Letters to the Editor
Linney Uston
Published Letters: 255 Editor's Choice: 5
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"...my principles of nonviolence go to hell"
[Read the article: How do you say "You go, girl" in Kashmiri?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, seeing as how you're obsessed with male wrongdoing, I thin you might want to check-out the entry "Boys just being ... sex offenders?" In the comments, someone suggests it's a good idea to pre-emptively castrate boys, coupled with a Plan B involving gas chambers. I seconded the plan because that would surely solve all your complaints for about 20 minutes, at least. Then you'd complain about women being left with the job of cleaning-up all those corpses.
And by "women's safety" surely, you also mean to include "protecting women from ever feeling uncomfortable", because we all know it's perfectly appropriate behavior to break the fingers of a man who might stand too close to you in the elevator.
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Parson Jim, that's where you'd be wrong
[Read the article: How do you say "You go, girl" in Kashmiri?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No, a man dying does not compare to the suffering of a woman who feels mental anguish.
Dead men are lucky because they're happily pushing-up dasies whereas the poor women are left behind to continue suffering right through life for another 50 or so years. How can you possibly compare the two?
Women are always the biggest victims, even when men are getting their throats slit-open. Don't you ever forget it, you pig.
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I dunno if this was covered..
[Read the article: Too young to tie your tubes?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"It questions a woman's inner knowing, her own path in life. It also suggests that women don't know what's best for them and that they have to defer to a medical authority to make life decisions."
Funny that whenever a woman wants a shot of Botox or a pair of breast implants, suddenly feminists are the first to say she doesn't know what's best for her and question her "inner knowing".
So where does this "inner knowing" go when it comes to cosmetic surgery? Wearing makeup? Wearing high heels? Oh riiiight: all of that stuff is pandering to men due to patriarchal influence having taken-over women's brains.
What would you call an ideology which does this? "Dimwit feminism" perhaps?
This is why most feminists offend me so much. When it comes to the wearing of make up, shaving, dieting, anything that might make a woman more “conventionally attractive”, that is pandering to the Patriarchy. This comes from those who say "MY BODY MY CHOICE" all over the place.
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Traister is very sympathetic to the woes of upper-class female celebrities
[Read the article: Couric goes to bat for Lohan]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Their tiaras are just SO goddamned heavy. Doesn't your heart just bleed for 'em?
Even when a woman has all the money and fame in the world, she's still a pathetic victim who needs lots and lots of everyone's sympathy.
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While we're on the topic of the Pay Gap...
[Read the article: The costs of asking for a higher salary]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...why doesn't Broadsheet review the book "Why Men Earn More" by Warren Farrell, which outlines many reasonable lifestyle decisions that women make which cause them to earn less? It's been positively-reviewed by a great many business writers who actually have to interact with the world outside the "safe spaces" of Women's Studies echo chambers.
Would that be too off-topic a book for Broadsheet to write about? Or would it risk undermining your desperately-clung-to belief that all women are victims of a conspiracy of pay discrimination?
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Look...
[Read the article: Broadsheet is on hiatus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...I know I'm usually unkind in my comments, but that's mainly because Broadsheet calls itself a "women's issues" blog while everyone here understands very well that plenty of women do not share its ideology. Where's the "diversity"?
I hope the future mix of posts can be broadened (no pun intended) to include a larger variety of views-- views which do not implicity slam traditionalist women or take an unnecessarily antagonistic tone towards men. I have seen, for instance, Broadsheet mock men who try to address discrimination which they face, something that would never happen were a woman to do the same thing.
Broadsheet can be improved. Please, please, please let it happen. What happened to the Salon that used to publish Cathy Young and Tracy Quan not so long ago?
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Hi, Hannah
[Read the article: Broadsheet is on hiatus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"I often wonder, though, why if so many of the regular posters are so hotly against the blog and its stated goals and objectives, why read it?"
Because the stated goals and objectives don't match-up with what actually appears.
Broadsheet positions itself as a "women's blog" when it's pretty clear that it's a "feminist blog". The editors know very VERY well that not all women are pro-choice, pro-affirmative action feminists, therefore the blog is horribly mislabelled and, frankly, it's a little presumptuous and puffed-up for it to claim it represents "women's perspectives".
As I said before, there's no diversity of viewpoints here. You can predict how they'll come down on pretty much any issue.
Either Broadsheet says "ok, look, we're a radical feminist blog who think an intellectually-dishonest site like Pandagon is a brilliant source of truth" or it actually brings-in more diverse viewpoints, which would reflect, for instance, the viewpoints of women who aren't pro-choice, women who aren't psychologically-dependent on scapegoating men, women who don't believe gender to entirely result from socialization, and so on.
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ok "dr. necessitor"
[Read the article: Broadsheet is on hiatus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Maybe because it's fun to mock people who have a yawning gap between their proud self-image and their actual doofus nature? Just a guess.
I thought you were supposed to be smart, being a "dr." and all?
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Did GreenStone suck as much as Broadsheet?
[Read the article: GreenStone, sadly, is a sinker]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"...network targeting women with female-oriented talk programming in a male-dominated industry is even tougher."
OMG Patriarchy! Men NEVER fail in business ventures!
Absolutely pathetic. A woman's every failure is because of men but her successes are because of her own efforts.
Maybe they just had a lousy idea for a business? Nah, that couldn't be it.
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Definition of a "wimp":
[Read the article: Is a "feminine" man likely to be a family guy?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A man who does one tenth the complaining of a feminist.
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Has Broadsheet learned nothing from Duke U...
[Read the article: She raped herself]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...about presuming guilt?
I was so very tempted to say something about Tracy being effing stupid enough to buy any tale of female victimization regardless of how flimsy it is, but I decided against it.
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Oh, silly Anonymous
[Read the article: She raped herself]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Don't you know ANYTHING?
It's better to allow 100 innocent men to go to jail than allow one victim to consider dropping the charges.
Otherwise, it could have a "chilling effect" on false accusations, and we don't want that.
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men who frequently insulted their partners...
[Read the article: Roundup: Virtual wives, non-ironic feminism and more]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...were also more likely to engage in "negative mate retention" strategies (like extreme possessiveness or keeping their partner under constant surveillance).
Meanwhile, women who frequently insulted their partners are more likely to be considered progressive and feisty.