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Say rather, the Polish are more upset at being edited out of Microsoft's media representations than your average white male. Install Visual Studio and watch the
by thras 17y ago
Say rather, the Polish are more upset at being edited out of Microsoft's media representations than your average white male. Install Visual Studio and watch the pictures some time. Now look around your office. Notice the difference?
Same thing has happened to U.S. television. Watch TV from the 1960s or 1970s. Watch The Rockford Files on Hulu, for example. The contrast between then and today is amazing. You'll see white men demanding and receiving respect. Today, they're the butt of every joke.
(Oh, the above is totally non-PC. So please down-mod it with a vengeance before you go back to your masturbatory religious devotions to the modern gods Diversity and Equality. But do remember me the next time a girl turns you down in a bar for not being as masculine as her ideal.)
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- jibiki 17y ago> Today, they're the butt of every joke. I think this trend probably peaked a few years ago (Family Guy is a good example.) You can actually see it reversing if you watch King of the Hill: the earliest episodes generally show Hank as a small minded redneck, whereas later episodes portray him as a lone voice of sanity. Anyways, if you look outside of comedies, there are plenty of masculine male leads in popular shows (Jack Bauer comes to mind.) As for race, I can't even think of a popular drama where the male lead is black (and the other characters aren't.) But maybe I just don't watch enough TV.
- crux_ 17y agoI think it's tough to say when that particular trend "peaked." Consider: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3s8sEYzHWQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3s8sEYzHWQ or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_TGQ7rGL-Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_TGQ7rGL-Q Or even: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1MgjQOR_JA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1MgjQOR_JA ;)
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- jibiki 17y agoThere's a specific genre, "fat-dumb-slob-married-to-woman-who-always-knows-best", which Family Guy is the pinnacle of (it's an old genre of course, related to the theme of women marrying beneath their status, which has been a major literary device since time immemorial.)
- crux_ 17y agoDear asshole, It was the black man who was edited out. Perhaps this correction will serve as a reminder not to jump to conclusions; particularly ones which match your passionately held (and, by the way, disgusting) preconceptions. Additionally I hope my use of 'asshole' above will hit home, setting you upon a course of introspection and self doubt, at which point you realize that you are, in fact, an asshole. You will then sell all your worldly possessions and motorbike to South America in a journey of self-discovery, never to be heard from again.
- thras 17y agoNow you know how it feels for me to see a bunch of Microsoft promotional material without any white males. To be edited out. Asshole.
- crux_ 17y agoWhy do you presume I care about your feelings? Quite frankly, the worldview you espouse deserves to be edited out. This looks serviceable: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/scz/bik/1329392859.html http://sfbay.craigslist.org/scz/bik/1329392859.html