Letters to the Editor
cordelia525
Published Letters: 233 Editor's Choice: 40
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I love it!
[Read the article: Introducing Salon's cheeky new women's blog]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Or I should say I heart it. The Broadsheet that is. What a great idea.
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Occupational Hazard
[Read the article: Back-to-work blues for moms]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The ability to opt out and successfully reenter the workforce is contingent upon one's profession. I'm a tax attorney with an 18 month old at home. There's no way I could opt out, given my profession. My skills would atrophe. My knowledge base would become stale.
As a Desperate Housewives devotee, I love Lynette. She's my hero...er...heroine. But the likelihood of me following in Lynette's footsteps is about as great as the likelihood of me having a bod like Gabrielle and scoring the gardener - nil. Sigh. But I digress.
I'm all for asserting my rights as a woman. However, the sense of entitlement has to be balanced with a sense of professional obligation. Career moms need to be perceived as strong and competent. We can't demand that the standards for our occupation be lowered to accomodate us. Doing so will only set us back.
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Response to Nameless Reader
[Read the article: Back-to-work blues for moms]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Get your own life-raft honey. You're probably one of those people who thinks that maternity leave is some sort of vacation. Pfffft.
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What do you call a never-married man over 50?
[Read the article: Scary screeds about Maureen Dowd, written by threatened men]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Gay or undesirable. Say it with me ladies: MEN HAVE AN EXPIRATION DATE TOO. Doesn't that feel good? The playing field is not as imbalanced as Mr. Ross suggests.
As an aside, I'm all for taking the high road, but bluntly Mr. Ross doesn't deserve it. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
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Hello? It's called a "blog."
[Read the article: Today in "Scary screeds about Maureen Dowd, written by threatened men"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Formal standards don't exist for blogs. If you don't get that, you shouldn't be online.
And what's up with the snobbery? Salon has also been known to drop an f bomb or two in its news stories. That's part of what makes Salon unique. If you don't appreciate Salon's irreverence, what are you doing here?
And why not review Amazan user reviews? Because they're not authenticated and credentialed? What does that have to do with the free flow of ideas on this topic? I say: bring it!
As for the particular reviews that appeared in today's installment, they didn't really further the debate in a meaningful way, but I nevertheless appreciated reading the neanderthal-of-the-day quotes and, of course, Rebecca Traister's cheeky response. Keep it up...
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Thank you...
[Read the article: The stay-at-home mystique]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...for validating my choice to go back to work.
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Did you people even read the article?
[Read the article: McCain to Congress: No more pigs at the trough]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]At issue is reform of lobbying practices. That might not be a sexy topic - much like campaign finance reform - but it's important, and it deserves meaningful debate.
But, with a few exceptions, each letter seems to be about McCain's political aspirations, or about McCain himself.
These measures, if passed, would be very beneficial to the system. As it is, the system lacks integrity. You see it in each spending bill. You see it in the energy reform package. You see it in Medicare reform. You see it in political appointments, a la Mike Brown. The proposed bill won't solve the problem of the influence of money on politics, but it certainly represents a step in the right direction. I challenge anyone to argue otherwise.
And if you concede that the measures represent a positive step towards reducing the influence of money on politics, then what are you arguing about? Are you pro-corruption perhaps?
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EvelynLouise
[Read the article: Baby, we were born to breast-feed?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bravo! My sentiment exactly. You have a talent for non-preachy advocacy, a rarity when it comes to this topic.
I was puzzled when I read this story because I could hardly believe that HHS would actually defy the powerful formula industry. Too bad they had to be shamed into it.
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Practical Advice
[Read the article: My husband's dog is incontinent and I can't stand it]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When I went through this with my dog, I devised a doggie bed that kept things sanitary. Put a pillow in a large trash bag, and then put a sheet around the trashbag. Wash the sheet every morning and change the trash bag every so often. Voila.
Now here's the sad epilogue. The dog I write about was my childhood dog. When I went off to live at college (my dog was 16), my parents couldn't deal, and they ended up putting her down. But they were uncaring. Be a better than they were. Give the makeshift doggie bed a chance.
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Angelina
[Read the article: Baby Brangelina!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Please. Angelina marches to the beat of her own drummer. She's not taking a page from some one else's playbook. And she is NOT Brad Pitt's baby vessel. If anything, he's her dispensible stud.
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Who cares?
[Read the article: I was conned by JT Leroy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This has got to be the most pointless salon cover story ever. Still scratching my head.
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Seinfeld and Judaism
[Read the article: "Invisible in Hollywood: Jewish women"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sorry people, but I don't think citing one and only one counterexample - the Schindler's List episode - sufficiently rebuts Dines' point. That's one episode over an eight year run, hardly evidence of a commitment to the portrayal of Jewish women.
However, Seinfeld may be a poor example of the problem Dines describes because, as any scholar of all things Seinfeld knows, the network ordered that series tone down Jerry's Jewish identity. That mandate extended not only to his dates, but also to his friends. Notably, the character of George was based on Larry David, whom we all know is Jewish. And George and his parents are written to be Jewish and clearly have a Jewish affect. But, per the network, George's name is secular. The actress who plays Estelle told Entertainment Weekly that when she got into part, she would imagine that the Costanzas were Jews living in a witness protection program.
So to make a long story long, the issue isn't gender specific. Rather, it's specific to religion. All of the Jewish characters were superficially watered down. There may be hope in this regard though. Take, for example, the Larry David show. The humor is overtly Jewish, and none of it is watered down. Aside from his wife, almost all of the characters are Jewish.