Letters to the Editor
gensing
Published Letters: 24 Editor's Choice: 2
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Eye-opening discussion!
[Read the article: I'm a yeller from a family of yellers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wow, this discussion has been a revelation to me! I, like the LW am a yeller from a family of yellers. I don't actually get angry enough to yell a lot, but in my everyday activities, I tend to get excited about things and my voice gets louder. In my family, there was a lot of this and in order to get a point heard amidst the hubub, a raised voice generally did the trick. I've been with people who found this charming, and I've been with people who found it necessary to shush me in a crowded restaurant after I had raised my voice to be heard above the general noise. That type of reaction has always confused and frankly annoyed the crap out of me. But the input from people who's reactions to ANY raised voice is visceral and very negative has really opened my eyes. I can now see that it is not incumbent upon the quieter to endure this behavior, but should be us yellers who try to moderate our loudness. Since the pain we inflict can be fairly easily avoided at little cost to us, I for one am going to do my best to be more sensitive to how my tone effects others!
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RE: Christopher Theokas
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"I don't get why people are so in love with Battle Star Galactica. It's a remake of a ripoff! There's nothing new here that hasn't been done a thousand times before on better shows. The fact that it exists proves again that there is a lack of imagination in entertainment media. And because it's doing so well among critics and viewers, it points to a lack of imagination there as well."
You obviously have not watched the show or you wouldn't be saying this. Besides, there are no new plotlines, as pointed out in another string about another article on today's site. It's all in the slant. The characters are wonderfully drawn and acted, and it's just damned entertaining TV! It's you who lack the imagination to accept that a great show can be created from a "remake of a ripoff".
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paying for news
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]FYI everyone, ANY print magazine or newspaper you subscribe to or buy on the newsstand for that matter is PAID FOR BY THE ADVERTISERS, not subscriptions or anything else. Does this mean it's not journalism? Depends on who you ask. There are a very few magazines that don't take advertising or take only content-specific advertising and generally charge way more than the normal $1.00 per issue most magazines subscriptions cost. Consumer Reports is one, because they review all of the products that could possibly be advertised, they don't take ad money so they can be truly impartial. Same goes for Cook's Illustrated. Those are the only two that come to mind but I'm sure there are others. It's all about the ad money, it's always been all about the ad money and online magazines are no different.
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I agree with Rebecca Hartong
[Read the article: Streams of consciousness]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I do also agree with the prevailing sentiment, it is a nice essay. But really! What tremendous amount of denial must exist for someone to be able to sit on her boyfriends leather couch, hoping maybe that she won't gush urine?!?
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opposites may attract but don't last.
[Read the article: The two-introvert problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Or didn't for me and my ex anyway. He is an extreme introvert and I am an extreme extrovert. We had great attraction but over long years of cohabitation he sucked the very life out of me and he couldn't take my noise level (emotional and corporeal). Now he is happily married to another extreme introvert and I am dating another extrovert.
We may be attracted to the other side of the coin, but in the long run if the extremes are too great, there isn't enough common ground. Less extreme forms of each type might soften the edges of each others ways, but I would never be with another introvert, it took me 4 years to get back to myself.
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David Terry
[Read the article: Rockabye, Baby]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You are one funny Red Sea Pedestrian... and you draw good too.
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if you love to sing, sing!
[Read the article: Midlife crisis: I could have been a singer!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Check out this organization: http://www.sweetadelineintl.org//
Keep an open mind. Visit a chapter near you and see what these ladies do. We sing and we have tons of fun doing it. We are all like you. We love to sing and this is our way of doing what we always dreamed. We get to sing in front of audiences, small and large. Check out this website and find where they are near you, there are chapters all over the world.
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I'm with you Fiery
[Read the article: The costs of asking for a higher salary]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I always ask for more and mostly get it. Even from men, and my last male boss hired me, at least in part, BECAUSE of my assertive personality.
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Gary Owen
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Lighten up man! It's a cartoon.
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It is the sound of stifled rage.
[Read the article: There's a cougher in the office and it's driving me mad!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"So to respond to it as though it were hostile is not so crazy. It certainly sounds hostile. It sounds like a bark. It is the sound of stifled rage."
Bingo! Tell him to get this book: The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders by John E. Sarno
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synagogues
[Read the article: I've had three miscarriages and my husband won't wear a yarmulke]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]LW, there are MANY synagogues that won't make your husband wear a kippah. They are mostly Reform or Reconstructionist, so if you are looking for a Conserviative or Orthodox Synagogue it's no wonder you can't find one. But if you are willing to try another branch of Judaism, you will find much more openess. So look for a Reform or Reconstructionist Synagogue near you.
As for the infertility: ADOPT. I have friends who adopted a wonderful, healthy baby boy from the Ukraine 6 years ago and they are a happy, healthy family unit. She is Jewish, he is Christian and they are raising the boy with both religions.
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satire?
[Read the article: Honey, I shrunk my breasts!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Am I the only one who read this as satire? I thought it was FUNNY! Yes, perhaps with some nuggets of truth, but satire nonetheless. You people need to lighten up. Seriously!
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repairmaven...
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... you go girl! Uh... woman!