To the editor: Due to Robin Abcarian for shining gentle on one more cringeworthy perception espoused by Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance — that postmenopausal ladies don’t have any function past caring for grandchildren.
Apparently, supporting copy is our position all through our complete lives. Discover the place this imaginative and prescient places childless ladies and people with out grandchildren. Off to the nuclear waste Colonies with all of the unwomen!
Vance apparently discovered to understand the position of grandmothers in youngster rearing from his Indian-born mother-in-law, who moved in along with his household when his first youngster was born. An actual irony is that each grandparents can play a caring position in prolonged households, and but Vance, peering out on the world by way of his misogynistic lens, doesn’t conclude that older males don’t have any different function. After all not.
Vance’s worldview belongs nowhere close to the White Home, and I’ll be a part of with postmenopausal ladies throughout the land to maintain him from it.
Kristen Maher, San Diego
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To the editor: Whereas agreeing with the thrust of Abcarian’s critique of Vance and his views of the “function” of postmenopausal ladies, I discovered her dismissal of “evolutionary biology-based navel gazing” misplaced.
A protracted postmenopausal life is an attention-grabbing factor about people. Abcarian belittles even questioning about why it exists. And he or she misses the purpose {that a} speculation about why it exists doesn’t outline the “function” of post-reproductive ladies, all of whom are people, with their particular person functions.
Her informal dismissal additionally smacks of the informal rejection of a lot of science that infects an excessive amount of up to date discourse.
Hector Neff, Lengthy Seaside
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To the editor: Due to Abcarian for highlighting Vance’s current touch upon Fox Information downplaying the significance of abortion rights to ladies, as a result of he thinks, in his personal phrases, that “most suburban ladies care in regards to the regular issues that almost all Individuals care about.”
The audacity of Vance to say that suburban ladies care extra about “regular” issues corresponding to the general public security and the grocery costs than abortion rights! If a girl cares extra about her private rights than the value of meals, is she irregular?
It annoys and insults me when males, particularly male politicians, are so fast to inform me what I care about most.
Sandra Poppink, Sunland
