Your Villain Is Served - Middle Aged White Man

[GrandizerII]

Privilege can be very blinding.

[purplepurpose]

Skin color doesn't make your bad or good. That's some savage shit.

[GrandizerII]

Skin color doesn't make your bad or good. That's some savage shit.

It's also a strawman.

While skin color perse doesn't make anyone good or bad, nevertheless the privilege associated with a perceived skin color and/or gender does serve as an obstacle to further progress. And in this sense, white men as a group are the "villains" in this type of story.

Villains do good things, of course, but doesn't mean they're not therefore responsible for things that are bad for the world overall.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The Rules (this year)

1. If you make an assessment of someone based on skin color - you are racist.

2. If you make an assessment of someone based on their genitalia - you are sexist.

3. If you make an assessment of someone based on the number of years they have lived - you are ageist.

4. Unless it's a middle aged white male. Then he simply fits the profile.

5. If you make an assessment of someone based on the uniform they wear you're just an asshole.

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Stay tuned for revisions.

Rev. 1

[Apollo]

I'm sorry Apollo, but I can discern no coherent meaning from your post 

Not your fault—it was kinda incoherent indeed. There is a reason bible prohibits posting on social media while drunk.

What I was trying to say is that “white man villain” or white angry man or white man terrorism etc have made into our vocabulary trying to make our existing prejudices more inclusive—fashioned after notions like “angry black man” or “Muslim terrorist”. etc.

But they do more harm than the inclusion or fairness they are trying to promote because color of a skin or race are not indicative of someone’s violent behavior—it’s the culture, education, economic conditions among many other social factors that are more correlated.

So instead of dropping terminology like angry black man we adopted angry white man—which further muddies the waters because in a majority white country white violence doesn’t tell whole a lot. Our categories need to be better and reflective of reality.

[The Architect Of Fate]

The Rules (this year)

1. If you make an assessment of someone based on skin color - you are racist.

2. If you make an assessment of someone based on their genitalia - you are sexist.

3. If you make an assessment of someone based on the number of years they have lived - you are ageist.

4. Unless it's a middle aged white male. Then he simply fits the profile.


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Stay tuned for revisions.

False on all fronts.

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When visiting an activism meeting last year I was struck by the organiser's shameless usage of the phrase "middle age white men" as being the source of the world's ills.

A claim no one has made 

 Given the context of the fact the villains in virtually every film/series of the last....er...25? Years have been overwhelmingly middle age white men, perhaps that organiser's ageist, racist, sexist views are understandable...to a degree (which they doubtless lacked, by my reckoning)...but no, not really...surely...thoughts AF?

Most villains are white. Because most characters are still white. Because the majority of actors are still white.