A Letter to Contributor Magdalene Taylor About Article on “Your Body, My Choice” Taunt

After Monica Hesse's dramatic overreaction, a sensible response to Nick Fuentes' taunt

Dear Ms. Taylor,

I respectfully ask that you take the time to read this letter about your recent article in The Washington Post, ‘Your body, my choice’? Think before you engage.

As a brief introduction, I’m a lifelong reader of the Washington Post who nevertheless has long noticed the paper’s anti-male gender bias, provable by its decades-long imbalanced coverage of domestic violence¹ and made undeniable by its 2018 publication of the op-ed Why can't we hate men?

Although I’ve been sending open letters to Post columnists who have written articles that perpetuate this feminist-inspired bias, I’m pleased to say that I’m writing you not to complain about your article, but to express my appreciation for your reasonable column about right wing zealot Nick Fuentes’ taunt to feminists, “Your body, my choice”. (And to applaud you for your balanced and fair-minded coverage of gender issues in your Substack newsletter, Many Such Cases.)

In particular, your article contrasts with the dramatic overreaction by Post gender columnist Monica Hesse in her column that emotionally lamented about Fuentes’ taunt.

In an open letter I wrote to Hesse, I discussed how she and many American women overreacted to Fuentes’ jeer, and challenged her to recognize that she and the Post are guilty of a sexism that is much worse than that of Fuentes, proven by the 2018 publication of the aforementioned “Why can’t we hate men?” op-ed, asking her,

“How is it possible for you to publicly complain about a rude taunt that mocks pro-abortion advocates’ slogan, “my body, my choice”, but completely turn a blind eye to the Post publishing an op-ed in 2018 that provided a platform for a radical feminist to broadcast to the world a Nazi-like hatred for men?”

How can it be that no one at the Post recognizes this as hate speech?

So, with that summary, I can’t tell you how completely refreshing – not to mention surprising – it was to have the Post publish your article, which spoke the truth about men and women:

“Most men are not Nick Fuentes. Most men are not celebrating the fearmongering belief that men will now own women’s bodies — even if all Trump-voting men did feel that way, just under half of male voters chose Kamala Harris, remember. And most women are not hard-line “SCUM Manifesto”-reading radical feminists calling for universal male castration. But if you spend much time on X or TikTok, you might believe otherwise — and some of these ways of thinking are creeping into the mainstream.”

Thank you and keep up the good work!

Sincerely,

Stephen Bond

Publisher of "Letters to The Washington Post" Substack

CC: Monica Hesse

1. 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.