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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Nona
Published Letters: 297 Editor's Choice: 46
The color pink: a silly think to be feminist about. What is your point: if girls like it, we must reject it and find something approved by boys/ men?
Martha: the more I get to know her, the more I like her. The woman spent five months in prison to save her business while her case was on appeal.
A chef complaining about how people (women) feed themselves and their familes these days is like a race car driver complaining about how people prefer small, economic cars instead of what he drives.
We all have to eat. Everyday. A chef cooks for work, for people's special occasions. Making women feel inadequate because they don't have the creativity, money or time to cook beautiful meals everyday is just plain mean. The fact that over the centuries, busy tired women have managed to invent national cuisines anyway is a testament to the fact that some women's creativity has overcome huge obstacles.
I have always interpreted the addage " all great chefs are men" as an example of how sexist the world is, not as how men are innately great cooks.
I haven't read Maureen Dowd's book. I have read her columns. I have also read the letters here and elsewhere that bemoan the fact that men "don't want" or are "intimidated" by successful women.
Bull. Women say this are as odious as women who say that nobody likes them because they are jealous of how good looking they are. Take it from a member of a family full of good looking successful women who've never had any dry spells: it's not them, it's you. Get over yourselves.
And furthermore- let's lay to rest once and for all the myth that "powerful" (?) men like Donald Trump can wed 20 year olds and everyone thinks it's great. Everyone thinks it's funny. Does anyone seriously doubt that Martha Stewart couldn't marry a young goldigger if she wanted to? Please.
I agree that it's reasonable to expect kids to be more or less controlled in public, but I wouldn't go to a restaurant that had a sign posted warning parents to control their kids. I'd assume the owner was a dick and go somewhere else. I feel the same about no kids at weddings- a boring, restrictive concept dreamed up by boring people who don't know enjoy the little ones of the world. What if women had a lot of children as they used to? Would we all be banned from "adult" places until menopause? Even when I was childless, I understood the distastefulnes of the anti-children adults. Cut parents some slack, none of us were any better when we were babies.
When I saw Jon Stewart act like a condescending prick with Cameron Diaz and her new Chick Flic, I officially started to hate how people use the term. It has come to be very dismissive and disrespectful.
What's interesting is that there are women who go around wanting to "date up". How unseemly.
...because many people in my life aren't christians, or they don't celebrate Christmas. Yet I'm Catholic, I love the holliday and in the spirit of the season, I send a card to everyone. "Happy Hollidays" is a way to give everyone your good wishes, while being respectful. "Merry Christmas" is reserved for the members of the club, so to speak.
And I love the lights, decorations, santa hats and even the spending. After all, people are spending because they want to give presents to their loved ones and they want to celebrate. What is so fricking awful about that?
I don't buy it that there are no Christmas parties at schools because my daughter and all her cousins in public schools in different states have Christmas parties. They call them holliday parties- in my daughter's class alone there are two hindus, a few jewish children and a muslim child, so celebrating the season and not Christmas specifically is perfectly reasonable. Why on earth would any reasonable person be offended by this? Maybe because I grew uo in a very diverse area I don't feel any entitlement to pretend other religions don't exist in public.
And then there are the religious grinches- the ones who rain on everyone's parade trying to make us feel guilty for giving our loved one's presents and celebrating. These boring people seem to want us all to quietly reflect on the Savior's birth and for no fun to be had, period. Bleh! Happy Thanksgiving- or am I supposed to sit around and be thankful without celebrating that either?
There's another reason why this typical, slighty misogynist NYT trend article is annoying. It bemoans the fact that this daughter had to relocate back to Michigan, to a town in Macomb County where she has to do without urban niceties such as balsamic vinager. Yes, this article is implying that Michiganders living just north of Detroit have never heard of balsamic vinager.
The middleaged man/ twenty something woman thing is largely a myth, and a very delusional nyth. What 50 something man can just up and decide to date a woman twenty or thirty years younger? What can such a man offer a young woman, who can pick from younger, stronger and more virle men? The obvious answer is money, which says something very distasteful about both the men and the women involved. But the truth is, the overwhelming majority of couples are very close in age. Ridiculous old goats like Donald Trump aren't the rule, but the cringe-inducing exception.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
