An Open Letter to the Post this 80th Anniversary of D-Day, June 6, 1944
The Washington Post has forgotten the military sacrifices that men have always made
Dear Washington Post Staff,
On the 74th anniversary of D-Day, June 6, 2018, the Post published an Opinion piece, Trump has forgotten what D-Day was all about.1 That article began with this memorable paragraph:
“Seventy-four years ago today, brave men from the United States, Canada and Britain disembarked from their landing craft, waded into the water off the beaches of Normandy and ran into a hellfire of bullets. More than 10,000 of them were wounded or killed. The D-Day beaches where those brave soldiers lay dying — Omaha, Sword, Juno, Utah and Gold — became synonymous with an unbreakable alliance forged in blood.”
A mere two days after the June 6 article, on the 8th, the Post dishonored these men who fought and died in the invasion by publishing a repulsive op-ed, “Why can’t we hate men?”, a #MeToo inspired rant that shamelessly expressed a Nazi-like hatred for men:
That same year, 2018, the Post:
selected the Why Can't We Hate Men? column as one of The Post’s favorite op-eds of 2018, despite overwhelmingly negative responses to it from thousands of posted comments
announced the selection of the paper’s first gender columnist
published an op-ed by a woman who effectively admitted committing domestic violence against her husband by screaming at him for 30 minutes and wishing that “all men were dead”2
finally, in December, published the infamous Amber Heard op-ed where she defamed Johnny Depp.
Even before 2018 the Post had a long, provable gender bias, most notably its imbalanced coverage of domestic violence.3 Since the 2018 publication of the Why can’t we hate men? op-ed I’ve been sending letters to Post columnists who have written articles that perpetuate this bias.
The Post has also forgotten what D-Day was all about, as well as the military burdens and terrible sacrifices that men have always made. Women, by the blessing of gender, have never been asked or required to die defending their country, and yet today far too many show nothing but disrespect for the millions of American men who have served and the more than one and one-third million who have given their lives for their country.
In closing, I believe that Supreme Court justice and three times-wounded Civil War veteran Oliver Wendell Holmes best summarized the real gender inequality that neither the Washington Post nor feminists care to understand or acknowledge:
“All societies rest on the death of men”.
If you really think about it, he was right, don’t you think?
The reference to this 2018 D-Day article should not be considered as supporting Donald Trump. Because my intent is only to challenge the Post’s feminist gender bias, I’ve tried to avoid discussing him. I do agree, however, with retired federal judge and January 6th Committee witness J. Michael Luttig: "Donald Trump and his allies and supporters are a clear and present danger to American democracy."
Here’s the definition of DV according to the Department of Justice’s VAWA office. I’ve highlighted those coercive behaviors the author is guilty of:
Domestic violence is a pattern of abusive behavior in any relationship that is used by one partner to gain or maintain power and control over another intimate partner. Domestic violence can be physical, sexual, emotional, economic, psychological, or technological actions or threats of actions or other patterns of coercive behavior that influence another person within an intimate partner relationship. This includes any behaviors that intimidate, manipulate, humiliate, isolate, frighten, terrorize, coerce, threaten, blame, hurt, injure, or wound someone.
This observation was recently 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. For more, please see Domestic Violence: Feminism’s Big Lie that examines the Post’s long, troubling, and provable history of feminist-inspired gender bias about DV.