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• Monday, November 17, 2008 10:23 PM

  Please - MUST WE???

  I really did NOT appreciate references in this article to certain parts of the anatomy. They are inappropriate and have no place in a publication designed for intelligent adults.

  Please also understand. I am hardly a closet Victorian.I recently retired after a life-time teaching in an inner city high school in South Los Angeles. I supervised the school newspaper and even remember once meeting or seeing Erin Aubry Kaplan at a jouranlism conference..

  Perhaps because of my background, certain words simply do not impress me. For years a special ed class met in the classroom next mine. The denizens of that classroom not only swore like drunken sailors, but they also threw chairs. In addition, I occasionally had a phenomenally misguided adolsecent who, in spite of my warnings, would try to shock and upset me by writing about his sexual misadventures, real or imaginary. Do you have any idea how boring and/or ridiculous those essays were? (For commentary, I simply wrote BRING in big letters across the front of the essay.) Maybe that are reasons that I find certain terminology used in this article BORING as the essays penned by a precocious, wanna-be teeny-bopper. I certainly would not permit my journalism students to write about each other in this way.

  Also, like many other retired teacher, I've decided Barack Obama and Michelle are my honorary ex-students. After all, had history been different they both could have been in one of my classes. So in the back of my aging imagination, it's only yesterday that I was telling Michelle that throwing a choke-hold on Barack was not a good way to get his attention. I really do not appreciate any one's writing about my former students the way Kaplan wrote about Michelle.

  Michelle Obama is a wonderful woman. Let's concentrate on her intelligence, her personality, her spirituality - NOT on contours of her body. Let's focus on what really matters.

  —msimamaji Read msimamaji's other letters
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