List of Letters to The Washington Post
Democracy Does Indeed Die in Darkness
This is a list of all letters sent to Post columnists or contributors, organized by area of gender bias.
“Why Can’t We Hate Men?” and Other Post Op-eds
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): in response to a Post article In 1896, Black intellectuals criticized The Post’s coverage of race, this letter compares the Post’s 19th century racial discrimination with its 21st century gender discrimination as inarguably exemplified by the Post’s 2018 Why can’t we hate men? op-ed.
A Letter to the Washington Post About Editorial on Department of Education (Posted Feb 2025, , this letter was sent to all members of the Post’s editorial board.)
Amber Heard Op-ed
An Imagined Rebuttal to Amber Heard’s 2018 Washington Post Column (April 2022): Although not a letter to a specific Post columnist, this post is an imagined rebuttal by Johnny Depp to Amber Heard’s repulsive column.
A Letter to Washington Post Columnist Erik Wemple Regarding the Amber Heard Op-Ed Fiasco (June 2022): this letter asks Wemple about the Post’s decision after Johnny Depp’s clear legal victory against Heard to only add a feeble editor’s note to the op-ed and then pass the responsibility to Wemple to “explain” the Post’s massive, misandrist error.
Letters to the Post’s Gender Columnist Monica Hesse and an Essay About the Gender Columnist Position
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”?A Letter to Washington Post Columnist Monica Hesse about “A Woman on the Moon” Article (Feb 2023)
A Letter to Washington Post Columnist Monica Hesse About Recent Article on Domestic Violence (April 2023)
A Letter to Monica Hesse About Her “The wives are not all right” Article (March 2024): Challenges Ms. Hesse’s article about women’s accounts of their own divorces
A Letter to Post Gender Columnist Monica Hesse About Her “Men Prefer Trump” Article (July 2024): Challenges the gender bias of Ms. Hesse’s article about the gender gap in support for Trump
A Letter to Post Gender Columnist Monica Hesse About Her “Kamala Harris’s 19 Words” Article (Aug 2024): Exposes the feminist hypocrisy behind 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 2024): 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 2024): A letter that explains why Trump didn’t cause the gender gap; but instead how feminism helped create Trump
A Letter to Post Gender Columnist Monica Hesse About “America’s First Female Mayor” (Nov 2024): 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 2024): 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.
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 2021)
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 Post Contributor Emily Nix About Recent Article on “Why women stay with their abusers” (May 2023)
A Letter to Washington Post Advice Columnist Carolyn Hax About a “Compassionate” Woman Controlling a Man’s Whole Life (Dec 2024): 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
“[#MeToo] has morphed from a movement for the expression of legitimate complaints by women about the sexual misbehavior of some men into a two-faced juggernaut that allows any man to be accused, tried, and sentenced in the court of public opinion, hounded out of his job, and made a social pariah without a shred of due process, often by anonymous accusers. And the movement fails to recognize women’s own corresponding bad sexual behavior or of the female contribution to men’s sexual misconduct.” — #MeToo, Thy Name is Hypocrisy
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.
A Letter to Amy Dickenson About Husband Not Asking for Sex Since #MeToo (Jan 2024): 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 Post Columnist Emma Uber About Her Article on a Woman Reporting Abuse 44 Years Later (Jan 2025): A fourth letter that asks "Why doesn't the Post perform similar studies about the abuse of men and boys?"
A Letter to Post Columnist Ian Shapira on His Article About a Pedophile Priest (Feb 2025): A letter that asks "Why doesn't the Post publish similar articles about the female abuse of men and boys?"
Letters About the Post’s Gender-Biased “Abused by the Badge” Series
A Letter to Washington Post Staff About their “Abused by the badge” Investigation (Sept 2024): 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 2024): A continuation of the above letter that suggests a final investigation for the Post to undertake: “Abused by Chivalry: The Gender Empathy Gap”.
