Thursday, July 22, 2004

MenWeb - Men's Issues: The Lace Curtain

MenWeb - Men's Issues: The Lace Curtain: "When I was first elected to the Board of the National Organization for Women (NOW) in New York City, I was 26. I had never written for a national publication. The New York Times sought me out, did a major story on me and the men's groups I was running, and asked me to write an op. ed. piece. I did. They published it, with hardly a word changed. They asked me to do a second. Again they published it with hardly a word changed. And a third....
As long as I was writing from a feminist perspective, The New York Times published everything I wrote. Once I began questioning the feminist perspective, The New York Times published nothing I wrote - not a single one of the more than twenty articles I have since submitted to them in the following two decades. "
This same story is found all over the web. It feels like a conspiricy of silence some days.

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