Readers' Letters to the NYT Magazine Editor re: Maureen Dowd's "What's a modern girl to do?" column

NYT Sunday Magazine ^ | Nov. 13, 2005 | Various NYT Readers

[summer]

Will someone please marry Maureen? Using her bully pulpit at The Times, she has managed to spin her inability to find a suitable mate into a national crisis.
LEE ROSENBAUM
Fort Lee, N.J.


Regarding Maureen Dowd: Perhaps a hint of a smile? A bit of humor? Life does not have to be unpleasant; it can be enjoyed.
JACK HAWKINS
Lafayette, Ind.


What's a modern girl to do? Well, maybe she's to stop calling herself a girl when she's on the backside of 50. And perhaps she shouldn't call herself modern, either, when the entire article is your basic baby-boomer whine that the boomer girls didn't get everything they wanted.
HOLLY WATSON
Houston

[summer]

I often find it hard to believe Maureen Dowd has any sense, at any time, of any happiness at all. And, I don't say that because she is single. She just seems, in general, sour on everyone and everything, at all times. She's usually too depressing for me to read.

[summer]

I think she should quit her job and stop writing for awhile. Take up a new hobby or just do something new; maybe try ____? I don't know. Whatever. She needs a change.

[al baby]

perhaps she needs her beeber stuned

[summer]

I don't know. Maybe she needs to spend more time with people who really have nothing, people in prison, or kids in the ghetto, something like that, so she can understand how blessed she is in her own life. She seems totally unaware to me. Just lost.

[isthisnickcool]

perhaps she needs her beeber stuned

Her beeber dried up a long time ago....

[They'reGone2000]

[RobinOfKingston]

A good, solid moose bite couldn't hurt.

[t2buckeye]

I think the reader's letters are better written and more insightful than anything this so-called columnist writes! Boy, do they have her pegged.

[WideGlide]

Perhaps she should shun the wardrobe that makes her a caricature of a cheap street walker. Who wants to drag home this broad wearing snagged fishnets and f**k me red high heels, and stinks of cheap Scotch.

[GSlob]

"I think she should quit her job and stop writing for awhile. Take up a new hobby or just do something new; maybe try ____?"
Many authorities recommend taking up Alcoholism. It works most of the time.

[summer]

There were other letters that were very pro-Dowd, but, I, too, found these letters the most interesting for some reason.

[caryatid]

And, I don't say that because she is single. She just seems, in general, sour on everyone and everything, at all times.

Uh, I think I you may have just put your finger on WHY she [Maureen Dowd] is single ... LOL

[Paladin2]

I'm thinking that Dowd could easily be the next Bobbit.

[citizencon]

>I think she should quit her job and stop writing for awhile. Take up a new hobby or just do something new; maybe try ____? I don't know. Whatever. She needs a change.<

Surrogate motherhood?

[ChildOfThe60s]

One unhappy girl, that's for certain.

Even if men were "threatened" by intelligent, witty women, that wouldn't apply to her anyway.

I love smart women. Married one. And my good women friends are all smart. And especially smarter than Mo. Not that that is any great accomplishment.

[bkepley]

She's got a great gig and if people are writing it means they're reading.

[Jeff Chandler]

Well, maybe she's to stop calling herself a girl when she's on the backside of 50

Emphasis on 'backside'. As in horse's.

[thulldud]

A good, solid moose bite couldn't hurt.

You don't mean a møøse bite?!

That can be really nasti....