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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Stefanie222
Published Letters: 9
Did anyone who is complaining about this article actually read it? It's not an interview with Jennifer Aniston it's a look at why the world is so fascinated with her. This is exactly the type of article that Salon is known for and exactly the reason I am a premium subscriber. I really can't fathom why anyone would threaten Salon with discontinuing their membership over not enjoying one article. It reeks to me of a feeling of powerlessness over the rest of one's life. It's not very expensive to subscribe to Salon and they have many other articles to offer so please let us "lowbrows" who DO watch TV, enjoy all types of articles and go read CNN for free.
First of all, as a women who was petrified of losing my identity, and wrote a book about it called Sippy Cups Are Not For Chardonnay: And Other things I had to learn as a new mom, I totally identify. I loved sex before my baby came along. With the baby came a world of anxiety and identity confusion which didn't exactly lead to the heights of sexual ecstasy. I found myself just trying to please my husband to 'do my part' rather than go about it for my own pleasure. I wrote about this in my book and hope that other women relate and I don't get the kind of bitchy letters that some readers are sending. This wasn't whiny, it was confessional. We need more of that!
Just writing to say that I need to be friends with pewella and Heather you need some friends like her as well. My whole problem with motherhood is only this: lack of fun, edgy (and don't confuse mean and bitchy with edgy)spirited women who don't want to spend an hour discussing the ins and outs of her child's eating, pooping, sleeping habits. I relate completely with wanting to read the word fuck as often as possible. Yes, I'm a mom and I still swear (oh GOD did she just say that?)and sometimes, accidentally around other people's kids (NO!). So, stay away from any groups with the words "mommy and me" in the title and make sure to have a few cocktails (you won't be pregnant anymore). And pewella, email me at Squirrmels@aol.com if you want to talk to a kindred spirit who's not in the Cult of Mommy.
I've been apoplectic over this issue for years. Brit Hume is the damned Managing Editor of Faux News! And he is allowed on a regular basis to vent his hate of all things left of Gingrich until he spittles.
When Peter Jennings raised an eyebrow at the suspicious call of Florida for Bush after it was projected initially for Gore in 2000, the right wing were braying for his head on a platter. Brit Hume can call the Democrats traitors, Murtha senile and somehow this is fine, while Jennings facial tick was a firing offense. More evidence of that oh so "Liberal" media.
Zahra, your comment was classic "kill the messenger." All Heather is doing is pointing out the truth and apparently, to quote Jack Nicholson, "you can't handle the truth, Zahra." Okay, so Jack didn't use the word Zahra but you get the gist. The PCD are crazy ho's that don't know better than to dance in a Shadow's Vegas knock off bar and think that having no cellulite is something to put on their resume under "special skills." The fact that you hate Heather for pointing it out rather than working for the feminist cause is just proof that you don't understand feminism either. It ain't just working freelance for Ms. magazine, it's pointing out a lack of feminism where we see it.
This article seems ridiculous on so many levels. First off, who cares why a woman would choose to have a c-sec if indeed she did choose. Why is it any different than a woman having a face lift or a woman having an abortion for that matter? It's our bodies! This shouldn't even be a debate. I've never heard of a doctor pressuring a woman to have a c-sec without some reason.
When I had my daughter, I'd been through three surgeries to remove fibroids. My excellent doctor explained to me on the last surgery where my uterus had to be opened that this would mean a c-sec for sure if I elected to have a child. I asked if it was possible to try to deliver vaginally and my doctor said, "there's a very small change that your uterus scar could perferate and you and your baby could die. Do you want to risk that no matter how small the risk?" No. I didn't.
Yet for some reason I've always had to explain why I had a planned c-sec. It's none of anyone's business but your own how you deliver your child. A friend of mine delivered vaginally and ended up with a hundred stiches and in horrible pain for much longer than it took me to recover from my surgery. I was up and around the very next day. With a nice bottle of Vicidon as a souvenir.
Why can't we stop focusing on whether we agree or disagree on women's choices that have nothing to do with us?? There is risk with any delivery.
Maybe a little of the time people spend getting bent out a shape over a woman's decision over her body could be spent helping the poor or doing your part to stop the war.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
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