A Letter to Erin Blakemore About Her Article About Many “Gender Biases” Faced by OBGYNs

Ms. Blakemore is too young to recognize her own feminist-inspired gender bias

Dear Ms. Blakemore,

I respectfully ask that you take the time to read this letter about your recent article in The Washington Post, OB/GYNs routinely experience sexual harassment, study suggests, and to thoughtfully consider what I say here.

As a short introduction, I’m a lifelong reader of the Post who nevertheless has long noticed the paper’s feminist-inspired gender bias, most notably its 2018 publication of the op-ed Why can't we hate men? Since that repulsive diatribe I’ve been sending open letters to Post columnists who have written articles that perpetuate this gender bias. 

Your article is, unfortunately, another example of this bias.

Please don’t misunderstand. I’m not blaming you. Based on your personal website, it appears you are young enough to have lived your entire life under feminist cultural indoctrination, so I can understand how you are unable to see your own bias.

So, what’s wrong with your article?

First, what’s the article about? Based on its title, one would expect it’s about the sexual harassment of OB/GYNs, but both your article and the study it summarizes can’t seem to decide upon a single, coherent theme.

The study represents the feminist version of “throwing spaghetti at the wall and see what sticks”.¹

Instead of an examination of a single topic – sexual harassment – the study instead serves up an unfocused cornucopia of work-related grievances, including bullying, workplace discrimination, gender bias, “mistreatment of trainees, including verbal abuse, coercion, or negative consequences”, and the most woke grievance, “microaggressions”. (If nothing else sticks, why not include microaggressions, which one Atlantic article describes as a “part of victimhood culture” and “a new species of social control that is increasingly common at American colleges: the publicizing of microaggressions.”)

Second, you and millions of others aren’t familiar with a provable fact about feminism:

Feminists fudge the truth.

If you doubt this, just ask Washington Post Columnist Megan McArdle. In a 2008 Atlantic article, Statistics are a feminist issue, McArdle explained how feminists fudge the truth:

“There are the appallingly shaky statistics on the number of rapes based on badly designed surveys manipulated with statistical methods so crude that Bayes must be spinning in his grave fast enough to power a high-speed monorail between New York and LA. … The various numbers on domestic violence that are thrown around with abandon even though a moment's thought is enough to dismiss them as ridiculous--the infamous Super Bowl claims being only the worst of the breed.”²

Among thousands of other examples of fabulist feminist fabrication of facts is the work of Mary Koss, a psychology professor at Kent State University. Here’s how Koss has fudged facts with her studies of sexual assault at American college campuses:

“Pioneering a tactic that [other feminist] surveys have made into a ritual, Koss refrained from asking her subjects whether they had been sexually assaulted. Instead, she explored particular behaviors, which she treated as evidence of sexual assault even when the law (or her subjects) did not. Although her questions about specific behaviors were not inherently misleading, Koss infused the answers with her own ideological biases. She classified as “sexual assault” incidents that 73 percent of her subjects did not consider to be sexual assault. This technique enabled her to declare that 25 percent of college women were victims of sexual assault. [emphasis added]”³

The irony is that no one actually believes that 25% of college women are victims of sexual assault.

If the “25 percent” (or 1 in 4) statistic of college women being victims of sexual assault were actually believed by female students and their parents, do you think these families would let their daughters attend ANY co-educational institution?

Would you get on an airplane if there were a 1 in 4 chance of crashing?

With the above discussion of “feminist fact fudging” in mind, consider two of the “facts” provided by the study and repeated in your article:

·       Up to 70.9 percent of participants in the reviewed studies reported sexual harassment in the workplace

·       Up to 67.2 percent of respondents in the reviewed studies said they’d been discriminated against in the workplace

Similar to the “1 in 4 college women” statistic, does anyone actually believe that so many people are victims of sexual harassment or discrimination, i.e. nearly 3 in 4 are victims of harassment and over 2 in 3 have suffered from discrimination?

If these figures are true, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission must not be doing a very good job, wouldn’t you say?

Ms. Blakemore, let me say that I don’t object to articles that raise awareness of difficult issues about gender, but may I politely ask that in any of your future articles you first consider the feminist bias that is all too often present in studies like the one you reported on?

Allow me to close with a passage from the book Who Stole Feminism? (I highly recommend reading it!) about “noble lies”:

“Statistics and studies on such provocative subjects as eating disorders, rape, battery, and wage differentials are used to underscore the plight of women in the oppressive gender system and to help recruit adherents to the gender feminist cause. But if the figures are not true, they almost never serve the interests of the victimized women they concern. … But in all we do to help, the most loyal ally is truth. Truth brought to public light recruits the best of us to work for change. On the other hand, even the best-intentioned "noble lie" ultimately discredits the finest of causes.”

Sincerely,

Stephen Bond

Publisher of "Letters to The Washington Post" Substack

1. For readers who may be unfamiliar with “throwing spaghetti” reference, it means making numerous attempts or guesses, hoping one of them will succeed.

2. In the “1993 Super Bowl Hoax”, as described by Christina Hoff Sommers in her book Who Stole Feminism?, feminists falsely claimed that Super Bowl Sunday was “the biggest day of the year for violence against women” with increases in violence as high as 40 percent. Sommers demolished this myth, clearly confronting each fake claim and demonstrating how feminists lie and distort the truth to further perpetuate their false, unbalanced depiction of domestic violence.

3. As described in the book The Campus Rape Frenzy: The Attack on Due Process at America's Universities.