Correspondence
CORRESPONDENCE
The Lady is a Tramp
I hope The American Spectator is not trying to thin the ranks of its well-earned subscribers and lose its reputation as one of the last journals of sanity. How...
...One might expect this type of journalism in Hustler magazine...
...The converter box allows them to "lock out" certain channels so that the children have access to the rest of the program offerings and, safely child-proofed for the evening, they simply unlock the converter for unscrambled access to their own tastes...
...Implicit in Mr...
...She must place her career above domestic chores, her spouse's relocation, and personal care of children-either by remaining single, sharing her life with someone who accepts all (or at least half) the duties of hearth and home, or paying for the commercial provision of these services...
...Little Rock, Arkansas Pussyfooting Chester E. Finn's "The Policy Wimp Comes of Age" (TAS, July 1983) was to the point but his footnote-the only one in the entire paper!-was an ant on the cheese...
...All one need do is look at a current nursing textbook to see how complex a profession nursing really Ts...
...Majors think that nursing skills consist only of making* beds and administering medications...
...Who knows...
...A free society should be less concerned with the attitudes and tastes of those outside the norm...
...Marilyn, Vicki, and Valerie are far more than representative stewardesses...
...In addition, the wages of both nurses and garbage collectors are currently determined largely by licensure laws and state empowered "public" sector unions-which is perhaps why some find the United States to have a shortage of nurses, and inadequate trash collection...
...She seems to think this is the only way to achieve success and be considered a woman of quality...
...His standard for broadband communication is appropriate...
...Stein's article to be detrimental to the personal integrity of an entire group made up of so many flight attendants who are intelligent, discriminating, sincere, hard-working, professional individuals...
...The survival of any soldier is less important than his unit's accomplish ing its mission...
...Brown claims to have men figured out and thus advises the reader to emulate her by putting vanity and lust before all eke when dealing with them...
...Wilkinson there ain't no such animal so long as there's a switch on the radio or TV...
...Stein's remark that Marilyn, Vicki, and Valerie are not supposed to be taken as representative stewardesses is not vindication for the tens of thousands of women and men working as Flight Attendants in this country alone...
...The greatest disservice, however, is that it robs our women of their dignity...
...Mencken quote that Puritans lay awake at night worrying that someone somewhere was having a good time...
...This theme is "Put on whatever airs are necessary, and fake it as much as you can, and you will make it big in this world...
...Stein's slanderous article neither was nor is the norm among the women with whom I work...
...For instance, monitoring equipment in hospitals is not less labor intensive...
...An experienced infantry officer or NCO knows that his presence on the battlefield can help keep alive younger or less-experienced soldiers...
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...Bruno Paluk President/Association of Professional Flight Attendants Euless, Texas The Association of Professional Flight Attendants represents approximately 6500 Flight Attendants in the employ of American Airlines, Inc...
...Linda Friedel Merrimack, New Hampshire Bruce Powell Majors replies: Miss Friedel's objections seem plausible, and deal with matters of detail (the nursing profession) about which her competence surely far exceeds mine...
...His arguments were compelling, but their logic was undermined by the type of misconceptions-at least about nursing-that give credibility to those who would argue for comparable worth legislation...
...Perhaps both writers underestimate McCarthy, a student of spirits himself who surely knew that Truman did not favor liqueurs...
...How could your publication waste precious natural resources on his unfounded tirade against cable TV in the July issue...
...Robert P. Fairchild (member of U.S...
...And that is what any diligent reader will find in Parmenides's Slang Dictionary Up...
...Although I am not in the business of giving such advice, my answer is basically "yes...
...Like the Russians, this country seems to have adopted the attitude that if men do it, it's worthwhile...
...First, the theme of the book is monotonously uniform, despite the seemingly diverse assortment of chapters in it...
...Perhaps Mr...
...I assure Miss Friedel that this bitter truth has many manifestations about which almost any of us must have our occasional regrets...
...It is the nurses who have to interpret the output and trouble-shoot the hardware, not to mention take care of the patient...
