I AM OUTRAGED! People like me are the constant butts of jokes and bigotry.

[leftofthedial]

INSTITUTIONALIZED BIGOTRY no less!

We can't jump.

We can't dance.

We have no sense of rhythm.

We look stupid in bermuda shorts.

We can't box.

Apparently we can't play cornerback in the NFL.

We are violent and driven solely by base biological urges that we rarely are able to control.

We are crude, insensitive, un-cultural slobs who need women to civilize us.

This stereotype of the white male plays out RELENTLESSLY on commercials, in movies, in cartoons, in TV shows, in DU threads, in jokes, in literature and in political discourse. It is by far the most common stereotype propagated in our culture. How would you feel if you were constantly made fun of, not for what you have done, but for who you are? No wonder we are oppressed! No wonder we have no sense of humor at all. It is time for all my sistren and brethren at DU to join me in calling for this OUTRAGE TO STOP!



For a moment , ignore the fact that these characterizations are pretty much all true.

Stop staring at my bermuda shorts and sniggering. I'M SERIES!

edit: because "butts" sounds better

[Missy Vixen]

1. I only have one comment on all this

>driven solely by base biological urges that we rarely are able to control.<

Thank God. I LOVE men.

Julie

[leftofthedial]

2. cool.

get me a beer.





;-)

[Missy Vixen]

3. Sure, if you'll get me one next

:hi:

Julie

[leftofthedial]

11. youbetcha.

I hate drinking and watching 'rasslin' alone.

[Patiod]

16. And that's "urge", not "urges"

for the most part.

[leftofthedial]

29. beer isn't an urge?

[Patiod]

61. good point

good point

[Hugin]

4. Seconded.

You forgot to mention 'BALDING' men.

[Porcupine]

26. god help you if you're a bald guy with a belly.......

because everyone assumes that you're a mental midget.

Now where'd I put that snickers bar? Oh, right here next to the bud light on my playboy.

[Bassic]

60. "everyone assumes that you're a mental midget"

Yeah, I've experienced that one a lot. Although I do enjoy the look on some people's faces when they realize, usually at their expense, that I'm not a halfwit.

[Kajsa]

5. LOL !

" can't play cornerback" ?

:7


I love men, too.

;-)

[leftofthedial]

42. even slow, a-rhythmic ones

That can't jump?

[madinmaryland]

6. Do you need viagra, too?

:hi:

[matcom]

7. don't we ALL?

:rofl:

[madinmaryland]

9. Speak for yourself!!1!!

[leftofthedial]

14. I find it too hard to answer that question

now natural herbal male enhancement . . .

that's something every white male needs.

at least according to prevailing wisdom.

[Katherine Brengle]

8. Eh, the catch is that when your group has the power, what does it matter if someone pokes fun?

At the end of the day, you're still on top.

:shrug:

[leftofthedial]

12. yeah. I've got the power.

And don't you forget it.

[Katherine Brengle]

17. :P

[WCGreen]

10. Thank god we have all them wise commercial women's so we don't

make fools of ourselves all the times...

[leftofthedial]

13. behind every great man

there is a little woman, cooking, cleaning and doing the laundry so he can rule the world.

[WCGreen]

19. None of these baffoons in these commercials is anywhere near

great....

They're as far away from great as George W. is from Mt. Rushmore....

[leftofthedial]

30. I missed the commercials

I was loading in during the game

but I saw stills

It looked to me like it made fun of homophobic white guys

:shrug:

[WCGreen]

37. I wasn't just refering to Superbowl ad.s...

I was pointing out the long tradition of making the dad, the husband into some kind of baffoon.....

[leftofthedial]

43. silly me. I'm just a buffoon

who couldn't figure out what you meant.

I guess I'll have another beer and enjoy my power and privilege

[Oeditpus Rex]

38. Shhh!

:hide::yoiks:

[leftofthedial]

44. well, it did

some people are WAY too sensitive

I'm glad I'm not one of them LOL!

[Oeditpus Rex]

47. Looked that way to me, too

But then, there's no way I can see it from their side. :shrug:

[redwitch]

15. Are you a republican?

I never knew that about you. Hmm.

[leftofthedial]

18. yeah, right.

mmm hmmm.

I want a new truck. A big one.

[Left Is Write]

20. Have I ever been fun of just for "who I am"?

Sure. I'm a blonde woman.

