Letters to the Editor
Angry Midwest
Published Letters: 34 Editor's Choice: 1
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Titter
[Read the article: Larry Craig's downfall]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So many crazy people here on the internet. As some one who has lived in both the South and the Midwest (hence the moniker), you all are smoking crack. Homophobia has declined radically in the normal world. Yes, people still say stupid shit. People will always say stupid shit. They're people, but things are changing.
Gay people live in rural areas, happily even sometimes. I was born and raised in a terrifically rural area. My queer relatives are/were hardly chased out of town by pitchforked mobs. My own sexuality barely raises an eyebrow.
Forty years ago you could hang a man for his color, now that would be unthinkable. By the end of my life, gay equality (legally) will almost certainly be achieved. Sometimes we have to stop and go hell yeah! Things are changing. Slowly but surely.
I can live with that.
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Thanks for another column
[Read the article: My sister is a famous designer -- and I'm not!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This isn't witty or clever or provocative, but today I just want to tell you I adore you, Cary.
I really do. You are like the zany uncle I don't have, but terribly wish I did. When people bitch about your columns, it pretty much tells me they are someone I wouldn't want to know anyway.
Don't stop, don't change. And do write a book. Because I would like to read it.
A M
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I wish some people had jobs that didn't allow them to sit online all freaking day
[Read the article: Can a bus stop ad prevent domestic violence?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Dear freakshow male readers of this column (yeah, you know who you are),
It's official. The genie cannot go back in the bottle, this is the new reality, attempt to deal to the best of your ability with your tiny crustacean mind. Some people don't have a dad. Wanna know why? 'Cause the guy that impregnated their mom was defective somehow, or maybe a scumbag, or went to jail, or punched her in the face and she didn't feel like taking that. Yep. Sometimes that happens. Try not to take it personally.
Oh yeah, and statistically men hit women more than women hit men. Enough so that a few marginal efforts to correct it are made periodically. I am sorry your wife thinks your cock is small, or left you, or doesn't like you and reminds you of it everyday, or makes more money than you. Try to deal with it. There is alot of stuff I hate in this world, too. It sucks, then you die.
Why are you so threatened? Get a job, get a hobby, get stoned, get laid, but for whatever deity's sake you are in to, get the eff over it. Seriously. You just make yourself even more pathetic than you already are, and I assure you, you look pretty goddamn stupid already.
AM
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Huh
[Read the article: Aboriginal STDs]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't find anything controversial about this. Antibiotics are hardly an unknown quantity. A simple short course that is usually used to treat those STDs is not going to do anything more harmful than give a few people gastric discomfort and possibly protect a lot of people's fertility.
If 1 in 4 white people had an STD they would probably be carpet bombing us all.
Any reluctance to administer an easy treatment for a well understood disease seems to me more like the slight then any of the other issues raised.
What about the other issue that perhaps this is an easy way to keep more "brown people" from being born?
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Correction
[Read the article: Aboriginal STDs]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Carpet bombing us with antibiotics. Sorry didn't finish the sentence.
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Antibiotics
[Read the article: Aboriginal STDs]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I know everyone here likes to get all puffed up about antibiotics, but this type of treatment is not what contributes to antibiotic resistance.
I am an actual scientist who works with these kinds of things. Appropriate treatment of high risk persons is not what creates resistance. Also, bacteria evolve, they are alive, this is just reality. I stand by my earlier comments that with that level of infection in a mobile population, the benefits would appear to far outweigh the negative. People who don't get complete treatments are what drive some of that. They typical 2 day treatment for chlamydia/gonnorrhea in what would hopefully only be a one or two time occurrence is not that kind of situation.
It isn't very hard to find factual information on the topic, I wish people would get over the mindset that using antibiotics is always bad just because you read it in fucking Women's Day once.
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The obvious
[Read the article: My boyfriend won't give me his apartment key]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I can't believe no one has mentioned the obvious. He has other women there! That is why she can't come and go, and all the control bullshit. He has multiple girlfriends. Not uncommon.
The advice remains the same, of course: DTMFA!
Or use him for sex and money ;)
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Fucking and Love
[Read the article: Virginity: The new feminism?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Fucking is fucking. You know if you like to fuck, or if you're good at it, or if it makes you feels good. Fucking isn't dating. Fucking isn't romance. Some people like to fuck. Some don't, or can't, or won't.
So what?
I refuse to be the "gatekeeper" because some tragic piece of lint doesn't get what they want out of sex, or love, or anything else.
Sex isn't transcendental, or mystical, or anything, except what you make it. For most beings it is a physical activity that is pleasurable and makes babies. Get over it. Anybody who thinks it's hearts and stars seems very immature to me.
I am sure most Harvard wankers would pick a girl like Janie. Anyone who went to school there likes the Kool-Aid, you know?
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Ha ha
[Read the article: Your girlfriend seems so fake]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]@Brightstar - I can take some educated guesses where a guy like you would find a fiance. Just 'cause you can't score with a white chick and can with an Asian (I would bet 50 bucks) doesn't make you less of a spaz. Just a typical geek.
I had a Japanese woman tell me to my face she would marry any American over any Japanese man because they would leave her alone more.
Wow, maybe the Real Dolls aren't that bad after all?