Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 4 Editor's Choice: 3
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Freedom of opinion
[Read the article: Duke women not innocent]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Unlike the author, I am (psychologically)opposed to team sports. In my day at the University of Chicago there was a general concensus that organized athletics was the first step toward Nazism. From what I have read about the Duke Lacross team, I can't readily imagined myself sharing a drink, or a seminar, with any of them.
That said, it may well be that the members of the women's team actually know the male defendants and have actual informed opinions. The notion that is some how offends the judicial process to express an affirmative conviction of innocence it startling. (And I am a lawyer as well as an anti-jock.) Certainly most of us have had the experience of believing in the innocence or guilt of a criminal defendant independant of a jury's judgment, from Socrates to Kenneth Lay, from Martin Luther King to O. J. Simpson.
Does Sweeney object to these women having an opinion, or to the opinion they have?
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right to choose
[Read the article: Flying the boob-hating skies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I find it a tad annoying that every discussion of lactating rights surrounds how GOOD it is for the child. As a woman who doesn't really care to have children and if I did perhaps I wouldn't want to breastfeed. I hardly see stories supporting a woman's right NOT to breastfeed. There are also studies that say though breastfeeding may be healthy, its not completely necessary. With so much focus placed on how good it is, I've read time and time again about women pressured into (or even forced by relatives or husbands) breastfeeding despite the pain and extreme discomfort.
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funky form
[Read the article: Pakistan may unveil new rape laws]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sorry... I was tryign to say that according to Shar'ia law, a man must also provide 4 witnesses to the penetrating act to prove that his wife has committed adultery. It seems that Pakistan has forgotten that Shar'ia law protects ALL muslims.