Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 217 Editor's Choice: 9
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WhatEVer
[Read the article: Are our husbands really so helpless?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If anyone's going to read a post this late in the game...
Guess what? Making negative generalizations about an entire sex is sexist, isn't?
And sexism is wrong, isn't it?
Well then. If you have a problem with your man, tell him. It's got nothing to do with me, or any other man.
As for me, maybe this is sexist - but I'm tending to notice a rather entitled lack of appreciation for what a good man can bring to the equation of a relationship.
So if your particular man does something for you, like diagnose car, yell at the insurance company until they get it right, move your couch, hook up your stereo, or just listen sympathetically to your problems and perhaps even offer a solution - I ask you to appreciate him, as opposed to bitching about him because he doesn't act like your girlfriends.
Which honestly is exactly what I'm intuiting from this article, you're doing.
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Other men don't equal all men
[Read the article: Are our husbands really so helpless?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When my ex-husband does one of these things, I'm sure his current wife will be thrilled to pieces. As these activities on his part were few and far between when we were married, I strongly suspect she's doing them herself, just like I was.
I have sympathy for being in a poor relationship, from the other side. You see: I was with a girl for 8 years and did everything I could for her. And nothing was ever enough. But it only seemed once I **wasn't** around, that she would actually appreciate the things I did for her.
But if I were to extrapolate from this, to generalize about all women, I'd be wrong, right?
So I'm sorry to hear your last husband apparently wasn't a stand-up guy.
But, I repeat:
Generalizing problems with specific men to ALL men is sexism.
Sexism is wrong, correct?
Well then.
Deal with men as individuals, and appreciate good ones. Don't complain about us like we're all lazy jerks because you unfortunately picked a bad apple to marry.
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Wow, I totally disagree about admitting past possible indiscretions
[Read the article: My wife thinks I'm cheating on her -- but I'm not!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think that her fears will just latch onto this as validation that she can't trust him. Just like the original radio program provided her with a focus for her PTSS-generated, floating fears.
It's very rare that I disagree with Cary, but I think that's terrible advice.
I don't necessarily have any better advice. But I don't think you can argue with a fear. I think you just have to get people off it until they learn the fear is separate from them *and* from reality, and they can simply get off it when it shows up.
Is there any way this guy can just really inspire this woman with a bright future, a great possibility for their relationship and their future together? And whenever she freaks out, just point her in the direction of the future?
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Spurious reasoning, sorry
[Read the article: Once and for all, proof that Macs are cheaper than PCs]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]One of the reasons that PC's have a lower resale value, is that with a variety of different manufacturers, new models evolve much quicker. Mac takes a long time between hardware upgrades. And so newer and faster chips, memory, hard drives, video cards are constantly available and plugged into PC computers.
Which brings us to the other reason so many techie types still buy PC's - they can configure PC's any way they want, with any sick number and type of ill-advised 3rd-party techno-goodness. This is why PC's are "recycled" - it's not because they're inherently inferior as a platform for Mac. It's because PC's are made for tinkerers.
I understood loving Macs - they're good machines. But this article shows a real lack of understanding of even the possible other points of view.
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Can't you run this new cartoon on Friday instead? And not replace Carol Way?
[Read the article: Kansas O'Flaherty...Secret Agent]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Love to give a new cartoon a chance - but you don't have to replace another good one to do it.
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Absolutely, totally disagree
[Read the article: J.K. Rowling's Crucio curse on fan's Harry Potter book]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]J.K. Rowling created this universe, and she is absolutely 100% in the right to be the *sole authority* on who makes money from it.
Creating a free online wikipedia for Rowling's works because you love it so much, is being an awesome fan. Trying to make money from it without the creator's permission is perpetrating a fraud.
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How about Megaton Man, if you need a good postmodern fun web comic?
[Read the article: Kansas O'Flaherty...Secret Agent]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://www.worldfamouscomics.com/megatonman/
Seriously, the writer-artist is awesome and the strip is hilarious.
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Giving it a chance, but
[Read the article: Kansas O'Flaherty ... Secret Agent]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Couldn't this have been run on Friday? Really. Why displace a great cartoonist whose held the Tuesday slot for years?
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Thx for the reinforcing reminder
[Read the article: Wait! Don't buy an iPhone for the holidays!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've been thinking of going Mac, just because Final Cut doesn't exist for PC's.
Since Apple is the only hardware provider for Macs, I won't have any idea what new laptops they'll be debuting in January; and it's certain that, when they do, the current laptops will drop in price.
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Benjamin Frankling was agnostic
[Read the article: Well, then, let's call it a day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So I'd *love* for a reporter to ask any of these GOP holy rollers if Ben Franklin or Thomas Jefferson (who believed in Jesus as a teacher, but not as the Son of God) are in Hell right now.
Then I'd love someone to ask Mit what Jesus would do about Iraq.
I can dream, can't I?
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Another great 'toon
[Read the article: WayLay]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]thx Carol.