It's Been Bugging Me for a While Now...

Since high school I have been painfully aware of equality issues. I used to compete on the debate team. In my H.S. it was largely a female group. My captains were female, More than half of the policy teams were female, and a good deal of the speech competitors were (you guessed it!) female. This lead to an underlying theme of feminism (they argued it was about equality, which is the dictionary definition... the first one) to be used as an argumentative strategy. I learned about differing variations, such as Ecofeminism. I learned to use these arguments (even with my disadvantage of being a white male) and on some levels I agree with them.

Now that you have an idea of where I am coming from, I want to discuss an issue I have yet to read any literature on. It seems that since the 60's the male has been undergoing a transformation in the media's eyes. men seem to no longer be advertised to. The focus is on women. In multiple commercials the guy is portrayed as stupid, incompetent, or just less knowledgeable. This is not the case. In fact, it's a sexist argument, and it's become the standard in the industry. I feel like men are being undersold and marginalized. I don't care if you disagree, but please don't act like I'm being sexist. Far from it; I want equality. Doesn't that make me a feminist? I believe they're exempt from sexism. It was practically defined by feminists.

I see the same type of dogma being applied to *white* guys. We're stereotyped as being unable to dance, jump, run fast, or keep a beat. Don't believe me? well look up "white people's disease". oh, and did anyone hear about the 2010 Iowa State Fair? The "beat whitey night"? well you should have. here's a video of it, and the same story in print. great; I never thought I would have to say this from the defensive side, but racism sucks. And don't call it "reverse racism," because it's just the same thing - discrimination based on race. I'm tired of it.

So, to sum it up, White Males are now one of the new targets of society, and we can't do s**t about it. Now that you've finished reading my post, you should go have a cookie.