A Letter to Post Contributor Jessica Ferri About Her Review of Heidi Julavits’ Book “Directions to Myself”
A Book About a Mother’s Love for Her Son is Actually a Book About Hating Males
Dear Ms. Ferri,
I respectfully ask that you take the time to read this letter about your recent book review in The Washington Post, Heidi Julavits captures the ache of parenthood in a new memoir, and to thoughtfully consider what I say here.
As a brief introduction, I’m a proud lifelong reader of the Post who nevertheless has long noticed the paper’s gender bias, most notably its imbalanced coverage of domestic violence.1
But my pride in the Post finally turned to quiet outrage in 2018 after the paper published two undeniably gender-biased articles: Why can't we hate men? and Amber Heard’s shameful op-ed. Since then, I’ve been sending letters to Post columnists who have written articles that perpetuate this bias.
Your review of Heidi Julavits’ book is yet another example of the Post’s gender bias.
It – and thousands of other articles like it that thoughtlessly propagate a feminist worldview – 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 feminist-indoctrinated authors are not great writers.
It’s not that you’re unable to put your thoughts coherently into words, it’s that you’re unable to recognize how 60+ years of feminist political and cultural indoctrination have poisoned your worldview, making you no longer able to separate the truth from falsehoods.
You need to turn your crap detector back on.
Even though it was right in front of you, you failed to see the subversive message in Julavits’ book:
A book about four years in a mother’s son’s life is actually about hating males.
It is also a story of one mother who has been so thoroughly brainwashed by feminism that she is unable to see how her feminist-inspired, man-hating worldview harms her own son.
I began an analysis of Julavits’ book, Directions to Myself – A Memoir of Four Years, in this letter to you but discovering that it would be necessary to include long passages from the her book to effectively illuminate its feminist-inspired hatred of males, I wrote a separate article, The Book ‘Directions to Myself’: A Stunning Example of Feminist Self-Delusion.
I beg you to read it.
In case you decide not to do so, allow me at least to provide it’s ending here:
Julavits completely misses the significance of the ending of her “mother-to-son talk”:
“My son seemed smaller than when we began this conversation. He’d started to sink into the space between the couch cushions that hides crumbs and money. Am I in trouble? he asked.”
“Am I in trouble?”
Only in a world where the hatred of males is so common that it is no longer noticed:
To see the damage that their blindness to misandry is doing to boys, both reviewer Jessica Ferri and book author Heidi Julavits should read a book, The War Against Boys: How Misguided Policies are Harming Our Young Men:
“We have turned against boys and forgotten a simple truth: the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal males are responsible for much of what is right in the world. No one denies that boys’ aggressive tendencies must be mitigated and channeled toward constructive ends. Boys need (and crave) discipline, respect, and moral guidance. Boys need love and tolerant understanding. But being a boy is not a social disease.”
Being a boy is not a social disease.
My observation was recently confirmed by a February 2023 report that described a 10-Year Suppression of the Truth on Domestic Violence by the Washington Post. The report concludes, “The Coalition to End Domestic Violence calls on the Washington Post, in a timely manner, to run an editorial acknowledging its biased coverage of the domestic abuse issue, and to publish articles that focus on the plight of male victims of domestic violence.”