Letters to the Editor
simsek
Published Letters: 5 Editor's Choice: 1
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Great story but where are the pictues?
[Read the article: Tell it on the mountain]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Am I the only one who gets a File Not Found error when trying to view the photos?
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Please don't take these letters to heart, Judith.
[Read the article: The breast of times]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don’t think I’ve ever been as surprised or dismayed by a group of letters as I was when I read these. I expect more than knee-jerk responses from Salon readership, but that’s just what I read here today. I’m quite certain that many of the same readers would scoff at emotional, irrational right-wing justifications for opposing children raised in same-sex families (“Does he go to preschool knowing that he's "different" than the other kids?” “What if he were to tell his friends?” “What your doing is selfish.” “You a nasty freak, lady!” Don't mothers also have a responsibility to raise a child to fit in socially?... What message is this sending to her son sexually?”) and yet have no problem condemning this woman with the same flimsy arguments for nursing her child once a day. Show me where this has been proven to damage a child’s development! Site your peer-reviewed double-blind studies, please. Otherwise, you have to admit that you are just as guilty of irrational emotional condemnation of a harmless, loving relationship as all those who ew, yuck, and shame same-sex relationships. Next time, consider saving your condemnation for someone whose behavior is actually dangerous and not just distasteful to your sensibilities.
Please don’t take these letters to heart, Judith. Parenting choices seem to enflame people like little else, and personally I’m sorry you’ve encountered such vitriol. You could have written about why you did or did not circumcise your son and sparked the same kind of emotional attacks by all those who made different choices, too. As mom you understand your child’s needs as no one else does, and there’s no reason that extended nursing should be anything but one other aspect a healthy parent-child relationship.
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NH is not so secular
[Read the article: Yankee Republicans, go home!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As a native and current resident of New Hampshire I have to agree whole-heartedly with the way the previous poster characterized the state: this is a very independant voting population, wary of big government and distrustful of any paternalistic attitudes in government. I think that this election was certainly a strong statement and, from my stand-point, a wonderful victory, but no one should take this to mean that NH voters have changed in any fundemental way.
One last thing I wanted to address: Shapiro wonders how Republican candidates will justify their socially conservative stances with the secular voters in New Hampshire. While there certainly are secular voters in the state, this is not by-in-large a secular state. In fact, it's a strongly Catholic state, among other things. There are still many supporters of conservative values in the Granite state, and the fact that so many of them were upset enough with Washington to make a statement this time does not mean that they will be turned off by the Republican "values" wedge issues. Now is no time to get complacent about New Hampshire!
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You should feel special
[Read the article: My man has a special way of making me feel ordinary]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Romance is a different animal, but if you're considering spending your life with someone you should both be quite certain that you are special to each other. I would never have settled for spending my life with someone I felt was just ok or simply a nice guy. I chose my husband because he was the most extraordinary man I'd ever known and there was no doubt he felt the same way about me. We are not particularly romantic people. In fact, with 2 small kids and a third on the way there's often very little romance in our lives! But neither of us has ever doubted the others' love, esteem, or appreciation, and even in the tough times there's never been a moment of regret.
Don't settle for less. Go find someone who delights and amazes you and who finds you delightful and amazing, too!
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Way to shoot ourselves in the foot...
[Read the article: The comeback chick]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hillary might make a good preisdent. She might even make a great one, I suppose, although I doubt it. But we will never know because she is not electable. It's as though Democrats can't help but shoot themselves in the foot. Whether or not she's earned it, Hillary has inspired distrust and blind hatred in enough people that if she wins the nomination a huge segment of the population will be voting *against* her instead of *for* the Republican candidate. It may not be fair, it may not be just or justified, but it's true.
So please, keep on backing Hillary! Go ahead and do everything you can to nominate someone who will fire up the Republican base like no Republican candidate in the field could. Please, they're struggling this year--give them a hand you charitable souls. Afterall, we might lose our underdog status if we won the White House and we wouldn't want that!