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

[Cheburashka]

Many authorities recommend taking up Alcoholism. It works most of the time.
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I think alcoholism has taken Maureen Dowd as far as it can take her. She needs to try something else.

[Jimmy Valentine]

That is a very series statement! Also HUGH!

[Fenris6]

I've known a number of women like Dowd - strident harridans whose rhetorical talents tend toward belittlement, derision, and contempt. That's not much of a dowry.

Ouch.

[CheyennePress]

I take it a boob job is out of the question?

[summer]

Re posts #49 and #60 --

I thought this other letter, from a rabbi at Harvard, was also interesting:

In Dowd's discussion about who should pick up the check on dates, I was shocked to find that nowhere did she suggest that men and women, rather than being weighted down by either feminist or traditional expectations and assumptions, should simply discuss the issue between themselves as individuals. If even Dowd misses the point that men and women need to communicate with one another more openly and honestly, how are we going to make progress?

RABBI GREG M. EPSTEIN
Humanist Chaplain of Harvard University
Cambridge, Mass.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

"Michael and I were busy..."

...and he didn't want to untie me from the bed.

[tet68]

That photo is amazingly like the cover of her book.

Poor Mo, all tramped up, and no one to blow.

[hinckley buzzard]

Reading the letters which were printed, it is clear that MoDo's fans constitute a bizarre, hostile menagerie--bitter divorcees who seem to think sarcasm is a virtue, and a few androgynes who seem to think it's a weakness to be a man.

If the readers of the NYT Magazine are a snapshot of America, maybe we need a dose of jihad-sterone after all.