And many, many years ago, I was a gawky, skinny blonde teenager with dark-rimmed glasses, all the wrong clothes and a brain I couldn't help using.

Yeah. I've been made fun of a lot.

Too bad I wasn't the powerful one in the equation - you can't be oppressed when you're holding the reins.

[leftofthedial]

27. well I'm holding the reins now

giddyup! Yeehaw!



Sorry. It's these assless chaps. I just can't get used to them.

[Left Is Write]

28. Oh, my....

:blush:

[krispos42]

56. Ted? Ted Haggart? Is that you!?!?!?

OMG, where have you been? I've been holding this, um, parcel that came for you about a month ago. Your, um, special friend dropped it off...

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

31. Basically, this thread is a veiled...

"lighten up gays" comment.

And as for this:
"Too bad I wasn't the powerful one in the equation - you can't be oppressed when you're holding the reins."

You are ABSOLUTLY correct.

:toast:

[JackBeck]

32. Veiled? This post is all warts and moles.

If the OP wants to express how they truly feel, they should stop lurking in GD and get dirty like many of us.

But I guess it's safer to hide and make fun of Americans struggling for civil rights.




Power to the....people.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

34. I was trying to be nice, Jack.

I am nice sometimes, you know. Not often, but sometimes.

[Oeditpus Rex]

40. I don't recommend it (n/t)

[leftofthedial]

49. but you see, being a white male,

I can't express how I truly feel. Haven't you heard?

As for "lurking" in GD, I'll stack my post count there up against yours anytime.


In your struggle for civil rights, you have identified the wrong enemy.

[leftofthedial]

50. nothing veiled about it

it's a "lighten up everyone" comment.

I'm not powerful. I'm not rich. I'm not exploiting others. I'm not in any position of privilege that I'm aware of. Yet you seem to feel it's okay to denigrate me all because of a superficial resemblance to a miniscule minority who are rich and powerful and exploitative.

That is ABSOLUTELY a double standard.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

68. Being a straight, white male automatically gives you a position of privilege over...

a minority member of a similar socio-economic class.

Just because you aren't Bill Gates, doesn't mean you don't have white male privilege.

The double standard is that you can't be fired for who you love, you earn more money than a woman for the same work, get discriminated against in housing, you can marry the person you love...

Do you want me to go on about the privileges that you don't even realize you have?

[sarge43]

21. But you tend to be pretty good skiers - leaving no cliche in peace. n/t

[SayWhatYo]

22. You're a donkey too?

[Mojambo]

23. Don't Call Me White!

Don't call me white, Don't call me white
Don't call me white, Don't call me white

The connotations wearing my nerves thin
Could it be semantics generating the mess we're in?
I understand that language breeds stereotype
But what's the explanation for the malice, for the spite?

Don't call me white, Don't call me white
Don't call me white, Don't call me white

I wasn't brought here, I was born
Circumsized, categorized, allegiance sworn,
Does this mean I have to take such shit
For being fairskinned? No!
I ain't a part of no conspiracy,
I'm just your average Joe.

Don't call me white, Don't call me white
Don't call me white, Don't call me white

Represents everything I hate,
The soap shoved in your mouth to cleanse the mind
The vast majority of sheep
A buttoned collar, starched and bleached
Constricting veins, the blood flow to the brain slows
They're so fuckin' ordinary white

Don't call me white, Don't call me white
Don't call me white, Don't call me white

We're better off this way
Say what you're gonna say
So go ahead and label me
An asshole cause I can
Accept responsibility, for what I've done
But not for who I am

Don't call me white, Don't call me white
Don't call me white, Don't call me white
Don't call me white, Don't call me white

[petronius]

24. Don't forget that we're apparently so stupid we need 3 y.o. kids to teach us how to

grocery shop or even start the car...

[leftofthedial]

53. not to mention the whole

programming the VCR thing

[UncleSepp]

25. *laugh* Better be careful with that

I wrote an essay about something like that once. It went viral. 'Nuff said about that.

I, for one, would call for a moratorium on "black comedian who speaks in stereotypical 'black' voice does sterotypical 'white' voice for comic effect" jokes, immediately followed by a fully funded scientific investigation into determining cultural affinities by the the pronunciation of the letter "R".

