Letters to the Editor
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Wow
This book review seemed to really make some people angry.
I was working in the media around 9/11 and yeah, there was a whole push for Let's Promote Mom and Apple Pie 'cause We're at War all over the place. All of a sudden flawed studies about women going infertile at 35 were plastered all over front pages everywhere while pieces on ...
... ahem ...
the Bush Administrations botching of the former Clinton Administration's attempts to help the former USSR secure its nuclear arsenal ended up behind the couch.
The culture war sells and the culture war gets everybody all hysterical and the culture war is (best of all) cheap and easy to report upon.
Meanwhile ... here we are, back at the ranch and we've all been so busy having freakouts about (wait for it) GAY MARRIAGE to notice that we've just ... um ... gone and invaded a sovereign nation on trumped up evidence, maybe?
Did any of you ever notice the big sudden fit about OBESITY that hit just after gay marriage? Because when people are freaking out about every morsel they eat, they are not paying attention to our mounting trade deficit or that we've been in Iraq for longer than we were in WWII ...
Then we took a break right after Katrina for a while but then it was BREASTFEEDING for a while ... With a side of INFERTILITY again (with the appropriate finger wagging at women who WAITED TOO LONG, right before a sales pitch to get younger women to FREEZE THEIR EGGS). And then we went back to celebrities. Thank you OJ. Thank you Martha. Thank you Britteny.
Obesity, breastfeeding, infertility and gay marriage are all interesting topics to write about. But you really don't think there was an agenda whipping people into culture-warania?
How about the PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN agenda?