{"id":668,"date":"2006-05-25T22:54:44","date_gmt":"2006-05-25T21:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2006\/05\/25\/abuse_of_women_op-ed_writers"},"modified":"2006-05-25T22:54:44","modified_gmt":"2006-05-25T21:54:44","slug":"abuse_of_women_op-ed_writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/05\/25\/abuse_of_women_op-ed_writers","title":{"rendered":"Abuse of women op-ed writers"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a piece I found linked on [Comment is Free](http:\/\/commentisfree.guardian.co.uk\/index.html)’s “Best of the Web” section: all about the hate mail directed at women who write op-ed columns, particularly those of a liberal tendency; most of it seems to come from men, and takes the misogynistic line you’d expect:<\/p>\n

>Maureen Dowd of The New York Times discussed reactions to female opinion in her column <\/a>last year. “While a man writing a column taking on the powerful may be seen as authoritative, a woman doing the same thing may be seen as castrating.” She went on to say she called Alan Dundes, a renowned folklorist, to ask about it. “Women are supposed to take it, not dish it out,” Dundes told her.
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\n>Rekha Basu is the civil liberties voice at the Des Moines Register in Iowa, and she is a woman, liberal and Indian. She’s been called a Hindu-worshipping slut, an Arab terrorist, a whore, a lesbian, a c%%t, a skanky Muslim. Most insults are via e-mail and on Web sites, where attackers can remain relatively anonymous.
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\n>She’s been stalked and followed on the highway and told readers can’t wait to read her obituary in the newspaper. But nothing hurt like the time a reader said they hoped her husband, who has Lou Gehrig’s disease, would hurry up and die so she would leave the country.<\/p>\n

Female Pundits Could Use Help With Hate Mail<\/a> (more [here](http:\/\/www.sunnisisters.com\/?p=1547))<\/p>\n

Also, anyone who saw *United 93* and bought the line about how a German tried to stop the heroic Americans from storming the cockpit … read [this](http:\/\/commentisfree.guardian.co.uk\/john_harris\/2006\/05\/another_surrender_monkey.html). Or read this digested version:<\/p>\n

That bit of the story didn’t happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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