A Letter to Washington Post Staff About their “Abused by the badge” Investigation
Why doesn't the Post perform similar studies about the abuse of men and boys?
Dear Messrs. /Mses. Contrera, Abelson, Harden, Godfrey, Jones, et al.,1
Despite what I say further below, I sincerely want to compliment and to express my appreciation to each of you for your Abused by the badge article from this past June.2
As the father of two daughters, I’m outraged by what your research uncovered: young girls being sexually exploited by police officers. That many of these offenders all too often were protected by police departments that hid or minimized the abusive acts of their own officers is despicable; that so many received light or even no sentences make the story even more outrageous.
I do, however, have a suggestion for another investigation that the Washington Post should consider about another group of sex offenders who often escape detection or, when caught, frequently use a gender double-standard to escape serious consequences.
Before I make this suggestion, please know why I’m taking time to write this open letter to all of you.
I’m a lifelong reader of the Post who nevertheless has long noticed the paper’s feminist-inspired gender bias, provable by its imbalanced coverage of domestic violence3 and its 2018 publication of the op-ed Why can't we hate men?, where the Post provided a platform for a radical feminist to broadcast to the world a Nazi-like hatred for men.
Since that repulsive diatribe was published I’ve been sending open letters to Post columnists who have written articles that perpetuate this gender bias.
My suggestion is “Abused by Their Teachers”, and is modeled on your article:
To begin your research, you might want to first revisit two widely publicized cases of teachers who raped their students:
Mary Kay Letourneau, who raped a 12-year-old student, became pregnant, and after three months in jail was again found having sex with the same boy. She later married her student, leaving her first husband and their four children.
Debra Lafave, who raped a 14-year-old student. A plea bargain allowed her to avoid prison, instead serving three years of house arrest, seven years of probation, and lifetime registration as a sex offender
Then you might visit a few web sites for easily obtained information about hundreds of other teachers who raped their minor students but who mostly escaped media attention:
Finally, you may wish to read my post Female Sexual Predators that describes a side to female sexual behavior that is at least as repugnant as that of men.
Do I expect that the Post will perform an investigation similar to Abused by the badge, but one that instead reports on female teachers who sexually abuse their students?4
No, at least not in the foreseeable future, as the paper has a long history of provable anti-male gender bias – made undeniable by its “Why can’t we hate men?” article – that helps propagate a one-sided, gender biased feminist worldview that portrays men as universally toxic, misogynistic abusers of women, ignoring the good in men, while presenting women as eternally suffering, oppressed victims of males, but never considering women’s own dark side.
I believe this one-sided perspective was perfectly summarized by a prominent critic of feminism, Camille Paglia:
Following are suggestions for some additional investigations that the Post may want to also consider, offered with the same lofty inspiration as the Abused by the badge study, to help illuminate the prejudiced feminist worldview that the Washington Post helps propagate.
Abused by the Washington Post: Male Victims of Domestic Violence
For decades the Post has published thousands of sad articles about women beaten by their husbands or boyfriends, ignoring male victims despite a fact long suppressed by feminists: women are at least as violent as their partners.
Recommended sources for your investigation:
A February 2023 report by The Coalition to End Domestic Violence described a 10-Year Suppression of the Truth on Domestic Violence by the Washington Post.
How Feminists Have Concealed the Facts About Women's Domestic Violence provides a summary of an article by preeminent DV researcher Murray Straus that documents seven ways that feminists have concealed and distorted the facts about DV.
Visit The Partner Abuse State of Knowledge (PASK) website. Be sure to view the video The uncomfortable facts on IPV.
This Substack post explains why domestic violence is feminism’s “Big Lie”.
For examples of the Post’s gender bias about domestic violence read some of my letters to Post columnists
Abused by Feminism: Marriage, Fathers and Families
How many Post readers know that one of feminists’ goals is the destruction of family and marriage, and the removal of fathers from both? How do I know? They’ve often said so.
Although it’s not unusual for the Post to acknowledge the importance of marriage and fathers (columnist Colbert I. King has often written about the importance of both), the paper is often blind to its own gender bias against fathers. An example can be found in a 2023 article by columnist Alyssa Rosenberg, This Father’s Day, stop treating dads as dopes, deadbeats or icebergs.
Although the title seems to acknowledge that dads have long been unfairly maligned, a more thorough reading of Rosenberg’s article reveals that it instead surreptitiously advances selfish, one-sided feminist objectives under the deceitful guise of “helping fathers”. See if you don’t agree.
Recommended sources for your investigation:
The National Fatherhood Initiative. Be sure to visit The Statistics Don't Lie: Fathers Matter page.
The Extent of Fatherlessness page on the National Center for Fathering website.
Fatherless Daughters: How Growing Up Without a Dad Affects Women shows how feminists’ goal of destroying fathers also hurts girls and women.
For examples of the Post’s gender bias about fathers and families read some of my letters to Post columnists.
