Along With Being Hatemonger, Steve Bannon Accused of Misogyny and Wife-Beating
Image by Getty Images
What should we make of Stephen Bannon, newly-appointed future-Trump-administration leader? One minute he’s protecting his daughters from the menace that is having to attend school with Jewish classmates, the next, why, it’s like he doesn’t care about the ladies at all!
In the Huffington Post, Melissa Jeltsen reminds that Stephen Bannon, whom Donald Trump chose as “senior counselor and chief strategist to the president,” hasn’t just said insulting things about women, but has also been accused of domestic abuse.
Here’s the point where I’m meant to be expressing outrage, which, sure, but I can’t get quite surprised enough for that. All manner of evil is associated with domestic violence and misogyny. What’s upsetting is that stories like these are so predictable.
Phoebe Maltz Bovy edits the Sisterhood, and can be reached at [email protected]. Her book, The Perils of “Privilege”, will be published by St. Martin’s Press in March 2017.
"Why I became the Forward’s Editor-in-Chief"
You are surely a friend of the Forward if you’re reading this. And so it’s with excitement and awe — of all that the Forward is, was, and will be — that I introduce myself to you as the Forward’s newest editor-in-chief.
And what a time to step into the leadership of this storied Jewish institution! For 129 years, the Forward has shaped and told the American Jewish story. I’m stepping in at an intense time for Jews the world over. We urgently need the Forward’s courageous, unflinching journalism — not only as a source of reliable information, but to provide inspiration, healing and hope.
Support our mission to tell the Jewish story fully and fairly.
