Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 114 Editor's Choice: 21
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the drinking is an effect, but what's the cause?
[Read the article: Say "nyet" to Russia's vodka for ladies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Certainly not a slick new ad campaign.
I don't know much, but I don't think any ad campaign would get me to take up something like drinking, and I'm guessing that it is the same for Russian women. So what are the multiple causes effecting the high rates of alcoholism in Russia? The Marxist in me says the economic realities have a lot more to do with it than some slick new ad campaign. What of those are affecting women and what can we do about it (rather than bitch about some new ad campaign)?
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I can't help myself
[Read the article: Fiction's a girl thing, boys heart history]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"If anyone's actually interested in the development of this dynamic, they might want to start with the seminal The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice by Bonnie G. Smith (Harvard UP 2000)."
Seminal? An interesting adjective choice to describe a study of gender (assuming there was no intended irony).
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my $800 stroller
[Read the article: The parent trap]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...me loves it. I won't try to legitimize its price (and I don't really have to seeing as it was a gift from Auntie), but let me tell you as a first-time parent, I was overwhelmed with the logistics of transporting an infant around. With all of the difficulties of a colicky baby, I couldn't imagine how I would've gotten out of the house without it. We don't do Gymboree; we don't do Baby Einstein. We breastfeed, go to free mom's groups, use cloth, and there's no tv for the baby. But I dare anyone to figure out how to take my nonstop crying baby out the door and down four flights of stairs for a walk without my stroller.
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vagina confusion
[Read the article: Beyond Vagina-dome]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Isn't that image of the labia minora?
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wait...
[Read the article: The economics of abortion]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So there's data that say women seek abortions because of economic reasons and there's a Right to Life group that wants to ameliorate some of those reasons...what's the problem with that? I'd much rather see a Right to Life group finally putting their money where their mouth is in regards to abortion. If you really want to end abortion, you don't make it illegal, you improve the conditions under which it occurs--and economics is a biggie.
The Right to Lifers don't need a reason to whittle away abortion rights--they're already doing that just fine, thankyouverymuch.
But if there is a group that is working to improve the lives of women in order to enable them to make a range of--wait for it--choices, I'm sorry, how is this a bad thing?
I'm as pro-choice as they come; and with an infant at home, I became even more so. People who don't want kids shouldn't have kids. What would make my life easier to raise said kiddo? More help. This group, seemingly, wants to help. I can't fault that.
I disagree with their position on abortion, but if they want to feed, clothe, and house women, I just can't get up in arms about it.