King Kong Float
John L. Dantice (Letters, Jan. 13) burdened us with some severe words about the King Kong float in the Rose Parade. The float “portrays a woman as the screaming and powerless victim of an aggressor (which) demonstrates the condoning, insensitive, and ignorant attitudes of our society.” In addition, he was able to find “sexual and racial overtones.”
Jeez . . . I thought we’d heard the last of cold shrillness like that in the 1970s.
Lighten up, John. It was a joke . . . a joke .
The only sensible conclusion we can take from Dantice’s more-sensitive-than-thou letter is that men who think they’re feminists sound even sillier than real feminists.
ROBERT EMBRY
Montrose
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