A Rant: Why I am INCENSED at HuffPo!!!
September 18, 2009
by Amy Siskind
|Are women a species worthy of examination and study?
Yesterday, The Huffington Post launched a section titled The Sad, Shocking Truth About How Women are Feeling. Who is examining this “sad, shocking truth”? A man!
What! You have to be kidding me. Did I fall asleep and wake up in the 1960s? What happened HuffPo — have women suddenly been banned from the keyboards?
How can a man possibly understand what it is to be a woman? Are we some sort of species worthy of study and examination?
Does a man know what it feel like to struggle with our decision to be a working mom vs. a stay-at-home mom, or to run for office and be subject to sexism, or to work in a corporation and feel the bias when a promotion comes up, or what it is like to walk to your car at night and look over your shoulder to see if you are safe?
We need a man to tell us how we feel? Hogwash! Men can and will certainly be part of the movement towards gender equality, yes. But a man cannot be the authority in some sort of circa 1960 study of how we feel and the issues that impact us!
I, for one, find this incredibly troubling.
I haven’t been to HuffPo since the primary wars. You might as well read Gawker as go to Arianna’s silly site.
Hi Amy,
I immediately commented on that post raising the same questions you’re raising, but was shouted down by the usual mindlessly offensive comments of posters there. Huffpo refused to publish my response.
Amy, I for one , long ago learned that to understand what women go through, I need to go to women to find out…In some small measure Grey was right in his Venus Mars book- I can not possible understand in the sense that I will never walk in your shoes…and to believe otherwise is silly of HuffPo- Might as well ask a blind man to describe Picasso as I would be to ask a man what a woman feels…In my life on these issues I prefer to let you ladies lead and we will support you and walk beside you- as always great article
I never visit that slime pit that calls itself Huff Po. I have no respect for Arina Huffington. She has no respect for other women.
Amy,
After we e-chatted at MORE.com, you got me thinking..I wrote Arianna too–no reply–I posted (below) today after reading his blog at HP—BTW, his publisher is religion-based. And you did know that in Arianna’s former life, she was quite a Conservative–I knew her when she was the wife of Huffington–(who spent ga-zillions and lost the CA congressional race anyway).
POSTED ON HP TODAY:
RE: However, we know what is causing men’s slight increase in happiness and it’s not Feminism. It’s increased prosperity….. This makes women’s decline even more startling. The tide of prosperity should have raised everyone’s spirits, but instead, women’s have gradually sunk lower.
DATA collection and DATA interpetation are 2 different kettles of fish– Men aren’t happier because of feminism? REALLY? how bout their wives are busting butt outside the home to bring MORE bacon home so they can fry it up for hubby- who ain’t working so hard (and thereby prospering more) – now that wifey is doing double duty that includes cleaning the pan of bacon grease hubby (probably) wouldn’t know what to do with except pour down the drain & clog it which wifey will have to call roto rooter to repair before she goes to work the next day…
how bout THAT interpetation of the data?
I gotta tell you, i’m suspicious of your motivation—
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