Letters to the Editor
that_aygee_girl
Published Letters: 7
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A little family "secret"
[Read the article: Mommy, is Grandpa going to prison as a sex offender?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm appalled at the LW for insinuating that a previously molested teen was the cause of her father-in-laws' pedophilia, rather than admit to herself that her father-in-law was a pedophile before the teen, he'd just not acted on it. She is blaming the victim, who is now a victim twice over. It's attitudes like that keep so many victims silent about their abuse. It kept me silent about mine for far too long. My mother, like the LW, refused to admit what was going on in my family, and when she could no longer do that, she blamed her children instead of the older male relatives abusing us.
There is no need to make up any kind of "cover story" for your daughter. Believe me, if grampa's getting his kicks diddling the kids, she'll catch on soon enough. Better she be prepared than not, lest she become the next "previously molested teen zeroing in" on some other helpless pedophile who just can't control his or herself.
Of course, then LW can always write to Cary about what lie to tell the neighbors...
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To psamet
[Read the article: Mommy, is Grandpa going to prison as a sex offender?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No, I am certainly NOT avocating that a child's first sexual education be about sexual abuse. However, it is up to the parents to make sure their child is aware of inappropriate behavior from others in an age-appropriate way and how to get help if it happens to them.
From the LW's tone, she seems more concerned with putting a pretty face on the issue for her own comfort than seeing to the real issues at hand.
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We're really, really sorry
[Read the article: WayLay]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Speaking as a Kentuckian with a working brain, we're really, really sorry about this whole Creation Museum thing. Please believe me when I say that we don't want this monstrosity of fundamentalist mammoth shit any more than you do.
There are intelligent people here, people who think beyond what the hellfire-spewing pastor or the Republican talking-head spit out every day. Honest.
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A Howler - or two.
[Read the article: Goodbye, Harry Potter]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What, this couldn't have waited until Sunday? Saturday at the earliest? It had to be Friday morning's lead? Yes, there's an editor's note telling people "if you don't want to know, don't read it!" but more importantly - if you don't want to ruin things by posting a premature review of a book millions have waited to read unspoiled - don't post the article until it's time. Way screw it up, Salon.
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Attention whoring
[Read the article: Bill Maher: "Don't show me your tits!" ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So, Ms. Mieszkowski, you're encouraging "The first daring lactivist" to "infiltrate the set of "Real Time With Bill Maher" and disrupts the show with a one-woman nurse-in."
And this isn't about attention whoring how?
Bravo, Mr. Maher, and thank you for saying what many of the rest of us who have had the great misfortune to see a "lactivist" more interested in making sure everyone SEES her flopping the tit out onto the dinner table than feeding her child have wanted to say.
Feed your kid, sure. Feed 'em in public, sure. But have a modicum of decorum. Why is that so hard to understand?
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Chinaman analogy doesn't hold water.
[Read the article: World of development economics Warcraft]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]First of all, Andrew, your kid's playing WoW and he's not old enough to agree to the ToS? So you're one of those parents who either A. Didn't read the ToS in the first place, or B. Read it, and think it doesn't apply to you or your kid because he's mature for his age/wanted to play? Nice going there. Have you ever paid attention to the stuff that's said on the general chat channels in WoW and other MMORPGs - usually by other underage players with parents who also thought the ToS didn't apply to them? You might want to one day. It would be...eduational.
Speaking of educational, your "Chinaman" analogy doesn't hold water, so to speak. Instead of a bunch of angry white guys ganging up on a poor, practically indentured Asian native trying to make a buck, RMT activity in any MMORPG goes something more like this:
1. Legitimate player goes to area where a monster will drop X piece of rare equipment, item or spell. We'll call him or her LP.
2. The monster finally pops into the area, sometimes by LP's efforts at trading another rare/expensive item to a quest point.
3. Five seconds later, LP is surrounded by a gaggle of players named by the "beat head against keyboard and see what sticks" method of in-game naming and either killed (WoW) or prevented by in-game hack programs (like Windower) from claiming the monster. RMTs claim the monster and get the drop.
4. RMT profit.
I am one of those gamers without any sympathy for RMTs. They do hack accounts and strip them bare for selling. I know an entire group of players whose internet messageboards were infected and the entire group was stripped of everything. Their accounts were transferred to a group of RMTs, then discarded, some even had their credit card information stolen.
I've watched the online economy of may game go from pretty good (you could make enough to support your needs with some work) to absolutely dreadful (a simple spell costs more than you'd make farming 24/7 for three weeks). The more RMTs involved on any given game server, the worse the problem is. I'd kill on RMT sight too, if I didn't play a PvE game. (Final Fantasy XI, for the record.)