Women's roles

Comments on Li Xing's column "Hey, media - Stop female stereotyping" (China Daily, March 8)

It all comes down to the fact that ours is a male-dominated society. Compared to other major social-political issues, it seems gender bias is almost trivial to some if not most of our policy makers. I bet some of them would argue women are safer at home than trying to prove they are as capable as men are out there, with good reason.

As for the media's role in female-stereotyping, I'm afraid the problem is much more complicated than what Li Xing has brought up here. I won't go so far as to join the conspiracy theory fan club, but I will wager many editors in chief or newspaper managers would ask you to leave them alone for the simple reason that there is little else left for them to build on when it comes to expanding readership.

Jim

On China Daily website

It is interesting that you brought in Anna Nicole Smith. She seems to be the ultimate symbol of the objectification of women. Her life centered around her body and even in death her body was still being objectified.

All the discussion about DNA, who had control over the corpse, where to bury the body and whether the body was decaying while the court hearings were taking place would have been funny if it weren't so tragic.

At last she was truly an object.

Mary

On China Daily website

More on red lanterns

Comments on Liu Shinan's column "Shamed by a little girl's red lanterns" (China Daily, March 7)

I really enjoyed reading Liu's column. I understand how our cultures change from good to bad and how we want to hold onto the good, like this girl with her idea for the red lanterns.

Last year I met many wonderful young men and women from China who have came to the United States for jobs or to visit family members already here. They are so polite and the best friends anyone could ever wish for.

They bring out the best in other people who work around them as they truly speak from their heart and show the warmth of very good upbringing even if from poor environments.

I cannot speak Chinese and these young men and women have so many dialects, it is hard to understand what they mean at times.

But, I have found that we can communicate fairly well, with gestures and smiles. I have felt truly blessed in the last year to have met several of these people who are now my friends.

Jody R. Sutherland

Via e-mail

Thanks for the good article.

I have met some Chinese people who are very friendly and others who are not. Most people live in a Darwinist society, where the strong thrive and the weak must leave or die.

Survival of the fittest is the message.

Mare

On China Daily website

China is worth to visit if only to meet one such lovely person like that young girl. I have met many.

A passer-by

On China Daily website

(China Daily 03/13/2007 page10)