Letters to The Washington Post: The Year in Review: 2024

Democracy Does Indeed Die in Darkness

Dec 27, 2024

It’s been 6 ½ years since The Washington Post published, on June 8, 2018, a #MeToo-inspired rant written by Suzanna Danuta Walters, the director of women’s studies at Northeastern University, who openly and shamelessly expressed a Nazi-like hatred for men in a nationally read American newspaper.

By the time the Post published this article, I had been a five-decade long subscriber, but one who had also long been aware of the paper’s gender bias, most notably its imbalanced coverage of domestic violence1 and its support for the provably false myth of a gender pay gap.2

Since 2018, I’ve been sending letters to Post columnists who wrote articles that perpetuated this gender bias. Unsurprisingly, with only one exception, I received no responses, so starting in 2020, I began publishing these letters online as “Letters to The Washington Post”.

This post provides a review of the “Letters” project for 2024.

In 2024 The Post Mostly Continued Propagating Gender Bias Against Men and Boys

Letters to the Post’s Gender Columnist Monica Hesse

A Letter to Monica Hesse About Her “The wives are not all right” Article (March): Challenges Ms. Hesse’s article about women’s accounts of their own divorces, noting that “The husbands are not all right either.”
A Letter to Post Gender Columnist Monica Hesse About Her “Men Prefer Trump” Article (July): Challenges the gender bias of Ms. Hesse’s article about the gender gap in support for Trump, noting that her gender bias is blinding her to the biggest story of the past 50 years.
A Letter to Post Gender Columnist Monica Hesse About Her “Kamala Harris’s 19 Words” Article (Aug): Exposes the feminist hypocrisy behind Hesse’s affirmation of Kamala Harris’s gender-biased question to Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearings.
A Letter to Post Gender Columnist Monica Hesse About Her “Gen X Women and Trump” Article (Oct): A letter that explains how Hesse’s feminist bias prevents her from seeing why Gen X women support Trump
A Letter to Post Gender Columnist Monica Hesse About Trump Causing the Gender Gap (Oct): A letter that explains why Trump didn’t cause the gender gap as stated by Hesse; but instead how feminism helped create Trump
A Letter to Post Gender Columnist Monica Hesse About “America’s First Female Mayor” (Nov): In her zeal to celebrate another feminist triumph, Hesse ignored the real reason behind the actions of some "angry, resentful men"
A Letter to Post Gender Columnist Monica Hesse about Her Article on Nick Fuentes’ “Your Body, My Choice” Taunt (Dec): Examines how Hesse's feminist bias prevents her from seeing that the Post's 2018 "Why can't we hate men?" op-ed is MUCH worse than Nick Fuentes' angry provocation.

Articles About Domestic Violence

The Washington Post has a long, troubling, and provable history of feminist-propagated bias about domestic violence.3 This bias ultimately resulted in the Post’s disastrous publication in 2018 of Amber Heard’s op-ed that defamed Johnny Depp. Following are letters sent to just a few of the many Post columnists who last year wrote gender-biased articles about DV.

I didn’t write many letters objecting to Post columnists’ GENDER BIASED4 articles about domestic violence this year. Did I miss them, or is this a hopeful sign of the Post’s reevaluation of how it covers DV? Perhaps in reaction to the Amber Heard / Johnny Depp trial?

A Letter to Washington Post Advice Columnist Carolyn Hax About a “Compassionate” Woman Controlling a Man’s Whole Life (Dec): Hax admits that men can also be victims of DV but my letter illustrates how she still maintains a feminist-inspired gender bias.

Sexual Assault & #MeToo

A Letter to Amy Dickenson About Husband Not Asking for Sex Since #MeToo (Jan): Letter to advice columnist informing her about #MeToo’s dark underbelly. (I understand that Ms. Dickenson isn’t employed directly by the Post.)
A Letter to Washington Post Staff About their “Abused by the badge” Investigation (Sept): This letter illustrates the Post’s gender bias by showing the lack of coverage of the abuse of males as opposed to plentiful coverage when women or girls are abused.
A Letter to Washington Post Staff About their “Abused by the badge” Investigation - Part 2 (Sept): A continuation of the above letter that suggests a final investigation for the Post to undertake: “Abused by Chivalry: The Gender Empathy Gap”. (This entry is also found under “Gender Empathy Gap”, below.)

Gender Pay Gap Myth

Despite considerable contradictory and readily available information disproving the existence of a gender pay gap (see footnote 2), the Post continues to publish articles that propagate its existence.

