A Belated Letter to Alyssa Rosenberg for Father’s Day 2025
In her 2023 Father's Day article, Ms. Rosenberg wrote that we need to "stop treating dads as dopes,deadbeats, or icebergs". But will she ever acknowledge both her and the Post's anti-male gender bias?
Father’s Day 2025
Dear Ms. Rosenberg,
I know that you’re aware of my efforts to get the Post to recognize its imbalanced coverage of gender1 and that since 2018 I’ve been writing letters to Post columnists, in response to the Post’s publication of its Why can't we hate men? op-ed.
As part of this letter writing campaign, in June of 2023 I wrote to you about your Father’s Day article, This Father’s Day, stop treating dads as dopes, deadbeats or icebergs. My letter showed how, despite the father-friendly sounding title, your article instead promoted feminist objectives under the guise of “helping fathers”. I also asked you to consider writing an article for the next Father’s Day, one that truly supports fathers.
Prior to Father’s Day 2024, I wrote you again, asking you to write an article that is truly about fathers and not a stealthy promotion of the feminist agenda.
My 2024 letter showed just a few ways that the world’s fathers are mistreated by a feminist-dominated culture:
One of feminism’s explicitly stated goals is the destruction of family and marriage, and the removal of fathers from both. That feminists have largely succeeded in harming men and families can be found by declining rates of marriage and increasing numbers of fatherless children.
As documented by the National Fatherhood Initiative, there’s a nationwide father absence crisis.
Family courts are biased against fathers. Although feminists emphatically deny this anti-male bias, millions of fathers face unfair treatment in family and divorce courts. Two of many books illustrate this fact:
Taken Into Custody: The War Against Fathers, Marriage, and the Family, by Stephen K. Baskerville, a leading authority on divorce, child custody and the family court system
The Respondent This book documents the terrifying experience of one father, Pirates of the Caribbean actor Greg Ellis, who, via a lie told by his vengeful wife “… lost his home, career, and kids overnight after an [alleged] ’10-word lie’ saw him thrown into a psychiatric hospital and dragged through the family courts in America”.
Men are victimized by paternity fraud, where women fraudulently and deliberately identify men to be the biological father of a child.
I had intended on writing you again two weeks before this year’s Father’s Day, but recovery from an unexpected surgery has forced me to send this year’s letter after the fact.
But this delay has been somewhat fortuitous, because exactly two weeks after this year’s Father’s Day, one brave father, when his daughter fell overboard on a Disney Cruise ship, vividly showed how men often risk their lives to protect their children. A Father’s Leap of Faith describes this instinct:
“On a Disney cruise bound for South Florida, a moment unfolded that no man ever hopes to face, but this father did not hesitate. His 5-year-old daughter had fallen from the 4th deck into the open sea. Without pause, without thought for himself, he leapt from the ship and into the vast, unforgiving ocean.
“That father didn’t weigh the odds. He didn’t freeze. He simply acted … because when you’re a father, protecting your child isn’t optional. It’s instinct. It’s duty. It’s love in its rawest form.
“Being a man isn’t about flexing in a mirror or boasting in boardrooms. It’s about being the shield when danger comes for those you love. That father didn’t need a moment to “think it through” ; he was already prepared in spirit. And that readiness saved a life.
“That father didn’t weigh the odds. He didn’t freeze. He simply acted … because when you’re a father, protecting your child isn’t optional. It’s instinct. It’s duty. It’s love in its rawest form.”
Ms. Rosenberg, by the plea made in your 2023 Father’s Day article to “stop treating dads as dopes, deadbeats or icebergs” you effectively, if unwittingly, admitted that our post-feminist society widely denigrates fathers specifically, and by extension, men.
Now I’m asking you to take the next step and acknowledge the anti-male, feminist bias that is so prevalent at the Post. For undeniable proof, please, PLEASE take a moment to actually read the Post’s 2018 op-ed, Why can't we hate men?
Or spend some time perusing letters that I’ve sent to other Post columnists and contributors about their own gender-biased columns.
It’s too late for you to write a Father’s Day column for 2025, but it’s never too late to acknowledge both your and the Post’s gender bias. Please help me to convince reporters, columnists, and management at the Post that they need to reconsider their entire coverage of gender-related issues to eliminate their feminist-inspired, anti-male gender bias.
Do it for the Disney cruise ship father.
Do it in memory of the men of the Titanic, who willingly gave up their lives so women and children could live; do it for the more than one million American men¹⁴ who have died in wars protecting us at home; do it for the 4,140 male 9/11 first responders (85% of total)¹⁵ who died that day; do it for the thousands of nameless men who are injured or killed on the job every year to support their families — 94% of workplace fatalities. Finally, do it for the tens of millions of men who, despite being assailed by feminist hate for decades, continue to support, care for, and love women.
Until next Father’s Day, I remain
Respectfully yours,
Stephen Bond
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. For more proof, please see my post Domestic Violence: Feminism’s Big Lie that examines the Post’s long, troubling, and provable history of feminist-inspired gender bias about DV.