...She states that more "units" of nursing service are needed in order to care for the same number of patients, after the introduction of monitoring equipment (which presumably raises the quality of overall health service to each patient...
...other piece illustrating the "other side of the coin...
...Edward B. Elmer Boston, Massachusetts Cable Rights David Wilkinson's article on the Founding Fathers and cable TV ("Porn, Cable TV, and Censorship," TAS, July 1983) reminds me of the H.L...
...Stein is unaware of that might be an indication of where his head is...
...Thomas C. Duddy Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Thank God that we do not live in the Theocracy of Utah where insecure minds like David Wilkinson are elevated to Attorney General, from which position they dare to determine what we shall do in the privacy of our homes...
...The perpetuation of the "stewardess" myth is a disservice to the passengers who come to imagine that friendliness and courtesy on the job means more than what it is...
...However, as she recognizes, these details by no means constitute a case for the imposition of comparable worth regulations on market processes...
...I found Benjamin J. Stein's article "Flying Low in First Class," (TAS, June 1983) to be a highly offensive affront against the professional flight attendant...
...Although Mr...
...It has been said that one speaks as one lives...
...How else to interpret the publication of "Cosmo's Aging Vixen" by Rachel Flick (TAS, June 1983)?.Miss Flick fails to mention the two insufferable flaws which run through Helen Gurley Brown's most recent tome...
...price of the service, thereby diminishing the demand for the service, or induce the employer to use more capital intensive production processes (for which i took "monitoring equipment" as a placeholder or symbol...
...25th Infantry Division, 1967-1968) Fort Monroe, Virginia A Woman's Place As a member of a woman-dominated profession (nursing), I was frustrated reading Bruce Powell Majors' article "Women's Worth" in your July issue...
...For the term "wimp" is first of all an acronym and it celebrates its 323rd birthday, September 14, 1983...
...While this may be true of the particular monitoring equipment with which Miss Friedel is familiar, it remains true that comparable worth regulations (or any other taxes or regulations that raise the price of labor) will either raise the...
...Bernie Adelman Winthrop, Massachusetts Officer Sassoon In his review of Siegfried Sassoon Diaries (TAS, July 1983) Thomas Mallon remarks on Sassoon's willingness to return to the war, even after he had "found out" its horrors...
...For all I know, most stewardesses are creatures of sober and regular habits...
...Griffin Smith, Jr...
...Flight Attendants are required safety experts on board airplanes, proficient in life saving measures which is their primary function...
...If he were to present a fair and truly intelligent piece of writing, he would have written about individuals in many areas, for example: the corporate heads, professional persons such as physicians, attorneys, bankers, sportsmen and athletes, etc., who get caught up in the same or similar traps...
...I consider Mr...
...As for jobs held by women requiring fewer skills and being less challenging: does Mr...
...Anyone who has ever been in an intensive care unit knows that equipment requires more nurses, not fewer...
...One wonders how it is possible to believe this woman is telling the truth, when she is essentially advising her readers to live a gigantic lie...
...This is why these wages cannot be "planned" beforehand: we don't and can't know these myriad and changing factors ahead of time...
...Victor Berardelli Medford, New Jersey Stewed It is appalling that a magazine with a dignified name such as yours would publishsjien Stein's vacuous pipe dreams about "stewardesses" (Flying Low in First Class," TAS, June 1983...
...Its first meaning was "why I must pussyfoot...
...Maybe Mrs...
...Adults in a household may want to indulge in certain programming at appropriate hours when the children are not near the television or in bed...
...Second, Mrs...
...To put it bluntly, a tramp, no matter how beautiful, is still a tramp...
...Deanna McSwain (flight attendant for a major airline for 17Vi years) Bartlesville, Oklahoma Benedictine Joe Reviewing Robert J. Donovan's Tumultuous Years (TAS, July 1983), John Lewis Gaddis makes the following aside: (In discussing Joe McCarthy's famous canard that too much "bourbon and Benedictine" caused Truman to fire MacArthur . . . Donovan wonders, with the good sense that comes from having been there, whether anyone can really imagine the embattled Chief Executive imbibing the latter beverage...
