Your daily Letter to the Columnist — Aug. 14, 2012
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Maybe she’ll carry concealed to the the Chippendales show Sept. 18 at 202 Market
via snail mail
Aug. 8, 2012
Mr. Casey,
I have never written a letter to you or anybody else to voice my disgruntlement about the thoughts of someone else but your article in Sunday’s paper really upset me.
I am female — not young, but very mature — and have seen a lot of life but I would like to know if you have a daughter, wife or sister? If you are lucky you do have or have had a mother. That said why did you feel that you should go invite all the lonely males looking for a little action to go down to the city market area the night of Sept. 18 to look for tipsy women with one thing on their minds?
What was you thinking about? How would you feel if one of those females gets raped, robbed or beaten that night? You made an open invitation, even providing the date. I would not have known the date of this event if you had not provided it.
The world is full of enough perverts that do their own pursuing with drugs, duck tape and whatever their perverted minds let them think about without offering females as a smorgasbord for them.
I know you were outraged about this event demeaning males, mainly the portly and hirsute ones middle-agers like yourself but to offer females as a sacrificial lamb to all the lonely and perverted males to come get a little action from tipsy females? Come on, it’s like putting a person’s address in your paper and say, ‘Go knock on the door and enjoy the fun.’ Come on stop and think how many females and even males you have put in danger.
You stated that this tawdry show will destroy marriages in the Star City have you ever heard the saying, ‘It makes no difference where you get your appetite just as long as you bring it home’? Maybe just maybe some Roanoke marriages will benefit form this tawdry show, bring their appetites home and some lucky fellow will have the time of his life, more than one night if his partner makes it home without some turned-on male intercepting her before she get home.
By the way Mr. Casey have you ever been to a strip show or do you just undress ladies with your mind out on the street?
In case you are wondering I have never been to a male strip show and I am not promoting them, just thinking about your words that put females in danger.
I am not signing this as I don’t want my name to end up in the paper.
I did wait a few days to see if my mind had settled down and it has not. I am still fired up. You made a huge mistake writing that column as you did.
Shame on you.
(unsigned)
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Answers from Dan:
1. I have a wife, three daughters, a sister and a mother.
2. I was joking about the Chippendales Revue coming to Roanoke.
3. Is your sense of humor so constrained you cannot see that?
4. Have you ever laughed in your life?
August 14, 2012 - 1:30 PM
I have a 19 year old son who attends college out of town and is not very familiar with your column. When he read the front page of the Virginia section, he asked me “Is this guy serious?” I told him to finish the article which made him laugh, not only at your intended humor but at himself for his thoughts towards you in the beginning of the article. He, also being of a sarcastic nature, appreciated the humor in the story. It’s a shame that others can’t.
I’m sorry, did everyone simultaneously and completely surrender their ability to recognize satire and humor? This is as bad as those nutty atheists who completely missed the point of your piece on atheism…I guess giving Lucifer the code name “Luke” wasn’t clear enough.
Smart not to put her name on such inanity.
“In case you are wondering I have never been to a male strip show ..”
Well, that rules out it being any Liberal woman or Conservative man on this blog that could have written that letter.
Our society is really losing its sense of humor. Not to mention that when anyone says “What was you thinking about?” I have to consider that perhaps they wouldn’t understand what I think about whether it is past, present or future thinking.
Yeah, Mark? I think you got that backwards. But I appreciate it as it stands.
So…tell us about the male strip shows you’ve attended…
Good catch Kristen, I did get it backwards. LOL! But you definitely knew what I meant.
Because a Liberal woman or a Conservative man would never attend such a show.
Not I for sure, Mark. I’ve only been to two strip clubs in my life, and they both featured women. So my experience is limited.
hey dano, not for nothin’, but i think you just trashed a person for simply taking the time to tell you her personal opinion of what she thought of your article. she didn’t post her concerns on a blog, she didn’t write a letter to the editor, all she DID do, apparently, was take the time to write you a personal letter. have you taken the time to do the same thing in response? evidently no, yet you cynically and childishly took the time to publicly post and ridicule her personal letter to you, along with your snarky “possibility” of a response back to her… you take pleasure in others’ discomforting innocence. you are….”different”, dano. and, you are certainly where you belong, right here as an “opinion” journalist encumbered by no standards, for a paper no company, or even Warren Buffett, wants to buy.
Frank,
What are you talking about? Tell me the name of the person who you say I “trashed.”
Why you got to be perving on drunk women Dan???? LOL
you personally bashed her for no reason other than to ridicule. she knows who she is. she didn’t take you to task publicly.
Frank, I’m making fun of the LETTER, its ideas, and the lack of a sense of humor. I have no idea who wrote it. It was unsigned. For all I know, you wrote it.
yeah, dano, i know…. it’s all good of course, ’cause YOU did it…
Downtown Blacksburg has tons of young drunk chicks wandering around every night. This is nothing extraordinary. What special opportunity for victimization is Dan supposedly creating? That woman needs to get a grip!
I’ve been trolling for chicks outside bridge games at the local senior center with no luck. Thanks for the lead on the tipsy chicks Dan!