Topic: Offensive Remarks
[Cross-posted from my Blogspot, Aiken Area Progressive]
CHICAGO -- I've said it many times before and I'll say it again: gender jokes are never funny. But, Amy Dickinson's remark telling women to hit their husbands/boyfriends with a 2 × 4 when he is insulting the woman crosses the line and advocates violence against men:
I'm going to assume that this is more than affectionate teasing from your partner. If you are the object of humiliating put-downs, perhaps you are trying too hard to make him be sensitive to you when what he really needs is to be smacked with a 2-by-4.
The fact that this misandrist remark is coming from a relationship advice expert is appalling and disgusting at its very core. If a male relationship expert had given a man who is being the butt of his wife's/girlfriend's sexist jokes similar advice to what Amy gave this woman, then he would be (rightfully) castrated by women and the media.
This is, without a shout of a doubt, advocating violence against men and people who have the Ask Amy column in their papers can read between the lines and see that. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to find that out. Amy Dickinson is advocating violence against men with what she said in this column.
If you want to send a message that domestic violence will not be tolerated, call your local paper and demand that they get rid of the Ask Amy column. Or, if you're really feeling fiesty, send Amy your angry mail in her inbox at askamy@tribune.com or write her a letter the old fashioned way (see below) and tell her that you are outraged over her remark advising women to committ violence against men.
Ask Amy
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Chicago, IL 60611
