Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 79 Editor's Choice: 1
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Get the boob job and enjoy your new body
[Read the article: Should I get my breasts enlarged?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've been with a number of women who had boob jobs ... every one of them was happy she did it. And they are lovely to look at ... it never bothered me! Jeez, down in LA, if you see an attractive woman who doesn't have a boob job, you think "does she have some self-esteem issues?" okay ... that was a joke ... you can laugh now.
When I make a quick mental note of the sexiest women I've ever known, the top three were not very big up there. At all.
That is not to say I don't appreciate big boobs as much as the next guy ... it's not patriarchal conditioning ... I think everybody likes breasts!
This is just another case of feminist dogma fucking with a woman's desire to do what SHE wants to do. But isn't that what feminism is all about - enabling women to do what they want?
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Sorry J. Tarrou - atheism is a religion
[Read the article: Are you going to hell?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've said it before and have been vilified as a Republican (no thanks, i am a straight man) and worse by shrill hyper-defensive atheists who shout "It's a FACT!!!" (that there is no God) and then point to all the crimes of humanity done in the name of God as proof.
The existence of God has nothing to do with religion, or even faith.
God is not an ideology, or a philosophy. All the things you atheist point to in your attempt to disprove the existence of God are man-made.
You don't like the word extreme? You guys get so butt-hurt so easily.
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my favorite de Beauvoir quote
[Read the article: Simone de Beauvoir celebrated for naked body, other stuff]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm paraphrasing, but I remember reading her saying or writing that "the purpose of a woman's dress was to inspire a man to take it off."
Now that is my kind of feminism.
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Another clueless doctor writing out of his ass
[Read the article: Understanding Heath Ledger's death]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When I was a pill-head (and speed-freak, and coke-addict and did I mention drinking every waking moment?), as well as dabbling in some hard drugs once in a while ... I always knew what level of toxicity I was dealing with. It's part of the job. You read the PDR and make sure you don't take two or three times the recommended highest dose on your maiden voyage with whatever drug.
After you establish the baseline dose and its effects, it's pretty easy to stay within the realm of the not-fatal going forward. Everybody miscalculates once in a while. Usually not fatal.
Ledger's problem was denial. On some level, he thought he was in control. He tried to do it alone. He had no hope, nonetheless. Surrounded by sycophants (I don't know how anyone gets sober in Hollywood) and spiraling down into the abyss of addiction, I think the poor guy gave up at some point, lost the will to live.
Suicide or not is not the question. But there is no one else, besides himself, responsible for his death. Blame is irrelevant and pointless.
Heath Ledger went into that gentle night as most do when they have fallen that far: alone.
Very sad. Who knows: maybe his death has jarred or will jar some addicts out of their respective insanity. That would be the only good to come out of this.
Well, maybe that Heath Ledger is no longer in pain ... that might be a good thing, from a certain point of view. But what a loss.
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Unbelievably stupid, but not unexpected
[Read the article: Are urbane tomboys truer feminists?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Gee ... young women are "throwing off the strictures of femininity" except when they actually put on a dress and realize how silly it is. So ... they are wearing the dresses ironically? How 1995.
I guess they are throwing out the power of femininity as well.
You trivialize womanhood.
Well, I guess you silly little girls can do whatever you want, because, you know, deep down inside, that some of us, over here, won't be throwing off the "strictures of masculinity" anytime soon.
What would Coco Chanel do?