A Letter to the Post About its Recent Article on “Closing the Gender Pay Gap”
When will the newspaper stop helping spread a feminist lie?
Dear Mses. Powers, Miller, et al.,1
I respectfully ask that you all take the time to read this letter about your recent illustrated article in The Washington Post, Closing the gender pay gap one job offer at a time, 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 gender bias, most notably its imbalanced coverage of domestic violence2 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.
This article is yet another example of the Post’s gender bias.
Please don’t get me wrong. Based on your Post profiles, it appears that most of you are young enough to have lived your entire lives under the feminist message that “women are paid less than men due to sex discrimination”, so I can understand how, with little thought and even less research or understanding, you have simply regurgitated this unsupportable belief.
Your article – and thousands of others like it that mindlessly echo the myth of a gender pay gap – reminds me of the answer Ernest Hemingway gave when once asked what quality was most needed to be a great writer: “a built-in, shockproof, crap detector”.
By that measure, you, and many other writers at the Post and throughout the Western media, are terrible writers.
It’s not that you’re unable to put your thoughts coherently into words; rather, it’s that you’re unable to recognize how much feminism has poisoned your worldview, making you no longer able to separate truth from feminist propaganda.
Ladies, you all need to turn your crap detectors back on.
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”.
But don’t believe me, just look at some of the article’s posted comments and note that 65% of them challenged the existence of a gender wage gap. Here are a few examples:
Would someone please explain why to the rest of the group,
If a company can pay a woman or a minority 17% +/- less for the same gig and receive the same output, why would any for profit company ever hire a white straight man?This gender pay gap has been debunked so many time in various studies I’m surprised the WaPo is still pushing it.
And the USWNT lost their court case because they earned more than the men.
Several good posts below about this mostly being a myth. Maybe since WaPo is losing readers, they need to do these kinds of stories to keep their base happy & still subscribing.
As employees of an internationally read newspaper, I’m sure that you all have open minds, always willing to consider new information and other viewpoints.
With that said, may I respectfully ask that you read my illustrated response to your “closing the gender gap” article, Idiot Hypocrisy: The Post Continues to Propagate the Myth of a "Gender Pay Gap"?
Is that too much to ask?
The article was produced as part of a new “The Big Shift” series, where Post analyzes the shift in the financial position of women. The article was primarily by freelance writer Rebecca Powers and illustrator Sharee Miller, with the support of Big Shift team members Bronwen Latimer (editor), Hannah Good (editor), Jordan Melendrez (copy editor), Christine Ashack (design editor), Betty Chavarria (design editor), Marian Chia-Ming Liu (project editor).
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.