You've Got Hate Mail

A few weeks ago Sally Jackson published an article on female journalists receiving hate mail in Australia, for which she interviewed me, and I was moved by the article's focus on conservative female journalists. Jackson's analysis showed that this hate mail problem is certainly not limited to liberal female writers - it is shared by all female columnists.

I'm as far left as one can get, and I consider myself a true liberal in that I try to consciously practice all of the basic principles of liberalism in my daily life - including exercising compassion toward minorities, women, nature, and all oppressed people. However, where women are concerned, liberal men have failed miserably. This is not just reflected in liberal men's treatment of conservative women, but their treatment of liberal women as well. I always say, a man's "liberalism" will always be tested by how he treats all women. Many liberal men are excellent environmentalists, socialists, politicians, and all the rest, but most cannot resist the rampant woman-hating that plagues our world - a pandemic that the United Nations says is the most pressing world problem right now.

Many thanks to Jackson for highlighting the hate mail issue for female journalists once again, and for giving conservative women the attention they deserve. I believe that all women must unite in order to really give ourselves and our daughters a chance to make a positive impact in the world, and the only way we can do that is by sticking together, no matter what our backgrounds. We must do this in the same way that other marginalized groups of people, like African-Americans, Muslims, and most other oppressed groups have figured out. Women have not figured this out yet, and too often participate in the same mud-slinging toward one another that our oppressors do. Minorities would never systematically defame each other in the way that women continue do to each other, at a persistent rate. We must defend each other, first and foremost, against hate, discrimination, and torture of all forms. Only then will we gain the power we need to improve women's lives.