A Letter to the Post About its Recent Article on “Closing the Gender Pay Gap” and Idiot Hypocrisy: The Post Continues to Propagate the Myth of a "Gender Pay Gap" (Feb): Two related posts in response to an illustrated Post article that continues to spread the lie about a gender pay gap
A Letter to Michelle Singletary About Her Article on “Myths About Women and Money” (Feb): A letter to the Post’s personal finance columnist about her recent article about 5 myths about women and money, where she completely overlooked the most obvious myth: the gender pay gap.
A Letter to Two Post Columnists About “NIL boosters favoring men” (Nov): challenges two Post columnist who are oblivious to the underlying reasons why female college athletes receive less in NIL compensation

Gender Empathy Gap

The gender empathy gap is “… the striking and disturbing indifference of our culture to the suffering of men and boys in stark contrast to our evident concern for the suffering of girls and women.”5

A Letter to Post Columnist Karen Attiah About Her “Tragedy and promise of #BringBackOurGirls” Article (April): informs the author how her article that remembers girls kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014 while completely ignoring the murder of dozens of boys that same year is an example of the gender empathy gap.
A Letter to Washington Post Staff About their “Abused by the badge” Investigation - Part 2 (Sept): A continuation of a letter I wrote in response to the Post’s “Abused by the badge” Investigation. This letter suggests another investigation for the Post to undertake: “Abused by Chivalry: The Gender Empathy Gap”.
A Letter to Post Persian Gulf bureau chief Susannah George About Her Article on Iranian Mining Disaster (Sept): This open letter to Ms. George proves that she's completely unaware of the "gender empathy gap" that disadvantages men and boys.
A Letter to Petula Dvorak About Her Article on Using First Names for Prominent Women (Oct): A letter that informs Ms. Dvorak that challenges her complaint of “first name sexism” by discussing and giving examples of anti-male sexism.

“Marriage, Fathers and Families”

A Letter to Post Columnist Alyssa Rosenberg About Upcoming Father’s Day (June): Recalling Rosenberg’s 2023 feminist-slanted Father’s Day article, I reminded her of feminism’s long-sought goal of destroying families and fathers and called for her to write a column that truly helps fathers and isn’t just feminist propaganda in disguise.
A Letter to Post Columnist Colbert I. King About His Father's Day Column (June): Although Mr. King has often written about fathers and fatherless families, he has for years missed a root cause of much of today’s fatherless families: feminism’s explicitly stated goal of the destruction of family and marriage, and the removal of fathers from both.

Letters Sent to Contributors to “The Big Shift” Series

This Post series, while legitimately celebrating the financial progress of women, also contains evidence of its own feminist-inspired gender bias:

A Letter to Washington Post Staff About “The Big Shift” Series (March): a letter to about a dozen Post contributors to the Post’s new series that celebrates the financial progress of women
A Letter to the Post About its Recent Article on “Closing the Gender Pay Gap” and Idiot Hypocrisy: The Post Continues to Propagate the Myth of a "Gender Pay Gap" (Feb): Two related posts in response to an illustrated Post article that continues to spread the lie about a gender pay gap
A Letter to Michelle Singletary About Her Article on “Myths About Women and Money” (Feb): A letter to the Post’s personal finance columnist about her recent article about 5 myths about women and money, where she completely overlooked the most obvious myth: the gender pay gap.
A Letter to Post Columnist Roxanne Roberts About Her “Older Women with Money” Article (April): A letter that illuminates the gender bias of older widowed or divorced women.

Other Bias Against Men

A Letter to CNN's Abby Phillip on “Figuring Out How to Reach Men” (Oct): Although not a letter to a Post columnist, I’ve included it in this list of open letters. The letter challenges Phillip’s ignorance of the widespread anti-male gender bias that is major cause of the gender voting gap that is both aiding Donald Trump and hobbling the Democratic party. (Note that the post is included under the Other Media section, which contains multiple “What’s Wrong with this CNN Article?” posts.)
A Letter to Two Post Columnists About Article About Harris Facing Sexism (Dec): Demonstrates how the gender bias of two Post columnists caused them to mislead readers to the point of dishonesty

The Good News: In 2024,It Appears That the Post Might be Beginning to Recognize its Gender Biases

A Letter to Washington Post Contributing Columnist Richard Reeves About “Men’s Health Crisis” Article (Oct): A letter to the author of the book Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male is Struggling, Why it Matters, and What to do About It and founder of American Institute for Boys and Men, to compliment him on an article about the crisis in men’s health.

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.

In 2009 the Department of Labor produced a report, An Analysis of the Reasons for the Disparity in Wages Between Men and Women — Final Report which disputed the wage gap:

“… the raw wage gap [between men and women] continues to be used in misleading ways [emphasis added] to advance public policy agendas without fully explaining the reasons behind the gap.”

Also see my new Pay Gap Myth section

Also see Domestic Violence: Feminism’s Big Lie

Note emphasis on “gender biased”… I don’t deny that men don’t commit DV, only that all too often women do too, but the Post typically downplays female DV.

From a video clip of anti-feminist Janice Fiamengo talking about the empathy gap

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