Letters to the Editor
magdelyn
Published Letters: 80 Editor's Choice: 5
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Trans Folk
[Read the article: How did the T get in LGBT?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The legislation without inclusion of the transgendered community is defective enough where I think opposition is justified. The most vulnerable people in our community are not the organized gay and lesbian community, but the fractured trans community. Often gay and lesbians can blend into society, but those of use who identify as transgendered or transexual, particularly those of us on hormones, are easily spotted, and easily dismissed and politically weak.
I see no great benefit in supporting a group who is so easily leaves their fellow sex minorities wounded and dying on the political battlefield, in a self defeating attempt to save themselves.
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Hillary is a war monger...
[Read the article: The dude vote]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]in the vein of Liberman and Feinstein. Her constituency is Wall Street. She supports NAFTA, the biggest fraud perpetuated on working Americans. Her healthcare plan is basically an unfunded mandate to benefit corporatist health companies by mandating poor and working class Americans buy health they can't afford.
I HATE Hillary. And I live in San Francisco am a guy who lives as a woman.
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NYT online
[Read the article: The dude vote]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"...Don't waste your time on this garbage, read the interesting campaign coverage in today's New York Times online instead."
--Anonymous
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I stopped reading the NYT as soon as they brought on billie boy kriston as a columnist on their op-ed page.
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And now...back to the subject of the article.
[Read the article: Women and Clinton: Damned if they vote, damned if they don't?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Not being a feminist myself (nor a woman for that matter), I have to say that if the best that the second wave feminists can throw up is a woman who embodies the worst cliches about feminists -in the form of Ms. Clinton- then the movement is dying. Somebody had better start getting creative, and maybe even inclusive, about feminism or it will be relegated to being a fringe movement.
Not that I am pro-Obama. For the first time in my adult life (except when I was in the Marine Corps) I've given up my life-long Democratic membership and I am sitting this one out.
http://fauxwhore.blogspot.com/
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Prostitution Will Never Be Legalized...
[Read the article: New debates about the oldest profession]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]because it threatens women. As an auxiliary member of San Francisco's Erotic Services Provider's Union, I am horrified that a man like Spitzer, with all the good he is done, is destroyed because of sex. It demonstrates the perversity of our puritanical society, where prostitution is demonizied, and the killing of 600,000 Iraqis is ignored. I wrote about prostitution back in February, 2007. Here are my thoughts:
""Quite frankly, I believe that sex is a taboo, not because men are offended by it (quite the contrary), but that women view sex (either intellectually or instinctively) as their one power, and it is cheapened if it is easy to attain. Like an economists ramblings, supply and demand. If there is over supply, then the price goes down. Although religion is often sold as a paternalistic, patriarchal societal vehicle, I personally believe that quite the opposite is true. It suppresses the behaviors one associates with men, i.e. promiscuity (Don't covet they neighbors wife; the restrictions on divorce as stated by Jesus in the Gospels..yadda yadda) and serves a constituency that does not favor promiscuity, and values stable relationships. Religion suppresses sexuality (the Jewish faith not so much though). The suppression of sexuality is based on female, not male ethos. This is why prostitution is so reviled by many women (obviously not the prostitutes). It is a threat to women’s sexual power. This is why you see a disproportionate number of prostitutes that are lesbians. They don't give a fuck about sexual power of men.
I don't believe that sex is a woman's only power. But I believe that women believe it is their fundamental power, until they reach middle age anyway. Women's real power comes from their ability to define accepted morality, communicate and advocate the same, and bring into the fold the few powerful men in society to enforce that view. The queen bee and wannabe behaviors are also instrumental. The ostracism of people for behaviors not deemed acceptable (like prostitution which is vilified well beyond its importance). My view is that religion is a mechanism for gaining conformity from those people who are the most powerful and dangerous in society, that is young men. The genius of religion is selling it as a patriarchal vehicle, when in fact it is just the opposite. It is actually an abdication of responsibility...by placing responsibility on those people who administer the religion, but are not necessarily responsible for its tenets. It is powerful men that administer Christianity, yet they are denied the benefits of power found in avenues of power expression (warriors), in that power is an aphrodisiac...but the benefits of this are necessarily denied in a Christian setting."
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If Anti-Prostitution Laws were really about victimization...
[Read the article: New debates about the oldest profession]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]then we'd have to outlaw the fashion industry, which relies on cheap, exploitation of women in subhuman conditions, attendant with the indignities of sexual harassment to rape. Those who argue against prostitution disengenuously argue that it exploits women. Yup. I am sure many are exploited. Just like textile slave workers. Fashion is a fetish for American women.
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@ Brightstar69
[Read the article: Is women's studies dead?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As a boarderline masculinist myself, I understand where you are coming from. On the other hand, ranting your arguments against "you women" only allows your message, valid or not, to be disregarded as "backlash" or "angry male." It is easy to get angry about gender issues, especially advocates for women are much better organized and politically influencial than advocates for men. If I wore a bra, I'd burn it. But, don't let yourself be thrown into a rage. It is counter productive. There are better ways to win the fight.