Letters to the Editor
Mister Buck
Published Letters: 86 Editor's Choice: 3
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Sportswomanship?
[Read the article: The sex that plays fair?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If helping your team lose - and helping your team towards elimination is goodsportswomanship, then I just don't get it. it's one thing to help an injured player on the opposing team - no one wants see anyone hurt. it's another to sidestep the rules and let your own team down - bad calls and injuries are part of any physical sport - if you watch sports news, injuries are a major aspect of assesing a team's readiness and part of the game.
I don't think this is an issue of gender - male players may have done the same thing...
but it still wouldn't make sense...
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re: the revolting truth is that there is a real market for simulated (or real) sexual violence against women
[Read the article: Grand Theft misogyny]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The revolting truth - based on television, novels and movies, is that there's a market for violence against men and womn - violence being the operative word. I just saw 28 Weeks Later - and the violence is rampant - but seems to dish it out to men and women evenly...
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RE: Yeesh, I don't know why this is happening
[Read the article: He's just not that into (sex with) you]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]because of all the porn on the internet - i talk about this with my 40-something friends - it's a common problem...
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re: But there are also lessons about how our culture still recoils at powerful women
[Read the article: Gender lessons]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]particularly when they come to power at the end of their husband's cheating cock.
Until feminists come to terms with Hillary as underserving - as opposed to a Condi Rice or Nancy Pelosi - this conversation is fake and bogus. Without Bill there is no Hill - we all know this, but pretend that Hillary came to New York out of no where - with no experience - and no name - and just WON...
Stop the bullshit and start the analysis when you have a candidate who deserves it...
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LW - Hang in There
[Read the article: I want to be a veterinarian but not at the expense of animals ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Try to offer some comfort to the animals you come in contact with. Allow this experience to inform your later work. Allow this experience to inform your advocacy. Allow this experience to enhance your articulation of the horrors of production farming.
And Live Blog it so we can share this with you.
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Ms. Hepola
[Read the article: Ah, the mysterious female orgasm]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]is a great addition to Broadsheet. Very funny woman - take that Hitchens!
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To healthy Skep
[Read the article: Is Title IX hurting women's wrestling?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sir - I don't think you know what you're talking about. My brother went to a college with a good wrestling team - including an Olympic Gold Medalist - and I met the team - they were all in incredible shape. As to utility - grappling is a sure form of self defense - and if you ever watched MMA, you can see that once it goes to the ground, the intensity of the action - while seemingly slow, takes a great physical toll. As someone who has boxed and practiced - until injured, Krav Maga, I can tell you that those who can fight on the ground will often win. I'd bet on the grappler over the boxer any day of the week.
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Tracy - it's not a glass ceiling...
[Read the article: Al-Qaida's female warrior]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hi Tracy - that Times article was very interesting for its lack of a POV - the Times couldn't decide if this woman was a hero or just another angry welfare mooch biting the hand that feeds her.
Regardless, the term glass ceiling seems incorrect in this context. Proscribed religious discrimination against woman is an explicit ceiling - an actual ceiling, if you will. The glass ceiling is frustrating because it's implicit - invisible to those unaware, and kept in place by secret and nefarious forces to make sure those uninvited keep their place...
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Trick Question...
[Read the article: Still waiting for Madam President ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is Mieszkowski really interested in a woman president - or a woman president who also happens to go left? Whatever you want to say about Bush, he DID appoint a woman to one of the most powerful offices in the land - and yet, I don't hear any celebration for THAT - as if Secy. of State is some kind of schlock appointment. So has Bush been a good president for women or not? I'd suggest that the answer - around here, would be no.
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Man do I need a crises like this!
[Read the article: I got the writing fellowship -- so now I'm terrified!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As a photographer - who has a full-time day job (as a photo editor) - I WISH I had the time to practice my art while getting paid. Instead, I have to work half the night when i get home - and spend my hard earned dollars on (increasingly) expensive supplies. I make some back by shooting commercial work (boring) - and that means that my weekend goes away and I focus less on my art. If you notice in the LW's letter, writing seems to be the last thing on her mind.
Maybe she's chosen the wrong profession!
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my text to ms. hepola
[Read the article: U still up?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]yur a grt wrter - i really enjoy yur articles, vry funny, btw. i dont no about texting hookups, bt, imho, i wuldnt think 2 much bout it...
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John McBush
[Read the article: The other 18 million]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]has promised to finsh off what george Bush started on the Supreme Court. So ladies - throw a nice hissey fit - stamp your feet and hold you breath - sit out the election or, better yet, vote for McBush - and when you need to go to Candada for an abortion - look in the mirror so you know who to blame...
(I would've voted for Hillary had she won...)
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Joan says:
[Read the article: The other 18 million]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"almost reluctant leader of a movement, mainly of women but also of white working-class voters, Latinos, seniors and others who feel left out. "
Why do they feel left out? it's becuase Obama is BLACK and they DON'T LIKE BLACK PEOPLE. Obama has the most multicultural campaign I've ever seen. His wife is a dynamic personality and an accomplished professional who speaks to women's issues. He is FAR more liberal than Hillary - he is staunchly pro-choice. he is against the war. He is for universal health care - so WHY DO THETY FEEL LEFT OUT...
THEY DON'T LIE BLACK PEOPLE.
Just admit the truth - it wil set you free!