Dear Weekend

Over to you
Ellen Ruppel Shell (Born To Be Fat, January 11) seems to be stereotyping Stone Age women as obese on the basis of very little evidence. The Venus Of Willendorf, and other similarly shaped statuettes, to quote Paul Bahn, "have bodies worn and altered by age and childbearing". I query whether there are "100 such statues", rather than a mix of physiologies of women of different ages, some possibly pregnant. They include the pencil-slim Venus Impudique, the first figurine to be found. One must also allow for the artist's aesthetic; perhaps the exaggeration of the breasts and belly depicts fertility.

Ralph Hancock
Chesterfield
Derbyshire

I can understand the frustration of the Wimbledon fans (Pitch Battle, January 11). However, I thought it was normal for newly formed teams to start at the bottom of a league and work their way through the divisions. Can any of its fans tell me how AFC Wimbledon managed to go straight into the top section of the Combined Counties League, and how the supporters of teams in the lower sections of that league feel about this?

Brian Penney
Lancaster
Lancashire

Jim White repeats the assertion made in other articles about the Wimbledon saga that, "In Britain... moving the name and goodwill of a sports outfit... is unheard of." This is patently untrue: Meadowbank Thistle was a small, part-time Scottish team based in Edinburgh. It moved to Livingston and this season has played in the Uefa Cup. I am opposed to football franchising, but no one can deny the success of the one previous example of it in Britain.

Andy Clark
Whitley Bay
Tyne & Wear

"We know so much about [Prince Charles] that we haven't yet told," Julie Burchill tells us (January 11). What? Why not?

Mike Reid
Sheffield

I can remain silent no longer - would Zoe Williams please put on some shoes in her byline photo (Things You Only Know If You're Not At Work). I can't bear looking at those awful great big ugly grey socks week after week.

Georgia Love
Morden
Surrey

Superplonker! I didn't expect Malcolm Gluck to like my book, The Girls' Guide To Wine ( Superplonk, January 11) - at its launch party, he told me he hoped it would be "really raunchy" and contain "jokes about which wines go with tarts". Spot on, Malcolm - that's just the kind of vocabulary girls use when they get together for a laugh. The book is a lighthearted, tongue-in-cheek approach to a subject that is often treated with dreadful pomposity. Fortunately, many others seem to have got the joke - it has received favourable reviews and is already on its third print-run. Readers may conclude that the book was not aimed at the Malcolm Glucks of this world.

Susy Atkins
Bridford
Devon

Very sad and shocking that two of the country's most talented, creative and non-conformist actresses, Charlotte Coleman and Katrin Cartlidge, who both died tragic and early deaths last year, should have been forgotten in your obituary section, The Last Goodbyes (December 28). Such real creative talent surely deserves more acknowledgment than Anne Widdecombe's cats.

Rachel Riggs
Thornton Cleveleys
Lancashire

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