Letters to the Editor
DQuintanaNY
Published Letters: 379 Editor's Choice: 22
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Actually, so long as our society promotes homophobia, the closets will be crowded
[Read the article: The GOP's crowded closet]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm sure much can be said as to the psychological causes for men like this to act so vehemently towards gays while being closeted homosexuals themselves. There is an undeniable pattern in this kind of behavior. I'll leave it to a professional therapist to decide why a person would be drawn to such masochistic rhetoric.
Ultimately though, I have to be able to look at the society we live in as a whole, and it's deep and strong tradition and undercurrent of bigotry and hostility toward gays and lesbians.
It is unconscionable that we allow such bigotry to fester and thrive in 21st Century America. If we as a society (especially in politics) would stop using sexual orientation as a political and social football, we will move toward a society that is accepting of all of its members.
I dream of an America where the closet door need no longer exist- for all Americans, regardless of political belief. Life is difficult enough without people having to go through such intense distortions and double-lives. We as a society need to shake loose of that vestigial bigotry that has constrained us for so long.
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@ Prunes
[Read the article: Dick Cheney's top aide: "We're one bomb away" from our goal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What you've described is Cheney's "1% Doctrine" to a T.
Unfortunately for all of us, Cheney has already taken that step in his own mind, and right off the edge of reason.
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Osama
[Read the article: Losing bin Laden]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Planned 9-11 and all he got was away with it.
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Of course the government doesn't care about consumer protection!
[Read the article: The Bank of America's ATM heist]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Look at the laws they pass on behalf of Bank of America and all other banks which issue credit cards.
Credit card companies routinely charge interest rates which are blatant forms of usury. Yet, I defy you to find a single Washington politician who would work to change that.
The credit card companies get a free pass with their interest rates. If you or I were to do the same privately, we'd be loan sharks.
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Actually, this is true in any relationship...
[Read the article: Should I tell my new man that I used to date women?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"And he may be reasonably concerned that if he gets into a relationship with you, one day you might wake up and find you no longer want to date men."
This is a reality in any relationship, regardless of the sexual orientation of the individuals involved, or their pasts.
Any of us have the capacity to wake up one morning and change our minds.
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60 Minutes
[Read the article: Turning Ahmadinejad into public enemy No. 1]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The interview on 60 Minutes was absurd. The more I watched it the more it seemed like Neo Con talking points, mixed with Colin Powell's WMD's, George W. Bush's bravado, and Dick Cheney's 1% Doctrine.
I'm not a fan of the Iranian president, but all of these histrionics the media is going through to cast him in the role of the Most Evil Man Alive is just plain absurd. Yes, he's a blowhard. Yes, he makes completely ignorant statements and makes horrible, indefensable claims about the Holocaust.
But this doesn't exactly make someone evil.
The Bush administration couldn't have found a better person to interview Ahmadinejad than Scott Pelley- with his "established fact" of Iranian weapons (which sounded conspicuously like the Iraq WMD argument to me). Pelley is a Bushie blowhard, doing the bidding of this administration. Did Cheney slip him $100 before the cameras started rolling?
The most telling moment of the interview came when Pelley gave Ahmadinejad a statement from President Bush, which was:
"I asked President Bush what he would say to you if he were sitting in this chair. And he told me-quote-speaking to you, that you’ve made terrible choices for your people. You’ve isolated your nation you’ve taken a nation of proud and honorable people and made your country the pariah of the world. These are President Bush’s words to you," Pelley said. "What’s your reply?"
Sad- because it sounds like he's describing the United States.
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what to do
[Read the article: I resent my fiancé because he is rich]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]1) Rent the movie "Friends With Money". Have a good laugh.
2) Talk to your fiancee. Be honest and open.
3) Don't break up with this guy! It sounds like you have a great relationship aside from your concerns about the money. Work it out and stick together, not for the money, but for the fact that you find him to be everything you've been looking for emotionally.
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Interesting
[Read the article: Bill O'Reilly explains the African-American]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm always intrigued when I hear someone talking authoritatively about what it means/how it feels to be a person of color in America, especially when they're not a person of color.
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Could it also mean...
[Read the article: Men on eHarmony seem obsessed with women who are "clean"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That someone being "not clean" is someone who has had more than 1-3 sexual partners?
Because a lot of uptight people would see that as "unclean". Especially given the huge double standard that exists between the number of sexual partners a man has vs. how many a woman has and how that is viewed in our society.
Personally, I have no experience with EBigotry because they disallow same sex partnering through their website.
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Remarkable
[Read the article: Middle age threw me a wicked curve]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What a remarkable and hopeful piece of writing. I am so pleased at the process that medical science has made in regard to HIV and AIDS.
My great hope is that a cure will be found in the near future. That is truly the next step, and I believe it is attainable if we are able to focus our resources. It's not out of reach.