It has been much noted in electoral politics that demographics in the U.S. are changing. Said notations have come with much rending of garments by "traditional" right-wing extremists. Who for some reason imagine an overwhelmingly majority-white population would give them the conservative/libertarian paradise they believe they'd be able to enjoy.
As South Carolina Republican Lindsay Graham complained to the Washington Post last month
We're not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.
Source: The Guardian
The issue, according to a bunch of those same angry white guys, is that all "those people" are reproducing at rates higher than rates higher than angry white guys.
They think that's a problem.
I'm...
Gonna have to agree.
I'd just state the problem a little differently than they would.
Because... well... ok, quick question: who wants to reproduce with an angry white guy?
Or even more pointedly: Who wants to reproduce with an angry white guy willingly?
Not to grind this in too deep but this is yet another area where feminism would actually improve matters for the angry white guys who feel most threatened by it.
Part of why they feel threatened is that if feminism wins then they will no longer be entitled to effectively coerce partners to reproduce with them. If feminism wins, they fear, then women will be able to support themselves on their own incomes and consequently will not be obliged to couple with them in order to keep rooves over their heads and shoes on their and their children's feet. If feminism wins, they fear, then women will be able to walk down the street or sleep in their own beds with no further need of angry white guys to protect them from "big, angry non-white men." If feminism wins, they fear, women (as members of the sexually-indifferent "no-sex" class!) will have no interest sexual or even social intercourse with men.
In other words, they fear, if feminism wins then a) no one will want to reproduce with angry white men, and therefore angry white men are doomed to extinction.
I dunno.
Seems to me that the issue is that sense of entitlement. And a big source of the anger is over a sense of loss of that entitlement.
And yet...
I've noticed...
By and large hetero women (the vast, vast majority in other words) seem perfectly interested in forming relationships with non-angry, non-entitled men. Short-term relationships. Long-term relationships. One-night-stand relationships. Even long-term let's have a family relationships! No coercion, leverage, wheedling, required. And defniitely no anger required.
Just something to think about.
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Submitted by Irene (not verified) on Thu, 2012-11-08 18:44.From http://james-nicoll.livejournal.com/4047074.html?thread=75957218#t75957218:
There are bad times just around the corner,
There are dark clouds hurtling through the sky
And it's no good whining
About a silver lining
For we know from experience that they won't roll by,
With a scowl and a frown
We'll keep our peckers down
And prepare for depression and doom and dread,
We're going to unpack our troubles from our old kit bag
And wait until we drop down dead.