Salon Mothers Who Think

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  • Letters

    "I cannot believe how uptight and shrill Salon's readers can be." As the debate over Ayelet Waldman's column continues, many readers come to her defense.
  • Letters

    "As a gay man, I found the column condescending, out of touch, and insulting." Salon readers react to Ayelet Waldman's latest essay.
  • "You're supposed to marry the person you love, Mom"

    My 7-year-old son's best friend is a lesbian and he says he wants to be gay. I hope he is.
  • Letters

    Has Martha Stout been watching too much "Buffy"? Salon readers sound off about speed and sociopaths.
  • Letters

    Readers share their own pain at facing end-of-life decisions for people they love, and reflect on the Terri Schiavo case.
  • Letters

    "There is now, officially, nothing new left for women to complain about." Salon readers of both sexes sound off about Rebecca Traister's article on wife shopping.
  • Letters

    Jane Smiley and others defend Ayelet Waldman from "overheated" readers.
  • Letters

    "I'm not insensitive to the agonies of mental illness, but I was tremendously disturbed by this display of self-justifying narcissism." Salon readers sound off on Ayelet Waldman's debut column.
  • Living out loud -- online

    When I started blogging, I discovered a compulsive need to open the tattered edges of my emotional raincoat and expose the nasty parts beneath. But at what cost to my kids?
  • Letters

    "Fugliness transcends ugliness. Experiencing it is physical, emotional, spiritual and ontological devastation." Salon readers speak out about the pleasures and the provenance of the word "fugly."
  • Letters

    "Farhad! Stephanie! Andrew! Rebecca! Back to your desks! There are real stories out there to deal with!" Readers sound off on Salon's coverage of Martha Stewart's release from prison.
  • Letters

    "Let's stop hand-wringing over these self-obsessed, destructive, navel-gazing suburban punks ..." Salon readers sound off on Elliott Currie's book about the crisis of middle-class adolescence.
  • Letters

    Who's out of whose league? The black woman who's being hit on by "inferior" men gets some feedback.
  • Letters

    A source in a Salon story accuses the author of fanning flames of panic about the sexual practices of gay men.
  • Letters

    Readers debate Judith Warner's book "Perfect Madness" and take issue with her characterization of fathers. Also: Attachment parents defend their philosophy.
  • Letters

    Readers tell Cary Tennis: That adulterous wife's husband should rat her out!
  • Letters

    "I'm a liberal and proud to call myself that, and I'm also pro-life." Readers respond to Rebecca Traiser's article about abortion.
  • Letters

    "How dare anyone presume to judge me or any other woman who has experienced this?" Readers respond to Ayelet Waldman's essay about her second-term abortion.
  • Letters

    "I am happy I never spawned." Readers sound off on vasectomies and the reproductive rights of men.
  • Letters

    "I'd like to kick Brad Pitt's ass." Emotional readers sound off on fertility, fame, feminism and the end of a celebrity marriage.
  • Letters

    Were the Vargas girls about erotic subtlety or female oppression? Salon readers discuss David Amsden's essay.
  • Letters

    Rooting for the holy rollers, and for guided imagery as a treatment for PTSD. Salon readers weigh in on "Christian Party Animals" and "My Heart Is Back."
  • Letters

    Readers discuss Rebecca Traister's "He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not" and come up with a few relationship mantras of their own.
  • Letters

    Readers, including a former POW, talk about their relationship with journalist Iris Chang.
  • Letters

    Should little girls be encouraged to "embrace their inner princesses" or to fight against them? Readers discuss the princess obsession.
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