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  • Progress...

    We don’t want to enslave men and the men who love us are not enslaved, emasculated enablers. Or maybe I’m just a lying worm.

    Recognizing the problem is the first step in resolving it.

  • THANKS

    He told this boy to get his mind off my niece’s “pussy”. An adult man, a role model for the boys on his team, reduced a 17 year old girl to her genitalia.

    The boy was completely focused on the potential for sex with this girl, as are all men, when not coerced by women to pretend they care about anything else. So you refuse to accept that all men are like this.

    My contention stands that boys are demonized for their sexuality and behavior and thoughts in school by coercive weirdos like you who cannot stand that boys do NOT THINK LIKE GIRLS (I use the word 'think' loosely).

    You have proven my point for me, THANKS. All the guys in the world would tell you the same thing and you still refuse to accept how men think.

  • Oh, the lament of oppressed white men who make more than $150,000 but only recently ...

    (yawn!)

  • Protection

    Sometimes the price of protection is too high.

    I guess the question I always ask is this:

    What are we being protected from?

    I would not be willing to live in a society that put me in a position of needing an individual, male protector in order to survive. I learned the dangers of that kind of dependence when I was a child, and I will not repeat it in adulthood. There's no reason to. No one, regardless of gender, should ever have to.

  • @BS

    Wow. I’m a weirdo for expecting a grown man not to refer to a 17 year old girl’s “pussy”. Would you have been okay with it if it had been your niece? Never mind, I don’t care. By the way, the boy already had a girlfriend and was good friends with my nephew. Believe it or not, they were ‘just friends’. They hung out together and she’s very pretty, so the coach decided the boy’s problems on the field were her fault. Then again, according to you, men care about nothing but sex, and if they pretend to care about anything else it’s just to get more sex. Maybe he was only pretending to like her as a person so he could get into her pants. This of course would mean cheating on his girlfriend with one of his best friends’ little sister. I find this repugnant, but maybe I should listen to you and stop expecting men to behave decently towards women. Personally, I think he’s a pretty good kid who wouldn’t do anything like that. But then, I have a higher opinion of men than you do.

    FYI. I know you don’t like being called a troll, but calling people names when they’ve done nothing but disagree with you is very troll like behavior. You might want to avoid that in the future. As for me, I’ve learned my lesson. Some people just like to hate and I shouldn’t encourage them. It can be amusing, but ultimately, I’d just be trolling the troll, so I’m done here. I’m going to go home and kiss my husband. Feel free to insult him as an enabler and call me some more names; I won’t be reading your posts anymore. Not that it matters, this is clearly a form of masturbation for you.

  • C'mon Max

    I hate to see you so sour.

    All I meant was the sex is on the boy's minds foremost, as it is on men's minds.

    This does not preclude that boys or men also like other things about women, but the sex is ALWAYS first.

    Women do not think this way and never have, your brains are wired differently.

    I do not know why this should offend any woman, that a man is programmed to first think of juicy yummy sex with a HAWT woman. The rest is gravy in most males minds because they can get the rest elsewhere if they had to.

    Women should ease off men really. Boys do not need to be sent messages by school marms that sex is bad, that having sex on your mind is bad, that wanting a girl because you can imagine the sex with her is bad, that you are a bad person if sex is foremost on your mind.

    You are in the wrong, my dear. I have just explained it to you.

    But you will continue to deny it, because you have an investment in belittling men for some imagined objectification. School is rampant with this FALSE belief among all you FEMALE teachers.

    Frankly, you women objectify us men AT LEAST as much as we objectify you, but you never hear men upbraiding and haranguing women for it constantly.

    Sure, sex with a woman who you love body and soul and mind and who you trust and adore cannot be beat, but FIRST comes the sex part for men AND ALWAYS WILL.

    You only prove that women really cannot stand that there are two sexes and that men do not think like women.

  • the reason sex matters. apart from the fact that sex matters, is that it is the PERFECT

    manifestation of the question. Are men WRONG for not being like women? All of the endless babbling about "objectification" "reduction to genitalia" blah blah blah is really only about whether or not men are going to be forced to think like women about sex or accept that they are inferior and should pay if they don't.