Letters to the Editor
Donna Darko
Published Letters: 44
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No defining characteristics
[Read the article: Women are the new men on TV]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There should be no defining masculine and feminine characteristics. Women can be like men and vice versa. Jodie Foster's movie was compared somewhere to The Punisher which I found surprisingly entertaining.
The Punisher (2004)
Tagline: This Is Not Revenge. It's Punishment!
He has a plan... he has an enemy... this Summer... he will execute them both
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To whoever LeCastor was responding to
[Read the article: Women are the new men on TV]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's called classism which is as insidious as racism and sexism.
Of course women with money have class advantage over poor men.
But men of all races make more money than women of all races. Just look at any Census data.
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Show me a link where men make less than women
[Read the article: Women are the new men on TV]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Show me a Census link where women of any race make more than men of any race. For the same number of hours worked and same level of education. You won't find one.
Sexual capital isn't an advantage because it goes back to income. Men make more money than women.
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51% of adult American women are unmarried
[Read the article: Women are the new men on TV]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]51% of adult American women are married so unless you're suggesting women are prostitutes and make money from sex, equal pay is much more important means of women's solvency.
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Get a clue!
[Read the article: Women are the new men on TV]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They don't have to SPEND money to get sex
None of the men I've dated ever had to pay for sex. What kind of man has to pay for sex?
So unlike men they can spend their money the way THEY want to and still have a life.
????? How often to do you pay for sex?
On top of this they get to feel superior to all the men who want to sleep with them.
This is nothing compared to real privilege. This is nothing compared to male privilege.
And no matter how rich a woman is, no matter how a woman's status is, she is disrespected because she is a woman.
The truth is even the most beautiful women in the world have low self-esteem. Britney Spears feels ugly and has to be told she is pretty or beautiful all the time. The same is true for Miss Universe or fashion models.
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Come to think of it
[Read the article: Women are the new men on TV]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My friends, cousins, brothers and dad never had to pay for sex. Acquaintances may have paid for sex because I didn't know them as well but probably not. Acquaintances of acquaintances, perhaps.
Sexual capital (it shouldn't be called that because women aren't making money) is not a real privilege in the end. I suppose the grass is always greener.
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Feelings are not facts!
[Read the article: Women are the new men on TV]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]acw,
As they say in 12 step groups:
Feelings are not facts.
Sexual capital doesn't give women the advantage. It seems to be the only thing that gives women a leg up so to speak and women are losing completely. Feminists don't care much about child custody. They want men to do half the child care. If they did, maybe they'd get custody.
It doesn't matter how much education women have. It doesn't pay off because of discrimination in the workplace.
You have to be kidding about domestic violence and rape. Women don't even report to police because they don't help and courts mostly blame women for rape.
Cultural perceptions are meaningless if it doesn't translate to equal representation, legal rights, power and economics.
And women are definitely disadvantaged in the workplace as all your articles state. The only respectable source of information in your articles was Heidi Hartmann and she said women are discriminated against in the workplace:
Factors may include: more women choose lower-paying professions than men; they move in and out of the workforce more frequently; and they work fewer paid hours on average.
Why that's the case may have to do in part with the fact that women are still society's primary caregivers, that some higher-paying professions require either too much time away from home or are still less hospitable to women than they should be.
However, while those factors account for a good portion of the wage gap, actual pay discrimination likely accounts for the balance, experts say.
Hartmann believes discrimination accounts for between 25 percent and 33 percent of the wage gap. Compensation specialist Gary Thornton, a principal in the HR management consulting firm Thornton & Associates, figures at least 10 percent to 15 percent does.
Whatever the breakout, there certainly are numerous studies that show discrimination -- however unconscious -- still exists. For instance:
* A recent Cornell study found that female job applicants with children would be less likely to get hired, and if they do, would be paid a lower salary than other candidates, male and female. By contrast, male applicants with children would be offered a higher salary than non-fathers and other mothers.
* A recent Carnegie Mellon study found that female job applicants who tried to negotiate a higher salary were less likely to be hired by male managers, while male applicants were not.
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Genre
[Read the article: "The Brave One"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sometimes you need to stand up to bullies.
I see true value in using violence against the violent.
When someone is out of control then some outside force needs to stop them.
There should be a genre where vigilantes shoot up sexist trolls on Broadsheet.
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I disagreed with all your points
[Read the article: Women are the new men on TV]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But you're too stupid/sexist to realize it.
What are you doing on a feminist blog? If you're not a feminist here, you're a troll.
Ta ta.
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You know
[Read the article: Are our husbands really so helpless?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I wondered how Dahlia could stand it over there so long with all those libertarian assholes. Maybe XX will be like Broadsheet.
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Not just India
[Read the article: India's cosmopolitan-sipping singles]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The trend towards singlehood and low fertility rates is happening all over Europe, Asia and North America.
http://www.city-journal.org/html/17_4_new_girl_order.html
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I kid, of course -- but that is a surprisingly low rate.
[Read the article: Gold diggers not that greedy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Whatreyou, bougie?
That's including debt from mortgages?
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Huh
[Read the article: Hey, Obama boys: Back off already!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Most of the comments here confirm what the article says.
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You have it backwards
[Read the article: The endless Democratic party]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In Indiana, Barack Obama settles back into his change-politics strategy, while Hillary Clinton campaigns as if the race itself is everything.
Obama campaigns like the primary is everything. Clinton is concerned about the general election, the country, the entire world. And Obama's an egomaniac.
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Aussie judge
[Read the article: Gymnastics tiebreakers are nuts! ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Don't focus on the tie breaker but the inexperienced Aussie judge who marked Liukin .3 lower than He.