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Thursday, December 15, 2005 11:35 PM

ii think that in reality most people can manage reasonably in life

and that a lot of the ideological posturing and rigidity doesn't reflect how poeple really behave; but like victorian attitudes towards sex and current right wing attitudes towards homosexuality the ideological insistence that there is one right way for everyone does real damage to the public discussion

Friday, December 16, 2005 12:22 AM

Your prove my point

any attempt to challenge the ideology of gender sameness/female supremacy unleashes a torrent of bitchiness.

Friday, December 16, 2005 01:07 AM

The thing people need to understand is that the boys and women

in this situation are being sacrificed to politics. It is unacceptable to treat boys and girls differently and unacceptable to allow this for everyone so females can be jailed and boys subjected to reeducation, I mean therapy, when no one harmed anyone, solely to create social conditions supposedly beneficial to completely uninvolved third parties. This sort of thing should be carefully scrutinized, not casually tossed off to satify prudery or the desire of some women to keep men in line.

Friday, December 16, 2005 01:37 PM

has anybody compared the google results of:

i hate black people vs i hate white people

and

i hate gay people vs I hate straight people

Friday, December 16, 2005 01:52 PM

You have to take antirejection drugs which threaten your

life to tolerate any transplant, so cosmetics will never be an issue. By the time we know enough to engineer a foregin transplant which won't be rejected we will likely know enough to create replacement tissue from the persons own dna

Friday, December 16, 2005 04:29 PM
Original article: Living single

Is there a convenient way to screen out the women

who don't REALLY care about sex, i.e. those who are capable of being "happily" single from those who do so time is not pointlessly wasted?

Friday, December 16, 2005 11:05 PM
Original article: Like a virgin

I hear it is often recent immigrants from "backward cultures" and current (well to do obviously)

residents of them who are doing this to make sure there are no accusations of "fraudulent" marriage

Friday, December 16, 2005 11:10 PM

Does anyone honestly believe a sincere (and appropriately financed) effort

has been made? It's true the US had a right (unlike the case in Iraq) to invade Afghanistan for reasons other than helping the Afghans but the situation has been allowed to go completely to hell.

Friday, December 16, 2005 11:28 PM

Well they are willing to buy "ex-gays" as hetero which is exactly the same thing

as a current gay being hetero. I guess the gender-identity-and-sexual-orientation-are-all-social-constructs crowd finally found somebody to buy their load, I think they both agree that Howard Stern is Satan too.

Saturday, December 17, 2005 09:51 AM
Original article: Like a virgin

He must mean more pleasureable for the man, and therefore her vicariously, because he

"knows" she's a virgin. I guess she would know whether it was her first time or not, regardless of the state of her hymen, unless she "can't remember" in which case the state of her hymen, from her point of view anyway, would seem beside the point.

Saturday, December 17, 2005 02:42 PM
Original article: Like a virgin

I'd bet gpood money they are all foreigners or recent immigrants

"abstinincers" here are willing to talk a line of shit and tell others what to do but they're not interested in putting themselves on the line.

Saturday, December 17, 2005 03:10 PM

What makes it newsworth Gwen is that nobody, men or women gives

a shit about it, unlike all the women who start foaming at the mouth any time men show interest in young(er) women. Are you so obsessed with your my way or the highway viewpoint that you are mentally blocked from even recognizing when it is being questioned?

Saturday, December 17, 2005 10:15 PM

I totally agree that the only hope is for people to exercise enough control over

their emotions to try and take the real facts into account and try and create a system that works for everyone. I see no sign that significant numbers of EITHER those who identify with "tradtional values" OR women who identify themselves as "feminists,liberals" etc are interested in anything other than using any means at their disposal to impose on everyone an ideology and a system that gratifies their own pre-existing beliefs, prejudices and resentments.

Saturday, December 17, 2005 10:25 PM

There's more to the issue of maleness and femalness than how

eachs performs on measured tasks and what the consequences are for the job market. If all jobs are equally divided will we then have achieved uptopia? There is the question of how and why men and women interact with each other. That is where the real conficts are and until women are willing to restrain themselves and compromise in THIS area, as men do, there can never be mutual happiness. It borders on disingenuousness to say it's only about jobs.

Sunday, December 18, 2005 12:24 AM
Original article: Like a virgin

Do any women ever say they get any emotional benefit for themselves

specifically out of the hymen breaking aspect of losing their virginity?

Sunday, December 18, 2005 12:42 AM
Original article: Helpless

To Pat Rozumek sometimes it DOES help that's the point

If nothing anyone did made any difference there would be no point in doing anything. The trick is to figure out how to help effectively, which is difficult on all levels, individual and collective. One thing we know with ABSOLUTE certainty: If allowing people to suffer without doing anything solved problems all problems would have been solved long long ago.

Monday, December 19, 2005 05:05 PM
Original article: Bad education

Maybe the idea is that no female who wasn't being pressured

would want to have sex (at least not with a male). Those crazed fundies come up with the wierdest shit don't they.

Tuesday, December 20, 2005 11:57 AM
Original article: Adam Corolla: Busted!

So in other words as long as a man anywhere, even one who is not intented to

be taken seriously by himslf or anyone else, is seen or heard in public in a manner in any way displeasing to women, women are being horribly victimized and can and should see themselves as the abused victims of a male dominated culture. It's true that men don't particularly like looking at ugly women, but women certainly can and do look and listen to them often enought in public AND on TV.

Tuesday, December 20, 2005 12:08 PM
Original article: Adam Corolla: Busted!

Obviously no woman on TV has ever complained about men's looks

if they had they would have been denounced by the huge majority of women whose devotion to a society where everyone is valued for only the right reasons and by standards which apply equally to all is total and beyond question.

Tuesday, December 20, 2005 12:20 PM
Original article: Sex Fifth Avenue

What is the point of complaining about this?

Do you think that any commerically tainted interaction between men and attractive women should be illegal? Do you think that with proper reeducation and training men will be uninterested in interacting with the kind of women who are in Playboy? Do you think that in a properly organized society no man would have the opportunity to engage in this sort of thing without being seen and punished socially and thus deterred? What? I suppose if all women boycotted any business engaging in this that it might be slightly less visible, but so what.

Tuesday, December 20, 2005 01:43 PM
Original article: Sex Fifth Avenue

It was more a rhetorical question

but since you bring it up this is an area where a compromise between men and women is needed. To say men shouldn't be interested in hot women, I'm not saying they should act on it, would be the equivalent of men telling women, oh I don't know, maybe that they are required to stifle all expression of complaint about men to anyone ever.

Tuesday, December 20, 2005 01:48 PM
Original article: Bad education

So no 16 yo girl would want to have sex?

Glad we cleared that up, thank God the wingers will be out some day and the sane people in charge.

Tuesday, December 20, 2005 02:12 PM

It would be difficult/impossilbe to market a specific product

for men because it's all just skin. I don't know how they get away with it for women either really

Tuesday, December 20, 2005 04:01 PM
Original article: Pro-choice, or anti-sperm?

Lots of pro-choicers are anti-sperm

This is news?

Tuesday, December 20, 2005 05:09 PM

Smart articulate women AND no sex.

Who could ask for more?

Tuesday, December 20, 2005 05:17 PM
Original article: Sex Fifth Avenue

Personally I don't think there is any need to bother with the revirigination

in case you are putting together a business plan

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