List of Letters to The Washington Post

Democracy Does Indeed Die in Darkness

I’ve been a proud lifelong reader of the Washington Post, but my pride in the Post turned to quiet outrage in 2018 after the paper published two horrible, undeniably gender-biased articles: Why can't we hate men? and Amber Heard’s shameful op-ed that defamed Johnny Depp.

In response, I’ve been sending letters to Post columnists who have written articles that perpetuate this gender bias. This is a list of those letters organized by area of gender bias.

“Why Can’t We Hate Men?” Op-ed

• A Letter to The Washington Post About Its “Democracy Dies in Darkness” Editorial (Posted Aug 2022, this letter was sent to all members of the Post’s editorial board.)

• “Why Can’t We Hate Negros?” (Nov 2022)

Amber Heard Op-ed

• An Imagined Rebuttal to Amber Heard’s 2018 Washington Post Column (April 2022)

• A Letter to Washington Post Columnist Erik Wemple Regarding the Amber Heard Op-Ed Fiasco (June 2022)

Domestic Violence

• Abusegate: 10-Year Suppression of the Truth on Domestic Violence by the Washington Post (June 2023) Although this isn’t strictly a letter to The Washington Post, it is included here because it will be referenced in my standard opening in future letters to Post columnists.

• A Letter to Washington Post Columnist Christine Emba About “Condom Stealthing” (Nov 20210)

• A Letter to Washington Post Columnist Miriam Berger About Recent Columns on Domestic Violence (Feb 2022)

• A Letter to Washington Post Columnist Mark Jenkins about Article on Female DV Victims Art Show (Feb 2023 posting about a particularly egregious example of Post’s anti-male gender bias despite the offending article being published nearly a year before, in April 2022.)

• A Letter to Washington Post Columnist Monica Hesse About Recent Article on Domestic Violence (April 2023)

• A Letter to Post Contributor Emily Nix About Recent Article on “Why women stay with their abusers” (May 2023)

Sexual Assault & #MeToo

• A Letter to Washington Post Columnist Kate Cohen About Articles on Male College Students (Dec 2021)

• A Letter to Two Washington Post Columnists About a Recent Article on #MeToo (Oct 2022)

• A Letter to Shirlene Obuobi About Article on the Harassment of Female Doctors (June 2023)

• The Brain Surgeon Who Hit a Nerve: Insensitivity Cuts Both Ways in Stanford’s Operating Room (June 2023): A 1991 article printed by the Post about the sexism of Dr. Frances Conley, Stanford Hospital doctor who in 1991 resigned in protest to a “sexist” environment at the hospital, included as an example of the Post occasionally being fair in its coverage of gender issues.

Race vs Gender

• Why Doesn’t the Washington Post Have a Race Columnist? (Oct 2020)
  Poses the question “If the Post has a gender columnist, why doesn’t it have a similar “race columnist”?

Gender Pay Gap Myth

• A Letter to Washington Post Columnist Karla L. Miller on the “Gender Pay Gap” (Sept 2021)

• A Letter to Washington Post Columnist Julianne McShane About Columns on the “Gender Pay Gap” (Jan 2022)

• A Letter to Two Washington Post Columnists About Recent Article on the Gender Pay Gap (March 2023)

• A Letter to Post Contributor Josie Cox About Recent Article on the Gender Pay Gap (May 2023)

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.”

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• A Letter to Washington Post Columnist Janay Kingsberry About The Gender Empathy Gap (Nov 2021)

• A Letter to Washington Post Columnist Jose Del Real About a Mother Raising Her Son to be a “Good Man” (Oct 2022)

• A Letter to Washington Post Columnist Donna St. George about Article on “Teen girls ‘engulfed’ in violence and trauma” (March 2023)

• A Letter to Washington Post Columnist Theresa Vargas About Article on High School Student’s Winning Science Project (March 2023)

• A Letter to Three Post Columnists About Article “The crisis in American girlhood” (April 2023)

• Exposing Feminism with Images: The Post's Disrespect of Men on Memorial Day (May 2023)

• A Letter to Post Cartoonist Ann Telnaes About Her Memorial Day Cartoon (June 2023)

Other Gender Bias at the Post

• A Letter to Two Washington Post Columnists about Recent Articles on M&Ms Woke Marketing Campaign (Jan 2023)

• A Letter to Washington Post Columnist Monica Hesse about “A Woman on the Moon” Article (Feb 2023)

• Valentines Day at The Washington Post - Just Another Day of Anti-Male Gender Bias (Feb 2023)

• Today's Post Editorial Cartoon: Subtle Disrespect for Men (June 2023)

• A Letter to Congratulate Matea Gold on Her Promotion to Washington Post Managing Editor (June 2023)

• A Letter to Washington Post Columnist Alyssa Rosenberg About Her Father's Day Article (June 2023)

• A Letter to Washington Post Movie Critic Ann Hornaday About Her Review of the "Barbie" Movie (August 2023)

• A Letter to Post Contributor Jessica Ferri About Her Review of Heidi Julavits’ Book “Directions to Myself” (August 2023): A letter about a book review that completely misses the book’s misandry

• A Letter to Washington Post Advice Columnist Carolyn Hax About "Daughter's Tight Clothes" (August 2023): A letter in response to Ms. Hax’s reply to a father asking for advice on how to handle his daughter’s revealing and tight dresses

Other Misandry: Hatred of Men

• A Letter to Washington Post Columnist Candace Buckner About “Men Behaving Badly” Article (Feb 2022)

• A Letter to Washington Post Columnist Karen Attiah about “Female Bodybuilders and ‘Vile Men’” (Jan 2023)

• Letter to Post Columnist Karen Attiah About Her 'Why do men kill women’s plants?' Article (Sept 2023)

Other Bias Against Men

• A Letter to Washington Post Contributing Columnist Mitch Daniels About Review of Book “Men Without Work” (Jan 2023)

1. From a video clip of anti-feminist Janice Fiamengo talking about the empathy gap, starting at about 6:25