Top of the Hour: A Woman's World, This Morning's Headlines

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Contributing editor for The Atlantic, Hanna Rosin talks about her story, "The End of Men;" headlines.

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Scott from NYC

I listened to your program earlier today, and was surprised (but perhaps not so much so) to hear you play a recording of a caller who explained (angrily) that men were, essentially poor and useless workers who demanded extraordinary credit for even their most tepid achievements.

I find it hard to believe that you would, in any other conversation, have played a recording in which a caller so broadly demonized another group, whether by sex, race, nationality, or any other grouping.

I tend to doubt that you would have played a recording in which a caller asserted that "Women don't even deserve the 75c on the dollar they are paid, because they cannot perform their jobs rationally, and instead spend their days demanding that their emotional rants be attended to." *

Neither do I believe that you would have played a call asserting that members of one race were, say, lazier, or more penurious than another. It seems, though, that with regard to men, any comment, no matter how vile, does not exceed the bounds of decency that would circumscribe any other kind of discussion.

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*(Not what I believe, by the way, I offer this as an example, only).

Jun. 10 2010 09:31 AM
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