white men
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For White Men Who Have Considered Genocide When Patriarchy and Privilege Are Not Enuf
The cacophony of celebratory sounds that rang out last week in reaction to Joe Biden’s win was based on a sundry of emotions—ranging from relief at ending a racist regime dominated by white men who were fanatical about protecting their own wealth and privilege to jubilance over a historic win for Kamala Harris, the first woman…
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Multiple White Men Arrested After Yelling Racial Slurs and Doing Nazi Salute Towards Black Family
White people are simply losing their goddamn minds. If it’s not white women suffering from The Karening, it’s white men finding new and often horrific ways to terrorize Black people. In Oregon, a Black family was trying to enjoy a day at the beach when a group of white men began yelling racial slurs and…
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Black Man in Vermont Pulled Over and Told to Leave the Entire State by White Man
It has become incredibly apparent over the last few weeks that white people believe it is their divine right to police black people. CNN reports that a black man in Vermont was pulled over by a random white man and told to leave the state. On Friday, the victim was driving with his 11-year-old son…
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A Video in Which Matt Gaetz, a White Man, Whines About Being Called a White Man
Merriam Webster defines “identity politics” as: politics in which groups of people having a particular racial, religious, ethnic, social, or cultural identity tend to promote their own specific interests or concerns without regard to the interests or concerns of any larger political group. Although the Democratic Party’s constituency is far more diverse than the GOP,…
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The Emperor Has No Jokes: How Come None of Y'all Told Me That Joker Was So Damn Boring?
Mostly, Joker was what I expected it to be. I’d read and heard enough about it in the past several weeks that I knew what to anticipate. I knew it’d be a goulash of loud and important-sounding themes— “mental health!” “economic anxiety!” “capitalism!”—without actually saying much about any of them. Ellipses on a neon billboard.…
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Amazon Should Replace Literally Every White Man to Save Local Taxpayers Money
There was a time that white men offered the local community lots of services in exchange for their tax money. They would invent things like the Snickers bar and the shoelace, they wouldn’t exist as things named Tekashi 6ix9ine, and they saved Private Ryan. Residents could borrow any white man they wanted, marry it, and…
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Ant-Man and the Wasp is the Best Superhero Movie Made About Criminal Justice for White Guys
In just 10 years, the Marvel movie franchise has morphed from simple origin stories to universe-sprawling, intertwined characters and adventures, almost like Game of Thrones but with better CGI and brighter costumes. Once the exclusive playground of blonde white guys, the movies have become a lot blacker, more gender balanced and much more political. In…
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Why Are White Men So Angry?
White men are our angriest teachers, our angriest cops, our angriest accountants, our angriest horticulturists, our angriest greeters at Home Depot, our angriest Uber drivers, our angriest personal bankers and our angriest presidents. Yet they run most of the companies, possess most of the money, own most of the land, and are most of our…
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I’m Tired of Enduring the Abuse and Pain That Makes Me a ‘Strong Black Woman’
A month ago at work, a white man physically threatened me. He wanted to know my name so he could report me, so he came close to me and followed me into my work building and repeated his request. His goal was to intimidate, because maybe I intimidated him. It started because I couldn’t hear…