CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
September 20, 1991
Gordon's concern about the liberation of women is a worthy cause but her attack on "positive patriarchy" really stretches reason to the limit. Gordon's comparing "wild men," a harmless release of joy and emotion to "wilding," a destructive, criminal spree is truly taking an argument to absurd lengths. Robert Bly's men's movement is no more a call for misogyny than assertiveness training for women is a castration clinic. If we are to progress as men and women we must do so with reason and good judgment not with the rancor Suzanne Gordon seems to harbor at the expense of truth.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
May 7, 1993
Three cheers for Suzanne Gordon for her article, "Nurses as Partners for Better Care" (Commentary, April 28). She succinctly captured the essence of the doctor/nurse lack of communication. This power struggle negatively impacts patient care. Everyone is the loser. A large percentage of the nation's health care could be performed by registered nurses. It has been estimated that 90% of diagnosis and treatment of a patient can be determined by active listening. In this way, predisposing factors and symptoms can be utilized to give improved patient care.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
September 9, 1994
Thank you for Suzanne Gordon's article ("A Child's Lesson in Care-Giving," Aug. 15) on the inclusion of disabled students in the classroom. In order to communicate with deaf students, my own 6-year-old son Erhan, has been learning sign language in his first-grade class. I am convinced that it is facilitating his own reading and writing skills as well I have observed him signing spelling words for his 3-year-old brother and trying to teach him the phrases he learned at school.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
December 17, 1993
In response to "Nurses Have Had It With Sexism," by Suzanne Gordon and Judith Shindul-Rothschild, Commentary, Dec. 7: I have had the privilege in the last six or seven years to have worked with a number of nurse practitioners. I have seen the American Medical Assn.'s and the California Medical Assn.'s escalating war against increasing the scope and authority of the nurse practitioners. The sayings that they are "only nurses," that they "lack the basic theoretical foundations of medicine" are slogans that obscure the reality.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
April 4, 1992
Suzanne Gordon ("Perspective on Women" March 22, Commentary) misses the point about Hillary Clinton and spouses like her. I want to vote for only one person for any given office, be it man or woman. Both of the Clintons appear to be running for our highest office and I will not vote for a "Mr. and Mrs. Officeholder," or a "Mrs. and Mr."
OPINION
June 30, 1991
I've just read Suzanne Gordon's article (June 21), and I've never read the case for pro-choice stated better. Her arguments express everything that any decent human being has ever felt. To this may I add one more reason. With all the millions of unwanted, uncared for and unnecessary babies in this world, why are we forcing people to produce still more? Society should reward, not censure, a woman who has the courage to say, "I do not want this child, I cannot care for this child, and I will not have this child."