Letters to the Editor
Donna Darko
Published Letters: 43
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Ha ha
[Read the article: Salon's new letters registration policy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I always thought I didn't get a star next to my name next to all my comments because I wasn't special enough and deserving of a star. Now I know those are Premium members. Alas I am special and a good commenter.
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The number one cause of rape is men
[Read the article: Military rape a result of "feminist pressures"?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]rape in the military ultimately falls to the Pentagon for -- wait for it -- surrendering "to feminist pressures to insert women into combat."
No, rape in the military falls to men who rape.
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Awesome!
[Read the article: What was Charlie Crist thinking?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]a proposal that will quickly restore the voting rights of most of Florida's felons as soon as they are released from prison.
Their voting rights would be restored as they are released from prison. 9% of the voting age population. I lived in Florida and always thought he was a Democrat because he's a moderate Republican. When I heard he became governor, I thought Florida had a Democratic governor.
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Mental health and race
[Read the article: "I think he was just a confused kid"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've spoken to the director of the national Asian American mental health agency who said there need to be more Asian American mental health counselors who understand specific racial and ethnic cultures. She said it's hard to get Asian Americans to talk about mental health issues because there's an extreme stigma against mental health issues in the community. This guy had mental health problems and he needed help from mental health counselors but also mental health support from the community.
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Mental health and race cont'd
[Read the article: "I think he was just a confused kid"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Non-Asian mental health counselors should also know how to deal with race specific pressures and issues. In the 80s and 90s, they didn't know how to deal with my specific cultural issues and maybe it's gotten better (I am American-born Chinese). But when something as horrific as this happens, it's obvious the mental health profession should be tailored to other races besides white. Health insurance also should give mental health parity with physical health.
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Gender
[Read the article: Instant prejudice: Korea and Virginia Tech]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]24 out of the last 25 school shooters were male (forgot the source but I read it yesterday) and the one that was female only injured another female. So this is an issue of masculinity and violence. Secondarily, mental health and race-specific mental health, because most mentally ill people do not kill people.
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Gender, mental health and race
[Read the article: Instant prejudice: Korea and Virginia Tech]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So if we as a nation were to ask what has to be done to prevent another debacle like this, we have to examine traditional masculinity, give mental health issues parity with physical health and make the mental health professional sensitive to all races and ethnicities.
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Consent
[Read the article: Tough titties]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The bottom line is that she didn't say "no." Friedman calls it rape because she was drunk.
Cordelia, he forced himself on her. That's the problem.
The bottom line is that when a man forces himself on a woman, it doesn't matter if she says "no." What matters is that she didn't give enthusiastic consent. One doesn't avoid becoming a rapist by waiting until someone is too drunk to say "no," one avoids becoming a rapist by making sure that one's partner is enthusiastically involved and consenting. --roymac
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Intersectionality
[Read the article: Tough titties]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]your favored commenters like Donna Darko and Ginmar
I'm not favored. I just comment a lot. :) Ginmar doesn't post at Feministing.
Trina Trent, there have been many individuals in the second and third wave who weren't classist and racist but overall feminism in the US has been very classist and racist. It's hard to see these things when if you're white. It's not just who shows up at meetings. They have to be inclusive in practice and theory to retain nonwhite women.
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MEN are the biggest victims of violence
[Read the article: Tough titties]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Men only bring this up when they want to discredit feminism. They don't try to change things at other times because they want to keep their privilege.
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Sassy
[Read the article: Tough titties]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And Sassy had to do their own thing if they were going to reach young girls. Feminism had a persistent PR problem, and not just among teenagers. Throughout the eighties and nineties, mass media continued to portray the women’s movement as a crusade led by a few angry, man-hating women to bring down the family, the economy, and American life as we know it. A 1989 Time magazine article claimed that “to the young, the movement that loudly rejected female stereotypes seems hopelessly dated.” And while Time is guilty of frequent exaggerated declarations that feminism is dead, it’s true that by the time Sassy readers were in high school, the Second Wave’s consciousness-raising sessions — women-only get-togethers during which they traded truths about their lives — seemed hopelessly dorky. In a way, a commercial magazine with advertisements for eye shadow and Doc Martens was the perfect place for the Sassy staff to get out the message that girls were equal to boys, that the right to abortion was imperative, and that being smart was more important than being popular. Sassy was like a Trojan horse, reaching girls who weren’t necessarily looking for a feminist message. --How Sassy Changed My Life: A Love Letter to the Greatest Teen Magazine of All Time
Full disclosure. Sassy changed my life when I was 20 or 21. Christina Kelly is the reason I'm a feminist today. Sassy did not preach feminism or theory but with fashion, celebrity gossip and Cute Band Alerts. I forget how shallow I was and look what a scary ass feminist I am today. Don't be confused by the boobs, sex, beauty talk and GGW. This is the language of young women today.
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Race
[Read the article: Tough titties]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Did someone ask about race in this book? Check out chapters 9 and 13 on History and Intersectionality.
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Water
[Read the article: Tough titties]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Talking about sexism is the equivalent of fish talking about water.