machine. If I want to read that kind of crap, I'll go watch Traister on VH1, where it belongs.
That said, do I feel bad for Brooke Shields? Yes, but not nearly as bad as I do for the *real* women that struggle through the same thing, except without all the resources that Shields' celebrity can afford her. Should Salon report on issues like this? Yes, of course. But why does Brooke Shields get the starring role? And why must said story be segregated into a horrifically named blog?
The very presence of Broadsheet--like it or not--suggests that these issues aren't being addressed in Salon's main forum: where they should be. You can't have it both ways. You can't say that this is a special area for women's issues and not, by the very same logic, ackowledge that you are *lacking* in substance of those issues in the main part of Salon. My suggestion is not that the intention of Broadsheet is bad, but that it is a quick-fix poorly executed. Don't confuse the mere presence of women and women's issues (what isn't a woman's issue?) as providing a gendered analysis of important news of the day.
I personally don't mind the pink. ;)
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we call that karma
[Read the article: Hey, Bee, buzz off]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Broadsheet writers disappointed with a new journal? What a shame...
I don't think you'll get much sympathy from readers here.
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who owns Salon?
[Read the article: Hey, Bee, buzz off]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm sorry; I must've missed the sign that says paying subscribers don't get to comment on the community they help build. Thanks for pointing it out to me.
If you want nothing but accolades from your audience, you should try Fox news or Rush Limbaugh's show.
I thought we were all so much smarter than this...I guess that's my biggest disappointment with this whole Broadsheet mess: it has made it clearly obvious that liberals aren't any more progressive than conservatives...People with progressive ideals should learn to at least tolerate (but ideally engage in) a deliberative community.
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not much difference
[Read the article: Hey, Bee, buzz off]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If that's the only difference you can come up with between progressives and conservatives...well, as Jon Stewart says, "We're in bad shape fellas."
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deja vu
[Read the article: Hey, Bee, buzz off]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I won't equate myself with those progressive figures who have been outspoken and enacted social change, but I will compare your pathetic level of engaging in a deliberative community.
Really, you should read your Aristotle...And the fact that the phrase isn't familiar to you speaks volumes about your ability to tolerate let alone create an even basic level of engaging in debate.
The very position of suggesting that you get to decide the basis of discussion at Salon is troubling indeed and not very far removed from the imperialism of the U.S. in general. We have to be better than this.
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"that's hot"
[Read the article: Sex with thin Caucasians]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]here, Traister invokes the wise saying of the rich and skinny (Paris Hilton) to comment on the whitish and skinny.
the subtlety is lost on me too...