The subject came up again at the morning meeting of The Bee's editorial board on Wednesday. We need more women's letters on the Opinion pages. It's called e-mail, after all, not e-male. Think about it -- young women are being exposed to the shrillest of role models like Ann Coulter. How scary is that? We need some balance. Check out the nice work done in Thursday's paper by Tamara Beard and Janet Klise. By my count, we have 10 letters, yet only two or three are from women.
I know, I just talked to you about this the other day. But I am going to keep reminding you. Not sure what to write about? Well, call me at 441-6321 and I'll brainstorm with you. Try out your arguments on me and I'll honestly tell you if it makes sense. Unsure of your grammar, spelling, etc.? Don't worry about it, we can help with that, too. Every day I hear the women all around me talking and writing me private e-mails saying the brightest, wisest, funniest and savviest things. But for some reason, when it comes to jumping into the pool of public debate, men's letters far outnumber the women. It makes no sense to me, but numbers are numbers. If you need a little incentive, I recommend Arianna Huffington's excellent book, "On Becoming Fearless." I blogged about it awhile back and it's truly motivational.
Do you need an invitation? Consider yourself invited. You don't like the topics? Well, change the subject! Don't feel comfortable being negative? Then be positive. Lord knows we need more positive people. Bring recognition to something good in the community. Not sure how to do it? It's easy, here's how to do it by e-mail. Try it you'll like it.
So Ann Coulter is shrill and Arianna Huffington would make a better role model. Good Grief!
So the Bee needs more female letter writers. If your local community doesn't have enough women interested in writing letters, perhaps the Bee should follow Title IX's most frequently invoked resolution strategy and simply decrease the number of male letter writers...