Letters to the Editor
Linney Uston
Published Letters: 240 Editor's Choice: 4
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I remember the first one
[Read the article: Where are your children?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Was a senior in those days and all the girls in my school participated. But it was kind of a let-down because I accompanied my mom to work... and she worked as a schoolteacher.
Incidentally, I went to a private school where the boys had to wear ties while we girls could wear pretty much any damn thing we wanted. The next day, we came-back and I recall one of the boys in my class who raised his hand and asked: "Isn't it a sexist idea to only include one sex? We're told that it's wrong to exclude people on the basis of sex, but isn't that exactly what's going on?" and he was promptly told to shut his god-damned pie-hole because he foolishly thought that the same rules should apply to everyone in order to be fair. Little did he understand that the concept of feminism is all about exempting women and girls from the same rules we demand that men be punished for not abiding by.
It wasn't until I took classes in feminist theory that I came to understand that blatant double-standards and unfairness are perfectly appropriate because of the 5 billion years of patriarchal oppression we women are vicimized by. Or something like that.
Just as long as I can get-away with scapegoating men continuously and yelling "SEXISM!" whenever someone attempts to hold me accountable for my bad behavior, I think it's a pretty damned cool idea however you slice it.
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Wage discrimination
[Read the article: The fight for fair pay]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There was a study in 2003 which found a gap in pay between heterosexual women and lesbians, with the gap favoring lesbians by 30%
Furthermore, there's a similar gap in pay between married men and unmarried men, with the gap favoring married men.
Furthermore, there's a gap in pay between self-employed women and self-employed men which roughly mirrors the gap in pay between women and men generally (you kind of wonder why self-employed women would make less, seeing as how there's no evil male patriarch lording it over her, right?)
Why, maybe-- just maybe-- lifestyle choices are the overriding factor in a lot of these wage gaps and not necessarily discrimination? Hmm...
Nahh, that can't be it. That patriarchy sure works in mysterious ways.
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"the problem should not be attributed to the women themselves."
[Read the article: The fight for fair pay]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And, if you're a "real" feminist, no problem EVER is.
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Yeah, that sure is ridiculous
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I remember a few years when it was pointed-out that the Swedish government's task-force on gender equality was 100% female. The feminist reaction was "So what?"
Physician, heal thyself.
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Whoa
[Read the article: Lust in translation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This was actually a well-thought-out posting.
Good on you, TCF.
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OHNOES! Video-game violence against women!
[Read the article: Grand Theft misogyny]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yeah, why can't we have a normal video game wherein the only people who get killed are male?
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But on the other hand...
[Read the article: Hey Hollywood, where my girls at?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...if there were large numbers of women in the summertime movies, you'd probably start complaining about the level of movie violence being directed towards them, in the tiresome fashion of those whose brains are forever locked in the gaol of the victim mentality.
There is a certain pathetic quality to Broadsheet that would only surprise those who are unfamiliar with its long, sad record of being pathetic.
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Gee
[Read the article: The groom will be changing his name]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Kind of odd how Teh Oppressive Patriarchy doesn't allow men to change their names like that.
I mean, don't men just snap their fingers and have everything they want fall right into their laps? Isn't that why we have our angry victim-complexes here at Broadsheet?
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Ahh, LeCastor
[Read the article: The groom will be changing his name]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Rationalizing like the cult-member you are. Teh Oppressive Patriarchy sure works in mysterious ways.
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Do you deny that what I've written is true?
[Read the article: The groom will be changing his name]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]LeCastor, seeing as how much of the stuff that you write is ad hoc theorizing in support of predictable and predetermined conclusions, I don't think "truth" is a very big concern of yours.
Oh- and the ritualized pretending that men are creatures that you actually like and respect? Nice touch. It's very important to keep-up appearances.
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But- but women don't lie about rape!
[Read the article: Did "crying rape" lead to murder?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Right?
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By the way...
[Read the article: Did "crying rape" lead to murder?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...when you get right down to it, feminists really don't believe that lawbreaking women should be punished for ANYTHING, do they? I remember when Lindsay Beyerstein at Majikthise angrily defended a woman who had, like, 4 fetuses buried on her property from do-it-yourself misscarriages-- one of which she admitted to drowning in the toilet after being born.
Andrea Yates? I saw feminists leap to her defense: "She was depressed!" (Yeah? Well lots of people get depressed, not everyone systematically drowns their 5 kids in the bathtub...)
The feminist notion of justice seems to be that punishment ought to be for men only. Because of the "centuries of oppression", it's not fair for women to be held to the same legal standards as men.
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I'm quite surprised...
[Read the article: It can "just happen" at just about any age]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...that Broadsheet hasn't made a posting yet about how women were the main victims of the cyclone in Myanmar.
Either because there were disproportionate numbers of female dead or disproportionate numbers of female survivors, either way you can bet that women are the biggest victims.
Maybe that'll come tomorrow?
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"I'm uncomfortable...
[Read the article: Walk in a brothel, walk out a rapist?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...calling anyone who sleeps with a trafficked girl a rapist..."
Where was this restraint back in the days of Duke U, my dear TCF? You're squeamish to use the word "rapist" when it comes to sex with trafficked humans-- a clearly illegal thing-- yet you were satisfied with slapping the label on people for whom there was a great deal of evidence that no rape took place.
The real litmus test about whether or not a rape took place is when your prejudices tell you a rape took place, isn't it? Some kind of ESP needs to kick-in, eh?
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Ouch
[Read the article: "SNL" spoofs Hillary: "I am a sore loser"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But you have to admit, a lot of Hillary's supporters didn't really play-up the angle of "she's the best candidate for the job" but instead used some variant of "it's women's turn, dammit!"
Give us an effin' break.
Hey, didn't Traister pen an unintentionally hilarious hissy fit a few weeks ago in which she said that Obama male supporters were hiding their misogyny within rational statements about the candidates? And she supported this statment by citing emails from like-minded people?
Rational statements about the candidates are an insidious form of camouflage for one's misogyny, eh? When rational statements are suspect, there really was no reason at all to support Hillary other than her gonads, was there?