Dear Editor:

Willie Richardson wrote a column in last week’s Plaindealer about the time he “snuggled up with the Bear.” We had a hard time understanding its intent. Was it funny?

It dehumanized the woman he used for sex — “she was a troll for sure” — “she was lookin’ at me, and that wine, the way a starvin’ hound looks at a T-bone” – “The Bear!”

It honored his pals, who used hay bales to trap him with “The Bear,” and then cheered him for being “the man,” the ...