Letters to the Editor

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Study says that talking things through causes girls greater anxiety and sadness.
  • If it does that to the girls, just think what it does to your husbands.

    What talking really does is make sure we all understand it's about you, and that your take really is the right take, and that our take is meaningless apart from being indicative of our failures to understand anything about you or being a woman or how we objectify you or displease you and blah blah blah blah blah.

    In a society obsessed with enumerating women's failures, this seems like a fitting preparation for adulthood.

    What society is that? Near as I can tell, our society is obsessed with enumerating women's successes regardless of how small or petty they are. We're in the self-esteem society and the you go girl society and in the it's okay to bash males, especially white males society. So really Lloyd, unless you have citations, please get off the pot with your crap about this being a society that is obsessed with enumerating women's failures.

    Or to paraphrase this article, tell it to someone who cares, which as it turns out according to the study, is not even your girl friends. Why? Because it's self-defeating depressing whiny victimizing nonsense.