A Letter to Washington Post Columnist Candace Buckner About “Men Behaving Badly” Article
Dear Ms. Buckner,
I respectfully ask that you take the time to read this letter in its entirety and to thoughtfully consider what I say here.
As a lifelong reader of the Washington Post, I’ve long noticed that the Post has a clear gender bias. This bias is self-evident: the Post has a gender columnist who only champions the female perspective, and in 2018 it published a repulsive article, Why Can’t We Hate Men? Unbelievably, despite an overwhelmingly negative response from thousands of posted comments, at year-end the article was still selected as one of The Post’s favorite op-eds of 2018!
I’m writing to Post columnists to get them to recognize and to correct this gender bias, this gender prejudice.
I’m sorry to say that your recent article in the Post, A week of sorry sports apologies from men behaving badly, is an additional example of this bias, this gender prejudice.
A few simple analogies should make clear why your article is biased against men.
Imagine, if you will, that Tonya Harding’s attack on her skating rival Nancy Kerrigan, Serena Williams’ tantrum and threats against the chair umpire in her match against Naomi Osaka, and US women’s soccer player Hope Solo’s angry rant after losing to Sweden all occurred in the same week. (Actually, Ms. Williams has a long history of poor sportsmanship. Just Google “williams poor sportsmanship”.)
Or similarly, what if three African Americans, Michael Jackson, Bill Cosby, and Russell Simmons had been charged of sexual abuse the same week by #MeToo accusers?
What if it had been three Jews, Asians, Hispanics, Philipinos, gays, or any other ethnic or societal group charged with misbehavior?
Would you have thought, even for a moment, about writing a column titled “A week of sorry apologies from women or African Americans or Jews or Asians or Hispanics or Filipinos or gays behaving badly”?
OF COURSE NOT!
How, then, can you possibly feel that it’s all right to write a collective column about “men behaving badly”?
I’m not saying that each of these three men from your article don’t deserve individual censure; I believe that they do. But why, other than feminist-inspired hatred of men, does a national newspaper allow a column with such an obvious and self-evident gender-biased title to be published?
And how can an African American woman, who may herself have been the victim of prejudice and bigotry, not recognize when that bigotry flows from her own writing?
It’s because feminists have, to a remarkable degree and with the assistance of a gullible media — including the Washington Post — foisted on the public a one-sided depiction of “gender issues”, where men have for the past 40 to 50 years been blamed and scapegoated for every problem associated with gender, but with no comparable examination of women’s own misbehavior. (Please read my articles on the hypocrisy of the #MeToo movement for this examination.)
How else can one explain the aforementioned Why Can’t We Hate Men? article published by the Post in 2018? Do you think that it was appropriate for a newspaper whose slogan is “Democracy Dies in Darkness” to print it? Do you think, as some of the article’s more than 3,300 (vastly negative) commenters responded, “just change ‘men’ to ‘Jews’”, is a fair summarization of this hateful article? Do you think it might be an indicator of a widespread bias against men held by the Washington Post?
Feminists have also provably misappropriated the term “discrimination” from the racial sense and have disingenuously applied it to the gender arena, and the Washington Post and the rest of the Western media (with only the rarest of exceptions) have glibly and stupidly facilitated this misappropriation. See my article Gender columnists and sex discrimination for proof.
Ms. Buckner, based on this article, it appears that you have also succumbed to this feminist-inspired bias.
I can only hope that you’ve read this far. If so, I thank you. I pray that I’ve opened your mind to the gender prejudiced articles often published by the Post.
If I have, please help me to convince reporters, columnists, and management at the Post that they need to reconsider their entire coverage of gender-related issues to eliminate their hateful, feminist-inspired, anti-male gender bias.
Closing note: Ms. Buckner never replied to my letter.
Talking about “Men behaving badly” dishonors the sacrifices made by these men.
For other letters to Post columnists see my Letters to The Washington Post list:
By Stephen Bond on October 17, 2022.
Exported from Medium on February 28, 2023.