Letters to the Editor
fetboy
Published Letters: 1229 Editor's Choice: 22
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Providing nothing
[Read the article: Bill Maher: "Don't show me your tits!" ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Leftychris
You do realize that you are providing nothing other than ridicule and criticism, where as I am actually providing content to the discussion. In short letters to salon, I am not going to be able to give large amounts of evidence, so instead I focus on thoughts, arguments, my experiences, and points. You on the other hand provide nothing to the debate.
criticize and ridicule me as much as you want, but I am at least providing thoughts, arguments, my experiences, and points, but until you provide anything that gives substance for readers to dwell upon, you are really making yourself irrelevant to any narrative.
What does criticism and ridiculing accomplish? My thoughts, arguments, experiences and points are getting out there, but all anyone is getting from you here, is that you hate my debate style.
I don't care what you think of my debate style, and I doubt anybody else does either. What is your position on anything? Nobody knows, and nobody cares.
Say what you want to about me, but you sir are irrelevant to the narrative.
Good Night to you to.
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Good, we are in agrement!
[Read the article: Bill Maher: "Don't show me your tits!" ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here](public breastfeeding = Good; women going bare-breasted in public = Good and should be legal; critics of public breastfeeding in MANY cases = religious neurotics with serious body issues).
I concur totally, and I will add more. Anyone who harasses a breastfeeding woman is an insensitive pig. American is too conservative/puritanic/prudish, and the fact that applebee's deemed that is was necessary and acceptable to harass a breastfeeding woman proves that fact. And men who harass breastfeeding women are displaying their feelings of inadequacy towards women.
And anyone who equates breastfeeding to defecating, exhibitionism, or pedophilia is a sick individual indeed, on top of being an insensitive pig. America is (probably) the only country that harasses breastfeeding women, and that is a sad reality that we need to change.
Now, Leftychris, did you really need to make an ass of yourself with all that ridicule and criticism in your long winded letters to me to prove that you and I are on the same page?
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To anonymous 12:33 PM
[Read the article: Bill Maher: "Don't show me your tits!" ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ben dover is a concern, because he, like you, is a troll. And trolls are very disconcerting.
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To Domini
[Read the article: Where have all the black models gone?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I agree with everything in your letter, but...
Life and the world would be a lot less interesting and exciting without high fashion.
When I think of high fashion, I think of Geishas and how they have all but disappeared. Sometimes I want to put my daughter through the very expensive geisha training, just to ensure that that "art" of Geishas (which means artists in Japanese) never disappears.
I have a couple of multi-thousand dollar suits, and though I rarely ever wear them, I love them, and I look great in them when I am standing next to my wife in one of her multi-thousand dollar dresses.
For the sake of culture we should save high fashion, and encourage it to be as diversified as possible.
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Nursing Rooms!
[Read the article: Bill Maher: "Don't show me your tits!" ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Nursing (breastfeeding) in a public restrooms sounds incredibly unsanitary. Never, ever, do that. In Japan, were almost all women breastfeed unless careers or health issues make breastfeeding inconvenient, at most malls, shopping centers, restaurants, train stations, and other public facilities there are special rooms set aside for changing children and breast feeding. Novel idea, don't you think?
However, in Japan, even when special rooms weren't set aside, I never saw anyone harass a breastfeeding woman, because to do would be considered rude and insensitive.
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To Leftychris
[Read the article: Bill Maher: "Don't show me your tits!" ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I guess we are having a conversation, it's hard to tell with you. You agree with everything I say, but dislike that I don't provide evidence, as if that was really possible in short letters to salon.com. This isn't a trial, Leftychris, its a discussion, so thoughts, arguments, personal experiences, and points should suffice.
Actually there is one of your quotes that I have issue with:
"No disagreement there (about brestfeeding women), but asking a mother to be more discreet or go elsewhere in those RARE cases where she's being truly disruptive is not harassment."
I disagree with you there completely. If you ask a breastfeeding woman to move or be more discreet, that in my opinion is harassment. How can a woman move or be more discreet while she is breastfeeding? What, is she suppose to take her nipple out of her child's mouth before he/she is done and let milk drip down her shirt just to accommodate your unreasonable request? If a woman is breastfeeding, leave her alone, and if you bother her in anyway, you are harassing her. Mothers have enough stress as is, so the last thing they need is to hear some jerk tell them to move or be more discreet. If a woman is breastfeeding the sensible and polite thing to do is give her space.
If a woman isn't being discreet, then that is probably because she forget the blanket, was gushing milk, or her child wasn't going to take "no" for an answer (or all three, as the case usually is).
Sure I will repeat myself again.
If you harass a breastfeeding woman, for any reason, you are an insensitive pig. Everywhere in the world (that I have been to) people understands that simple rule of politeness around Breastfeeding woman, but Americans for some reason don't.