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In reply to the discussion: What fueled right wingers, fathers rights, mens' rights, gun rights & teabaggers into existence? [View all]PotatoChip
(3,186 posts)I hope you can find some time for the interview. What is nice about these book tv interviews is the fact that you really don't have to watch them. I often just listen while getting other things done.
Kimmel is very engaging and even funny in parts of it. At least to me, but I have a weird sense of humor. For example, at some point in the interview, he says "that's terrific!" Lol, I haven't heard anyone say that in years! Small, unintentionally funny things like that crack me up.
I can see how, from the wording of this thread that you might have thought the book was about all white men. Others appear to have done the same. Had I not already known about the book, I might have too. I can't speak to how it devolved from there, but I don't think the OP intentionally meant to mislead, though. Gender issues, as we all have seen recently, can be very touchy subjects... Plus, the title of the book itself is unfortunate in my opinion. If someone on DU was recommending a book titled Angry White Women, or just Angry Women, period, I'd want a pretty darn good explanation.
Speaking of explanations, mine wasn't that great either. It would have been so much easier to just call these guys what you just did- RW radio listeners. Fortunately, you still got what I meant. The point you made about the blaming of immigrants is a good example of what Kimmel is talking about. Men have every right to be angry, but they (meaning rw guys) "are delivering it to the wrong address".