Over on the Men’s Rights subreddit, the locals are pig-biting mad about racism. Are they organizing vigils for murdered black teen Trayvon Martin? Are they challenging the Hunger Games fans who are sending out racist tweets complaining about the character “Rue” being played by a black actress?
Nope. They are doing something much, much braver. They are taking on a white dude for mocking other white dudes who are convinced they are the truly oppressed.
Over on the Boston Magazine web site, blogger Barry Nolan sets forth this truly hateful argument:
I have been a white male all my life and to tell you the truth, I have found it to be a pretty sweet deal. … Wherever you look and by almost any metric, any statistic, it works out to be a pretty sweet deal to start out life as a white male. …
So I cannot, for the life of me, understand why so many white men like me can be found whining about how tough it is to be a white man. It’s a mystery to me how they came to feel so beset on every side by feminists, minorities, and “the system.” When in fact, the system is so stacked in our favor, it’s almost embarrassing.
On the Men’s Rights subreddit a post blasting Nolan as a “racist idiot” now boasts 90 upvotes. In the comments, the brave antiracists set poor Nolan straight on a thing or two. To Ellwood78, it’s just a big coincidence that most of the powerful figures in the US happen to be white dudes:
NoNoJCM, meanwhile, reports on his own bitter experience as one of the oppressed:
Irrel_M is apparently a Stephen Colbert fan who isn’t in on the joke:
To paraphrase Sojourner Truth, “ain’t I a white dude?”
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that isn’t to say there shouldn’t be shelters for men btw, obviously there should
White guys should jus shut up and buy into the feminist narrative, with its “partriarchy” and “privilege.” I love all the nashing of teeth from a bunch of privileged white women on manboobz. The irony is hilarious.
O HAI.
The creepy/incoherent threat (don’t Nolan’s bosses at Boston Magazine already know what he wrote) was following a big wad of copypasta from Kyle Lovett’s favorite why-men-are-oppressed list was followed by a link to Kyle Lovett’s blog, suggesting that “menofvoice”/”Travis Taylor” is either Kyle’s biggest PoC fan, or Kyle himself in blackface.
This kid is fast becoming my favorite boob.
Oh, hey mags. How have you been?
White women who deny racism and silently benefit from it are sooo much less ironic.
RE: mags
Wait, white people aren’t allowed to bitch about other white people being racist now?
But if you’re a white guy who acknowledges privilege and does not shut up, Mags decides you lose all credibility and calls open season on genitalia insults.
The irony is delicious.
Wait, white women are the only people who go on about privilege?
Clearly the important factor is talking about privilege.
@Mags:
Can you give me an example where a white person is disadvantaged in comparison to a minority?
Wait. So we can’t talk about white privilege in general, or we just can’t talk about white privilege if we’re white ourselves?
Well, first Mags said I had no credibility for thinking it exists.
Later she talked about how it exists but she doesn’t care because it’s all about how other people treat her.
So the important factor seems to be acknowledging the reality of social privilege and then actually giving a shit.
Can you give me an example where a white person is disadvantaged in comparison to a minority?
Sunburns.
…I think that’s it. And it depends on the individuals in question, and how much they wear, and how they prote– ya know what, forget it. ;p
Aren’t we? Many white feminists seem to think it’s so… >_>
@Cotton Pony:
I’m leaning towards “Kyle (or some MRA) in blackface”
Peter Nolan is the Spreadheader who wrote that someone should “plant bombs in malls to kill feminists and manginas”.
This guy is named Barry. Completely different.
I discovered the whole Rue controversy last night, and as a fan of the books, it is described that Rue is black, ergo it makes sense that the actress who plays her be, you know, black.
Now I’ll sit back and watch these people spin my words into something that makes it seem like I’m racist, right MRA peeps and Rue deniers*?!
*Don’t know what else to call the folks who claim Rue WASN’T black/dark-skinned, who clearly never read the books….
I’m just waiting for some MRA to write an angry blog post about how Hunger Games is female supremacist and a feminist ruse to encourage killing men. I’m calling it now.
MOre for the ‘man’ is default human: crash test dummies have been created based on size and weight standards for men; results are significantly different with female crash test dummies:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/female-dummy-makes-her-mark-on-male-dominated-crash-tests/2012/03/07/gIQANBLjaS_story.html
It’s funny. When we say society shits on us, people are quick to tell us that we have victim complexes, and society doesn’t care about white people any more than it cares about POCs. I bet you it’s the same people that have such trouble caring about a black child dying, and see that as so natural that they believe the casting is at fault.
@Crumb
Not necessarily, I’ve seen many POCs, especially non-Black POCs (but some Black people as well), claim the same thing. It’s another manifestation of “I’m not like those”, special snowflake mentality.
uh, because he turned out to be a philanderer and a tax cheat. i was an edwards supporter (although i don’t think he was ‘obviously more qualified), but seriously, i’m pretty sure at this point everyone is like ‘man, am i glad i didn’t nominate that guy’
@Sharculese
My bad, should have added a /sarcasm tag. I was an Obama supporter throughout, so Edwards was not someone I considered to be more qualified, though I did like him more than Hillary. My point was that they are talking about electing the FIRST woman or black president, both at least equally qualified for the job as the White male candidates, and yet he thinks that the fact that more than a handful of dems wanted to see either the first woman, or the first minority, in the White House, it’s a travesty of epic proportions, and proof that it’s only the White man that gets the job on pure merit.
This is what I’m thinking even if Rue was not described as black.
who.gives.a.shit.
How many people were described white or purple? All of them, but if they weren’t. who.gives.a.shit.
Racists like The Hunger Games, what kind of book is this? The critique sounds so absurd that I feel like I’m getting half the story. Are people really saying that, like…people that can read? Since racism is in every echelon of society I should not be surprised racists can read, but I always am.
I think what pricked these pricks here in the post is that he said “males” …had the guy only talked about white people in general the MRM would not have jumped on it to make their obtuse commentary. Unqualified women getting promoted. Right. LOL.
Is there any reason that the hunger games could not have been put on by an all other that white people of color cast?
WTF? Can’t shake how stupid that is.
For how much you claim to be annoyed about feminists being ‘white women’, not only do you only care about white men, but you fucking ignore that we are not all white women. Much like the rest of your little game, it grows wearisome. Fuck off, Mags. You’re nothing but a troll.