White Men Can’t Win

My basic instinct tells me this letter will get lost in the mail and won’t reach you for years. I just saw “Jagged Edge.” Shame on them, portraying a heterosexual male as a suspect in a horribly violent killing. Certainly now moviegoers will assume that every male heterosexual kills women in bed and writes “bitch” on the wall with blood. I’ll never date again.

In fact, I’d better stop going to movies. I haven’t spoken to my mom since seeing “Ordinary People,” because now I know that every mother despises her second-born child. And I can’t take a shower ever again ‘cause I saw “Psycho,” and. . . .

CAROLYN WILLIAMSON

Los Angeles