Feeling afraid after Trump win
I registered to vote in 1965. Nov. 9 was the first election morning after in which I awoke feeling afraid. There was a huge undercurrent of violence during the Trump campaign. He hinted there would be gun violence and riots if he lost. He called on “Second Amendment” types to settle the Hillary problem. “Lock her up,” they chanted. He promised to restrict press freedom despite its being a First Amendment right. He threatened the judge in the Trump University case, although an independent judiciary is outlined in our Constitution. The list goes on.
I wish him the very best. Our country depends upon his success. Republicans may want to reflect on the truly corrosive effect of a campaign that has frightened so many citizens. Disappeared in the night no longer seems out of the question in my beloved country.
MARY BOSSERMAN, DECATUR
Soccer team punishment is war on men
We have just been horrified, shocked and stunned by what can only be called psychological, gender rape. This is nothing less than a sex crime. It is a surpassing act of savage political correctness. I am talking about Harvard University’s decision to suspend members of the Harvard men’s soccer team for engaging in locker room banter. Give me a break. It is a male right — indeed a human right — for men to engage in locker room banter, including talking about women in sexually explicit terms. Male locker room banter is simply men sexually fantasizing about women. This is completely natural behavior for men. Make no mistake. This is an attempt by Harvard to criminalize masculinity. We are seeing nothing less than a war on masculinity being waged on America’s college campuses. This amounts to a war on men. Meanwhile, it is men who do the dying in America on the job and in combat. Given their blood sacrifice, American men do not deserve to be stabbed in the back by man-hating liberal elites.
WALTER KEITH, BROOKHAVEN
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