A Postal Stamp for Barbie Says It All

There isn’t any better example of how this country values its women than the article about the rejection by the U.S. Postal Service of a stamp commemorating the American farm woman (“The Goal: A Stamp of Their Own,” Aug. 24). Postal officials cited “a lack of national interest.” The same day, the post office unveiled a stamp, covering half the side of a building, commemorating Barbie! Wake up ladies and smell the stench of misogyny and devaluation.

There’s actually a guy in the administration named James Tolbert dumb enough to say: “There is a lack of national interest and historical perspective to support a postal stamp honoring farm women.” Who’s he been surveying, the boys in the back of the pool room? Or maybe the doll industry? And who’s on that Citizen Stamp Advisory Committee? Can we vote them out or are they tenured on the basis of their campaign contributions?

--MARGARET PHELPS

Irvine