Letters to the Editor
Linney Uston
Published Letters: 255 Editor's Choice: 5
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@Anonymous
[Read the article: Is rape ever funny?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"If it was Gay Rape you'd be rolling in the aisles"
That's where you're wrong, Anonymous.
If it was a straight man being raped, perhaps in prison, they'd be rolling in the aisles.
I recall a scene in the film "Trading Places" in which a man getting raped by a gorilla is played for laughs.
Not that Broadsheet could ever notice such a double-standard so obvious, because it doesn't involved being victmized.
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Correction
[Read the article: Is rape ever funny?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...it doesn't involved women being victmized, rather.
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@fetboy
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"No where in America is it illegal for a man to ask a woman out."
Unless, of course, the woman feels that it ought to be illegal and then Teh Oppressive Patriarchy will unthinkingly take her side. Odd how that works. Ever seen how "sexual harassment" goes, kid? I sure have and the "victim card" works pretty damned well for us-- entire blogs like Broadsheet can even be organized around it.
And by the way, fetboy- since I'm a woman, shouldn't my opinions carry more weight than yours? That's according the knee-jerk tendencies you've displayed every time I've seen you, that is.
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You folks are hilarious
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yeah, I don't buy-in to the cult of perpetual female victimhood, so I must be a man. Obviously. What perfect sense that makes.
What-ever.
Say, here's a question: Did you never stop to imagine that maybe I resent being required to attend mandatory harassment seminars and be lectured on how I might not know when I'm being harassed? And, furthermore, how I need a self-anointed "expert" like fetboy to remind me what perpetual victims we women are?
Isn't that just a little bit condescending and insulting?
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Uh, you do realize...
[Read the article: Hey, Congress: Help Congo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...that violence against women is a fraction of the world's total violence, right?
PS: I'm curious how violence against women is an economic issue while plain ol' violence regardless of sex is not an economic issue. Maybe if you could explain how that works, it would seem like less of a moronic statement.
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My fascination with the term "pro-choice"...
[Read the article: Is RU-486 a murder weapon?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...has to do with the fact that any attempt, no matter how small, to doubt whether or not a woman truly wants to have the abortion she says she wants is considered an outrageous attempt to take-away a woman's rights.
And yet, if a woman says she wants a shot of collagen in her lips, these same "pro-choicers" sneer that she's a pea-brained fool who's been brainwashed into it by Teh Oppressive Patriarchy's beauty standards.
How on earth a woman can be presumed to have a functioning brain when she opts for an abortion yet presumed to not a functioning brain when she opts for cosmetic surgery is one of those miracles of mental contortions that only a feminist can be expected to pull-off.
Here I was thinking that if a woman can be presumed to have freely chosen an abortion, she can also be presumed to have freely chosen a face-lift. Silly me for not understanding that "choice" doesn't extend beyond the uterus.
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I figured you wouldn't get it
[Read the article: Is RU-486 a murder weapon?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to say"
I'm saying there is, in the feminist camp, a near-religious belief in this thing called "choice" pertaining to one's own body. And yet if a woman says she wants (for example) a face lift, feminists suddenly become quick to say that her brain isn't functioning properly because she's been brainwashed and pressured by society's beauty expectations.
I honestly don't how see one can take the position that EVERY abortion is justified just because the woman says she wants one, and then when a woman says she wants a cosmetic procedure say that Teh Patriarchy made her do it and the choice was never really hers to make.
Indeed, make-up, skimpy clothing, dieting-- all of these things are said (by various factions of feminism) to be done by brainwashed women who've all been duped. And yet these brainwashed women are able to scrape-together enough free will to "choose" an abortion and there can be no questioning of her "choice".
Give me a break.
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Rape is NEVER funny...
[Read the article: Is rape off-limits for laughs?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...unless it happens to a man.
Hasn't anyone learned anything from feminism?
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Any comment on this one:
[Read the article: College news roundup]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://www-tech.mit.edu/V127/N49/stabbing.html
In which a Wellesley student broke-in to an MIT dorm and stabbed her ex-boyfriend 7 times?
It's odd that this news item hasn't been on the feminist blogs so much, what with their huge interest in dating violence.
Cat got your tongue on this one, grrrlfriends? Or does the perpetrator need a certain type of crotch for you to notice?
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Is an extra X chromosome all a candidate needs to win over feminists?
[Read the article: Voting by gender]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Look at who NOW endorsed in the past and you'll get your answer: Carol Moseley Braun in 2003.
She didn't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning, but she had two X-chromosomes instead of the mutant, inferior Y which is the source of all the world's evil.
When you're a feminist, judging someone involves little more than looking at their crotch: "Got a vagina? You're obviously qualified for the job! Got a penis? We'll call when we're interested, you bastard."
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Iris Chang...
[Read the article: The demons you know]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...whose name really stood-out in my mind when I heard of her suicide. The Thread of the Silkworm was an excellent and readable introduction to one of the dumbest strategic blunders of the McCarthy era: the deportation of Qian Xuesun, a US-trained rocket scientist who was put under house arrest on trumped-up espionage charges and sent to China, where he almost single-handedly built that country's missile program.