Dawn M. Jones needs to lighten up (Letters, Herald, March 10). She doesn’t sound happy that she now lives in a small town and reads a small-town newspaper.
Her relocation from Washington, D.C., has been hard for her. It might make her feel better if she loses the ego and sticks her head in the sand for a while.
The story about the Durango Film Festival (Herald, March 3) was not about Jones, so the term “red-headed stepchildren” that was used in a humoristic way to describe how short films are generally treated at film festivals was not bullying to her. I’m Polish. If I thought like Jones does, I’d have to kill myself to get away from all the Polish jokes she sees as bullying. Dawn’s letter disturbed our small town because it was angry, expressed in sentences like “what a bunch of crap.”
I’m personally disturbed too. My innocence has been taken away. Now I have to believe red heads are hot heads.
Sandy Young
Durango
