DUMB-BOY JOKES

“The Attack of the Dumb-Boy Jokes” (by Amy Ephron, Palm Latitudes, Jan. 31) was in rather poor taste. How can a newspaper that has called upon baseball to punish Marge Schott for alleged racial remarks print such bigoted material about boys.

Only a joke? Perhaps Schott, too, was only joking. Maybe making fun of boys is simply acceptable among the politically correct. Can we expect to see jokes about gays, women, Jews and the physically handicapped in the future?

JOHN SCHROEDER

Los Angeles