Letters to the Editor
arcawa
Published Letters: 3
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You guys are missing the point
[Read the article: Home-decorating dreams?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's not the toy that's insidious, it's the commercial!
I wouldn't deny any kid his or her hertonormative plaything -- and I don't think Ms Price is outraged Hasbro's not offering My Little NASA Design Center.
However, juxstaposing laundry with the tagline "where her dreams can grow" is ridiculous!
There's nothing wrong with lanudry -- even with women doing laundry! even with women doing laundry in pink washing machines! -- but it shouldn't be marketed as an aspiration. Equating "dreams" with housework is silly.
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Nobody's thinking about women -- they're thinking about consumers!
[Read the article: Publishers think women are stupid?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Publishers don't (necessarily) think women are stupid -- they think women will buy books with vaseline-lensed cover art. My guess is they're right.
This woman may prefer another type of cover, but that's no accident -- I'm marketed to, too, just not with gauzy dresses.
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Can you really only be for the occasional abortion?
[Read the article: A softer line on abortion]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The idea that abortions should be "safe" and "legal" and convenient to obtain (which I do believe, staunchly) is just not consistent, rhetorically, with the idea that they should be "rare" and used sparingly because they make us squeamish.
Either abortion is a medical procedure that reverses an undesierable condition that could ultimately produce another human being, or it is murder. If it's the former, why shouldn't it be legal and available to any woman who wants it and is prepared to handle the consequences regardless of "Our" opinions on the matter? If it's the latter, it should be illegal, end of story.