When I moved back to L.A. 7 years ago, I was lucky enough to rent a little house for $750.00 per month which is attached to my landlord's house next door. I am still paying $750.00 per month and, except for paying to upgrade the electrical and put in 3 air conditioners, (About a $4,000 investment.) my landlord always has his sons take care of repairs whenever I ask if I can hire someone to fix things.

While the landlord rule may be a good one, living next door to my landlord gave me the opportunity to get back on my feet financially in a serious way. This is clearly not on point, but I felt I needed to say it.

Giving women a variety of role models is the true beginning of female liberation. It's because we were denied stories about ourselves doing anything besides being wives and mothers that we became truly enslaved. This is one of the most inspiring articles I have read in years! If we survive the upcoming devastation implicit through global warming, women will finally start evolving into something more than embracers of their own oppression. Viva la revolution!

just go ask your doctor for hormones. I happen to be annoyed by the fact that my boobs are bigger from using them, as I ride horses and there's nothing worse than trying to keep them strapped down and under control. Now, I never had children, so this may be a factor in my boobs still looking young and sprightly at 50 years of age. So, bottom line, if you're still hoodwinked into craving breast based attention from others, don't have kids and do take hormones. However, if you've acquired an ounce of self respect, than you probably know that being heralded because of a couple of glorified sweat glands is the embracing of misogynist oppression at its lowest ebb.

What will my friends with dogs say? Will they want to play with my cat? Will they still talk to me about their dogs? Will their dogs still talk to me about their people? Should I reject all my old dog friends and look for new cat friends? Will my new cat think I am being too narrow minded?

This is not Wifebeater Weekly. No one who is a regular Salon reader would date someone who is missing their front teeth unless they are insane. And, if this woman is insane, why give her the time of day? I don't care if this letter is genuine or not. It doesn't belong here! Unless generating a communal reaction of primal disgust is your goal. And that would make Cary is no better than Fox News, which may in fact, be the goal. Cary, are your bosses trying to get you to generate more traffic by stooping to the lowest common denominator? Cause, that is exactly what this resonates as. That "I'm Bisexual but I'm not sure if I should tell my new boyfriend," letter was utterly gratuitous nonsense, but this, this is just beyond the pale.

live vicariously through them. It takes a lot of courage for a woman to lay claim to her own individuality and make a unique mark in the world. So, I see women who have children as cowards. That's right! Breeding, particularly given the stress human overpopulation is causing now, is a form of lemming mentality that is going to drive our entire species over the cliff, metaphorically speaking. So, all you women out there who think you invented the womb, keep being self righteous about your need to have children. They'll be gasping on fumes before they hit 40.

this is a worthwhile letter about what must be a serious dilemma for a lot of people. The tenor of letters selected by Cary were more along this vein for AGES, and then suddenly we were faced with moronic bi-sexual attention junkies and co-dependant meth mouth lovers. Keep it on the high road going forward Cary, we can always go to Perezhilton for the low life stuff.

Marriage and monogomy are the conceits of the Roman Emperor Augustus, who was desperate to rebuild his armies and knew that the pregnancy averse and sexually free-wheeling ways of the roman citizenry would prevent that. He created draconian laws regarding marriage and incentivized reproduction by quickly promoting any military personnel who generated offspring, as well as giving women the ability to inherit from their husbands for the first time, once they could prove they had been pregnant at least 3 times. All this while he continued to have prolific sexual relations with both his male and female teenage slaves.

The Roman Catholic Church, which once reigned supreme as a goverment entity, continued this practice to maintain its military supremacy. And, when people started to feel the need for more in their lives than religious dogma could provide, romantic love became the marketing vehicle used to sell monogomy and marriage.

I'm glad that there are people in the world who are willing to suggest steps to begin deconstructing the absurd premise of life long monogomy. The freedom to choose should be returned to humanity, now that we have taken the dictates of a long dead Roman War Monger to its most absurdly populist extremes.