How the mainstream media drive a wedge between the sexes: AT MALE MATTERS

How the mainstream media drive a wedge between the sexes

News item:

"During a Little Rock Democratic meet-and-greet last month, our tipsters saw a man step from the receiving line and grab Hillary Clinton's private parts. They say Ms. Clinton was shocked but went through with the picture-taking. The man later claimed booze made him do it. Tacky groupie or setup job? Clintonites wonder." --U.S. News & World Report, September 16, 2002

And you may wonder why, incredibly, you never heard about this sexual assault of the former First Lady. You may also wonder why the U.S. News & World Report failed to mention whether the man was arrested, cuffed, and hauled away to await trial for his violence against a woman, particularly this woman.

The answer is. . .I lied to you. The news item is correct except for a couple of minor details. It wasn't Hillary Clinton who was grabbed; it was Bill Clinton. And it wasn't a man who stepped from the receiving line and grabbed Bill Clinton's private parts. It was a woman.

Now it makes perfect sense, doesn't it, why you never heard about the crotch-grabbing incident, and why U.S. News reported so little of it?

When reporting on assault, the mainstream media almost always play up the male-on-female type, and almost always play down the female-on-male type, as this U.S News report exemplifies. If Hillary Clinton had been the actual victim of this assault, do you think you would never have heard about it? You would have in fact heard about it from every member of the entire, broad media spectrum every day for perhaps a month. You might still be occasionally hearing about it even today, almost four years later, so as to remind you of men's brazen, misogynistic violence against women, of the fact that no woman is safe anywhere, not even the First Lady.

What can such biased gender reporting possibly achieve except to drive the wedge deeper between the sexes and help ideological feminists secure more funding for programs aimed at preventing violence against the safer sex and denigrating males? Because of this biased reporting, it's little wonder that we all say, "Women are the victims of violence and men are the victimizers." (For much more on how the media distort the truth about the sexes, see the relevant chapter in Arrogance: Rescuing America from the Media Elite.)

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