Letters to the Editor
Serai1
Published Letters: 503 Editor's Choice: 32
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Par for the course
[Read the article: Quote of the Day: Germaine Greer on Princess Diana]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I cannot understand why anyone would listen to Germaine Greer on any subject. She's callous, self-aggrandizing, and from what I've seen, pretends to be on women's side while actually deriding anything having to do with real women. Diana is not the first woman she's spat on for not living up to her particular version of perfection. (And I'm not even a Diana fan, really.)
Get me a quote from someone I can take seriously and I might listen. But then, seeing as how Camille Paglia has a column here, I doubt that'll happen anytime soon.
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Godwin's Law
[Read the article: When the National Review attacks]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yes! And only four letters in.
Let's see how long it takes for Snacky's to kick in...
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Heehee!
[Read the article: Where there's smoke]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Brilliant, Mr. K. As usual, you hit the nail on the head.
Within a few weeks after September 11, 2001, I and other friends of mine were muttering darkly about Orwell and the thought police, since folks were already being jumped on for talking or just thinking things that were not "approved". The jingoist tenor of the times meant that many people laughed or cursed at us for daring to speak such thoughts (proving our point with unasked-for alacrity). These days those who say such things get world-weary nods instead of dirty looks. Can't say as it's any better, for what it says about how bad things have gotten.
Thanks for the laugh. Here's hoping it'll remain just that, and not a cause for the same kind of sighs and bitter disappointment in our country.
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Really?
[Read the article: Spare the rod, spoil the wife]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]not for us to judge
That's interesting, considering how often Broadsheet writers pronounce judgment on any number of social and/or religious oddities. Suddenly you get all ladylike just because...what? It's "private"? It's possibly sexual? It's connected to religion? Broadsheet has never stinted on judging such matters before. What's with the Miss Manners act now?
Not that I have any objections to judging such things as deeply creepy. (Apparently some of us are more led to concern than others by husbands beating wives with implements for supposed "infractions".) I won't say it's the wives' fault, as the poster above did, because DUDE. It's the husband wielding the paddle and doing the damage. Is anybody going to bring up the hoary old chestnut about the woman "making" the man do it?
Personally, I've never held with using religion as an excuse for violence of any kind. Especially Christianity, whose leader and godhead went around constantly talking about "turning the other cheek", "forgiving trespasses", and generally trying to be better to others than they are to oneself. But then, I have noticed how many of these obsessive Jesus fans tend to ignore most of what he said, preferring to treat him as a hood ornament while they base their lives on the far more punitive voices in their canon. By their fruits shall ye know them, and all that.
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All of this
[Read the article: The next-gen disc format war gets uglier, more ridiculous]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]basically ignores the fact that there are a lot of people who simply don't want to bother with downloading movies. It's time-consuming and fiddly, while a DVD disc is easy. And what about people who have film collections? The whole back-up issue is very relevant to them, since a good-sized movie collection would take literally thousands of dollars just to backup on drives. One of my friends has about 800 films in his collection; given the prices for drives that have been quoted here, how much would he have to spend, as opposed to the $10-$40 per film that regular DVD's cost?
And what is this about consumers "demanding" HD DVD's? I keep hearing this from the MSM and media companies, but I'll be damned if I can find any actual consumer who demands anything of the kind. Most of us don't give a rat's ass about such bells and whistles - we just want discs with reasonable quality that we can afford. I don't know anybody willing to pay what will undoubtedly be inflated prices just so the details on some movie prop will be a bit clearer. DVD's are already fine, and all this "demand" nonsense is just industry hype designed to stir up an artificial anticipation in people who normally wouldn't care. Talk about transparent manipulation!
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Words
[Read the article: When a tomato is more than just a tasty summer fruit]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When I was a teenager, one piece of advice I got that I tried to put into practice was simply to be more clever than the men in their insults. I've never been particularly fast in the comeback department, but whenever I did manage it, the effect could be considerable, especially if the guy was accompanied by others guys. He could end up being laughed at by his friends, which would shut him up pretty quick. Of course, that was here in America, where the men don't feel free to kill a woman just because they don't like her attitude. (Not that it happens all the time in India, but clearly it does happen sometimes.)
So I don't know if it would work, but if a guy were to call me a "tomato", I'd probably fire back, "You talkin' to me, string bean?"
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That monkey story
[Read the article: Roundup: Salem witches gone wild!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We are afraid that they will sexually harrass us.
That has to be a joke. I'm sorry, but if one of these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYuIYNaKynI
grabbed his dick at me I'd fall over in hysterics. How any woman could imagine getting raped by that is beyond me.
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ARGHARGH
[Read the article: Gonzales' shame]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's COJONES.
Not "cajones" (which means "drawers"). Not "cahones". Not, gods forbid, "cahonies".
Cojones. For gods' sakes, don't any of you know anyone who speaks Spanish?