Letters to the Editor: We can’t let ourselves become desensitized to Trump’s hostility toward women

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To the editor : It’s an unfortunate sign of our times that the president of the United States viciously attacking a reporter’s reasonable question by snapping “Quiet, piggy” doesn’t generate more substantial nationwide condemnation. It suggests we’re becoming desensitized to the ugliness spewed by the president. Columnist Anita Chabria wrote a brilliant analysis of this issue ( “‘Quiet, piggy’ wasn’t a joke. It’s a dangerous invitation to violence,” Nov. 21).

President Trump’s shocking and extremely ugly insult to this female reporter is simply the latest in a long line of his personal attacks on women. His go-to insults are to call a woman “very low IQ” (particularly when