Letters to the Editor
Serai1
Published Letters: 503 Editor's Choice: 32
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THANK YOU MR. K
[Read the article: I love L.A.]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As a life-long Angelena, I've never felt anything but love for this city. Even the six years I spent away from it was for the sake of someone else, and I came back when I realized my home is here. This is a wonderful city; people who don't realize that are simply hide-bound by the idiotic image of it that has been plastered across screens worldwide by Hollywood.
But the movie industry is far from all there is to L.A., and it makes me sad that most people don't realize it. Los Angeles is a city just like any other, filled with people and businesses and things to do. We've got all kinds of cultures, all kinds of food, all kinds of languages being spoken. It's a place full of things to fascinate. The problem is, of course, that it takes a little effort to get past the "La-la-land" stereotype people carry around in their heads, and see just what the place actually is.
I can tell you what it isn't. It's not New York, or Chicago, or St. Louis, or Miami, or Minneapolis, even. But all of those cities are unique, too. Why is it that Los Angeles is excoriated for its style of uniqueness, but all those other places are lauded for it?
Los Angeles is my home. I'm happy here, and the only thing I miss about Northern California is the natural environment - the forests and the easily accessible beaches. Those I really, really miss. But as far as everything else, I'm happy as a clam in mud, and feel no hesitation in proclaiming myself a contented resident.
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You know what I find creepy?
[Read the article: Do you need a sister-wife?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Writers who claim to be "feminists" and yet take any chance they can to load posts like this with adjectives like "creepy", "suspicious", and complaints about "losing my lunch".
Just what the fuck is it with you Broadsheet...women? You jump on the up-with-women bandwagon, yet you never miss a chance to sneak in the nasty, back-stabbing insinuations whenever you think a woman isn't toeing your particular "feminist" line. Which as far as I can tell, consists of women appearing to care about each other when in fact it's just a show to look good.
So these women want to call each other "sister-wife", so WHAT? You people go on and on about how the culture supposedly misnames women's lives, misunderstands our ideals, yadayadayada. Yet you show yourselves for hypocrites whenever something happens that makes you even the tiniest bit uncomfortable. Sometimes it seems to me that you go out of your way to misinterpret the culture around you, just so you can stir the pot and get people riled up, either over things of no consequence (EEK! t-shirts with nasty sayings, oh NOES!) or, as in this case, over things that might have a very good consequence for women (moving our lives back to shared families, as opposed to the horridly oppressive nuclear family norm that denies women the support that would make life much easier both for them and their families).
Really, come on. Is it so very difficult to take that term of affection (for so it clearly is to these women) in the way it's meant, not in the way you so nastily insinuate? For all that you (plural) claim to stand up for women, is it so very hard to cheer on some women who are making their lives better, instead of looking for the ONE detail that'll give you an excuse to insult them?
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O_o
[Read the article: Ending "the world's hottest war"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Best. Punchline. Ever.
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sadness
[Read the article: The al-Marri decision]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Last night, I pulled out my new copy of Mr. Smith Goes To Washington and watched it. Why? No special reason. Maybe I just wanted to torture myself.
*sigh* It was torture, alright. Yeah, I know it's a silly Capra fantasy, but damn if it isn't as near a perfect articulation of American ideals as the popular media in this country has ever come up with. The look of awe on Jimmy Stewart's face as he reads the words of the Constitution on the wall of the Lincoln Memorial...damn, I started crying. I kid you not.
I'm so damn tired of the pack of cynical, bloodthirsty wanna-be tyrants that have this country in a stranglehold, along with their bootlicking MSM dogs. These people have no love for America at all; in fact, I'd hesitate to call them Americans. I don't know what land they inhabit - other than the one ruled by Old Nick - but it certainly isn't the land I love. How anyone can claim to love this country and then actively piss in the faces of the Founding Fathers like that - it's beyond me.
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@Craig234
[Read the article: Nixon knows best]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You ask an important question, and I have an answer for you. The reason Americans keep voting in people like this, is that most people have a lot of difficulty distinguishing men who are great from men who tell us they're great. This country is a sucker for self-confidence, even arrogance, taking it for actual competence, and it seems to be beyond a lot of people's ability to comprehend that a man who truly is great won't present himself that way. Humility and self-doubt are two of the marks of real quality in people, and yet paradoxically they have become the marks of losers in the eyes of many people in this country. The very things that we used to admire, we now revile. Bizarre, but there you are.
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@RealName
[Read the article: Waiting for Sarkozy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Pot, meet kettle. Shake!