This thread is for white men. This is where white men can bitch and complain about how tough it is to be a white man. For example, according to Pat Buchanan, none of the finalists for the Supreme Court nomination were white men. It that fucked up or what?
About The Author
BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
it’s like you can’t even go golfing anymore without seeing chicks and non-white men.
honestly, I may not have enough snark in me to really comment effectively on this one. I’ve deleted three responses so far.
I feel your pain man: maybe some reruns of Ozzie and Harriet or My Three Sons will help.
Try some All In The Family. That should do it.
Here I am. Crashing the party again. Just like the early days of my working life.
So, you know how good we used to have it.
I do. For instance, when I first started working, the men’s room had real cloth towels. The ladies room had paper towels.
How did you know what the exclusive Men’s Room had to offer, Yentl?
One of the younger men spilled the beans.
That Traitor!
One of the negative effects of telling someone he’ll never make partner. 🙂
did they at least put a seat on a urinal for you?
Oh it was a real ladies room. After all, there were lots of ladies. They were (mostly) secretaries.
Have you been watching “Mad Men” on AMC the last two seasons? Takes place in the 60’s. Real culture shock for me. Yes, all the women had to be secretaries while all the White Guys were drinking on the job and ogling over the women in the office.
And to think they all get paid the same, whether they’re white men or not! Because these are Guv’ment jobs, it just ain’t fair to us white dudes.
At a past job I worked on an IT project where I had access to tons of data, including everyone’s salaries in the (BIG) corporation. I found that I, as a white man, made about 30% more than the white women who were equal to me – or even better qualified. Considerably more than that for anyone with a better tan or more exotic name that I had.
It’s disgusting and it has to stop. White dudes had their day and they need to let things equalize out once and for all. This is just crazy.
It must have been temptng to publish that.
As a white man, I really hate the fact that other white men, with whom I have no connection, are embarrassing our segment of the population by seemingly doing everything wrong. It’s especially chafing that there are so many white men in the political and pundit class, where literally everything they say or do is wrong, every analysis off, every prediction proved false, every conviction or belief in how the system should be run failed, yet they continue to say and do dumb stuff. I think we need a political party for competent white men (CWM). Our group is as unrepresented in our government.
Yeah, or maybe S.W.I.G. (Sensitive White Intellectual Guys).
We could form a coalition with Drinking Liberally.
That Driving While White thing really sucks too.
crashin yer threadz. steelin yer jobz.
lol.
Next thing you know the dykes will be busting in.
To make up for all this White Men oppression, here’s the much-anticipated sequel to an Engineer’s Guide to Cat Yodeling: Advanced Cat Yodeling, featuring two affirmative action candidates.
I love those guys. I just “subscribed” so I don’t miss another exciting episode.
Love it.
It would be a shame, and a great loss to humanity, if two such talented guys were passed over simple because they were white.
We can count on you and Mary to come around and just wreck things for us White Dudez.
and walk off with your cloth towels, too.
LolHispanics?
Though I guess LoLatinos would have been a better joke…
if there’s green chili beer involved, I’ll take the LolHispanic out of solidarity.
My mind went completely another direction with the lol reference. I worked my way from lolcat to lolgato to lolvato, but then I like Freddie a lot.
Pittsburgh I’ll bring at least three six packs of green chile beer.
(Yeah we spell it chile here. Try and mess with us)
I guess I’m supposed to just hang out down here at the bottom of the thread… :o))
Back of the thread, Oscar! Back of the thread!
Too tired to snark after a long day of work, so let me be a wet blanket by making an observation that’s been on my mind for a while.
First, every time someone on the right makes some remark about the “majority”, I have to wonder who the hell they’re talking about. As soon as you divvy up the demographics by race and gender, there is no majority. I can’t find a comprehensive breakdown at the moment, but whites are 74% of the US population. Given a roughly equal division by gender, that makes white men a minority of 37%. White Christian men? About 29% of the population.
(As an interesting side note, a 2007 survey found that there are only two, um, religious groups in the US that score more than 2% of the population: Christians, at 78%, and atheists/agnostics at 16%. Guess which one is growing and which one isn’t.)
Things were a lot simpler when there weren’t a bunch of girls around to mess everything up!
Meh. Born poor white trash, still poor white trash. Time the trust fund babies got in line like the rest of us.
might vote to overturn Roe v. Wade:
I’m sure there were white men Obama could have picked who’d have been much more reliable supporters of a woman’s right to control her own body.
But if he had picked a white man there would have been a shitstorm of protest from women and minorities.
Ironic.
not in a million years would i believe she would vote to overturn RVW
and i dont even like her that much.
they’re mad as hell and aren’t going to take it anymore!
buchanan’s one of the last of st. ronnie’s ‘angry white males’…preaching to the dead end choir.
Having been a white man for some time, I
have empathyunderstand totally.I think that the real GOP worry is that Judge Sotomayor is smart,knowledgeable and assertive enough to sway a vote or two for civil rights and labor unions. They claim she isn’t smart enough, what they really fear is her intelligence and drive. When will they claim her academic record disqualifies her because she must be an elitist?
I’m at a lost about what to write. Maybe white men want to corner the market on free “government” cheese, and have an unemployment rate higher than the national average.
In the late 1950’s I worked at NSA as a crypt linguist. There were many beautiful women employed there as analysts etc. What an irony that a governmental stalwart in the cold war should be such a progressive oasis in employment. Mirabile dictu–strange to say.