Letters: July 1, 2009

Your issue was so gay!

Re Winnie McCroy's 'The Butch Is Back' [The Queer Issue, June 24–30]: What is this, a Voice piece from 1992? Hello! Straight is the new gay!

M. Rhodes

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Men are not attracted to Rachel Maddow. She is not an "icon," nor does she represent a "trend." Quit inventing news about a non-entity.

Mike

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Two words for this article: cognitive dissonance.

Michelle

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Rachel Maddow is an inspiration to cute (not gorgeous), intellectual butch lesbians everywhere. Or at least to this one. I applied to Cornell (and got in) after finally realizing that's who and what I was. And Rachel Maddow helped make that difference for me.

C.J.

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Concerning the Queer Issue: For all the appropriate celebratory rumblings about the improvement in our country regarding the rights of gays, there is virtually no reporting anywhere in the mainstream press about the renewed, vicious, anti-gay bigotry spreading across the globe under the banner of Radical Islam.

Andrew M. Upton

Manhattan

MJ's death: The sad-sack theory

Re Michael Musto's 'Michael Jackson's Autopsy Secrets!' [villagevoice.com, June 29]: You're so right that Jackson spent his whole life trying to whittle away at himself. It makes sense that he left nothing but a bag of bones. Sad.

Clem

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Spoiler alert

Re Scott Foundas's review of The Hurt Locker [Film, June 24–30]: Thank you so much for revealing the fate of the "team's affable leader (Guy Pearce)" one sentence after mentioning his existence.

I prefer, like most right-thinking people, to not have "tension" when viewing a film for the first time. It is certainly preferable to know what fates will befall the characters than to be surprised.

Again, thank you ever so much for pre-screening this film so that I and all your faithful readers can read exactly what we're going to witness before entering the multiplex. My poor heart just couldn't take the suspense of not knowing!

Seth Gordon

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Crashing bore

Re Robert Wilonsky's review of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen [June 23]: Only in America would someone make such offensive trash. Megan Fox looks terrible and is treated like a sex slave. There were so many big explosions, pointless battles, and gunshots that I left the cinema with a headache. The two wise-cracking autobots were not funny and were racist. I suppose that the twinning of Petra and Giza appeals to the 78 percent of Americans who do not own a passport.

This movie is an embarrassment for the U.S. to any non-Americans who watch it.

Richard Evans

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You are being unrealistically hard on the movie—everything from your personal opinions about where the characters wound up to your snide comments about Michael Bay.

You're bashing a filmmaker for continually using the U.S. flag in most of his films, but many of them heavily involve the U.S. military, and he's also just proud of being an American-born filmmaker.

T. Pinkerton

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Dish it out. We can take it.

Re Sarah DiGregorio's 'The Cart Is a Lonely Hunter' [June 17–23]: These 25,000 permits will get taken up faster than people think—and what's to stop someone on the black market from registering 10,000 permits? Instead, the city could sell permits to anyone who wants one and then, every year, auction off the rights to vend at certain spots.

This would prevent brick-and-mortar places from calling the cops, and it would let us have the most delicious food vendors at the best locations.

Danny

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