Ok, You Have Had Your Say
Dear Ann Landers: I hope you will print one more letter about cross-dressing. Nobody complains when women not only dress but act like men.
Women have succeeded in invading the male world to an alarming degree. It’s not uncommon to see a female security guard in a male club, dressed like a man and using the men’s bathroom. Female reporters walk into male locker rooms and their noses get out of joint if they are not treated with Victorian respect. When a guy complains, they holler about “discrimination.”
I visited San Juan, Puerto Rico, recently and was impressed to see that women dress like women and enjoy their femininity and men respect them. The only females in the United States who look and dress like women are prostitutes. No wonder they do such a great business and married men are their best customers. - Shrewsbury, Mo.
Dear Shrews: You asked me to print one more letter about cross-dressing, and yours was it. Although you sound like a male chauvinist oink oink, a great many others share your views and you deserve to be heard.
Dear Ann Landers: How can I diplomatically tell my sister that I don’t think it’s a good idea for her son, who is 14, and his sister, who will soon be 12, to sleep together?
They have separate bedrooms, but almost every morning, the girl ends up in her brother’s bed. Their parents think it is wonderful that they are “so close” and have so much to talk about. I am worried that they might be doing more than talking.
I presume this same situation occurs in other families, so if you print my letter, make sure the finger isn’t pointed at me. My sister would be furious if she knew I wrote to you, and I would never hear the end of it. Please put me on the other coast. - “Auntie Mayme”
Dear “Auntie Mayme”: I need not identify the location of everyone whose letter appears in print, so don’t worry.
A 12-year-old girl should not be sleeping with her 14-year-old brother under any circumstances. They ought to be able to do all their talking before bedtime and each retire to his or her own space - and stay there until morning. I hope someone in that family reads this column and takes my word for it.
Dear Ann Landers: Fie on you for saying a second wife should not be offended because her husband put a memorial notice for his first wife in the paper on the anniversary of her death - worded “your loving husband.” That’s like advertising how much he still loves the first wife - maybe more than the new one. I don’t blame her for being upset.
I am a 70-year-old woman married to a 73-yearold man who has buried two wives. I don’t mind hearing about the happy memories of his first wife of 39 years because he doesn’t ram her down my throat. But his constant yakking about his fabulous second and much younger wife (they were married less than five years) burns me up. Once he started to go into detail about their sex life, and I shut him up by saying if I die first and he ever talks about our sex life, I’ll come back and strike him irreversibly impotent.
He often calls me by his second wife’s name. When I get mad, he says I should be flattered because he loved her so much. I really don’t need any advice, Ann. I just wanted to get this off my chest. - Freeport, Maine
Dear Freeport: I hope you feel better now. Meanwhile, stop competing with women who are in the cemetery. He is yours now and that is all that matters.