Abused by American Women: Sexual Assault and #MeToo
“[#MeToo] has morphed from a movement for the expression of legitimate complaints by women about the sexual misbehavior of some men into a two-faced juggernaut that allows any man to be accused, tried, and sentenced in the court of public opinion, hounded out of his job, and made a social pariah without a shred of due process, often by anonymous accusers. And the movement fails to recognize women’s own corresponding bad sexual behavior or of the female contribution to men’s sexual misconduct.”
With only a very few exceptions, the Post has generally supported #MeToo, all but completely ignoring the movement’s dark underbelly.
Recommended sources for your investigation:
To begin, I heartily recommend revisiting two horrendous cases of males falsely accused of rape, the Duke Lacrosse Rape and UVA’s A Rape on Campus hoaxes.
Then read two of my Substack posts, #MeToo, Thy Name is Hypocrisy and Part II.
Read an excellent Medium article, #Metoo, I’ll believe all women, except when they lie, that discusses #MeToo and “believe all women” in light of the Heard/Depp defamation trial.
For examples of the Post’s gender bias about sexual assault and #MeToo read some of my letters to Post columnists.
Abused by the Federal Government: Young Men and Title IX
The federal government has, since at least 2011, been abusing the civil rights of young men at American colleges and universities.
Briefly, Title IX is the primary federal law intended to prohibit sex discrimination in all American schools, from kindergarten through graduate school. In April 2011 the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR), under the presumed authority of Title IX, issued a “Dear Colleague Letter” to America’s colleges and universities. This letter directed these schools to institute draconian changes to the way sexual assault accusations were to be handled.
Although the Post has at least once feebly admitted that the new OCR-mandated Title IX regulations “…in some cases denied due process to those accused of sexual assault”, the paper has mostly been silent about this obvious abuse of men’s civil rights at America’s universities.5
Recommended sources for your investigation:
Title IX for All works to help students wrongly accused of Title IX violations. It maintains databases on Title IX Lawsuits, Regulations, Investigations, and Attorneys.
Families Advocating for Campus Equality (FACE), founded by three mothers of sons wrongfully accused of sexual misconduct, FACE has assisted thousands of accused male students and provides confidential support for victims of false allegations.
Twisting Title IX, documents the outrageous abuses done in the name of “protecting women”. Pay particular attention to the chapter titled “OCR’S Unlawful Assault on Due Process and Fair Procedures”.
The Campus Rape Frenzy — The Attack on Due Process at America’s Universities describes the result of the Title IX policy changes for handling sexual abuse charges: “… the federal government, joined by virtually all colleges and universities, has mounted a systematic attack on bedrock American principles including the presumption of innocence, access to exculpatory evidence, the right to cross-examine one’s accuser, and due process.”
I have a fifth suggested investigation for the Post, but considering the length of this letter so far (and Substack’s limit on post lengths), I believe that I’ll have to publish this letter in two parts. (Part 2 can be found here.)
The recommended study is “Abused by Chivalry: The Gender Empathy Gap”.
Although most Americans have never heard of it., the gender empathy gap is “… the striking and disturbing indifference of our culture to the suffering of men and boys in stark contrast to our evident concern for the suffering of girls and women.”
Let me close with a quote from self-described anti-feminist Janice Fiamengo that describes the real nature of today’s feminism and why I’ve been writing letters to Post columnists who are completely blind to the gender prejudice that they help to propagate:
“Feminism was never sane. It was never without deep rancor and bitterness against men, never free from the claim that women were absolute victims of male predation, never uninterested in destroying the family, never accurate in its claims about women’s social situation, never unwilling to slander men in the most vicious and unpitying ways, and it never expressed any appreciation for men nor recognition that men had made any contribution to society or that men had ever acted out of love and concern and compassion for women in the laws that had been made or social instruments that had been developed over time. It was always a deeply misandrist, man-hating, man-blaming kind of movement.” – Janice Fiamengo, in a YouTube video, The Deception of Feminism.
Sincerely,
Stephen Bond
Publisher of "Letters to The Washington Post" Substack
This letter is specifically addressed to the main credited authors of “Abused by the Badge”, but implicitly includes many more researchers and writers in a team from the Post and Bowling Green State and American universities. All are listed under the “About our team” section.
I missed the original publication of “Abused by the Badge” when it appeared in June, only becoming aware of it upon reading a related August 18 article, A teen sexually abused by a cop sued New Orleans. Now the trial begins.
This observation was confirmed by a February 2023 report by The Coalition to End Domestic Violence that described a 10-Year Suppression of the Truth on Domestic Violence by the Washington Post.
I searched the ProQuest service for possible prior Post investigations or articles on teachers who rape, but other than a few occasional articles about individual teachers couldn’t find any articles similar to Abused by the badge.
For example, in a 2021 editorial, Biden has a chance to restore balance to the rules on campus sexual assault, the Post, admitted that the new (2011) Title IX sexual assault policies “…caused an overcorrection that, in some cases, denied due process to those accused of sexual assault. Male students who had been found guilty in administrative proceedings of sexual wrongdoing, and who were expelled or given other punishments, mounted successful court challenges. The Trump regulations sought to restore balance by spelling out due process rights, including a presumption of innocence”, but then took the feminist position that Trump era correction went too far, and could possibly “… could discourage victims of assault from coming forward.”