Does Hale Despise Men?

To the Editor:

I read a disturbing article in last Friday’s paper penned by Babette Fraser Hale. As I read, I was shocked and appalled by the clear despisal for the male gender at large that was present in the article. Only the man in the scenario went maskless, and he did it in such a way that he was immediately the enemy, the bad man, whereas the woman wore her hot, itchy mask to ‘protect others’, including her-I quote-“macho” husband.

Now not only does this violate the age-old ‘don’t stoop to insult others or you have already lost your argument and negated your point,’ it also smears the male population and thus negates the article as having a freestanding, unbiased point. But it also showed distaste for men that, in our small town and county, I thought was impossible. In the city, I would expect full-on gender wars destroying the place, but in our town? Our county? I thought we were better than this!

And not only that: I happen to shop on Wednesdays nearly every week, and from continual observation, I have not only seen more women maskless than men, but I’ve seen a strong percentage of those so-called higher risk women-the elderly-with bare faces. Their smiles show; it’s apparent they haven’t a care in the world save for checking off their shopping list.

This article tempted me to heavily rethink what I thought our town, our county was. It seems the city life’s immorality, amorality, and the dividing of genders has snuck into our county and our towns unbidden, and is now starting its overtaking of the population here.

Is this what we are? Divided? Do we believe it’s the ‘macho husbands’ being picked up after by the ‘caring wives’? Does the evidence visible in the county back these claims up? Is this truly what Fayette County has becomea war of divisions between everything that can possibly divide us and nothing about what can unite us?

If it is, I distance myself from that mindset completely and will strive to negate it in any way possible, not only for myself, but for the men in the county as well.

Abigail Hamborsky

West Point