My letter got published!

[hel_ana]

My letter to the editor was published in today's St. Pete Times. It's not in the online edition, however, just the physical version.

Thanks to spuriusfurius for alerting me.

Comments

[elizabear.livejournal.com]

Excellent! I was thinking about it when I was making dsrtao yet another home-cooked meal from scratch, raising the kids, managing the house, and still managing to follow my favorite tv series.

[hel_ana]

Ah, but did you bring him crab cakes as he sat in his favourite easychair?

I really think it's the "oh, we'll keep out tv, and then our lives will be like the good old days when women knew their place" thing that grates on me.

[dsrtao]

Neither one of us is a seafood eater.

I don't want the good old days when women knew their place. I want a capable, supportive, complex, life partner. I got it. The price for that is having an equal in the house instead of a slave, but that's what low-Turing-Quotient robots will be for, anyway.

[hel_ana]

The ironic thing, possibly, is the falacy of the "women knowing their place" to begin with -- these people are trying to recreate a reality that never existed.

Or maybe I'm just biased by my own family history

[cous-cous.livejournal.com]

Personally, I still think you've got crab-cake envy.

Of course, when I saw the article, I thought that the woman should be FORCED to watch TV, tuned to HGTV. Did you see that dining room pic? Ouch. She needs decorating help stat.

[hel_ana]

I did, yes.

It's a good thing she's not my friend -- her curtains aren't nearly interesting enough.

[cous-cous.livejournal.com]

Um...thanks?

And stay the hell away from my drapes, you sick freak!

[hel_ana]

I have no idea what you mean. What drapes? Did you have drapes?

[cous-cous.livejournal.com]

I do indeed. And I'm keeping an eye on them.