Letters to the Editor
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Wow
Who decides which letters get stars? Some of them are truly pathetic.
Has broadsheet become a parody of itself? (This question, in my opinion, belongs on many recent threads)
Ms. Traister, you would be well served to aim your attacks at folks other than Ms. Dowd. For starters, it's best to comment on pieces that you've not only read, but also understood. Dowd is brilliant and hilarious and, unlike other pundits/writers/journalists, if you look at her work (not just one or a handful of articles in a vacuum) she's unapologetic and goes after the left, the right and the center when they happen to be worthy of derision. Attacking Maureen Dowd....this a fight you objectively can't win no matter how you decide to keep score (intellectually, lyrically, sense of humor, etc.) Unless, of course, you're in certain self-flagellating feminist circles.
All this being said, I'll admit that I'm not the most objective person when it comes to Maureen...but I have had sporadic beefs with some of her writing in the past. I believe that broadsheet would be best served by having its writers at least attempt to approach issues in a disinterested fashion...isn't feminism, on some level, about fighting bias? I have to ask, as the definition seems to change week to week and topic to topic.