Letters to the Editor
smallfox
Published Letters: 111 Editor's Choice: 8
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@ MockTurtle
[Read the article: It can "just happen" at just about any age]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think the 30% is the net stat, not annual, but it still seems wrong. That is, every year 3% of those girls get pregnant, so over 5 years, 15% get pregnant (not 30%). This is of course assuming that the 3% is different every year, which isn't the case. Girls who had a baby at 15 are probably more likely to have a second before 20 than girls who didn't. I could buy a 10-15% stat, maybe even 20%, but I don't think the stats for live births + abortions can support much more than that.
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@ Lairderg
[Read the article: Are men victims of forced abortions?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I know people who were financially sound and capable of raising children who chose to abort. They just dislike children and have no inclination whatsoever to raise one and recognize that having one would just make parent and child both miserable and bitter.
What's the coercion there? I'm sure you have some utterly nonsensical reason (they've been tricked into thinking they dislike children by the establishment but really their only natural, biological female urge is to breed, breed, breed, mother, mother, mother?)
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Brown Cow!
[Read the article: It's kinda gross, but it's only 90 calories!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Full-fat yogurt plain or with fruity chunks, or if you're feeling frisky, a ridiculously delicious truffle flavor that makes a good dessert. Stony Field is good, as well. I hate the low-fat stuff, too, and it's better to eat the real stuff with other real, fresh foods than eat the processed, sugar-laden stuff.
I find the full-fat yogurt easy to get, though, with resorting to Fage. Maybe just need to try a local coop or health food store?
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The problem with DNA
[Read the article: Has our reverence for DNA gone too far?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]is that it's perceived as basically 100% accurate. It's not. The accuracy of a DNA match is only as good as the lab that runs it, and cross-contamination and mishandling is not uncommon. Add this to other possible (but less-common) issues with DNA, this law is just invites absolute assumption of guilt for all crimes, forever after. Bad idea.
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Ew.
[Read the article: Tarted-up toddlers in 4-inch heels]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The actual clothes on the site aren't terrible, but the ad makes me gag. What's happened since I was 6 in the late 80s that has made *this* the desired look among little girls? When I was that age I was begging my mom to make my Little House on the Prairie-esque pinafores (and she did, and I loved them, and with any luck my own future 5-year-old will want age-appropriate clothes, too.)
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Do the men have to bring their own clubs?
[Read the article: Skirt-chasing as sport]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Or does the race supply them with the means to thwack their target upside the head to better facilitate dragging her back to the cave?
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Why would you ask a partner to do something s/he hated?
[Read the article: The monster snoring on the Serta]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If a man's fiance hates giving oral, why in the world would he ask for it? I agree with Dan Savage on most things, but this one I don't get. Perhaps you can strike a bargain for something the other partner enjoys, but if a sex act is uncomfortable and unpleasant (as certain acts or positions are for some people, sometimes depending on the partner) why would you be so selfish as to demand it or whine for it? You should respect that the fact that certain things may be off-limits for your partner for comfort or emotional reasons. If it's a deal breaker, break up with the person and find someone willing to give it. Otherwise take them as they are, as long as everyone's getting their cookies from other enjoyable activities you should consider yourself very lucky and fulfilled.
But either way, BS needs to break up with this girl; who ever she is, she deserves better. And she desperately needs therapy if she's dating that misogynist loser.
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what?
[Read the article: The monster snoring on the Serta]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"(we've been well trained enough by now to know that we can't expect sex from our SigO's: that would be rape)"
.............Huh? That doesn't even make sense. EVERYONE expects sex from their partner unless there are medical or other serious issues (i.e. abuse, trauma, etc) that prevent or impede normal sexual activity. Clearly you have a LOT of hostility here. There's a big difference between expecting a relatively normal and active sex life (normal! healthy!) and having sex with someone against their will (rape!)
Get it straight. And if your partner gets raped, or loses his/her sex organs to cancer, or becomes paralyzed from the neck down, you work through that as best as you can, based on what's best for the two of you. But in a relationship in which both people *could* have sex and *want* to have sex (with someone else) celibacy is a symptom of a very unhealthy relationship, not one thing wrong with an otherwise-good relationship. Been there, done that, it's impossible for that situation to be healthy, but the atrophy and very deep seated problems may only surface in sex/intimacy (and lack thereof).
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You don't even have to look to Little House -
[Read the article: Boys' crisis? What boys' crisis?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]in the 1950s boys were expected to sit still and behave in class. And they did. If a child of either gender is a slower developer, keep them out of kindergarten for another year. Children clearly ARE capable of following instructions and not running around like little hellions.
Perhaps the problem is not that schools have changed but that parents have. Send them out to play for several hours in the afternoon, don't let 'em back in until dinner and if they're not muddy they're doing it wrong. Kids of both genders have a ton of energy to burn off, and if they're sitting at home playing XBox, they'll burn it off in class when they should be learning. Stop being overly fearful of child abduction and smothering active children. The world is not a more dangerous place than it was when you were a kid.
Anyway, I find the preceding discussion about gendered jobs most amusing, if only because the utter lack of understanding of basic economics is baffling and hilarious. You're men, shouldn't your DNA be scripted to understand big, important issues like that? Guess not.