What’s Wrong With This CNN Article? (18)
Why does CNN continue to publish stories that are so clearly gender-biased?
CNN recently posted yet another WILDLY gender-biased article, Why memes about Mommy and wine are no joke.
Normally in my “What’s Wrong with This Article?” posts, I ask readers what are one or two things wrong in a gender biased article published by CNN.
But this article by feminist Kara Alaimo, a professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University, who — unsurprisingly — teaches and researches gender and feminism, is so utterly biased and filled with so many feminist lies and distortions it would have been easier to have titled this post “What’s Right With This CNN Article?” because I could have answered the question in a single word:
Nothing.
But that would have avoided my responsibility as a thinking person at challenging this whiny (no pun intended), “woe is me” story about how horribly women are treated in our society and how many of them are turning to drinking as a result.
Don’t get me wrong. As a recovering alcoholic, I’m aware of both the desire for, and the dangers of alcohol; I’m not disputing the article’s main theme that more women are over-drinking with often devastating consequences.
Rather I object to the infuriatingly obvious anti-male gender biases that reflect a misandrist, one-sided feminist worldview held by Ms. Alaimo and millions of others like her:
1. The article propagates a number of feminist myths and outright lies:
“Among heterosexual couples, even when the husband and wife earn similar amounts of money, men devote more of their time to leisure, while women spend more of their time on housework and caregiving.”
The feminist complaint about how men don’t contribute equally to housework is a pernicious lie, propagated by feminists via false, biased studies that misrepresent or outright ignore facts. See my post Idiot Hypocrisy: The Division of Labor in American Marriages, which rebuts the feminist-inspired portrayal of work between husbands and wives. Here’s a chart from that post that visually illustrates the reality: husbands spend more time doing work than wives:
“There have been astounding increases in domestic violence against women in recent years.” (The link is to a UN study about an alleged increase of DV during the covid pandemic.)
It appears that Alaimo is completely ignorant that at least 50% of DV is perpetuated by women. She should visit The Partner Abuse State of Knowledge (PASK) website which includes an extensive review of 12,000 DV studies that concludes domestic violence is NOT simply “men beating up women”.
As for the preposterous claim of a covid-related increase in DV against women, she should read The great COVID domestic violence fundraiser that exposes the false narrative of increases in abused women during covid. Keeping in mind PASK’s conclusion about DV, Alaimo neglected one critical fact about the false covid claim:
Men who are stuck at home with their violent female partners must also be equally victimized by their wives or girlfriends.
“At work, women on average earn just 84 cents for every dollar earned by men.”
This is the Great Feminist Myth That Refuses to Die. Ms. Alaimo really needs to get out of her feminist echo chamber. She can start by reading a 2009 Department of Labor report, An Analysis of the Reasons for the Disparity in Wages Between Men and Women — Final Report or by reading my post Disproving the “Gender Pay Gap” with a Single Image.
2. The article contains other misleading or false information:
“… in the United States, child care can cost more than college”
The link is to a Census Bureau web page about the rising cost of childcare. Unfortunately I can find no mention in it or sub-links that show a comparison between child care costs and college. I can only surmise that Alaimo extrapolated to reach her own feminist-desired foregone conclusion.
“Men often enjoy the freedom to act on their desires, so most treatment programs therefore teach people to resist their desire to drink — but women in our society often don’t have the privilege of indulging in their desires in the first place, so the message doesn’t resonate.”
Not only does this sentence present a false dichotomy of “male freedom” vs “lack of female privilege”, it also implicitly debunks decades of alcohol treatment programs (admittedly not always successful) and rationalizes that “women’s drinking is different”. There are only two differences: (1) women are more sensitive to alcohol and (2) women’s drinking has been going up faster — after decades (or centuries) of men drinking more.
3. The article pushes a narrative of “oppressed women” without a clue about how men suffer even more from their gender role:
“our society needs to reckon with how it treats women” … “a cultural crush from the pressures of the mental load of motherhood, the increase in mothers returning to the workforce without appropriate support systems, and the societal expectations to do it all ourselves (and make it look easy)” … “The imperative here is for our society to rethink its unrealistic expectations and outrageous treatment of women”
Ms. Alaimo, like most Americans, is completely unaware of something called the gender empathy gap. This 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.” [From a video clip of anti-feminist Janice Fiamengo talking about the empathy gap]
The empathy gap is why thousands of articles just like hers focus only on women, completely oblivious to men’s far greater suffering, despite easily obtainable facts.
As a distillation of a very long list of male disadvantages, men:
· live six years less than women
· suffer 94% of workplace deaths
· are 80% of the homeless
· are 80% of deaths by suicide
· are 76% of homicide victims
The empathy gap is thoroughly explored in a book that I highly recommend Alaimo read, The Empathy Gap: Male Disadvantages and the Mechanisms of Their Neglect. (The book should also be required reading for all CNN employees.)
Ms. Alaimo’s article is just another example of both CNN’s and the mainstream media’s extreme gender bias that focuses only on the problems experienced by women but are completely blind to the even greater problems faced by men.
Just ask the “disposable” Ukrainian — and Russian — men who are forced to fight and die in the war:
