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Sun, 02 Mar 2025 12:50:07 -0800
marlon from private IP, post #12566770
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Can White Men Finally Stop Complaining?
fems showing their hand again, yes we know y'all care only about the big guys,
status, power, wealth, authority is what u like, we get it. Average man needs
to shut up anyways, just another day
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/can-white-men-finally-stop-complaining/ar-AA1zZzHp
Avatars of ‘masculine energy,’ clockwise from left: podcaster Joe Rogan,
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, actor Michael Douglas in ‘Falling Down,’ Tesla CEO
Elon Musk, and actor Carroll O’Connor as Archie Bunker in ‘All in the
Family.’
© Dana Smith
The manosphere won. Bro podcasters top the charts. Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg
declares his company needs more “masculine energy.” Elon Musk shares a post
saying only “high-status males” should run the country. The White House
kills diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies, and so do multiple
companies, from Target to McDonalds.
OK, men, so will you finally quit complaining?
In 2021, Joe Rogan famously said, “It will eventually get to straight white
men are not allowed to talk…It will be, ‘You’re not allowed to go
outside’…I’m not joking. It really will get there, it’s that crazy.”
But Rogan’s complaint is actually an old one that has exploded as a rallying
cry every decade or so for more than 50 years. White guys have blamed others for
their job losses, educational failures, economic problems and drug addictions.
Somebody else is always at fault. The mighty white guy, it turns out, is quite
the delicate flower.
‘It will eventually get to straight white men are not allowed to talk,’ said
Joe Rogan, seen here in 2024.
“The white male is the most persecuted person in the United States,” a
retired marketing executive declared in a Newsweek cover story in 1993. The
magazine cataloged a litany of white men’s gripes: a culture that demonized
them, diversity programs run amok, women and Black people getting jobs that were
rightfully theirs. “This is a weird moment to be a white man,” it reported.
“Suddenly white American males are surrounded by feminists, multiculturalists,
P.C. policepersons, affirmative-action employers…all of them saying the same
thing: You’ve been a bad boy.”
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Young men during the World War 2 era that were
"Do you think men have become less masculine, or that we have simply progressed
as a society?"
Racism and sexism are as old as time. But the “oppressed white man” trope is
a relatively modern invention, with roots in the civil-rights and
women’s-rights victories of the 1960s. Protests and lawsuits followed, with
aggrieved white men turning the language of civil rights on its head. “Talk
about rights; we’ve got no rights!” a crowd of white Detroit police officers
chanted in 1975, protesting a court ruling in favor of the department’s
relatively few Black and female officers.
The TV character Archie Bunker, the oppressed white guy’s avatar, captured
that spirit in a 1974 “All in the Family” episode, when he complained about
a female colleague whose pay was equal to his: “What’s the point of a man
working hard all his life, trying to get someplace, if all he’s gonna do is
wind up equal?!”
This isn’t to minimize the real social changes in those years. U.S.
manufacturing jobs peaked in 1979; as they declined, white men without college
degrees lost opportunities for a robust middle-class life. At the same time,
women began earning more college degrees than men, more women and people of
color entered the workforce, and the American population as a whole became more
ethnically diverse.
But let’s put those changes in perspective: White guys still had it better
than almost anybody else. In the 1980s, the unemployment rate for white men was
less than half of that of Black men, and white men overall still outearned other
groups.
Detroit police officers protest ‘reverse discrimination’ in May 1975
Detroit police officers protest ‘reverse discrimination’ in May 1975
© Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State
University
Yet the aggrieved white guy kept making a comeback. He enjoyed a peak cultural
moment in the 1990s, when he was threatened by a recession, a diversifying
workforce and a growing focus on sexual harassment. Men felt targeted by “the
finger of feminist accusation,” as the New York Times put it in 1994. On
screen, they had morphed from the wise patriarch of “Father Knows Best” into
idiots, as in the TV show “Married with Children,” or louts, as in the hit
movie “Thelma and Louise.” They felt insulted by a culture that seemed to
venerate women and minorities while mocking them.
Their angst spawned a new genre of male crisis literature. Bookstore shelves
were crammed with titles like “Not Guilty,” “Myths of Masculinity” and
“The End of Manhood.” In his 1993 bestseller “The Myth of Male Power: Why
Men are the Disposable Sex,” Warren Farrell asserted that men are “the new
n——s” and argued that sexual harassment legislation creates a “hostile
environment” for men.
When Republicans won control of the House in the 1994 midterms, a USA Today
headline coined a now-familiar phrase: “Angry White Men: Their Votes Turn the
Tide for GOP.” The angry white man even got his own revenge fantasy with the
1993 film “Falling Down,” in which Michael Douglas played a laid-off defense
worker. Enraged at becoming “obsolete,” he goes on a murderous rampage,
attacking everybody in his way. The movie ends with him asking, incredulously,
“I’m the bad guy?”
To be clear, white guys aren’t all sexists or racists or whiners, nor do
all—or even most—buy into the white-guy persecution complex. But by the
1990s, the male archetype had been forged, and he would resurface again. Before
long he was a fixture in popular culture, personified in the 1999 film “Fight
Club” by Brad Pitt’s violent antihero Tyler Durden, who describes men as
“the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place…we’re very, very
pissed off.”
The beleaguered white guy came roaring back again in the wake of the 2008
financial crisis, when college-educated white guys who had weathered previous
recessions just fine—even Wall Streeters!—suddenly took a hit. “The
Beached White Male” blared a 2011 Newsweek cover story, which chronicled the
woes of the man who “used to have a big job” but now is “all washed up,
and doesn’t have a freakin’ prayer.” Among other indignities was the
threat to men’s masculinity, with wives forced to work longer hours and
husbands feeling less sexy in the bedroom.
With white guys now dominating government, popular culture, the airwaves and our
brain space, it’s puzzling why the victim mentality still persists. The cries
that DEI has somehow ruined white men’s lives are particularly head-scratching
considering that, as a recent Wall Street Journal analysis revealed, corporate
diversity initiatives have had relatively little impact on the workforce.
Yet white guys are still insisting that they’re being terrorized by the scary
DEI monster, blaming it for everything from the California wildfires to the
Potomac plane crash to the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse. And the most
powerful and privileged among them continue to complain the loudest.
Really, guys? Enough already.
Joanne Lipman is the former chief content officer of Gannett and editor in chief
of USA Today. She is the author of “Next! The Power of Reinvention in Life and
Work.”
Sun, 02 Mar 2025 17:50:59 -0800
zerosugar from private IP
Reply #15267672 I thought All in the Family was
supposed to be a comedy. This author acts like it was a reality show. lol. I
remember watching In the Heat of the Night as a kid late nights. The nostalgia.
Makes me want to shed a tear 🥲 Unsolved Mysteries and Cops were also big time
shows.
https://youtu.be/JbP-XpC-kTA?feature=shared
https://youtu.be/jB-1lLWy4NE?feature=shared
Sun, 02 Mar 2025 20:46:09 -0800
zerosugar from private IP
Reply #13160741 lol the author’s name of this
article is joanne lipman.
here is her wikipedia. read about her personal life. every time. what can i say?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanne_Lipman
Sun, 02 Mar 2025 20:48:04 -0800
zerosugar from private IP
Reply #11416710 copy and pasted for those that
don’t have smart phones. lol!!!!!
Personal
In 1987, Lipman married entertainment lawyer Thomas Distler in a Jewish ceremony
at the National Arts Club in Manhattan;[12] they have two children.
Mon, 03 Mar 2025 06:03:47 -0800
shithead from private IP
Reply #19402410 Creepy.
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