Letters to the Editor
meeneecat
Published Letters: 37 Editor's Choice: 1
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Why would someone be offended?
[Read the article: Are you offended by a tampon ad with a beaver?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]For those of you asking why some women would be offended by this well I decided to look it up. And yes the first meaning (slang) refers to the vagina. But the secondary definition I found was this:
"Beaver: 2) an American term meaning a woman or women seen exclusively as sex objects.
Used in pin-up magazines of the late 1960s in America"
So yes I think that's pretty offensive. I hate it when women are referred to or used as sex objects period. (no pun intended)
Lastly, I think phrase also connotates lots of hair. I don't know how many women take kindly to having their parts likened to some hairy wet animal. And I've never smelled an actual beaver, but I take it they probably don't smell that great. On the other hand slang beavers mostly smell awesome and can or cannot be hairy.
All that said, this ad isn't really up there on my most offensive list. I don't buy products from tampax or kotex, or any of those "feminine product" companies anyways, just because I think they are all evil. I use the reusable ones or make my own out of cloth (you know gladrags, lunapads etc. - waaaay more comfortable and better for the environment) But stupid commercials give me even more reason not to patronize these companies, still, there are other tampon/pad commercials that are a lot more offensive than this one.
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Not everyone here thinks this is newsworthy
[Read the article: For Ashley Alexandra Dupre, selling music beats selling sex]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"If you're asking why I wrote about her, it's because she's newsworthy. Your reading the piece would suggest you agree, but if you don't, that's fine with me."
Not everyone here is reading because they think this is "newsworthy". I was reading over at Feministing, about the media's terrible treatment of this story, mostly how this girl didn't grant an interview, yet reporters are taking her quotes and pictures off her myspace page and repackaging it like she granted them some recent interview. Rather than say "kristen declined to be interviewed" They take the phrase "I like who I am" off her myspace page and turn it into a headline. I came here looking for examples of this. And you like everyone else, have posted pictures and songs, everything that you can find from the internet on this girl and parade it about like it's "newsworthy". Actually it's trashy reporting. Not journalistic at all. If you want to see what I'm talking about hop over to feministing. It's one of their recent posts on the media.
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9/11 deniers?
[Read the article: How photos support your own "reality"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What? Now people who don't buy into every single minuscule detail of the government's "explanation" are now "9/11 deniers"!? Gee, I guess I'm a 9/11 denier for believing that the government looked the other way when they were warned. 9/11 deniers, what a load of crap. Not to mention insulting to the thousands here in NYC that lived through this attack and still don't buy into the official explanation. Including myself. I'm done reading anything by this author, never again.
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Companies just want to sell more crap to men
[Read the article: Welcome to the "menaissance"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Women aren't forcing men to be all coiffed and waxed. It's companies that want to sell more shit to people that are doing this. They realized that not only could they get women all uptight about appearances, but the same trick would work on men as well. And viola, now these companies double their marketing base. Not only can they sell creams and lotions to women, but now men too. But still, men are blaming women for this? Oh Pu-leez, I mean if you don't want to be "coiffed and waxed" don't buy these products and don't coif and wax yourself, and who cares what others think anyway. Boy, these survey participants must be suffering from a major case of male privilege: "Whine, whine, whine and while we're whining, lets blame women for all our problems too."
But wait a minute, what about "female privilege":
http://finallyfeminism101.wordpress.com/2008/02/09/faq-female-privilege/
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get lost, brightass
[Read the article: This is what a feminist looks like. This, too. Also this]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]brightass, You don't contribute anything worthwhile to these conversations, you are a permanent troll here that only wants to derail conversations and make intentional inflammatory remarks. I mean don't you get tired and bored from all your stupidity or do you just have too much time on your hands. Can't you do us all a favor and just get lost already. Oh wait, you don't want to do any of us any favors, you're only here to piss people off because it somehow gets you off. Sad.
I guess we'll have to look at DurianJoe's option then.
Durian, can I join you?
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@Malusinka
[Read the article: Can abortions lead to mental illness?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And you must be Brightstar's long lost cousin or something.
In response to what you said about mental illness, something you obviously know little about: "People in control of their lives have fewer mental health problems than those who let life control them."
Mental illness is not the fault of any person, Malusinka. By that logic you are saying that a person with PTSD, say from a rape, or from witnessing 9/11 or being in a war or some other horrible disaster, was at fault for their own trauma. You are saying the illnesses such as bipolar and schizophrenia, illnesses that have genetic links and have been proven to run in families are not the product of genes and environment, but the product of one's own carelessness. Do you realize how you sound? Ignorant and mean, that's how. As someone who suffers from mental illness I can assure you that I have been as proactive and as careful in my treatment as possible, there's nothing I can do other than deal with the fact that I have an illness and get the best treatment I can find. My illness has nothing to do with carelessness or anything else of my own doing. You would not say it's a person's own fault if they had some other disease, say MS or Alzheimers, so why would you single out mental health patients. Seriously, go trolling somewhere else, your hurtful and judgmental comments are not wanted here, you ignorant troll.