Honest and straightforward talk

Bravo to Heather King (“The perils of linguistic subterfuge,” Dec. 27, 2024) for daring to tell it like it is. 

People become so easily brainwashed by these misleading expressions, like “gender-affirming.”

“Pro-choice” is another example. It sounds so attractive. Who doesn’t want choices? What they really mean, though, is “pro-abortion.” 

The author’s quote from Plato on the “sophists” is priceless. 

There have always been those who twist words to plant falsehoods in the minds of their listeners, beginning with the original word-twister, who pulled off the first and biggest hoax in the Garden of Eden.

— Marilyn Boussaid, St. James Church, Redondo Beach