A Blot on the Human Race

Barbara Kay, in today’s National Post, accuses Rosie DiManno of being “a blot on female journalism.”

She is far too kind. DiManno has written a personal attack on Barbara Amiel’s physical appearance for the Star which is almost nauseating in its bad taste and viciousness.

But, as Kay points out, female journalists have long been permitted to do this—to make outrageous personal attacks in print that a male writer would never be permitted. Thank God, it looks as though Anne Coulter at least may have finally gone too far, in calling John Edwards a “faggot,” and at last may be called to account. But I have seen too many other examples.

It’s time we applied the same standards to women as to men.

In the meantime, the enemies of Conrad Black and Barbara Amiel are so obviously vile and despicable that it is impossible not to want to see them acquitted and vindicated, even if they are actually guilty of something.