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...mother of an adolescent girl and a former girl myself, I'm happy to report that it's a swell time to be female. Girls today get to be strong or soft--they play with Barbies and bulldozers. Years of concern over the self-esteem of girls have resulted in a tide of aspiring Mia Hamms and Madeleine Albrights. But what happened to the boys? Why does the phrase "girl power" bring Hillary Clinton to mind, while "boy power" reminds us of Columbine...
...fact is, boys need both feelings and action, self-esteem and high standards. At home, boys should be given jobs to do--preferably alongside Dad. Hours spent playing video games isolate them. Parents should spend as much time listening to their sons as talking at them. If we devote ourselves to meeting our boys' emotional and intellectual needs, as we have done with those of our girls, in time the boys will develop dreams as expansive as those of their sisters, and "boy power" will take on a new meaning...
When I wrote for Salon, the FTR (full traffic report) would arrive in my e-mail like the bluebird of low self-esteem. A hit-count list of the previous day's articles, it would range from tens of thousands (say, a cover story on a sex scandal) to a few thousand or less (say, mine). The writers' room in hell has a similar setup. There's nothing to make you question your career goals like discovering that your take on the post-Tina Brown New Yorker was empirically proved to be 10 times less interesting than Jennifer Lopez...
While it was commendable that TIME published an article on a woman who commands a Navy warship, it was unfortunate that no mention was made of how Commander Kathleen McGrath developed the self-esteem, confidence and leadership skills to be selected for the position in the male-dominated military. It would have been more enlightening than the subject of toilet modifications. PATRICIA KUBUS LOCK Nicholson...
...evil deed each day until he will invariably refuse to commit the crime and then die, in agony, at the hands of his ancestors. Sir Rutheven has faked his own death and has disguised himself as the sweet, disarming young farmer Robin Oakapple, who has such low self-esteem that he cannot confess his love to Rose without the help of his long-lost foster brother, the entertaining sailor Richard Dauntless (Francis Crick '03). Angle is ideally cast as the naive, helpless Robin, who becomes even more inept at doing his daily evil deed once his true identity is revealed...