Letters to the Editor
fetboy
Published Letters: 1236 Editor's Choice: 22
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Scholastics!
[Read the article: Quote of the Day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To Holly Capote
I'm the exact opposite, in that putting down my thoughts to page is what got me got off panic attacks. Though I never really had panic attack, I just felt blind rage.
To AKA Smith.
Wouldn't it be great if all college entrances and acceptances were based strictly on academic merit, and every accepted student's entire college expenses were paid for by scholarships and grants, provided that a certain GPA level was maintained?
Someday we may get to that level, but only after people realize that encouraging and keeping a high level of scholastic achievement across the entire social spectrum isn't communism, but rather the most certain way to ensure national survival. The more people with scholastic ability who have obtained college degrees the better, as a nation is only as good as its across the board scholastic level.
How's that for a cliche?
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To AKA Smith
[Read the article: Quote of the Day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Your question:
"Maybe I am economically naive, but where the hell is the money going to come from if we keep feeding corporatism and skinning the working middle?"
Largely it comes from loans from China ("If you dig a hole deep enough, you will reach China. Well, we're There")*, but mostly from deficit spending (that Dick Cheney says doesn't matter) that future generations will have to pay off.
You have to understand, the future isn't in corporations' or the Republican party's mission statement.
Permanent tax cuts now, and screw the future.
*Dinnis Kucinich
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I wish I knew which anonymous I was writing to
[Read the article: Selling (out) girls' self-esteem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"maybe not but the whole point of the axe ad is that for a lot of males their only hope is that there IS a connection between the two."
Correct me if I am wrong, but are you saying that men/boys hope that if they are sluts, women/girls will desire them more?
I agree with that completely. I have often marveled at how much my younger male co-workers boast about their sexual exploits in a rather strange attempt to impress women.
Has any woman ever said "gee, I really want to sleep with him because he has slept with a lot of women"?
Actually, as a married man I have noticed that the women around me appear to be more attracted me now than when I was single. A friend of mine, a while back, told me that a lot of women pick men based on the good rumors that have been spread about their sexuality.
However, I can say that I have never heard of a "good" rumor being spread about a woman's sexuality. It seems to me that the more men know about a certainly woman's sexuality, good or bad, the lower the men's opinion of her will be.
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Scent
[Read the article: Selling (out) girls' self-esteem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have never in my life bought a fragrance product, and the ones that I have worn were given to me by either my wife, a past girlfriend (or just friends that were girls), my mother, my sister, or other family. I have no idea what scent women like, so why bother trying to figure out?
It would seem to make more sense for advertisers trying to sell male fragrance products to target women consumers instead. Think of it as like marketing a way to mark territory.
To KitchenGirl
Yeah, I do spend a lot of time walking around with my kids, and I make it pretty obvious that I am not available. Also, I will admit that it may just be in my head, but there is no doubt that women have been a lot more open with me, now that I am married. And that's saying a lot because women have always been open with me.
Since the age of 18 I have worked hard not to give women a sleazy image of myself, which is one of the main reasons why I stopped drinking altogether (and I never did drugs, and I never smoked).
To AKA Smith
"The only fragrances I have smelled recently that I liked are the woman's fragrance Kelly by Hermes and some designer's man's fragrance that I can't remember the name of that would have me on my back in 30 seconds. It is probably best that I not try to remember."
The designer fragrance you are describing could only be Essences-de-fetboy, but its no longer on the market.
However, if you mix sweat from a horse that has worked all day, with fresh spring day Hawaiian garden mud, man eating tiger sperm, and tears from an elephant seal, the resultant concoction will produce the same effect. My father also added a touch of San Francisco sour dough bread yeast to Essence-de-fetboy, and said it increased its potency considerably, but warned that such a mixture caused mass faintings.
Just kidding.
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To deering
[Read the article: Selling (out) girls' self-esteem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"One gets the feeling it missed being turned into a room spray by a hair..."
On the shelf in the store AXE looks like a can of room spray, so your description of AXE reinforces my suspicion that the manufactures of AXE had originally intended it to be room spray, and simply changed how they were going to market it at the last minute.
Based on what every woman has said about that stuff, I am never ever buying it, not that I would have ever boughten it for myself, now I wont even buy it as a gag gift.
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To AKA Smith
[Read the article: Selling (out) girls' self-esteem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Based on BS65's letters, he seems like the kind of character that would think that AXE would do him some good, so I suspect he already has a can. Imagining the kind of guys that would buy AXE fills me with disgust, and my opinion of any man would drop, to the same level of what I have for men that use the N word, if I discovered that he kept a can of AXE in his house.
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To anonymous 10:59 PM
[Read the article: Selling (out) girls' self-esteem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Are you the kind of person that thinks that N word usage and AXE are cool?
If so, I do have an extremely low opinion of you.