Adding White Males To The Protected Designated Groups

It won't happen but it is encouraging that someone is speaking up........

Readers “Blow Off Steam” Over Male-Bashing
Written by Rebecca Hagelin
Friday, June 01, 2007

Rebecca Hagelin

A few weeks ago, as the controversy over Don Imus and the Rutgers University women’s basketball team was brewing, I wrote a column highlighting a certain double standard. Why, I wondered, does no one take up for one of the only groups of people it’s politically correct to insult—males?

White males in particular, especially if they’re fathers, are routinely portrayed as lazy dolts in the mass media. I’m a wife and mother of two teenage sons who are being raised in an anti-male media culture—a culture that far too often spews the mantra of radical feminism. The guys in my life are good, decent men. It makes me sick each time “their kind” is attacked in commercials, television shows, print ads—you name it.

“Where’s the outrage?” I asked. I then invited readers to respond.

Wow. Did they ever! As a conservative columnist who has written candidly about some controversial topics, I’ve had my share of e-mails. But nothing topped the river of e-mails that flooded my in-box. About 99 percent were completely supportive, thanking me for broaching the topic—a topic they were grateful to vent about themselves. As more than one reader wrote, “Thanks for letting me blow off steam.”