Letters to the Editor
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Mo -- Look away from the navel!
Maureen Dowd is a brilliant writer, and I usually enjoy her work, but a couple of things annoy me.
First, she is SO dismissive of mothers and motherhood. In her view, a stay-at-home mother, or maybe any kind of mother (except her own) is nothing but a retro Stepford Wife who's ceding the important work to a he-man hubby. That attitude is just so wrong it's infuriating!!! Motherhood is very, very, very, very hard work, and important, too, because without mothers, how could we have any future generations of humanity?
Second, when I read her musings about Botox and so forth, I really wish she would apply her enormous writing talents elsewhere. Has she ever written anything about the environment and the Bush's slash-and-pillage policies, for example?
My advice to Maureen is to stop her naval-gazing fixation.