Letters to the Editor
LeCastor
Published Letters: 1916 Editor's Choice: 86
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No Name Given, Part 487
[Read the article: "The woman would most likely get pregnant and leave"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Oh NNG, we've heard this from you before. You work in an investment bank in Newport Beach, and you don't hire women.
Preposterous is an understatement. If you actually worked in an investment bank, you'd know how heavily regulated it is and how you can't just "not hire women." Plus, you'd have to constantly work with female clients, counsel, accountants, auditors, etc. so your stupid attitudes would not really go over well.
E.g. you're performing due diligence, as one does, and you hire Ernst & Young to go to the random warehouse in Montana and sift through your client's documents. You can't ask Ernst & Young to not send women. Or, your client's counsel shows up, and SURPRISE! she's a woman. Or worse, your client's senior management shows up, and SURPRISE! there are some women.
I mean, what exactly do you do? Not speak to the women, or not shake hands with them, or ignore them?
Investment banks are services -- they work for clients, and the clients call the shots, and these clients can be all kinds of people. If you don't work with clients who have female senior management or accounting that have female auditors, you're losing business for no reason.
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The NY Post Is a Joke
[Read the article: The media's love affair with dead white women]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The fact that it is even considered news is stunning. The articles are incredibly judgmental, and routinely use words like "sicko" as an actual journalistic description of a person. It's unbearable to read.
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Salon Readers are sometimes such prudes
[Read the article: Girls will be 30-year-old women]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Going to Ladies Night in a Thong means you're no longer a lady? Way to call other women sluts.
I think people are getting a little hysterical about this -- NPR is having this series "Children and the Media" and the people interviewed are just so shocked, SHOCKED!, that their ten-year-old might have already heard about sex.
Well, if you don't keep your 10-year-old in a cage in the basement, then yes, he/she has already heard about a lot of things. My question is, what's the harm? where's the problem? I mean, how long do you expect to control absolutely everything your child sees, hears, does, thinks?
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"Nice Lady" Prudishness
[Read the article: Girls will be 30-year-old women]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]LeCastor - you make think it's prudish
I'd have less a problem with thongs if I really believed women wanted to wear them and didn't just do it because they think its expected.
And, do you think men who go to Thong Night are going to meet a nice lady?
-- anon
This is an article of clothing -- if you don't want to wear it, don't. why do yo uassume that women are so stupid and susceptible to other people's desires? that it's just impossible that women would actually want to wear thongs because they want to wear them, and for no other reason? at least some women?
As for the Thong Night, the whole concept of "nice lady" (as opposed to the thong-wearing sexy "slut") is already pretty prudish and sexist, dont' you think? The whole idea that "nice girls" (whatever that means) dont' wear thongs is absurd.
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The 1950's called, they want their ideology back
[Read the article: My boyfriend dumped me and I'm desolate]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Some Salon readers are pretty ridiculous.
First, No Name Given (one of the many) writes that maybe LW was in an abusive relationship. Evidence? "And, not to generalize, but he also didn't want kids... maybe he can't take on major emotional responsibility." So, now, apparently, not wanting to have children is abusive. Congratulations.
Laurel goes many steps further with this gem
Let me make it very plain: you were in love, but you were not in a committed relationship, because heterosexuals who are committed and in love get MARRIED. M-A-R-R-I-E-D...look it up. Google it. Frankly, anything else is just a glorified version of "hanging out". The fact that neither of you could commit or even talk about plain old fashioned marriage -- at age 29!!! -- shows a real detachment from reality.
Well, you sound like my Russian grandma, who thinks that any woman who isn't married by 30 "must have something wrong with her" and is "undesirable" and a "tragedy." God forbid that people just live together -- you now, people like Oprah. I don't really like her show, but she is a very shrewd business women, and not at all detached from reality.
HUSBANDS occasionally (not always) tough these things out because they are committed, which is to say they made the committment to get married, not just live together.
Laurel continues, apparently oblivious that divorce even exists.
One sad thing I have observed is that many young women like yourself hear "let's live together" from your boyfriend, and you interpret as "let's have a trial marriage", when when in fact the boyfriend is actually telling you "let's save rent, lets have sex, but I am not ready make a lifetime committment to you, because I might meet someone better." If more women realized this, there would be a whole lot less living together.
And there's more! Laurel seems to be incapable of imaging that there are women out there who think very differently about this whole topic than herself. Women, who for example, may not want to get married. So they may be the ones who propose to live together instead of getting married. Oh i know, you're shocked, SHOCKED! but they're out there, living their lives, not looking to sink their hungry marriage claws into the next unsuspecting bachelor. They might even have real jobs! ...*cue scary music*