Letters to the Editor
Rambling Rose 22
Published Letters: 941 Editor's Choice: 7
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It's Not About YOU!
[Read the article: My wife thinks I'm cheating on her -- but I'm not!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hey, Bucko, get ready for a news flash: You are not a victim! Whoa! Heavy stuff here. I know, I know. How's a guy supposed to hold up to all those accusations? Next you'll be telling her that if you're being accused you might as well do it.
I just have one question: How does someone who was suffering from PTSD from the first Gulf War end up being deployed to another? Doesn't sound right to me.
Your first responsibility is to get your wife the help she needs. Obviously our first-rate military hasn't done such a good job of taking care of anyone who doesn't return in a body bag. And I know there are all kinds of places you can turn to find help. So why you reading Salon and asking a guy you don't know from Adam what you should do with your crazy wife? Hmmm.
I mean, you've been married for a year and you must've known about her condition, and yet you've done nothing before marriage or after marriage? Go through your stuff and clear out the "joke" condoms that you don't seem to have answers for, and get your wife acquainted with your friends. But in the meantime, get her the help she needs NOW and stop spinning your wheels with "celebrity columnists."
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Missing The Point - As Usual
[Read the article: When is a bra strap just a bra strap?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why is a school kid wearing a revealing shirt to school anyway? Is that what the kid was commenting on? So, girls can wear revealing clothing and boys who comment get suspended? Oh, okay.
The other day I was walking down the street and saw not one, but at least five young women wearing tank-style tops that revealed their bra straps. It was a "style." I had to wonder about the importance of having your lingerie hanging out of your clothes these days. Is it a statement? Hey, all I know is that I found it offensive for some reason.
Today, everyone seems to be into letting it all hang out: Girls and older women and their bras displayed underneath skimpy blazers, straps and all showing, and pushed-up bosoms hanging out all over the place ("See 'em?" "Oh yeah, there they are!"). And the guys with the wifebeater t-shirts displaying armpit hair and sleeved-out arm tattoos that criminals get while locked up, and their pants hanging down around their knees displaying underwear. Ugh! It's enough to make you lose your appetite.
So, now a 7 year old is punished for telling some young girl to wear a shirt that DOESN'T show her bra straps? As usual, the point is being missed because the line between being an exhibitionist and normalcy has been blurred. Who taught the girl(a 7 year old in a bra?) that displaying yourself in a bra, straps and all, was okay anyway?
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Boss Out Okay - Out of Line!
[Read the article: My boss says I'm a lesbian but I'm not!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You only have yourself to blame for this mess, young lady. That is, if I can actually call you a young lady without having to sit through yet another lecture of how people can dress like someone or something else and then accuse the rest of us of misjudging them!
The boss is out of line; legally and every other way. The way I see it, you have 3 choices:
1. Shave your head and become a martyr suffering in silence to give her something else to think and talk about, and continue to pick up a paycheck each week.
2. Give a two week notice, but leave on good terms so she doesn't tell your next prospective employer that you are sexually confused and will be a happier person when you "come out of the closet."
3. Shave your legs, buy a cute skirt and pair of heels, put on some lipstick, and pay some guy to pick you up at work one day to shut her up - and continue to pick up a paycheck.
No offense, sweetie, but I think that you have secretly liked this rebellion of yours and the reactions you have received thus far. I mean, who hasn't enjoyed teaching society a lesson or two about judging others, being ourselves, and bucking the norm?
And, as anyone could have predicted, it's backfired this time. The lesson is this: If you are going to masquerade as a lesbian, then you have to expect some people to actully want you to be one! Nothing wrong with that.
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Ho Hum
[Read the article: Dumbledore? Gay. J.K. Rowling? Chatty.]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I saw the tagline run across the news network about the Potter character, whats-his-name, being gay. Since I have never read the Potter books, I had to ask myself this question, "Who gives a ----?" Were we supposed to take up a collection or something?
Are we so hard-up for news this week that it really matters whether some unreal character in a book is gay or not? Or whether his gay co-hort was good or evil? I mean, wasn't there something else that needed to be reported or that we needed to know about that was equally shocking?
What about the health stories from "Paging Dr. Gooptah" that strive so hard to be so "fair and balanced" that you are left trying to figure out whether or not a new drug or procedure is good or evil? And,there's always my favorite "news story:" trying to read between the White House press secretaries'lies...um, lines... to decipher exactly whether or not the invasion of Iraq is good or evil. And, the all-time fall-back favorite: Whether or not Brittany Spears is a good or evil parent. (Fox News is excluded because it ALWAYS tell us what or who is evil and what or who is good!)
I guess all the news is like a Harry Potter book and keeps us guessing everyday about "what's next?" The only difference with this story is that Potter's author is willing to give us the answers.