Letters to the Editor
shadejuscoz
Published Letters: 22 Editor's Choice: 1
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True storytelling
[Read the article: Man of clay]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My first reaction, as the credits (and bunnies) rolled on "Were-Rabbit", was to turn to my companion and say, "I want to take every movie executive in Hollywood and force them to watch this film, over and over, until they get it. This is what a movie should look like. This is what art looks like. This is what a labour of love looks like. Now get back to your studios, cancel the latest Michael Bay travesty, and start making films that enrich the world simply by existing."
I meant it then, and I mean it now. Hollywood, are you listening? Nick Park is a true storyteller. Learn to speak truth, or shut the hell up so we can hear him more clearly.
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Fat is criminal in a starving world
[Read the article: In search of the fat and fabulous]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let me know when you've found something better to do than express your concern for us benighted fat people.
Sure thing, gonetothedogs - how about feeding the 1/3 of the world's population that suffers from a lack of nutrition?
Obesity is an extension of consumerism - and while bodysizes do vary, and the fashion world is hideously obsessed with "anorexic chic", and people in general shouldn't believe that their value is based on their appearance, obesity is still a serious public health and sustainability issue. More calories out + less calories in = loss of weight, full-stop. Genetics may have place your body's "fat set-point" above the starvation levels deemed acceptable by Madison Ave, but thermodynamics guarantees that 30 lbs of fat doesn't just appear out of the ether.
Overconsumption of resources by one population creates scarcity among other populations, whether that resource is fossil fuels or food energy. "Fat acceptance" is just a spin-doctored version of "let them eat cake" - and a global "storming of the Bastille" is not far in the offing.
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What's the big deal?
[Read the article: $1,000 prom queen]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Does anyone else see creeping anti-feminism in all this? The three biggest nights of a woman's life are the "sweet 16", prom, and her wedding? Three events which celebrate no real achievement on the part of the person in question?
No-body should feel bad for not having a prom - if you want to seen drunk teenagers acting foolishly in expensive clothing, hit a club with a dress-code and lax age enforcement.
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Proud to be a giggling cunt
[Read the article: Hilton vs. Lohan vs. Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wait - so, he's tired of her parroting the latest meaningless consumerist dreck, and calls her on being a shallow ditz. She comes back with an unrelated (and unimaginative) sexual insult. And she thinks she "won" that encounter? Here's a tip, honey - the next time you're arguing with someone, try not to make their point for them.
And the deification of stupidity marches merrily along.
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Agreed!
[Read the article: Lesbian custody tragedy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I agree completely with heddache's response to the first poster. They should have "done more to protect themselves"? What kind of apologist crap is that? Should all the Southern blacks have moved north in order to fulfill their responsibility to "protect themselves" from lynchings? Protecting the individual rights of its citizens is, and can only be, the State's responsibility - and this is yet another example of why all the pious "for the children" bullshit from the anti-gay crowd is transparent hypocrisy.
J Hildenberg: Not a tragedy? Lacking any evidence of substantial accusations of poor parenting being submitted to the court, it seems pretty damned obvious that this split-up, like so many others, has turned into an acrimonious personal war between the adults with the children as just another salvo. What's not "tragic" about that?
Thank God for the judge in this case - it sounds like he's going to expose the government's position as the pandering, hatemongering, anti-social illogical idiocy that it is. Tear 'em up!
Side note - does this remind anyone else of that one "Law and Order: SVU" episode? Some of the best social commentary on TV. Thanks Dick Wolf!
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This is un-fucking-believable
[Read the article: Which parent gets to decide on circumcision?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]People here usually tend to try and elevate their personal choices beyond the norm.
Yeah, performing unnecessary surgery on infants is a "personal choice". I'm sure you're actively campaigning for the repeal of all those silly, nanny-state "child abuse" laws.
I can't believe we're having this discussion. Circumcision is an amputation. There's a reason we don't automatically remove the tonsils and appendix of every newborn - surgery is fucking risky. Always. If there's not a medical problem (and the single doctor in the case at hand seems woefully fixated on the scissors as a silver bullet), you've got no right to deprive anyone, especially your child, of a bodypart, especially a functional one.
I love the "anti-semitic" dodge. By extension, opposing female genital mutilation automatically makes one a raving racist, as the procedure is mostly performed in African ritual.
Neither culture nor religion gives anyone the right to needlessly hack away at the body of another person. I can't believe I just had to say that. Is the fundamental concept of a patient's ownership of their own body completely new to you people? Where the fuck have you been?
Oh, and to pile-on Niall's utter nonsense - why not remove the penis and sew up the vagina on every newborn? If they can't have sex, we'll lick this AIDS thing in a minute! After all, you can't have new AIDS infections if there ain't no new people, now can you?