Letters to the Editor
Parson Jim
Published Letters: 577 Editor's Choice: 7
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Robert Franklin
[Read the article: Bringin' home the bacon, but no boyfriend]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think a recent example of the blatant violence that women often show towards men in America is evidenced by the Mary Winkler case.
After blowing a hole in his spine with a shotgun, unplugging the phone so he couldn't call 911, and watching him slowly die, she gets a de minimis sentence of just over two months and goes on Oprah to explain how she was provoked because her husband made her wear platform shoes.
Now she's gotten visitation with her kids and is asking for full custody.
Now it gets sickeningly worse:
http://www.newschannel5.com/Global/story.asp?S=7097266&nav=menu374_1
"Mary Winkler's supporters such as Kathy Thompson are helping her make a new home for herself.
"She's asked for forgiveness," Thompson said. "It's our duty. The Bible tells us, if we don't forgive others God won't forgive us. So we're just trying to pick up pieces and go on."
Winkler said the community has reached out to her, giving her everything from a five -bedroom home to live in for $150 to a car she's traded in for a sports utility vehicle."
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Please be fair
[Read the article: The feminist who made me blush]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Toni Bentley's paean to anal sex was a feminist literary tour de force.
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Footnotes
[Read the article: The feminist who made me blush]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Kate Millett, Katha Pollitt, Andrea Dworkin etc. just finally revealed their true selves as they got older. Dysfunctional, one-dimensional pseudo intellectuals who hijacked a bigoted movement and drove it into the ground.
In ten more years no one will remember them.
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Yawn
[Read the article: The feminist who made me blush]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Pollitt grunts about denying blowjobs to a boyfriend who eventually leaves her, Kate Millett is reduced to selling Christmas trees from a farm upstate because she refused to realize her irrelevancy several decades ago - they are one and the same.
The egoism of these harridan feminists from the 60s and 70s is amazing. If a man wrote about internet stalking his ex-girlfriend, there would be hell to pay, but Pollitt thinks she is making a statement by talking about her obsession. No one cares about your bad sex life or your sags and wrinkles.
No one.
Sad.
No one cares what these has-been feminists have to say or write anymore. They are no more relevant to today's America than bell bottom jeans or macrame ponchos or bad Op art.
Collectively they are a museum of Yesterday's Thinking. A museum that no one cares to visit.
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Larry Craig
[Read the article: No ruling in Craig case]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He's taking a wide stance on this issue and hopes the judge will do the same. While Craig won't bend over for just any ruling from the judge, he is prepared to go down on his knees and ask for a second chance to withdraw his plea. Whether the judge will respond stiffly to this gesture remains to be seen.
There's no guarantee, though, that that plea won't continue to thrust along, putting Craig in an uncomfortable position with his colleagues on the Hill, many of whom will need to bend over yet another page in this long, many-chaptered book of Republican shenanigans.
Will the judge go deep on this issue, or just touch the rim of the high points of the case? Unclear. Craig will just have to go with the situation at this point, otherwise, he may end up sore and depressed come the morning....
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@ Holly Capote
[Read the article: The feminist who made me blush]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Based on your previous posts, you like plumbers and whitewater rafting.
Because of that, even though I can glean little else about your life, I can say nothing but good things about you.
You have your opinions, and I have mine.
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@ Holly Capote
[Read the article: The feminist who made me blush]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Enjoy!
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Hmmm
[Read the article: Hiding birth control from boyfriends]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]From the link in the article about the same percentage of girls overall actively try to get pregnant as those who are manipulated by their boyfriends into getting pregnant. "Some" is a relative term. There is dysfunction all around, but the girls do get mixed messages about marriage and motherhood, neither of which are tightly linked anymore.
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Very recent American apartheid
[Read the article: Beyond the Multiplex]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Read Sundown Towns A Hidden Dimension of American Racism by James Loewen for more ugly history.
http://www.simonsays.com/content/book.cfm?pid=521269&tab=1&agid=2
Why isn't this taught in American history classes throughout the country?
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Hmmm
[Read the article: Afghanistan's next top model]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I thought modeling was degrading and exploitative, especially of young women.
"Child labor never looked so corrosively chic. Not only are fashion models getting younger (despite proposals for a minimum age put forth by the British Fashion Council and the Council of Fashion Designers of America), but their bodies are being ravaged by more than just malnutrition."
And the director of this slave auction is only 18! Oppressive and exploitative. I would think Ms. Clark-Flory would side with the muslim clerics who disapprove.
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Rape, not rape
[Read the article: Roundup: Severe PMS, the politics of breast milk and more]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This shouldn't even have made it to trial. But of course, the burden is on him to prove his innocence, pay legal fees, deal with press coverage, etc. Duke University redux....
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Ouch
[Read the article: Athletic girls and bruised brains]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Exercise/story?id=3680112&page=1
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"Hello"
[Read the article: Vengeance is Brandon Mayfield's]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Hello. Yeah. America here."
"Yeah, that's right. It's parchment-colored, lists branches of government after a brief preamble, etc."
"Yeah, it somehow disappeared about a year after George Bush became President. If you find it, please call us - we really need to get it back."
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You're right
[Read the article: Roundup: Severe PMS, the politics of breast milk and more]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A rush to judgment before the facts are all in, just as in the Duke lacrosse case.
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@Filthy Harry
[Read the article: The 9/11 backlash against women]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Problem is stupid male-oriented society refuses to recognize that something a women does best is the most rewarding thing you can do."
"No woman should be authorized to stay at home to raise her children. Women should not have that choice, precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one.” (Simone De Beauvoir, "Sex, Society, and the Female Dilemma," Saturday Review, June 14, 1975."
A man didn't make that quote, but a gender feminist of the first order.