She's followed up with information on the editing she is doing, and I'm not surprised it's happening. To be clear, I'm not horrified, either -- she's basically proofreading them -- but there was way too much perfect capitalization happening in those letters for them to be untouched.

Personally, I feel like we'd get a slightly truer sense if we could see what the people wrote as they wrote it. Perfecting the grammar tends to skew the perception even more in terms of education/literacy than it's already being skewed by the fact that the project involves self-selection for willingness to express this sort of idea in print.

But then, maybe the inherent casualness of the internet is already skewing those letters into worse grammar than they'd have if people were writing real letters, and her proofreading is just reversing that trend.

I've been reading it since it made the Time list recently, which means not that long, and I have to kind of wonder how much editing those letters are getting.

Now, maybe her outreach efforts have primarily reached the more literate johns and working girls out there -- that would certainly make sense -- or maybe everyone reads all the old letters before they write her and are emulating them -- also logical -- but those letters all have a certain sameness to their level of literacy that I find suspect.

This post amounts to 'Ha ha, you said rectal!' I mean, it's a standard, normal thermometer. Yes, it can be used rectally, just like any other digital thermometer of this sort -- but then, it can also be used in the other typical ways, too.

It's questionable how much free choice exists for women raised in a faith that treats then as if their bodies are shameful.

On the other hand, I'm sort of interested in the burqini for my atheistic lily-white self. One, cuz I have a lardass (I'm ashamed of my body for a *good* reason) and two because there's a lot of skin cancer running in my family. If those things are cool and comfortable, I think I'd prefer one to having to shove my ass into a nylon-spandex tummy tucking, hip minimizer concoction from Christina.

It seems slightly bizarre to me that something that's managed to survive without our loving care for some 3 million years now needs to be kept in an air conditioned room where no one without a PhD can see it.