Letters to the Editor
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SirPhilip
My ex's cat will end you.
Merely another hurdle. The task is impossible anyway. C'est inaccrochable.
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ABC: Always Be Closing
Listen Velma, the trick to being easy is courage, dogged pursuit of what you want and the ability to say yes to anything at bar time. In case this still leaves you coasting for the B.O.B., here are some tips that will swing you all the way to Mistakesville.
http://www.thephatphree.com/features.asp?StoryID=3743&SectionID=11
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special prosecutor
Somebody knows somebody. That is the only explanation as to how this drivel could be published and then debuted here on Salon. It's all about favors and agreements and trade offs and Salon has obviously been invited to the big party.
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Nope Jeebery
The problem is with people like you who think that women are cum dumpsters.
If I were to take a man home after a few hours, how can you be sure I'm not using him? We all know what easy sluts men are, just shake some tits real or fake in his face and say come here boy want some action and you are tripping over yourselves while pulling off your pants panting like puppies about to get a meaty treat. If a woman wants a one night stand, she's not being used, she's not being disrespected, she's not being conned. It's not our fault you men are such easy pickings when it comes to sex.
What is disrespectful is so many men going on and on about how horny they are all the time and how much you neeeeeeed sex, when a woman says well hey, I'm horny too lets get it on the next day he calls her a slut for giving him what he's been saying he wants because she didn't make him buy her stuff three dates in a row before having sex with him.
Maybe you men need to stop being so damn confused about how it's a man's job to convince a woman into sleeping with him, if she says yes to sex too early now she's a cum dumpster who's body was disrespected and used, well what exactly is the guy who used the vagina receptacle?
Maybe the solution is that men should stop being so easy to take to bed.
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DULL!
Actually, to the letter writers who said that it was well written, in fact it is not. It is extremly dull - I skimmed it after the fist couple of paragraphs with an eye toward crafting a letter saying that it was dull - which is the worst thing you csan say about this kind of essay.
Essays abouy sex have to be terribly clever or interesting or insightful or hilarious or in the best circumstances all three. (Think Christopher Hitchens on the subject of blow jobs Think Client # 9 and the Mayflower Hotel.
This was simply a bore. And you know what, having a night stand is a breeze!
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SirPhilip
My ex's cat will end you.
Nay, too late, too late, undone and dispersed, decades ago. But it must be done. Prepare for piquant tragedy. Give me a few years. I haven't gotten over her yet:
I shall sing you songs of leaving,
Love lost to lies deceiving,
For though it's past my heart's believing
I won't see you anymore.See what you can do about finding me a good hernia surgeon, wouldja?
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Lestat1
Maybe the solution is that men should stop being so easy to take to bed.
Maybe the boyfriend would be less moody if the girlfriend wasn't getting all the sex.
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A good example of the type of little twit who are born with the connections to get this kind of drivel published
How bo-o-o-o-o-ring!
But she will write a book of it!
You know, editors should be more selective. Publish people who have something to say.
She's a child.
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Jan VanDenBerg
You know, editors should be more selective. Publish people who have something to say.
She's a child.
You misunderstand. This will sell. It will titillate the libidos of 13-18 year-old horny little honeys the world over. They'll just die.
Profits proceed from pandering to the targeted market segment.
This vignette serves to remind me that many women do not appreciate the potential of the power they have over most men. Inversely, it reminds me of the power one woman can have over any number of men when they do appreciate that potential, and haunt the dreams of old men when their trysting is fifty years gone.
Even to this day, I am amazed that as a monk I can hardly remember my solemn prayers recited and memorized over many years, but can hardly forget even the details of a beautiful woman, happily unmindful of her decolletage, fleetingly glimpsed but once.
That's power. A child, you say.
Indirectly, that market segment rules the world. And bless their beauteous little hearts, they don't even know.
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Sloane Crosley
This vignette was sweet and kind and in many ways delightful. Oh you, fondling my dreams and desires like that. Oh you.
Naturally, I'm quite desperately in love with you now, but it is permanently unrequited and forlorn, yet helplessly hoping, and I shall surely be desolate to the end of my days.
All your fault. Very irresponsible of you. Have a heart, wouldja?
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Please replace this essay with Kansas O'Flaherty
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@walter_map
Uh, Walter? Get a room. With yourself. :)
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@ walter_map , kudos...
... that was perfect.
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the quality of a first draft
When I consider how challenging it is for writers to get paid to write, when I reflect upon all the writing talent in the world, and then I read this rough work by Sloane Crosley, I am afraid I have to agree with other comments that indicate she must have this job because she is well-connected.
Seriously, this was, imho, a delightful bit of memoir. I disagree with comments that suggest it is puerile.
But this reads, to me, as an unformed early draft, with no artistry, no careful attention to craft and the shape of story. The content is good, the writing talent is here but Ms. Crosley is sloppy. This reads like something she dashed off the top of her head.
Gee, I thought people who got paid to write, um, were paid to shape and edit their work, turning rough gems into jewels.
Ms. Sloane Crosley needs more discipline.
My comment is unedited, has no shape. AND . . . I am not getting paid to write it.
Does she have any editors?!