Letter to the editor
August 12th, 2006 Egghead
As I was running out the door for work Thursday morning, I happened to glance at the Letters to the Editor in my local paper. I began to read one particular letter in which a woman was arguing for the establishment of a dress code for the local public schools. I found myself agreeing with her arguments, and then it happened. While she was talking about professional standards of dress for work, she asked, presumably for rhetorical effect, whether the reader would want to be hospitalized and have the nurse come in with her gut and belly-button ring hanging out. I thought, “of course not” to myself, and then proceeded to the next line.
There, she wrote, “(Men, don’t answer that.)”
And at that point, I stopped reading the letter. I don’t think I want to support the opinion of a bigot, especially when she is bigotted against me.
I don’t like the implication that she has the authority to silence me. Who is she to be infringing on my right to free speech? I also don’t like what she implies about male sexuality. She seems to think that she can demean it. Apparently, we men are nothing more than sex-crazed maniacs. Apparently, we can’t control ourselves. Apparently, our opinions are worth nothing, and so a woman has to silence us and tell us what we should be thinking. And apparently, our sexuality is nothing more than a joke.
Ha. Ha.