A Letter to Post Columnists About Their Article on Child Sex Abuse by School Police (Dec 2024): A third letter that asks "Why doesn't the Post perform similar studies about the female abuse of men and boys?"
A Summary of Suggested Investigations the Post Should Consider About the Abuse of Men and Boys (Feb 2025): Why doesn't the Post perform studies about the female abuse of men and boys similar to its "Abused by the badge" investigation?
A Letter to Post Columnists About Their “Abused by the Badge” Stories (Feb 2025): A letter that asks "Why doesn't the Post publish similar articles on things like paternity fraud?"
Another Letter to Post Columnists About Their “Abused by the Badge” Stories (July 2025): A letter that asks "Why doesn't the Post publish similar articles on things like boys who are abused by female staffers at detention facilities?"
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)
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 2024): 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 2024): 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 2024): 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.”1
A Letter to Washington Post Columnist Janay Kingsberry About The Gender Empathy Gap (Nov 2021)
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)
A Letter to Post Columnist Karen Attiah About Her “Tragedy and promise of #BringBackOurGirls” Article (April 2024): 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 Post Persian Gulf bureau chief Susannah George About Her Article on Iranian Mining Disaster (Sept 2024): 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 Washington Post Contributing Columnist Richard Reeves About “Men’s Health Crisis” Article (Oct 2024): 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.
A Letter to Petula Dvorak About Her Article on Using First Names for Prominent Women (Oct 2024): A letter that informs Ms. Dvorak that challenges her complaint of “first name sexism” by discussing and giving examples of anti-male sexism.
A Letter to Post Global Events Reporter Annabelle Timsit About Her Article on South Africa Mining Disaster (Jan 2025): This open letter to Ms. Timsit shows that she's completely unaware of the "gender empathy gap" that disadvantages men and boys.
“Marriage, Fathers and Families”
A Letter to Alyssa Rosenberg About Her Column on Marriage (October 2023): Rosenberg wants to improve marriage but is clueless that feminism is the major reason for the 50 year decline of marriage.
A Letter to Post Columnist Megan McArdle About Her Column on Marriage (October 2023): McArdle’s article discusses how children are better off with married parents, but doesn’t see that feminism is the major cause of unmarried parents and fatherless children.
A Letter to Post Columnist Colbert I. King About His Father's Day Column (June 2024): 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 to Post Columnist Alyssa Rosenberg About Her Father’s Day Article
A Letter to Washington Post Columnist Alyssa Rosenberg About Her Father's Day Article (June 2023)
A Letter to Post Columnist Alyssa Rosenberg About Upcoming Father’s Day (June 2024): Recalling Rosenberg’s 2023 feminist-slanted Father’s Day article, I discuss feminism’s long-sought goal of destroying families and fathers and call for her to write a column that truly helps fathers and isn’t just feminist propaganda in disguise.
A Belated Letter to Alyssa Rosenberg for Father’s Day 2025 (July 2025): In her 2023 Father's Day article, Ms. Rosenberg wrote that we need to "stop treating dads as dopes,deadbeats, or icebergs". But will she ever acknowledge both her and the Post's anti-male gender bias?
Other Gender Bias at the Post
A Letter to Two Washington Post Columnists about Recent Articles on M&Ms Woke Marketing Campaign (Jan 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 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
A Letter to Post Contributor Britt Peterson About Her Article "Against Decluttering" (Sept 2023): Post describes how the author stepped over the line from providing helpful information to spreading feminist propaganda about “unequal sharing of housework”
A Letter to Post Columnist Christine Emba About Her "Men Are Lost" Article (October 2023): A letter in response to Ms. Emba’s blockbuster analysis “Men Are Lost”
A Letter to Post Contributor Rose Hackman About Her Recent Op-Ed About "Emotional Labor" (November 2023): Challenges Ms. Hackman’s contention that “emotional labor” should be compensated in the labor market
A Letter to Post Columnist Christine Emba About Her “2023’s Celebration of Girls” Article (Jan 2024): Challenges Ms. Emba’s “Barbie” movie-based article about how females “self-negate” without recognition that men also “self-negate”, suffer, and sacrifice
An Open Letter to the Post this Memorial Day (May 2024): A letter to Post staff that explains why the Post’s anti-male gender bias makes Memorial Day “complete, empty hypocrisy”
A Letter to Post Columnist Megan McArdle About Her “Man vs Bear” Article (May 2024): discusses the feminist-inspired foolishness of the recent internet meme about whether men or bears are more dangerous to women.