[philosophie_en_rose]

33. Poor white guys.... people always screwning you over.

:(

[leftofthedial]

35. this is a HUGH outrage!

just because a few white guys are rich, people like you think it's okay to dump on all of us.

people like you turn my stomach!

speaking of my stomach, it's time for some more steak and potato chips.

[Bassic]

62. Yeah, because God knows we're all frggin rich, powerful

and inclined to stomp on all others.

[Evoman]

36. I'm latino...and last time I checked, we're always portrayed as drug dealers or illegal aliens.

Yeah, okay..so I'm pretty good at jumping fences and I can dance, but fuck you anways. I've never sold drugs and called people ESE incessantly.

[Robeson]

39. Hey, but Reggie White said you all are "gifted" people....

...just look at the kind words he said...."Hispanics are gifted in family structure. You can see a Hispanic person and they can put 20 or 30 people in one home".....

[leftofthedial]

41. chill homie

;-)

[Evoman]

46. I am chilled...I just slept with your sister, vato, and now shes pregnant with my baby.

Don't worry, Ese...my drug selling business should pay for the baby until I get my green card.

*man..that actually sounds like something a latino character on TV would say*

[leftofthedial]

51. I'm from New Mexico

It sounds like something *I* would say. And I'm anglo.

[Oeditpus Rex]

45. Hey, at least it's a step up

from when you were portrayed as just lazy smokers of loco weed, singing "Mañana is soon enough for me." Or corn chip thieves. :7

(I'm reminded of the time in sophomore English when Mr. Rowland asked the class, "What is an essay?" and Eddie Hernandez said, "That's what you say when you see your friend on the street: 'Hey, ese!'")

:rofl:

[Evoman]

48. That doesn't sound like a step up!!!

At least those guy didn't stab people and cut putas. Damn. White guy stereotypes seem a lot better than what we are stuck with.

[Oeditpus Rex]

52. They're better roles

The camera just panned over the lazy loco weed smokers. They probably didn't even get union scale. Now you get your name in the credits and everything.

Drug smuggler.................................................... José Jiménez
Machete-wielding drug smuggler.......................... José Fernandez
Uzi-wielding drug smuggler.................................. José Hernandez
Car painter who moonlights as a drug smuggler..... José Mendoza



Just in case... :sarcasm:

[hfojvt]

59. what about George Lopez

and that guy from Two and a half men?

Wasn't Ponch latino?

ALWAYS is a slight exxageration.

edit: and this one show had a latino as POTUS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Sheen

[Bassic]

63. Ok, nevermind

Sometimes I forget how to read, sorry.

[leftofthedial]

54. see what I mean?

cruel, insensitive, bigoted joke


WAAAAAAAAAH! WAAAAAAAAAAH! Everyone who thought that was funny is an anti-civil-rights, republican, bigoted hate monger.

[krispos42]

58. color me red! roflmao n/t

[mduffy31]

55. You forgot about Fat people always

I guess it is okay to make fun of us too.

[leftofthedial]

66. I've heard a few "your mama is so fat . . ." jokes

I know there is a tradition of large comedians/characters. I also know there is discrimination against people who are perceived as overweight. But is there really an archetypal "fat" persona that is routinely denigrated? I guess there is. Sorry.

[krispos42]

57. Hey! How dare you insult me like.... oh, wait. It's, um, true... (sigh)

I don't jump.

I can't dance.

I can usually clap in time to the music.

I don't wear Bermudas, probably for the above reason.

I don't box.

I don't play football.

I both own and like firearms and WWII first-person shooters. And the possibility of cleavage draws my eyes like a magnet. Can't help it.

I can be crude, I am reasonably sensitive, but don't do much high culture. And I do need a woman to get me out of my armchair and into the social live (taking applications, ladies!)

Well, at least, as a white male, I have all this economic and political pow-...

Oh, wait, don't have that either.

Shit.

Hell, the only thing I have going for me is that the cops don't hassle me!

[leftofthedial]

67. we should start a support group

of course the gay patrol will insist that we already have one, called western civilization.

[BikeWriter]

64. Didja hear the one about the three leftofthedials who walked into a bar?

[leftofthedial]

65. I like the similar one

Did you hear about the leftofthedial that walked OUT of the bar?






....








Hey! It could happen!

[BarenakedLady]

69. LoL.

Funny white guy.