Letters to the Editor
Angry Midwest
Published Letters: 34 Editor's Choice: 1
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It's the pay
[Read the article: Where are all the women going?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't have time to read all the responses, but I hope someone else has mentioned it. It's the pay!
I work in biotech, and the pay frigging sucks. There is no 2 ways about it. We bust our asses essentially doing big pharma work and get paid shit. Literal shit. Even with 2 promotions at my company (Scientist II)I would still be making less than 40K on paper! What's the fucking point? For that amount of money, I PLAN to drop out of the work force when I have kids. I know I could cook/child sit and keep a comparable lifestyle. As I am approaching the decision to have children soonish, it seems more and more likely that one of us will give up full time work. There is no way I could afford child care on what I make.
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Engineering is a different ball of wax
[Read the article: Where are all the women going?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I feel to add to the engineering is douchey to women column.
Absolutely! I went to engineering school, and there is something wrong with most of those guys. They are weird and smelly in high school, never learn to be social, and then think women should fuck them because they make 60k. I feel very bad for female/gay/black engineers, and my heart breaks for them. I might have greatly enjoyed that type of work, but the prospect of being harangued by men who hated me because I wouldn't fuck them wasn't very enticing. Even for good money.
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Brill idea, Not.
[Read the article: Apple relents, lets HBO put $2-plus shows on iTunes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Who the fuck would pay 3-4 dollars an EPISODE to watch tv?
I can't think of one show I like enough to pay that much for on an episode per basis. Let alone in a data only format that is probably full of restrictions I haven't even dreamed off. Not to mention that any savvy person can torrent pretty much anything these days.
There is so much cool crap for free these days. Oh, and aren't we all supposed to be cutting out lattes to save money (because god knows that 30 bucks a month I piss away on coffee is why I'm poor).
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Jeez, get your haterade
[Read the article: Why wouldn't a 16-year-old boy want to live on a houseboat?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I agree with Cary, but there is a lot of hate for the houseboat just because it's small. Not everyone grows up in a giant, ultra middle class style houses, and they are not all horribly effed up.
I am very offended by that. It's not abuse to raise your children unconventionally. Just as it's not abuse to raise your kids conventionally (though it does occasionally seem like it is).
People around the world grow up in very small dwellings. You just have to learn to deal with it. If more Americans grew up in smaller houses, they might not be such selfish douche bags.
Even some Americans do.
In my first travels to the southern U.S. from WAY north I was shocked, shocked! People in southcentral Louisiana and Mississippi grow up in houses that are quite literally the size of the average garage in the rest of the country. Not even the new, McMansion garages, but the old ranch style home with a connected garage sized.
It's all perspective. The oldest boy can't deal with that, but your young children may very well be on the path to a highly different life by growing up on a boat. And there is nothing wrong with that.
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Cute
[Read the article: Charles Atlas will make a man of you!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This was quite funny, and I second the Rocky Horror comment.
I have to ask though, you don't really think you'll get pneumonia from an open window? No wonder this country is so bizarre. Same for olive oil. It's a great moisturizer, and if your oil isn't spoiled it should smell nice to boot.
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Casting stones, as usual.
[Read the article: I'm sleeping with my best friend's fiancé ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As usual, the "sophisticated" answer provided by the wonderfully intelligent people that hang out here is to cast off any person with whom a more nuanced dealing should be had.
No way a young (I presume) woman should try to make amends to her friend by being a better person for her. No, no, no. She should ruin her (the friend's) life and run away. Because that makes sense.
How many people replying to this column are divorced? I would bet a damn lot from these answers.
LW, there is always an alternative. I do not suggest coming clean, as you will be trading your guilt for your friend's misery. I think you should keep on eating crow for a while, figure out how to rid both of you as this loser, and be a real friend. People you truly love are rare in this world, and a lot can be learned by trying to sort this out. Running away is easy, that is why so many people do it. Marriage broke? A new one won't be. Kids annoying? Ship them of to the ex, etc. etc. etc.
No matter how much the tv tells you, life, and love are not disposable. Get rid of the man and start anew. For you and your friend.