...Having been in this profession for almost 17 years, I can factually state that the popular myth fostered by Mr...
...Stein did, finally, add: "Marilyn, Vicki, and Valerie are not supposed to be taken as representative stewardesses...
...Why should she fear the loss of her "beauty" as much as she does, unless she knows what she is without it...
...Tell Mr...
...If a woman wants to earn the wages traditionally paid to a man, she must act, in the economic realm, like the men have acted...
...his slang diction- ary defined "wimp" as "a weak, ineffectual, insipid person...
...Furthermore, modern technology has provided the CATV industry with the lock-box converter...
...They are representative of a whole huge slice of a nation's deluded young women, deceived at an early age, who exist to be near money," he would have been far wiser to select examples for his article from various groups rather than to single out one profession...
...Is it not more likely that he chose the word "Benedictine" foots resonance,- far below the surface of the mind, with the name of a certain Revolutionary War general...
...It came to mean, "weak, ineffectual, mittyish pretender...
...I do not care to have open reception to many things (although I would never condemn a group of consenting adults from doing, seeing or hearing them in a private circumstance...
...The generic term "Flight Attendant" has been in use for ten years now and the fact that Mr...
...Certainly men find a beautiful and passionate woman attractive, but no matter how attractive a woman is, or how well she provides sensual gratification, if she is also amoral, most men will ultimately find her contemptible...
...But that is a horrible, simply horrible, half-truth...
...Stein should research the group whom he has so unjustly singled out and write an...
...Samuel Johnson failed to mention this...
...Obviously Wilkinson spends a lot of sleepless nights...
...Who does Mr...
...Toward the end of his article lie mentions assaults on the "sensibilities of unwilling recipients" of blue broadcasts...
...I found this author to be narrow-minded, somewhat ignorant, and abusive to one professional group as a whole...
...Majors' argument is the premise that in order to get more money, a woman must enter a male-dominated profession...
...As to the relative wages of nurses and garbage collectors-we cannot predict what the market, i.e., consumers, will need to offer nurses or garbage collectors to induce potential nurses and potential garbage collectors to take these jobs and provide these services...
...I may not want to subscribe to certain program services offered over CATV but I should not deprive my neighbor of the right to them...
...Brown has already gotten the word...
...And the survival of a unit is less important than an army successfully defending the republic it serves...
...The determination of wages depends on an uncountable variety of factors (e.g., how many people find which job more disagreeable...
...By Wilkinson's logic, your publication should be censured for bringing Taki's writings into my home where our preteen girls might read him...
...In 1975-76, I was the head nurse of a 34-bed intensive care nursery and made less money than a garbage collector...
...Cable TV, however, is a narrowband "closed" form of communications and should be free from any censorship...
...if women do it, it's expendable...
...In short, most of us cannot have it all...
...therefore sixty years after the Doctor's demise, an apology for Johnson's error was written by Boswell's great-nephew Algernon...
...Certainly it would be an adroit way of stirring doubts about the President's patriotism while pretending (if challenged) to be discussing something else...
...The vast majority of my membership are hard working safety and public service oriented individuals who, after working their flights, go home to their spouses, children, and mortgages like any other hard working American...
...Majors think had the more challenging career...
...Such choices mean fewer jobs, as even the Institute for Policy Studies' official socialist-feminist, Barbara Ehrenreich, has admitted...
...Miss Friedel also asks if I think women must enter male-dominated professions to earn wages typical of men...
...CORRESPONDENCE The Lady is a Tramp I hope The American Spectator is not trying to thin the ranks of its well-earned subscribers and lose its reputation as one of the last journals of sanity...
...He can read the signs in terrain, vegetation, and in the behavior of civilians which foretell the imminence of contact with the enemy...
...Shortly after James Thurber gave us the story of the immortal Walter Mitty, the word "wimp," like many other words, underwent change...
Vol. 16 • September 1983 • No. 9
