Spare the Children
To the Editor:
How maddening to read “A Girl’s Life, With Highlights,” by Camille Sweeney (Skin Deep, Thursday Styles, April 3).
Many parents succumb to “treating” kids to things they are not ready for. Children should be taught to run and play and leave the salons to us adults trying to recapture the looks of youth children naturally possess.
Patricia Funt Oxman
New Canaan, Conn.
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Blogs and Stereotypes
To the Editor:
Re: “Why Blog? Reason No. 92: Book Deal,” by Allen Salkin (Sunday Styles, March 30)
Was it really necessary to capture the spirit of this overexposed blog by referencing loathsome No. 11, Asian Girls, that ultimately describes nothing more than a garden-variety stereotype with race-baiting potential, without so much as a roll of the eye?
Stephanie Pham-Quang
New York
What About the Animals?
To the Editor:
Re: “The Carrot Some Vegans Deplore,” by Kara Jesella (Thursday Styles, March 27):
The feminist in me who is offended by naked and scantily clad women promoting veganism is not as offended as the animal lover in me.
While men eagerly pay attention to the human body parts on display, men and women are too quick to turn a blind eye toward the legs, breasts and other body parts of sentient beings who are in their shopping carts and on their plates. Patti Breitman
Fairfax, Calif.
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