Letters to the Editor
Sefronia
Published Letters: 8
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Oy
[Read the article: Hillary is from Mars, Obama is from Venus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, since the title of the article is based on an erroneous premise espoused by someone who bought their degree from a paper mill in California and has been married at least three times, I am not surprised this article reads like it is from 1952. Wake up Salon; gender traits are fluid. Why don't you start going with the flow?
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Geez
[Read the article: Couric goes to bat for Lohan]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"It's easy to wistfully romanticize the demise of talented and beautiful women like Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland"......
Salon, what is your problem comparing these idiotic (and troubled, so we can't be too harsh, natch), self-indulgent, sheltered girls with too much time on their hands to Marilyn (you only need to say her first name..that tells it all) Monroe??? Lohan will be forgotten in the blink of an eye. Of course that doesn't mean I wish her any harm, peeps, I just wish her a lifetime out of the limelight.
First it was Hilton La Mannequin Model XXX that you compared to Marilyn and now Lohan? Remember when Paris and Lindsey went to New York to study acting? Oh, yes, and their marriages.....and also their interesting insights about themselves in interviews..oh, damn, I am thinking of Marilyn again. I guess I like my actors human a little too much to give them up so easily.
Regarding Lohan, I actually have had conversations with people that felt like a Zen koan broken by laughter about these two:
A: "One of those girls is in trouble again."
B: "Yeah, I know.....which one?"
C: "I don't know, I thought you would remember.....they both work so hard (snicker)"
D: "What do those girls do again? Why do they get coverage?"
E: "Er, they are covered because they are covered?"
So Grasshopper, I doubt in the next remake of "Tommy" we will be seeing the Church of Lindsey Lohan, Paris, or whomever else. They probably will keep the Marilyn Monroe motif, since, well the woman died at 36 (she was not a little girl), was a woman of complexity and interest, and there are still young women bleaching their hair with the desire to "be like Marilyn". No girls truly want to be Lindsey Lohan, except maybe to experience her freedom.
Don't insult the reader's intelligence. Marilyn and Judy had what these girls never had, and thus can never convey: experience, the greatest teacher of all. Maybe it would behoove you to think of this the next time you make these ridiculous comparisons over and over and over. This story is more appropriate for Slate Magazine or a tabloid. Yikes.
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The Game of Life
[Read the article: My other, older woman]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, after reading this great article, I know I will continue to see what is happening at Salon.com.
I related to this article on the basis of being in the same situation with a woman of a certain age (though I am female myself, unlike the writer). There are so many things that one goes through when one is chronologically younger with a chronologically older friend.
First, I learned so much from my friend, in such a short period of time. She was a ninja with antiques and detecting fakes, which happened to gravitate towards me and my uneducated eye (when I had any money at all, which was rarely). After getting a gentle slap on the wrist from her many times, ("why are you spending money on this crap?" was about as gentle as it got....lol) she finally felt comfortable enough to tell me how she came by this knowledge.
I loved that she was so unlike people of my age group; she would tell people they were full of hot air right to their face. Her depth of knowledge was amazing. She let her humanity show without holding onto that need for a blanket of social approval.
Also, like the author discussed, I loved her for her ability to talk about politics, religion and other subjects with the confidence that comes with having no fear. She was an inspiration, and changed my life. I also grew to know her medical condition and everytime I look at flowers, I can't help but smile: I received an angry phone call from her after her major surgery, since I had made the mistake of sending flowers. "Don't you know these damn things die in a week?" she asked me, "you have enough to worry about, and I don't want to be reminded about what's coming. But thank you. Come see me."
Why don't we realize that the elderly have so much to teach us? And how many are alone? That experience changed my life, and I greatly miss my friend and am a better person for the knowledge she gave me.
A wonderful, thoughtful piece, Edward, thanks.