Letters to the Editor
brightstar65
Published Letters: 3526 Editor's Choice: 16
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Think about it
[Read the article: It's hard to be a dude these days]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]offering free entry to any and every guy who crosses their path. This rewriting of the mating ritual has left men mystified over what it means exactly to be a man.
If one actually thinks about the above statement, one realizes how LUDICROUS it really is.
'free entry to ANY guy'?- any HOT or rich guy maybe. But I nor any of my average male friends come across these types of women..ever.
'rewriting of the mating ritual'- is another ludicrosity. The pendulum swung the other way for the millionth time since homo sapiens first walked the planet. This boast sounds more like a nad grabbing ego eruption by women than anything to me. I suppose it makes them feel sexier to boast that fofr the first time in history women are chasing men. Which leads back to statement one, some men have always had available women fawning over them. If there is any anxiety among men about women offering themselves up, it is because it happens so rarely to men that men are not used to it, to taking advantage of the offer. I know when a girl VERY OCCASIONALLY has offered herself to me, I had no clue how to even approach the situation. Do I just grab her head and kiss her? Do I offer to take her to my place? How does one go about actually moving forward a lead made by a woman? And why do they not teach this in school?
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Why all the hairpulling?
[Read the article: Why is "Sgt. Pepper" so overhyped?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sgt. Pepper is a really good set of music and a neat cultural artifact from that era. There are other Beatles albums I think are superior- Abbey Road, White Album, Rubber Soul- and some I thought were not as good.
But mostly the Beatles were inventive, audacious (for the time), and universal- Paul McCartney's noodling quaint songs not withstanding.
Are they worse or better than the Stones or the Doors? I honestly don't know why people bother, the three bands were in their own spheres of style and musicality.
But one thing is certain, most of the good songs have been written. There are so many bands these days, so many overhyped trifles (like Arcade Fire- one disappointing album I bothered to buy recently) that are only thin veneers of style and mediocre childish melodies that it does make you long for the old songs from the sixties. The few exceptional groups and their ability to only approach the Beatles more modestly triumphant melodies- some of Franz Ferdinand, Foo Fighters, Coldplay only prove the case.
But someone explain to me this obsession among rock critics for lauding tarded crap like the Ramones, Elvis Costello, Wilco and other obscure junk.
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Ron Paul is
[Read the article: Ron Paul is blowing up real good]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]unfortunately only a speed bump on the road to the New World Order Eternal Police State being implemented as we speak.
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Wow
[Read the article: Opus day!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]like wow.
like someone else naming their kid after someone they admire, I was going to name my fantasy organic burger chain after him.
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The term 'gender confused' is insulting too
[Read the article: It's hard to be a dude these days]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This implies that if only boys knew what was good for them, they would stick to their predetermined (by feminists) narrow gender roles.
If women can be weak and vulnerable or strong and assertive, nurturing and destroying (in abortion, for instance), sensual and sassy, why can't men?
Are men STUCK by women in the role of sacrificial lamb forever? Why don't women get off their throne and do the dirty work men do? Is that why men are suddenly called 'gender confused'? Because if men quit doing it, women might be forced to step up to the plate instead? And why is that so offensive?
Maybe it is after all the age of gender free-for-all like feminists originally claimed they wanted. Maybe boys WANT to go around in flouncy airy skirts. Why is this so offensive? Are women's DNA to blame for why men AND ONLY MEN are forced to be stuck in narrow predefined gender roles?
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Blame Yourr Fellow Women
[Read the article: It's hard to be a dude these days]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I was always taught by my parents to have the man ask you on a porper date, pay for it, then escort you home without expecting anything. I can't find these men!!!
Your fellow women have turned this ritual into a humiliating joke. Blame them.
Also, your fellow women do hand out sex and affection freely to the biggest most CONVINCING playas, so no sane guy bothers to date anymore. Blame them.
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Why bother with this bozofest?
[Read the article: What you missed while watching "Deal or No Deal"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We all know the final two candidates will be hand selected by the corporate/industrisl/media elites, their competitors sidelined or sideswiped ala "the scream" in 2004.
We all know the final two candidates will be voted for using electronic untrackable machines, and the results will be skewed to make the winner the one who the corporate/industrial/media elites feel most represents them.
We all know be it republican or democrat, we get to have foisted on us one or the other flavor (choose: fascist or socialist) of bigger government, more intrusion into our lives, more control, more police, more regulation, more drug illegal importation to prop up the black government WHILE BIG BUSINESS/MILITARY/INTELLIGENCE RUNS RAMPANT and unfettered inside and outside the USA.
Average Americans are not involved in this process. Anyone who does not see thru this facade should be considered mentally incapacitated.
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I don't understand why this is a problem?
[Read the article: A peek behind the veil (again)]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]American women complain all the time about unwanted attention from men. Saudi women seem to have done the enterprising thing of solving this problem by covering up instead of just bitching about it. Sounds like the Saudi women may be both smarter and the TRUE feminists.
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We're way beyond Rome
[Read the article: "Are We Rome?"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]beyond even Stalin's best wet dreams. Soon remote scanners will be posted on streetcorners probing our very innermost thoughts. Special dispatch teams will set up devices to track and alter people's behavior WITHOUT THEIR KNOWLEDGE. Those who do not alter their behavior adequately will be dispatched with discrete poisons or electromagnetic fields designed to mimic diseases. Caesar could not have imagined such power. Democrats and Republicans alike are drooling over the possibilities.
But hey, in their absolute greed and lust for power over their fellow countrymen, this is what Americans are inviting into their midst.