{"id":91934,"date":"2026-02-05T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peninsulaclarion.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor-17\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T07:30:00","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peninsulaclarion.com\/2026\/02\/05\/letters-to-the-editor-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Masculinity choices<\/p>\n<p>Masculinity is a set of traits and behaviors leading to concepts that we define as both healthy or toxic.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Pretti, the ICU VA nurse recently killed, emulated a kind, nurturing and compassionate approach when aiding a woman who had been viciously shoved to the ground in Minneapolis. His unexpected tender heartedness reflects a strength and persistence when opposing wrong disguised as &ldquo;ICE Normal.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>As to toxic masculinity, we have Tom Homan, the architect of separating children including infants from their families; Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War Crimes, shoots helpless survivors clinging to destroyed vessels and can&rsquo;t wait to unleash his pubescent urges to be warlike; Stephen Miller promotes his campaign of racism, hate and cruelty; our Misogynist-in-Chief Donald Trump, who since the 1970s has been accused of sexual misconduct including rape by 28 women, and is a consistently cowardly and demeaning bully with the morality of a grapefruit.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Pretti demonstrated the right kind of admirable masculinity. His last words to the woman lying prone were: &ldquo;Are you okay?&rdquo; In his nursing career, he used his skills to help, heal, serve and protect the most vulnerable among us. Manifest your own masculinity. Choose wisely.<\/p>\n<p>Michael A LeMay, Veterans For Peace<\/p>\n<p>Homer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Masculinity choices<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1129,"featured_media":91935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[480,69],"class_list":["post-91934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-letter-to-the-editor","tag-opinion"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Letters to the editor - Peninsula Clarion<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peninsulaclarion.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor-17\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Letters to the editor - Peninsula Clarion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Masculinity choices\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/www.peninsulaclarion.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor-17\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Peninsula Clarion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-02-06T07:30:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.peninsulaclarion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2026\/02\/41510484_web1_P-bw-typewriter-HOM-220224.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2048\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1365\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Wire Service\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Wire Service\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.peninsulaclarion.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor-17\/\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.peninsulaclarion.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor-17\/\",\"name\":\"Letters to the editor - Peninsula Clarion\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.peninsulaclarion.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.peninsulaclarion.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor-17\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.peninsulaclarion.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor-17\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.peninsulaclarion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2026\/02\/41510484_web1_P-bw-typewriter-HOM-220224.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-02-06T07:30:00+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.peninsulaclarion.com\/#\/schema\/person\/a55308a565b50b2e68081f4b0ef3c2ef\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.peninsulaclarion.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor-17\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"http:\/\/www.peninsulaclarion.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor-17\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.peninsulaclarion.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor-17\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.peninsulaclarion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2026\/02\/41510484_web1_P-bw-typewriter-HOM-220224.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.peninsulaclarion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2026\/02\/41510484_web1_P-bw-typewriter-HOM-220224.jpg\",\"width\":2048,\"height\":1365,\"caption\":\"A vintage Underwood typewriter sits on a table on Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022, at the Homer News in Homer, Alaska. 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