A Letter to Post Columnist Megan McArdle About Her “Man vs Bear” Article
How Many Women's Lives Are Saved by Bears?
Dear Ms. McArdle,
Thank you for the courage you displayed in writing your column, Who loses in the ‘man or bear’ showdown? Women. The article did a great job illuminating the feminist-inspired foolishness of the recent internet meme about whether men or bears are more dangerous to women.
As a side note, I’ve written to you before about your column about the book “The Two-Parent Privilege”.
In that letter, I explained that I’ve been writing letters to Post columnists in order to challenge The Washington Post’s longstanding feminist-inspired gender bias, provable by its imbalanced coverage of domestic violence1 and its 2018 publication of the op-ed Why can't we hate men?
Your most recent column did an excellent job in refuting the nonsense that undergirds the “man vs bears” controversy by exposing the meme’s statistical ignorance.2
This internet idiocy is but one more addition to the endless examples of the feminist hatred that spreads an asymmetric, anti-male propaganda that excoriates men while completely ignoring the many ways that men sacrifice for women – sometimes with their lives – or the myriad ways that men suffer from the male gender role.
And the more than 3,200 comments to the article, many virulently strident and often against you personally, are proof of the success of six decades of feminist cultural and political indoctrination. Hell hath no fury like a feminist scorned.
With all due respect, please allow me to politely suggest one argument that I believe more convincingly challenges the inherent anti-male sexism behind the ludicrous idea that men are more dangerous to women than bears. The argument can be summarized by a single, simple question:
How many bears would risk their lives to save women?
I have set up a Substack site, Letters to The Washington Post, to challenge the Post’s undeniable feminist bias (again, Why can't we hate men?) My recent post, Idiot Hypocrisy: Of Men, Women, and Bears, uses images to visually answer the question posed above. I believe it makes an excellent, undeniable case that illuminates what the “bears or men?” debate completely misses.
Ms. McArdle, particularly with your acknowledged doubts about feminism (see footnote 2), I politely ask that you take the time to visit my Substack, and to join my effort to convince reporters, columnists, and management at the Post to acknowledge and address their provable, feminist-inspired, anti-male gender bias.
Sincerely,
Stephen Bond,
Publisher of "Letters to The Washington Post" Substack
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. You may also wish to visit 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.
I see from some of your earlier writings that you have a healthy skepticism about feminism. In particular, one Atlantic article, Statistics are a feminist issue, made clear your recognition of 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.”