An Open Letter to the Post this 80th Anniversary of D-Day, June 6, 1944 (June 2024): A letter to Post staff that explains how The Washington Post has forgotten the D-Day sacrifices that men made 80 years ago
A Letter to Post Columnist Eugene Robinson About His “War on women” Article (July 2024): A letter to Eugene Robinson informing him that the “War on women” is actually a War on men.
A Letter to Erin Blakemore About Her Article About Many “Gender Biases” Faced by OBGYNs (July 2024): A letter to a female writer who is too young to recognize her own feminist-inspired gender bias.
A Letter to Post Cartoonist Ann Telnaes About Her “Onward, Republican Soldiers” Cartoon (Aug 2024): Explains why a “Patriarchy” banner in her recent cartoon is nothing more than feminist propaganda that is morally equivalent to the Nazis’ “Jewish conspiracy”.
A Letter to Post Contributor Jelena Kecmanovic About Her Article on “Cognitive Labor” (Nov 2024): Challenges Ms. Kecmanovic’s “cognitive labor” as just another warped feminist idea rooted in the myth of a "gender housework gap".
A Letter to Contributor Magdalene Taylor About Article on “Your Body, My Choice” Taunt (Dec 2024): After Monica Hesse's dramatic overreaction to Nick Fuentes’ taunt, Ms. Taylor provides a balanced, sensible response to the jeer.
A Letter to Sally Jenkins About Her Article on San Jose State Transgender Controversy (Dec 2024): Jenkins doesn’t see how her feminist-inspired gender bias prevents her from seeing the truth about transgender athletes
A Letter to Columnist Andrew Van Dam on His Article About “Men Finally Doing Their Share of Housework (Jan 2025): Department of Data columnist Andrew Van Dam is unaware of his own feminist indoctrination.
A Letter to Anne Branigin About Her Article on Netflix's “Adolescence” Show (April 2025): Explains to Ms. Branigin why Netflix’s Adolescence is propaganda masquerading as entertainment.
A Letter to Catherine Rampell About Her Article “Why Gen Z men love Trump's reign of destruction” (Apr 2025): Although Rampell acknowledges the unfair way that men have been treated for decades, her gender bias prevents her from fully recognizing the source of this mistreatment
New Section! Letters Sent to Contributors to “The Big Shift” Series
A Letter to Washington Post Staff About “The Big Shift” Series (March 2024): 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 2024): 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 2024): 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 2024): A letter that illuminates the gender bias of older widowed or divorced women.
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)
A Letter to Sally Jenkins About Her Bigoted Remark About Men in Her Recent Article (April 2025): I objected to the undeniable bigotry in her article, which starts with “The tush push is a boring, brutish play. It’s essentially a pile of men, and as with all piles of men — from the medieval fortress to the financial group — it is inherently dull, yet there is no adequate answer for it.”
Other Bias Against Men
A Letter to CNN's Abby Phillip on “Figuring Out How to Reach Men” (Oct 2024): 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 2024): Demonstrates how the gender bias of two Post columnists caused them to mislead readers to the point of dishonesty
Annual Reviews of Letters Sent to Post “Gender Offenders”
The Year in Review 2023: A summary of the “Letters to The Washington Post” project for 2023
The Year in Review 2024: A summary of the “Letters to The Washington Post” project for 2024
From a video clip of anti-feminist Janice Fiamengo talking about the empathy gap