Dear White America: Your Toxic Masculinity is Killing You

[freshwest]

37. She's only addressing you if you fit in one of these categories:

Do you eschew 'backward right-wing politics?'

If not, the OP does not apply to you.

Do you 'hate the black guy in the White House and anything that he proposes?'

If not, the OP does not apply to you.

Do you possess or promote a 'fetishistic embrace of guns, hostility to women’s rights, Islamophobia, symbolic and overt racism?'

If not, the OP does not apply to you.

Going after rightwingers is a cherished passtime at DU so you should be excluded from feeling you are being singled out. No one is going to make an issue of your self-definition of a white male.

It's not a crime, nor is anyone blaming you for an accidental of birth into a demographic society calls 'white' and 'male.' You could be gay and still be born a white male.

There is no privilege in being born a minority. Aas far as being a 'friend' of anyone here, that is a word of encouragement from a member of the 'white race,' and not an insult to most white men.

I am a white female, and nothing on this board offends me because of my personal race and gender. In fact, I refer to myself as a CCWP (card carrying white person). You may call me that, because I am not ashamed of it.

Please, and I mean this in love, just think about who you really are, not what you fear is being said about you personally, so you won't be offended.