"Mitt Romney was a white dude's white dude, and 62% of white dudes had no doubt that their dude would win. Because, hey, he "looked like a president.""
1. White men who voted for Romney, according to this author, "had no doubt" their "dude" would win."
2. People who voted for Romney only did so because he "looked like a president." Well, at least the "dudes."
Because, while women are entitled to safe havens/echo chambers on the 'net, if men engage in similar activities, it's nefarious.Perhaps not so coincidentally, over the course of Obama's first term, what started as a fringe dude subculture has flourished into a thriving online community—the self-described "Manosphere," a safe haven/echo chamber for men who feel discriminated against, ignored, and blamed
Men's issues, like being falsely accused of rape (and spending time in jail or prison as a result), is like a "stuffy nose" compared to real problems, like cancer. Men ought to just "man up" and not complain about being falsely accused of rape, because it's not a real problem.Potentially false rape charges and "unfair" child support payments deserve equal or greater outrage, they say, alongside actual rapes and centuries of systemic, enforced poverty. And I don't mean that those problems are bullshit—all injustices deserve attention and care—but we're trying to cure cancer over here. You have a stuffy nose.
On the one hand -- this is the white manhood of today --
On the other hand, NOT thinking you need big muscles to be attractive is also wrong --You can see it in insecure young dudes who think big muscles and homophobia will make them "manly."
So -- if you think you need big muscles to be manly, you're wrong, and if you think that it's a good thing that "experience and savoir-faire" rather than delts and pecs are where real attraction should come from, then you're wrong again.You can see the anxiety in sulky hand-wringing about old dudes' right to be found attractive no matter what, as in Richard Cohen's absurd column last week: In "North by Northwest" and other movies, Grant - for all his good looks - represented the triumph of the sexual meritocracy - a sex appeal won by experience and savoir-faire, not delts and pecs and other such things that any kid can have.
No matter what, "dudes," you're wrong.
And, it's because --
That is, all men are somewhat sociopathic assholes, and only "certain men" are "not completely" sociopathic assholes.Yeah, yeah, yeah—as though certain men deserve some sort of credit for not being completely entitled sociopathic assholes.
Of course, women's hardships are likely invisible to men. But, if men had real hardships, then women would clearly see them. it's not even possible, for this author, to consider that maybe men have traditionally had some hardships that women don't.But here's the thing. It's not that your life has been easy, per se, it's just that certain hardships have been absent—hardships that affect other groups in ways that are most likely invisible to you.
That's rich... this whole article has slammed every mention of men discussing problems that they may have among themselves on a blogosphere -- any discussion by men of what may be difficult or unfair to them is "boo hoo" and "a stuffy nose compared to a cancer." And, men, except for "certain men" are sociopathic assholes. But, don't be offended, because you're not "personally being blamed for anything."You're not personally being blamed for anything,
LOL - well, since you asked so nicely...why wouldn't we want to help?Women and people of color and LGBT Americans have the right to complain because we've fucking earned it. And we're kind of busy here, working on a project called "equality." Let me know when you're done flipping out over losing 1% of your privilege. We could use your help.
) than a young Jon Cryer. Even when Andy McC is playing a vapid rich kid. Sorry, Jon.