Letters to the Editor
Linney Uston
Published Letters: 240 Editor's Choice: 4
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Isn't this just a distraction from how bad things are in the US?
[Read the article: X-rated executions in Iran]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sure, maybe Iran has some customs we don't like, but here in the US we have wet t-shirt contests, attempts to put light restrictions on abortion and even-- oh, horror of horrors-- leering construction workers who catcall when you walk down the street!
And what of liposuction, anorexia, tacky advertisements and the low self-esteem of adolescent girls? Aren't those exactly as damaging for women as mandatory chadors and public executions?
Things are very bad in this country-- perhaps even worse in some ways-- and I don't see how it helps to focus everyone's attention away from the desperate needs of the real underclass: white, affluent college-educated women who read Broadsheet.
Yes, I have a degree in Women's Studies. Why do you ask?
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Re: Why does this person have this job?
[Read the article: ABC's of gender]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Dude, the editors never read the comments. Except for the ones that agree with them.
As for the whole "gender is a social construct" idea, it should be said that anyone espousing such an idea is clearly so ignorant of the current state of research that they can safely be dismissed as a twit.
Within the scientific community, the notion of gender being a social artifice is considered a controversy, not the unassailable fact that Broadsheet believes it to be.
But I can understand where this is coming from: If one is indoctrinated within the enclaves of Women's Studies, one is unaccustomed to actually paying attention to facts that don't agree with the feminist Party Line.
Anyone who says that "gender is a social construct" is dealing in pure, unabashed faith, based on nothing apart from making repeated assertions which do little else but make feminists feel all good and righteous inside.
The fact of the matter is that every attempt to raise children in an androgynous environment has thusfar failed to eradicate gender differences. This is true for Israeli Kibbutzim and various 19th century Utopian movements which were made of True Believers and used methods far more throughgoing than anything which could be allowed in a free society.
But this should give plenty of comfort to those feminists who wish to claim that women are inherently morally superior to men.
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As usual...
[Read the article: Spring break in Israel!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...the women who actually POSED for these pictures voluntarily are off the hook for any opprobrium.
So ladies: you can pose all you like. Men: you're a sexist bastard if you even consider looking. Love how that works.
And the reason why expressions of heterosexual interest should always be automatically equated with SEXISM is beyond me.
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You're right, cdunlea
[Read the article: Spring break in Israel!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]From this day forward I shall get with the program!
I shall sneer disdainfully at the sexism infecting them men who slaver over busty babes while I hypocritically slaver over slabs of well-hung man-beef, as my liberated female right.
Neither consistency nor elementary logic shall be a strong point in my behavioral repertoire. For I am a Broadsheet reader!
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Re: DonaQuixote
[Read the article: The word "rape" banned from courtroom]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...How silly of us feminists not to see the obvious parallel between citizens speaking out against racist and sexist language in our culture...
Yeah. But not quite as silly as when you make accusations of racism and sexism and get bitten in the ass when they turn-out to be untrue. (Cough! DUKE U! Cough!)
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Is anyone else...
[Read the article: Thailand recognizes marital rape]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...growing weary of the increasingly tiresome obsession with rape? Based on the level of attention lavished on it, you'd imagine that acts of consensual sex are truly exotic events.
Look, maybe for the first hundred times it was a tolerable subject to blog on. But every other day now it's rape this, rape that, rape-ity-rape-rape-rape. My God. Give it a rest.
Why not re-title this blog to "Rapesheet", and have the contributors legally change their names to Catherape Price and Rape Clark-Rapey?
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Are my chocolate rations up again, too?
[Read the article: Everyone we fight in Iraq is now "al-Qaida"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Holy crow, Glenn. Come to think of it, I HAD noticed that 'Qaeda' was being used to describe Iraqi fighets a lot recently. Didn't stop and think about it, though.
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Sports Illustrated:
[Read the article: Happy birthday, Title IX]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/em_swift/10/10/title.ix/
But as long as it's men being punished, we can all feel free to laugh "Haha, you bunch of bastards! Suffer! Ahahahaha!"
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Heresy, beansthecat!
[Read the article: Happy birthday, Title IX]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Let's make sure ALL kids get a fair shot to compete in the sports of their chosing. Hurting boys to help girls tarnishes the accomplishments of the latter while insulting the former."
That, my friend, is heresy on Broadsheet: Only when the playing field is tilted immensely in favor of women can it finally be considered "fair." And even then, it can only be considered a "fragile gain" which must be jealously protected for decades on end.
Why? Because women's 50 billion years of oppression entitles us to get compensated until the end of time. That's why, loser.
And the more oppressed that we say that we are, then it logically follows that we're entitled to have more compensation given to us. Isn't it cool to exploit everyone's fear of discriminating against us? Ha ha ha. It's a nice little scam and even trying to blow the whistle on us lets us point the finger and yell "SEXIST!"
Tee hee!
Yes, many years ago we women were never allowed to win. And today we must never be allowed to lose. Not ever again.
Sure, that may not seem very fair to you but Dona eloquently pointed-out that you ought to shut your mouth over petty qualms like "fairness". Your uncomfortableness with the situation is only a symptom of how privileged you are. And it's also proof that you owe us more free stuff, tee hee hee.
We women are so nice, we'll let you pay us back for stuff you didn't even know you did!
It also follows that we women have more of a right to free speech than you, more of a right to free assembly than you, more of a right to a fair trial than you and so on.
Isn't that great?
It's totally EQUAL!