How crazy is this? The New York Times has reportedly added menstrual products to the men’s bathrooms in its Manhattan office this summer. Yep, you read that right. According to internal communications leaked to the Washington Free Beacon, Victor Liu, the VP for Global Real Estate and Facilities, decided it was high time to make men’s restrooms a little more… inclusive.

Liu’s Slack message cheerfully detailed that, between July 26 and 29, the company would be “adding menstrual products and sanitary baskets” to men’s restrooms to accommodate transgender and non-binary employees. But wait, there’s more! They also decided to “remove gendered imagery” and remind everyone they can use whichever bathroom makes them feel warm and fuzzy inside.

It’s crazy that when you think of pressing issues in journalism, this tops the list.

The move, predictably, highlights the chasm between legacy media elites and the general public. Polls show most Americans think bathroom policies should align with biological sex, but the Times has never been one to let public opinion get in the way of performative progressivism.

Seriously, the Times is still recovering from the summer of 2020 when publishing a Tom Cotton op-ed about sending in the military to handle left-wing riots sent their newsroom into a full-on meltdown. The situation got so out of hand that at least one tech reporter was in tears during an emergency meeting.

And the chaos doesn’t stop there. The Times’s “diversity” efforts show that just 1% of its workforce identifies as “nonbinary”—a category that is apparently growing but still barely registers. But why let a little thing like basic math dictate sweeping workplace changes?

Meanwhile, the paper is facing an internal rebellion over its Gaza war coverage, with some reporters apparently tossing neutrality out the window in favor of ideological purity. Clearly, objective journalism is becoming passe. Even their domestic reporting doesn’t escape scrutiny, like when they “debunked” the burning question of whether Kamala Harris ever flipped burgers at McDonald’s, citing a campaign surrogate as their unimpeachable source. Spoiler: no one believes it.

If all this wasn’t exhausting enough, their tech staff staged a walkout just before Election Day over contract disputes, demanding everything from unlimited sick time to mandatory trigger warnings in meetings. Whether they also demanded gold-plated keyboards remains unclear.
In short, while the Times flounders under its own ideological weight, the rest of us are left wondering: how much further down the rabbit hole can we go? Stay tuned.