In response to Champers' letter: What were you doing, you, for those "11 very decadent" (your words) years in SE Asia? I suspect you were indulging in some unusual sex practices, maybe even the kind that could get you thrown in prison in the U.S. should your sex partners be children? ("partners?" oh well.)

So, I don't think you should be putting on your righteous hat, about what women find interesting, touching or amusing; and SITC was all three. You apparently can only get your kicks somewhere else, like SE Asia; maybe you just have bad luck over here, huh?

Just asking! Because we (ex and myself) reacquainted on classmates.com and he had recently married a Russian woman he met online. Then he went on to explain to me how superior European women were to Americans, in all ways! Somehow, your post sounds familiar.....

Perhaps I misinterpreted your statement, which was:

When I returned to the Western world after a very decadent 11 year absence in a region, SE Asia, where SITC was all but unheard of, I rented Season 1 to see what my sister and all her friends were so excited about.

I thought you were referring to SE Asia as your very decadent 11 year absence, or experience? Because you returned here, after 11 years being decadent? Maybe you meant America's decadence in those 11 years? Which is it?

But yes, travel is good, unless its bad or illegal or makes you sick or dead or something.

Hello Camille,

There is scientific evidence that brains of gays and straights show significant differences.

(Google search gay, brain, size, amygdala -- see Medline). There may indeed be behavioral choices, but then that results in the aberrant behavior (Larry Craig etc.) we know and love to watch!

I don't think most people would wish for a life of psychic struggle and social ostracism.

Dusty Love

I think I like you, Rielle! For being a strange-o,for being a self centered person. Excuse me!

You are different and committed no crimes I can think of. Sorry, it's the way of the world, we are attracted to all kinds of people, married or not. You are a creative person and I hope you resurface after this is all over!

Sorry, we are not talking about Monica Lewinsky. ( I like her too, she endorsed a great lipstick from Sephora) Why are you so maniacally obsessed? OK!!!!! It happened. Sure it is inconvenient -- I am a Democrat -- I don't like it either, but let's face it , you just can't dictate people's personal life and morality.

Let me go one step further and suggest that a great misservice was done when we outlawed whorehouses. There used to be bars/taverns/whorehouses in every single town, where our founding fathers and their rebellious countrymen met and did business,and make no mistake, there were women of the evening working there as well. It is only of fairly recent vintage that we are so hysterically opposed to "working women".

WHAT IS WRONG with women plying their trade, and men paying for it, that is so terrible???

If you ask me, the world would be a MUCH HAPPIER PLACE is men could get their rocks off without all this sturm and dreng (sp, sorry, don't speak german). GROW UP PEOPLE!!!

...and let them know what you think. I went to the orangina site (schweppes) and let their customer service know some of my thoughts on this (horrible!).

This a.m. I got an e-mail back, not a form letter, that informed me their consumer audience approved of it, and thanking me for my opinion. Dusty Love

I recall my earliest icons of womanhood. First came Glinda, the Good Witch of the West (Billie Burke), who I thought was the most beautiful woman in the world. Then along came a cascade of others: Ginger from Gilligan's Island (Tina Louise), Della Street, Perry Mason's secretary (Barbara Hale), Cinnamon from Mission Impossible (Barbara Bain), Mrs. Peel from the Avengers (Diana Rigg), Elizabeth Taylor (Butterfield 8), Valley of the Dolls, Goldie Hawn from Laugh In, Angie Dickinson as Pepper Anderson in Policewoman, Faye Dunaway as Bonnie. Marilyn.

A confusing time, which way to be? And Cosmo added to the mix.

Even now, young women are likely to be confused. There are the icons we're supposed to aspire to, and then there are the ones we really want to be...

so maybe you shouldn't be eager to call yourself a slut. Go ahead, do whatever you want with whoever, anytime, anyplace, it doesn't matter. What does matter is misplaced anger.

The battles aren't over, in fact we are in danger of taking a giant step backwards. I hope you are angry about the fact that many want to overturn Roe v. Wade, and are chiselling away at women's rights, and I hope you support abortion advocates. This is important, not whether HGB slept with married men. She herself gave credit to the feminists who fought for our rights.

David Letterman went too far. I'm sure neither he nor his joke writer realized it, which is the point I believe the writer was making. Similarly, who can forget Keith Olbermann's vicious sexist attack on Hillary Clinton. The point is that misogyny is alive and well ON THE LEFT.

I am a Democrat and not a fan of Sarah Palin, although one must admit she is a beautiful woman (and therefore, the slutty airline stewardess remark was funny). Still, I e-mailed her office to say we Democrats do not necessarily like all Democrats, including Letterman, and disapprove of his cheap sexist swipe at her family.

...just a truly dislikable individual she would not like her daughter to encounter.

I think that's fair and understandable. Dave's a creep.

And yes, I'm a Democrat.