The Washington Post is planning on eliminating its “gender columnist” place after the author penned a chunk that was finally scrapped by the paper’s editors, Fox News Digital has realized.
Monica Hesse, who made headlines in 2018 by turning into The Post’s first-ever “gender columnist,” won’t maintain that title for much longer after writing a column about gender was “killed” by her editors, two sources inform Fox News Digital. It is unclear what Hesse had written within the column and what the editors objected to.
Hesse, presently a columnist for the paper’s Style part, is predicted to be reassigned both to its Opinions part or stay in Style as a reporter, the sources added.
“It’s unhappy and so pointless,” one supply instructed Fox News Digital.
Neither Hesse nor The Washington Post responded to Fox News Digital’s request for remark.
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The Washington Post is about to reassign Monica Hesse from being the paper’s “gender columnist” after a chunk she penned was killed by editors. (ERIC BARADAT/AFP through Getty Images; Dan Zak/The The Washington Post through Getty Images)
Hesse first joined The Post in 2007 as an intern for the Style workforce earlier than turning into a Features general-assignment reporter till breaking floor because the paper’s “gender columnist.” In 2023, she was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her columns “convey[ing] the anger and dread that many Americans felt about shedding their proper to abortion after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.”
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Her gender-based commentary has additionally raised eyebrows amongst conservative critics over time. In 2022, Hesse accused Florida’s parental rights legislation eradicating progressive gender ideology from the classroom of being “homophobic and transphobic payments cloaked in impartial language.”
In another piece, she defended drag queens studying books to youngsters, insisting “Drag queens are usually not those sexualizing drag story hour.”
Washington Post gender columnist Monica Hesse has a historical past of elevating eyebrows amongst conservative critics. (Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post through Getty Images)
In 2023, Hesse accused critics of First Lady Jill Biden and Gisele Fetterman of “sexism” for permitting their spouses to hunt workplace regardless of their psychological impairments.
“Attacking somebody who’s sick or aged just because they’re sick or aged is past the pale in our tradition (for now, at the least), even for these pundits whose versatile morals often discover a approach to drain-snake round any barricades of decency,” Hesse wrote at the time. “But by inserting blame on the wives, these commentators get to unfold dangerous messages in opposition to the president and senator whereas having believable deniability in opposition to expenses of ableism. The commentators are usually not — heavens, no — throwing mud at these poor males. They are merely scolding the ladies who ought to know higher. It’s ableism, with slightly sexism, as a deal with.”
During the 2024 election cycle, Hesse defended Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz for placing tampons in boys restrooms in faculties as Minnesota governor.
“Any boy who casually was like ‘Oh you bought ur interval? I stashed a pad from the lavatory in my backpack in case one in every of my pals wanted it’ — that boy could be king stud. That boy could be drowning in promenade invitations,” she wrote on X.
The Washington Post’s billionaire proprietor Jeff Bezos beforehand signaled his paper would pivot in the direction of the middle whereas defending his resolution to quash an endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris. ( SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP through Getty Images)
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The transfer by The Post to remove its “gender columnist” place may very well be seen as an ideological pivot to the middle because the liberal paper adjusts to the return of President-elect Donald Trump.
Jeff Bezos, the billionaire proprietor of The Post who quashed his paper’s endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris simply days earlier than the election, alluded to creating reforms in an op-ed defending the endorsement resolution.
“Most individuals imagine the media is biased. Anyone who doesn’t see that is paying scant consideration to actuality, and people who combat actuality lose,” Bezos wrote in October. “Reality is an undefeated champion. It could be simple accountable others for our lengthy and persevering with fall in credibility (and, subsequently, decline in affect), however a sufferer mentality won’t assist. Complaining shouldn’t be a technique. We should work tougher to regulate what we will management to extend our credibility.”
