Letters to the Editor
ralphieboy
Published Letters: 9 Editor's Choice: 1
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Trojan Alert -- Willow Rosenberg link is infected
[Read the article: "Men want facts, women seek relations on Web"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Warning: Do not click on the "Willow Rosenberg" link, it leads to an attempt to install a trojan virus!!!!!!!!! Seriously.
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wrong date and time
[Read the article: One of Motown's "girls" gets political]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This post has an incorrect -- i.e. future -- date and time, and it keeps appearing at the top of the RSS feed. It's really not March 2006 I hope, or was this post sent back from the future?
Yuk!
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Exactly
[Read the article: Pregnancy and antidepressants]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I was about to make the same ranting point as MaryJane76. I'm glad somebody else beat me to it, I couldn't have said it better myself.
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What about WingWomen?
[Read the article: Wingmen: Serving up some "man love"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I would never stoop to actually reading the Post's article; sounds pretty stupid. And yes, lying is always bad. Almost always. ('Does this dress make me look fat?')
However, being a 45-year-old single guy, I can tell you that a wingman is a beautiful thing. A single guy alone in a club or bar is a big red flag. It's just easier to have someone else help break the ice.
However, I find that having a wingwoman is even better! Women seem to chat effortlessly on the assumption that you're automatically "safe" since you're with a woman, even after they find out she's your sister/friend/ex, etc.
Of course, this might be assuming you have female friends to be wingwomen in the first place. If you're the type of guy who lies to women in bars to pick them up, I'm guessing you don't have many female friends. Too bad for you, you should try it sometime!
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It's called Communicating
[Read the article: Shamu-mania]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't see the fuss at all. I think the animal-training paradigm is great!
To me, it's obvious that the real issue here is NOT that you're "training" your partner. The root issue involved here is one of communication. The real goal is to communicate, in the most effective manner, what it is exactly that you want from them.
You may think that you're communicating effectively by saying "please pick up your dirty clothes" over and over, but in fact you're not. But if you *show* them how much it means to you if you *do* pick them up, now that's effective communication!
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Slobby women are scary
[Read the article: The way to a man's heart is through a vacuum cleaner?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hello, male feedback here. The article containing "ghoulish" dating tips seems pretty right on to me. Slobby women are scary. So are slobby men too, I'd imagine. To me, having your house completely and chronically out of order is a solid indicator that the rest of your life is completely and chronically out of order too.
I dated a woman for several weeks who wouldn't let me see her apartment. Finally I insisted. No wonder -- my God, the woman had no idea how to do anything to improve her life's nest. PIG STY! And ironically, she complained a lot about how much she hated her apartment. Well, yeah, but maybe if you cleaned up and hung an artwork or two... And yes, she turned out to be just as much a mess as her apartment.
It really works both ways. I've always believed that if you can't take reasonable care of your life/house/car/clothes/self, then you're not going to take reasonable care of your partner -- and every potential partner should be aware of this!
If you think you can flaunt this rule of life, do so, but forewarned and at your own risk!
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The Last Taboo
[Read the article: Since when is having kids a parole violation?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Naturally, any talk of restricting a woman's reproductive rights is considered the last taboo. I'm extremely pro-feminist. But I'm also very much into a stupid little old-fashioned concept called "personal responsibility".
And there's probably no line that's wider and grayer than the one between "having babies" and "having so many babies that you can't possibly support them all, such that it borders on child abuse".
But hey, it's the last taboo, so let's not even talk about it. Anybody would be just WRONG and/or CRAZY by DEFINITION to even SUGGEST that a woman MAYBE SHOULDN'T HAVE ANY MORE CHILDREN. Guess we'll just wait for the welfare state to take the children away when the mom gets thrown in jail -- at taxpayer expense, of course! Unless the Republicans keep winning, of course, in which case they'll all just starve to death...
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Say Whaaa....?
[Read the article: He or she?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"estimated two percent out of every 1000 babies". That makes no sense. It's either two percent, in which case specifying "out of every 1000 babies", is unnecessary, or it's two out of every 1000 babies.
Which is it? You don't look smart when you make mistakes like that.
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Ralph? RALPH???
[Read the article: Meatheads]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I just have to say, as an avid male reader of Broadsheet, I'm a pretty offended at the use of my first name (Ralph) as a synonym for vomiting. I thought you folks would be a little more sensitive than that...