A Letter to Michelle Singletary About Her Article on “Myths About Women and Money”
When will the Post stop helping spread a feminist lie?
Dear Ms. Singletary,
I respectfully ask that you take the time to read this letter about your recent article Five myths about women and money that need to be debunked, and to thoughtfully consider what I say here.
As a brief introduction, I’ve been a proud lifelong reader of the Post who nevertheless has long noticed the paper’s feminist-inspired gender bias, most notably its imbalanced coverage of domestic violence1 and its 2018 publication of the op-ed Why can't we hate men? Since then, I’ve been sending letters to Post columnists who have written articles that perpetuate this bias.
Your article is yet another example of the Post’s gender bias.
Please don’t get me wrong. I’m not accusing you personally as having a gender bias. In fact, as a decades-long regular reader of your column I know that, gender-wise, your heart is in the right place.
I recall in 1999 sending you a note of appreciation for a column you wrote, Scrub The 'Scrub' Talk, that discussed a new hip-hop song, “No Scrubs”. The song denigrated men who didn’t make enough money to satisfy women. In particular, you objected to the song’s feminist-inspired, misandrist message. You wrote:
“What's independent or empowering about teaching our daughters to go after men with money or to celebrate calling our men scrubs?”
But even with that appreciation, I’ve also noticed that you’ve more than a few times written columns that support the existence of a gender pay gap, and your most recent article reiterates this demonstrably false idea:
“[Men] are still, on average, paid more than women doing the same job.”
If you would only do some basic research, you’ll find that, at best, this pay gap is provably a calculated misrepresentation of basic facts; at worst, it is a bald-faced lie, a feminist-generated fiction that proves the old adage that “figures don’t lie, but liars figure”.
A head-turning example that clearly and undeniably illuminates this can be found in a single graphic in State of the Gender Pay Gap in 2023 by the compensation company, PayScale:
Notice that this graphic shows TWO GENDER PAY GAPS:
An “uncontrolled pay gap that takes the ratio of the median earnings of women to men without controlling for various compensable factors … In 2023, women make only $0.83 for every dollar a man makes…”.
This is the misleading pay gap that feminists have led untold millions to believe is true.
A “controlled gender pay gap that controls for job title, years of experience, education, industry, location, and other compensable factors, measures equal pay for equal work. … Women in the controlled group make $0.99 for every $1.00 a man makes.”
This is the pay gap that feminists want to pretend doesn’t exist.
To reiterate:
The “Uncontrolled Pay Gap” on the Left is the One Feminists Want You to Believe.
The “Controlled Pay Gap” on the right is the One Feminists Want to Pretend Doesn’t Exist
Ms. Singletary, after reading your fine column for decades, I have no doubt that you’re an intelligent, well-informed person who is always willing to consider new information and other viewpoints.
With that said, may I respectfully ask that you take some time to review some of my other Substack posts that disprove the existence of a gender pay gap?
Start with my rebuttal to another article published with yours under the “Big Shift” series, Closing the gender pay gap one job offer at a time
At least browse a few of the other letters that I’ve sent to other Post columnists who have helped to propagate the feminist myth of a gender pay gap.
Sincerely,
Stephen Bond
Publisher of Letters to The Washington Post Substack
My 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.