Letters to the Editor
Allene Swienckowski
Published Letters: 191 Editor's Choice: 10
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Obama and the Presidency
[Read the article: Reading Barack Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I found your article interesting. I think the most intersting part of your article is the statement that you were once sure that you would vote for Barack back in 2004 but that you have doubts today. I envy you! The pack of people who say that they want to be president to date have left me cold and unmoved. I see Barack as a young, highly intelligent young man but there is something missing, at least for me, about his ability to lead and to face the challenges that will be undoubtedly left by this administration.
So, Ms. Walsh...once you determine who you think you'll vote for in a little more than year...please let the rest of us who need a lot more insight into the fray know which way you're leaning? Can't say I'll agree with your choice but information is always good.
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An Onterview with Marjane
[Read the article: Burqas vs. lips like "a goose anus"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think the young lady is awesome. Her quippy retort is something American women deserve!
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Spy Lady
[Read the article: Fair Plame]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's too bad that good people are so caught up in defending the truth that their protestations against the lie are perceived are guilt by the uninformed and eaily lead populace. And that has been the power of this divisive,lying administration: divide and conquer. They are master at lying and painting many who tell the truth as liars.
It's too bad the guys in charge felt it necessary to sink so low as to put this lady's life at risk. Too bad that none of the monkeys in this daisy chain don't have a scintilla of shame about their collective deceit and arrogance.
I can only hope that what goes around comes around!
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Designer Clothes
[Read the article: Brand-name bullies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The need to sport designer labels in children started well over twenty-five years ago. My kids, back in the day, refused to wear Payless sneakers. OshKosh was a name baby designer and the kids had to wear them, or, "Oh My God" you just be poor!
What feminist or what woman is going to get brave enough and investigate that "mean girls" are the progeny of mean women?
Maybe sooner that you think!
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Female Abusers
[Read the article: What's so funny about abusive girlfriends?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Recently on Oprah, a gew women admitted that they had had affairs with married men. Some were aware that the men were married and didn't care while others didn't find ouit until after they "had fallen in love" with the brute. The second part of the show starcased wives who had been cheated on. One wife admitted that she had knocked out her ex-husband's front tooth during her tirade against him. The audience, almost all female and clearly upscale, cheered and clapped.
Women have felt powerless in their stations as wives, mothers and co-supporters. Unfortunately our culture makes it "okay" for women to physically attack if they feel that they have been wronged while other women will stand and cheer her actions.
Until women confront and deal honestly with their submerged angers and frustrations against men and themselves, then women will continue to excuse their violent outbursts while villyfying men for the same actions against them. Until women are honest with themselves about why many women force their men out of their homea and into affairs while condoning and relishing their own dalliances, then divide that exists between men and women will continue to expand.
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Joel Stien and Humor
[Read the article: No more Slut-o-ween!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I guess I'm too old to appreciate the young man's humor. I met a young lady at a neighborhood park recently and she had once worked with the Stein man. I couldn't stop myself from sharing my complte revulsion with his brand of journalism, albeit personal commentary. She told me "Oh, he's nothing like the persona he takes on when he writes. He's actually a very nice guy." Somehow, although she was a very nice girl, I still don't like Stein!
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Nudity and Kids
[Read the article: If Britney Spears shouldn't be naked in front of her kids, what about me?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well Cary, you've done it again. You have proven once again that they are still people who have a media voice and somehow manage to use that voice wisely. They are so many variables that happen during the raising of a child, outside of abuse, that can ultimately result in that child turning into a well adjusted adult human being in spite of normal parental nudity. The issue is all so moot and so many "professional" psychologists have so many personal unsolved and unaddressed psychological issues that their so-called science is marred by their personal perceptions.
A long, long time ago I sought counseling. At the time the young psychologist was in her late twenties. I was approaching my twenty-fifth year of marriage and this young progfessional told me, without blinking, that she thought it was unnatural that I had been involved in such a long-term relationship. Her observation somehow hit my funny bone and I found that I was unable to smother the giggles that kept rising to the surface. Needless to say our relationship ended on that sunny afternoon and against the tenets of her expert observation, I am approaching my forty-second annivesary in just a few months.
So, when it comes to "experts" many times you still have to consider the source because all experts aren't equal.