Ingraham on Fidelity

Laura Ingraham unwittingly revealed her (and the rest of the right wing’s) rear view mirror approach to women’s rights (Commentary, May 3). She wrote, “Women had real girl power when they didn’t tolerate men flouting marital vows or women treating married men as fair game.” When was it that women had “real power,” Ms. Ingraham? You mean back in the days when women were the property of their husbands? You mean the days when a man could beat up his wife and turn away the cops by saying it was a “family matter”? Ingraham insults women when she says that they once tolerated men “flouting” marital vows; most never have and never will.

There is a cost of equality. When the genders are mixed more regularly in business, more monkey business will occur. Maybe that’s why so many leading conservatives are working on second and third marriages?

JIM CORBETT

San Clemente

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What an excellent article. Unless we women make a stand and say it loud and clear that an adulterous relationship in or outside of the workplace is morally wrong, the future of the American family is in jeopardy. People seem to forget that in an adulterous relationship, there are lots of broken hearts and lives involved.

Despite man’s advances in technology, there is one area that cannot change--human nature. God knows human nature very well and he has a reason why he included the commandment against adultery. The family is the backbone of a civilized society. It seems the feminists have forgotten this. How sad!

WILHELMINA LeBOFF

Glendale

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So now, by virtue of sisterhood, the onus of marital fidelity is on single women? If so, why doesn’t sisterhood dictate similarly that women should refrain from marriage in the first place so that men remain single and available to single women?

HEIDI BARRON

Los Angeles