Letters to the Editor
tehmorp
Published Letters: 16 Editor's Choice: 2
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My Response To The Complaints That Have Been Posted Thus Far
[Read the article: Breasts: An educational (?) slide show]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm guessing that the over-30s haven't sent in their pics yet. Have you guys sent yours in, or are you expecting some OTHER over-30s to do it?
I didn't get the "breasts are only perfect when we do work on them" message from this slide show that the blog poster seemed to. The breasts were definitely departures from what I'm used to seeing in pictures and movies and stuff, and the quotes all seemed to be things the people whom the breasts are part of wanted to say about them.
I'd merely suggest that people who want to see some other type of quote and some other style of breasts get out their cameras and their thinking caps.
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shenis
[Read the article: Roundup: Ladies, meet the Shenis]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There have already been stand-to-pee kits for ages, so this is really nothing new.
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you know what term makes me cringe?
[Read the article: Linguists: "Moist" makes women cringe]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Labiodental.
(jk)
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Wait a sec...
[Read the article: Eeuw! of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That was in "Tiger Beat" magazine. A magazine for 13-year-olds. Who are trying to get the Jr. High boys to take them to to the Fall Fling. That's really not that icky.
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I love your American dream, Cary.
[Read the article: Help! I'm a prisoner in a big suburban house!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Your American dream has almost taken away the sick feeling I have in my stomach whenever someone says the phrase, "American dream." Now will you please do something about the horrible feeling that I get whenever someone says the phrase, "one man and one woman"?
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I found it!
[Read the article: Have a daughter? You wimp]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It was this line that made you mad, wasn't it:
"If women conceive the sex of infant that they are most suited to raise, I would be very against manipulating the sex of the child,” she says."
Yeah, that's a bit irritating, to assume that nurturing women are most suited to raise girls and competitive women are most suited to raise boys; actually, if this is true, we might want to start manipulating genders!
And just a note to the people who remembered some things that would seem to contradict this from high school: (a) high school is, for many people, a long time ago, but science marches on; and (b) lots of the things they taught you were probably wrong. For example, how many of us learned it was WRONG WRONG WRONG to end a sentence with a preposition, which turns out to be WRONG.
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For those of you who think this assertion is disproved by the fact that some people have children of both sexes....
[Read the article: Have a daughter? You wimp]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]For those of you who think this assertion is disproved by the fact that some people have children of both sexes....
RTFA.
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@ LeCastor
[Read the article: Have a daughter? You wimp]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't know whether those particular women have high levels of testosterone, since I don't have access to a blood test, but supposedly 68% of women lie in the middle, thus not more likely to have boys or girl from this effect. They could easily lie in the middle then.
An interesting question would be whether women who take estrogen have more girls. (Isn't estrogen a componant of fertility drugs?)
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Actually, I think this is a good analogy.
[Read the article: Rape is like force-fed chocolate cake?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I agree with all the people who have mentioned that force-feeding someone anything, including chocolate cake, is bad,
and I would go so far as to say that's why the comparison is so apt: it doesn't matter whether the person likes chocolate cake, it doesn't matter if she would have happily eaten the chocolate cake had the perpetrator not preemptively forced it on her, it wouldn't even matter if she somehow managed to enjoy the taste of the cake during the crime, it would still be a both a dangerous and a heinous crime, and no doubt very traumatic and leave the victim lingering emotional and physical distress.
And anyone who supports this kind of violent crime should not only not be elected, they should be forced to register their whereabouts with the police and never be allowed within two blocks of a bakery!! (Ok, this last paragraph is a bit of joke, but it's a joke made from a place of being seriously horrified.)
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Synchronicity
[Read the article: Do women prefer men who play team sports?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is particularly interesting to me because I was reading "Transforming a Rape Culture" (ed. Buchwald et al.-- published 1993, so possibly outdated) yesterday, and it contains an essay ("Fraternities and the Rape Culture," O'Sullivan) that claimed that men who played specifically team sports were among the more likely to do such things (for various reasons that are of course, gone into in more detail in the essay).
If this study and that essay are both true, there could be some interesting further study about how both results interact.
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While we're on the subject...
[Read the article: Looking for a few good women]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I wonder if the Marines, like the Air Force, have a practice of checking recruits' genitals purely in order to verify gender. In the Air Force, of course, this is necessary because, as my recruiter informed me with a shocked and somewhat horrified attempt at a chuckle, once someone tried to join up and they "turned out to be both".
I just wonder what the Marines' take on this kind of activity is. No reason.
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Exhibit A: Everything in our entire society.
[Read the article: You are not your bookcase]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Reading a book, or even watching a movie, isn't like buying a new fashionable shirt, or the newest fake food product." -- Andrea234
I find it impossible to believe that someone could live in our culture and honestly believe that people don't select certain books and movies in order to project an image. You are figuratively blind, so blind in fact that I would be willing to bet you do this exact thing without realizing it.
"They are tripe, and they say absolutely nothing that wasn't already self-evident." -- achilleselbow
Wow, every single one of them??
"It's not about Genres it's about QUALITY and the confidence to be CRITICAL" -- dawdler
It can be about genres. I know that when I tell people I enjoy self-help books, they start blinking very fast and mumbling about how they need to be somewhere...anywhere...else. I think the real story is that after we work through the knee-jerk-rejection, then we get to the place where it's about quality and the confidence to be critical. Most of us aren't there yet.