Letters to the Editor
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Unicorns, Lollipops, and Gynotopia
First, thank you Izziedee for your letter. It shows once again that a person can support Hillary Clinton and doing so does not make them irrational or angry.
I loved the unicorn, lollipop,etc...I found the commentary hillarious-unintentionally hillarious, but hillarious nonetheless. If any candidate is promising us sunshine, puppies and roses, it's Obama. As for "gynotopia," again I'm just not seeing it-maybe for that I would need rose colored glasses, but alas all the stores seem to sold out. Obama's rhetoric which is likened to the camelot days of JFK is the stuff of Utopian dreams. (or nightmare depending on how one views utopia. i.e. Thomas Moore or B.F. Skinner's Walden Two-in a word-yuck)Far from promising paradise on earth for women or anyone else, Hillary's theme is based on the premise that the workhorse gets things done by working and the show pony dazzles the eye, but isn't what you turn to when you have hard work that needs done. Her message seems boring by contrast to Obama's Utopian world view, because it is realistic, and well, reality is boring. Do you know the most effective president for getting bills passed through congress? LBJ, Ooh didn't see that one coming did ya? He wasn't polished, or pretty, but was damn good at pushing his agenda-Oh wait--that was the point Bill Clinton was trying to make wasn't it? Right about the time that he started being called a racist. What I find supremely ironic is that JFK and Camelot are hyped because of his magnetizing charisma and like Bill Clinton, he also couldn't keep it in his pants, but nobody really cares about that. Poor Jackie O-what with the ghostly specter of Marilyn hanging about- she never really did move on with her life with stoic and dignified determination, did she? As to the unicorn reference and I'm guessing, the phallic symbol in the horn? Sometimes a horn is just a horn. The heart of misogynistic sentiment is when it dismisses womens views as silly, trivial and ridiculous because they come from women. I'm not running around telling anyone to tear down the Washington monument. I like phallic symbols. I have no inherent fear of the penis, and am rather fond of them...