A Letter to Post Columnist Christine Emba About Her “2023’s Celebration of Girls” Article
Although Well-Meaning, Emba Still Doesn't See Her Own Anti-Male Prejudice
Post publication note: I received an auto-reply email from Ms. Emba stating that she left the Post earlier this month.
Dear Ms. Emba,
I have little doubt that you’re aware of my efforts to get the Post to recognize its imbalanced coverage of gender. I’ve been writing letters to Post columnists since 2018, after the Post published its Why can't we hate men? article.
In November 2021 I wrote to you about your article on “condom stealthing” and this past October I sent a long, detailed response to your blockbuster article, Men are lost. Here’s a map out of the wilderness.
Judging by your most recent article, The danger that lurks within 2023’s celebration of girls, you either didn’t read my most recent letter or you didn’t agree, despite what I believe is my letter’s irrefutable case, which I began with the following observation:
“…although you did a thorough job of describing the symptoms of today’s crisis of masculinity, you completely overlooked the obvious cause of the crisis you bemoan: a relentless, hateful, sixty-year feminist campaign of political, legal, and cultural indoctrination directed against men and masculinity.”
I then provided a detailed discussion of how feminism: is founded on lies, has become a hate movement, propagates “idiot hypocrisy” by telling obvious falsehoods, and briefly describes the damage caused by six decades of feminist lies and indoctrination.
Your most recent article is similarly saturated with a worldview infected with six decades of feminist indoctrination (if one counts from the beginning of Second-wave feminism) or 175 years (if one counts since the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention).
For example, you fail to understand how the Barbie movie you glorify represents feminism’s utopia, a gynocentric world without men, a specific, decades-long, clearly stated objective of feminism. Don’t believe it? Here’s a quote from a Boston College feminism professor, Mary Daly:
"If life is to survive on this planet, there must be a decontamination of the Earth. I think this will be accompanied by an evolutionary process that will result in a drastic reduction of the population of males." "The world would be better off with dramatically fewer men"
For additional proof, please view a few relevant hateful feminist quotes calling for killing men or for male genocide in my post Feminism is a Hate Movement: In Their Own Words. (You may argue that these are just a few cherry-picked quotes, but the real proof is that feminists not only don’t repudiate statements like these, they instead applaud them.)
As I wrote in my letter about your “Men are lost” article, I believe that your intentions are good. I also suspect, based on your “celebration of girls” article, that you’re conflicted between celebrating female achievements and recognizing – perhaps without fully appreciating it – how feminism has lost its focus on its original goal of freeing women from their gender roles, into a movement whose focus has morphed into demonizing men.
I believe that, deep down, you know that feminism has lost its way.
Prima facie evidence is the Post’s 2018 “Why can’t we hate men?” article. Supporting proof can also be found at my Substack site, Letters to the Washington Post. You really should take a look.
Please allow me to close this letter with a final observation. Your article begins with a sentence how “Femaleness is a universal sex defined by self-negation” as if it is only females who “self-negate”, suffer, and sacrifice.
Please remember the men of the Titanic, who willingly gave up their lives so women and children could live; the more than one million American men who have died in wars protecting us at home; the 4,140 male 9/11 first responders (85% of total) who died that day; the thousands of nameless men who are injured or killed on the job every year to support their families — 94% of workplace fatalities. Finally, remember the tens of millions of men who, despite being assailed by feminist hate for decades, continue to support, care for, and love women.
Perhaps it’s not only females who are defined by “self-negation”.
Sincerely,
Stephen Bond