Letters to the Editor
katiedert
Published Letters: 6
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Publisher vs. Author
[Read the article: Publishers think women are stupid?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I took a creative writing course a couple years ago with Kelly Cherry, and she was just publishing a new book, We Can Still Be Friends. She hate, hate, HATED the cover the publishers chose--a young woman lying on the carpet with a telephone to her ear, visible only from the chest up. The publishers wanted it to look like "chick lit" (she said), even though it isn't.
Click my name to see the cover.
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Bwahahahaha
[Read the article: Barbie vs. Bratz XVII: The Reckoning]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"...condemned forever to a dollie Gitmo of their owner's creation." SO FUNNY
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Great
[Read the article: It's kinda gross, but it's only 90 calories!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This post made me google you, Kate Harding.
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Firewalled!
[Read the article: Geeks gone wild]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I just tried to visit the Nerd Girls website, and the firewall at work blocked it. Category: Pornography.
I hate this firewall.
I've also had Shel Silverstein blocked TWICE. Categories: Illegal and Unethical, and Nudity and Risque.
I tried to view a story about Ellen and Portia de Rossi marrying, and it was blocked. Category: Homosexuality. Homosexuality!? Is that really inappropriate for the workplace? What if I were a lesbian!? Would *I* be inappropriate for the workplace?
I hate you, Fortiguard.
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I am the Girl in this Letter
[Read the article: How can I convince my girlfriend that this is as good as it gets?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Not LW's actually girlfriend, but I am the same. I am in the same relationship and I have the same doubts and am even almost 24.
I don't know what it is. I don't know what it is that makes her act like that, that makes me act like this. I love my boyfriend and he is wonderful, as wonderful as he was when I fell in love with him (did I really? I think maybe I did. I want to have.) and still 100% committed to me. He doesn't know how I feel, though, so LW is lucky that he knows; I am too afraid to tell.
I can't figure out why I am afraid of committing to this relationship when we are so obviously compatible. Why do I want to have sex with him sometimes and sometimes the thought of sex is so repulsive? Why am I not as excited as I used to be? Is it me? Am I messed up? Is our relationship just not 'the one'?
LW, my parents' relationship failed and I think I am afraid of that same failure. Or else I am using that as a crutch because I am just too scared to tell someone who loves me 'it's over.' What about your girlfriend's parents? What was/is their relationship like? Maybe this will give you some insight.
I have things to figure out and so does your girlfriend. I wish I could figure these things out and love my current boyfriend with reckless (and exciting!) abandon. But I don't think I will. I think eventually I will work these things, these feelings and fears, out, but having this relationship is only a step. This relationship has shown me a new part of myself, and for that it is valuable, and maybe it is the same for your girlfriend. Don't wait on her. She will figure it out but you will not be there in the end. You are only a part of it.
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OMG BACON AND PORK!
[Read the article: A wonderful, magical animal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]OMG OMG OMG enough!