Letters to the Editor
melthough
Published Letters: 1264 Editor's Choice: 102
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Conflating health and environment
[Read the article: Affordable organic]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]These are two different reasons for buying organic food. If you want to "raise your baby green," you'll buy organic whenever you can - not just when the end-user would be eating a ton of pesticides. I don't blame you for taking that into consideration - most of us can't afford all organic all the time - but please don't conflate that with making environmental choices. If you want to be "green," you should cut out processed foods (not at Whole Foods!), most fish (not at Whole Foods!), and out-of-season produce of any kind (again, not at Whole Foods!). In my experience, Whole Foods caters primarily to foodies, with environmental concerns secondary - and mostly for marketing purposes.
Also, I can't believe strawberries aren't on the list.
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So you're jealous of 'bad dads' who use women as 'sex dolls'?
[Read the article: GIRLdrive]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Listen. My husband was raised by his mother, who was widowed eight years into her marriage. He doesn't feel "trapped" by women, or feminists. In fact, on most points, he is a better feminist than I am. And he is THE best father I have ever met. I wouldn't have had kids with anyone else.
If you want to talk about your own painful experiences, that's your business, but generalizing your sad, masochistic life to the rest of the fucking world is getting really old.
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But, oswald, come on.
[Read the article: GIRLdrive]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The one you chose to pick on does not identify as a feminist! As I'm sure you noticed, since you read it so closely. Why pick out that one, huh?
I am kind of creeped out by this whole project, starting with the "GIRL" thing. And followed very quickly by the privileged college chick thing. I imagine these people looking back ten years from now and being very, very embarrassed. But whatever. I'm not part of the Facebook generation. I don't plan to keep up with the blog, but I don't see the project as harmful.
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I know this is a sad statistic,
[Read the article: Number of the Day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]but I think we Salon readers need to take a step back, take a deep breath, and think about the lifestyle of the average American. My mother, for example, has no idea what is going on in politics. Really - NONE. She doesn't know who Valerie Plame is, has vague name recognition if you say Karl Rove, and votes Republican because she is against abortion due to a mystical experience she had after a miscarriage. Oh yeah - also, she works three minimum-wage jobs so that she can pay her bills. I know this isn't the case for everyone, but how many of you are checking War Room at work? You think Wal-Mart greeters get to do that? You think when they come home from their shitty jobs they want to 'relax' with metapolitical bullshit? Heck, I do! But not everyone is like me. Not everyone is like you either. A lot of people don't have internet access except at the public library. If you want to represent regular folks, you need to know a little bit more about their lives first. The only politician who even comes close this time is Edwards. Too bad he is being ignored, even by many of the people he wants to protect.
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Erosion of access
[Read the article: Happy birthday, Broadsheet!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]to birth control and abortion for the poor would get my nylons in knot - if I wore nylons. I've appreciated your coverage of the administration's abuse of power and science regarding this snarl of issues, as well as your mentions of individual clinics that are struggling to open or stay open in key areas of the country. Thanks!
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"do not marry a homeless, jobless asshole"
[Read the article: Happy birthday, Broadsheet!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That is good advice. Especially if you take out the "homeless, jobless" part. And assholes come in all colors, flavors and genders (apparently even goose). So, I would say, no, not sexist.
"Don't marry a man without a job"? That could be sexist, depending on the context.
"Don't marry a homeless man?" I think that's more ... um ... domicilist. Not sexist.
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I am looking forward to the day
[Read the article: Candidates' wives "scootch in" closer ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]when we have more than one female candidate, and preferably at least one whose husband was not one of the most popular presidents of the last century.
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The difference between Northrup and mainstream medicine
[Read the article: Is thyroid disease the new hysteria?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]is that trying what she suggests before you enter the medical-industrial complex can't really hurt. I have always found the underlying "it's your fault" business annoying, but she has some really good ideas about how you can try treating yourself before you let the doctors at you. And the flip side of what we seem to be calling "blame the victim" is "maybe you can try to control this instead of letting someone else victimize you further." And, furthermore, she says explicitly that her view of things is often based on experience of her own patients - i.e, ANECDOTAL evidence. Anecdotal evidence is useful, but she acknoweldges its limits. She also says explicitly that people with diseases often just have them because their bodies are made that way - but some imbalances of the body can be caused by emotional, psychological, and power imbalances that you have adopted as habits. That's NOT a weird idea. I have used preventive measures - yoga and an herbal extract - to stop having hormone-related migraines. Have you seen the drugs they offer for migraines? Some of them are really scary. I have the luxury of making lifestyle changes (I understand that it's not possible for everyone, the way our system works, which is the biggest flaw with these writers, IMHO), and I am healtheir overall.
OTOH, I have found Susun Weed much easier to read, and more helpful in the long run. Sometimes they both say things that make me feel embarrassed for them, but that doesn't make their advice less useful.
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"having a shotgun blow out your spine and internal organs while you are asleep might be seen as feminist justice, by some...."
[Read the article: What's so funny about abusive girlfriends?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yeah, sure - by some ...
PSYCHOPATHS.
Christ.