Eleanor Roosevelt’s Passionate Love Letters To Lorena Hickok

Buzzfeed ^ | October 11, 2012 | Stacy Lambe

[woofie]

I dont know ...I have said the same thing

to my dogs

[Bigg Red]

This is how DESTRUCTIVE the gay pride movement is. There is nothing in that particular letter that could not be attributed to the flowery discourse often found even between mere friends in that historical era. Now we question everyone’s relationship.

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Exactly. I did not read the entire article, but I find nothing incriminating here. And I am most definitely not a fan of ER.

[BenLurkin]

[BenLurkin]

Charles Durning

[Safetgiver]

I can see why they would be attracted to each other...I can’t IMAGINE how anyone could be attracted to ER (unless it involved her pocket book or access to it).

[dfwgator]

We call them “Lesbians by default.”

[Mamzelle]

Before we got all "gay-ed" up, in more sentimental times people expressed honest affection in letters that would sound so different now. Think Anne of Green Gables and her search for a "bosom friend." It wasn't gay on Prince Edward Island, and it might not be gay now. Little girls would get "crushes" on each other and there was nothing sexual about it, because it used to be that little girls had no idea what sex was.

ER may well have been a lesbian, but the letters would have to be awfully explicit for me to believe it.

Along with everything else, gay-hood now makes a loving friendship *suspect*--

[Mamzelle]

Dittoes to everything you said. We now fear attachments which are entirely nurturing will be misinterpreted.

[Safetgiver]

Thanks. I’ve been calling them “Lesbians by Defect”. You straightened me out, though.

[Secret Agent Man]

i can’t figure out which one was supposed to be the woman.

[Mamzelle]

I particularly hate how people mock Frodo and Sam, secure in having lived life in peacetime, and never knowing how Tolkien lost so many of his young friends in WW1.

[Secret Agent Man]

men can learn from friends. hopefully the friends know what they’re talking about.

i’d only ask close friends, not casual acquaintences.

[dead]

Is it possible that porn's been lying to me all these years about how hot lesbians are?

[BenLurkin]

http://www.johnspeedie.com/healy/Uh_Yeah.mp3

[Windflier]

;-)

[BfloGuy]

Now we question everyone’s relationship.

True, but in all fairness, this relationship was being questioned in the forties.

[amihow]

You and those others siding with the lesbian opinion may have been overcome by our culture which has a very difficult time understanding older and differen ones

[Vaquero]

You must separate these poor err ladies, from the real thing...LIPSTICK LESBIANS!

That’s the real deal.

[Jane Long]

This is how DESTRUCTIVE the gay pride movement is. There is nothing in that particular letter that could not be attributed to the flowery discourse often found even between mere friends in that historical era. Now we question everyone’s relationship.

True. And, those were my thoughts, exactly...until I read a few more of the letters. Especially the "feeling of that soft spot just north-east of the corner of your mouth against my lips"...and the "I wish I could lie down beside you tonight & take you in my arms" part.

I know fondness of friendship was stated much more affectionately in past generations, but this is beyond that.

As others have also said.....eeeeewww.

[Vaquero]

now we see why Hillary Rodham believed she was channeling ER

ER was telling her “Destroy your letters”

Actually ER was channeling her first cousin TR. TR took care of a canal, while ER was happy to just take care of a dike.