Letters to the Editor
Linney Uston
Published Letters: 269 Editor's Choice: 6
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2004 NOW endorsement
[Read the article: NOW, wait a second ... ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://www.now.org/press/08-03/08-26.html
Oh, by the way- seems that the NOW national chapter endorsed Carol Moseley Braun for president back in 2003.
She didn't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning, but she did have a precious vee-jay-jay.
(You'd expect someone at Broadsheet to remember something which happened only 4 or 5 years ago, right?)
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@Canuckistan
[Read the article: Feminism: Five minutes ago?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"But it keeps coming back, somehow, it seems we just can't quite kill the damn thing off. Wonder why."
Because there will always be a group of women out there somewhere who are willing to say: "Whatever the problem is, it's all men's fault."
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"...every 17 seconds"
[Read the article: South Africa gets an earful about Mike Tyson's visit]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Surely, you DO realize that statements like "every X seconds, crime Y takes place" are basically useless at understanding the frequency of a given crime. Furthermore, the frequency of such crimes depends on the population size (I'd hate to see the corresponding figure for an even more populous country like Pakistan or Indonesia!) But since feminists rarely pause to understand the statistics they cite, I suppose I shouldn't be too surprised.
Hey, but if you just want to play the female victim card for the 1 billionth time, I suppose such a framing device is pretty handy.
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@Sandra
[Read the article: South Africa gets an earful about Mike Tyson's visit]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Finally - this notion that rape is about violence and not sex is about the stupidest thing I have EVER heard."
Whoa, careful there Sandra-- you're not supposed to notice when Broadhsheeters parrot their crock after heaping crock of rote-memorized Wymyn Studies Shite.
I mean, consider the fruitcake notion that rape is "tacitly encouraged" by our "rape culture"? What an odd rape culture it is where rape is "tacitly encouraged" by being illegal. And not to mention "tacitly encouraged" by vigilante retribution which is sometimes directed against men who are accused of it. Yup, real "rape culture" out there, yabetcha.
And surely, gay rape is a plot by gay men to keep-down other gay men.
But throw all that aside. We're VICTIMS RAPE OMG TEH PATRIARCHY!!11! etc. That should suffice to shut-down your brain.
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Disparities
[Read the article: Does the sex of your doctor matter?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"We've seen studies recently about women getting substandard medical care and experiencing worse medical outcomes from hospital stays than men"
And I've seen studies about women getting better-than-standard treatment when it's time to allocate lifeboats on a sinking ship or negotiate the release of hostages. Not that Tracy "Bonehead" Clark-Flory would ever manage to notice that kind of obvious item, thanks to her miraculous ability to never see things which contradict her victim mentality.
It IS possible to find forms of lifesaving which do not disproportionately benefit women, but you may need a rather powerful microscope to find them. But if you want to find lifesaving which disproportionately favors women, you just need watch the evening news.
Speaking of which, some months back, TCF once made a posting entitled: "Is there sexism in lifesaving?" To that, the answer is "yes", but exactly the opposite of the way she is psychologically-dependent on believing.
TCF: by all means, carry-on being your laughably clueless self.
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Curiouser and curiouser
[Read the article: Women never would have invented television?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why is it that there's so much automatic offense-taking at the suggestion that women are worse at doing anything, but apparent smugness whenever it's suggested that women are better at doing everything? There's an awful lot of semantic game-playing around this point not to mention denial that the tendency exists, but this is the pattern on Broadsheet, not to mention a hell of a lot of feminst blogs that Broadsheet links to.
Why the denial, Broadsheet? Why is it necessary to put the most positive possible spin on whatever it is a woman does while putting a negative spin on men doing the same thing? Is your self-esteem really that fragile that it needs constant shoring-up?
If you honestly believe that women are no better than men, why all the spin and dishonest language and behavior to suggest that women are superior in the realms of morality, fairness or intelligence?
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So what HAVE women invented?
[Read the article: Women never would have invented television?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why, we women have invented Feminist discourse, a Very Serious realm of thought larded with the kinds of logical fallacies, empirically-untenable research and backwards reasoning you'd expect to find in freshman composition papers.
Apart from that... um.. women have invented.. um... Kevlar, windshield wipers and, um... well, science is all phallocentric garbage anyway. Who needs it?
Yes, men made science boring on purpose so that female scientists would be turned-off by it! The lack of female inventions is a result of male conspiracy, much in the same way that any female failure is a male conspiracy.
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There are times...
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...when Broadsheet becomes so pathetic as to take one's breath away.
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Maybe this is off-topic
[Read the article: Feisty bloggers vs. old-school Steinem-ites!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why is it that when a woman such as Britney Spears does something extremely idiotic, Broadsheet leaps to her defense but when millions of women voice well-articulated moral objections to abortion, they're regarded as the biggest idiots on the planet?
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"Some women don't want it"?
[Read the article: The end of menstruation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Gee, it's good thing that no one is putting a gun to our heads demanding we take such a pill, eh? Or is merely advertising it equivalent to putting a gun to our heads?
Pathetic and boneheaded. As per TCF's idiom.
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Let me get this straight...
[Read the article: Bill Kristol: "White women are a problem"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Saying unflattering things about white women is misogynistic and hateful, but saying vicious and nasty things about men of all races is perfectly fair and not objectionable whatsoever.
I suppose this makes perfect sense, seeing as how no one has ever been accused of not being a "real" feminist because they hated men too much.
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@FilthyHarry
[Read the article: Bill Kristol: "White women are a problem"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Who said something nasty about men? Well, have you bothered to check-out a few of the sites that Broadsheet links to?
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Oh, incidentally...
[Read the article: Bill Kristol: "White women are a problem"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...I remember a post from Joan Walsh about a year ago in which she said she likes to watch the Daily Show because it's a show which says white men are a problem.
But when you're a white woman, you can say stuff like that- or even more hateful than that perhaps- and not be subject to the same kind of censure which you'd heap on others if similar- or milder- criticism cuts the other way.
The gap between out-dishing and it-taking among white women like Broadsheeters and Walsh is pretty breathtaking.
(Oops, was that a misogynistic comment, too?)