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Showing Original Post only (View all)Do white men still matter? The far right: Pale males and the women who emulate them / Hal Crowther [View all]
Do white men still matter?The far right: Pale males and the women who emulate them
by Hal Crowther
There's always a scene in the grittiest vampire movies where the old bloodsucker is sleeping peacefully in his coffin, looking as innocent as the undead can look, and the handsome hero plants a pointed stake in the vampire's sternum and takes a big swing at it with his mallet. Whether or not the blow turns out to be accurate and fatal, the vampire always wakes up when he's pierced. His eyes pop open, his mouth opens on those awful canines dripping blood and saliva, and with a savage snarl he tries to sit up, as the audience draws a deep common breath. It's a crowd-pleaser, if you like this stuff. And if the thing climbs out of the coffin, 20 minutes of premium violence are guaranteed.
Excuse a rare display of optimism on my part, but I'm suggesting a useful metaphor for the presidential election of 2012. After Mitt Romney collected 75 percent of the white male vote and lost, I fancied that I could hear a strangled snarl and imagine that the bloodthirsty, near immortal thing with the stake in its chest was the white patriarchythe high-testosterone, low-melanin monopoly that has misguided and misruled this country and this violent Western civilization throughout recorded history and long before.
I'm not claiming a clean kill. The monster's heart is still beating, though the stake that was struck on Nov. 6 pierced its coat, its shirt, even its undershirta sleeveless "wife-beater" of courseand possibly enough skin to leave a bead of blood (someone else's) on its deathly pale breast. It may yet climb out of the coffin. But the damned thing felt this one. Forty-five percent of the votes that re-elected Barack Obama were cast by minorities. The president won 55 percent of the women's vote, though the huge question is what the other 45 percent were thinking when they voted for Romney, chained as he was to a platform that ignored and insulted women as recklessly as it dismissed the non-Aryan and the poor.
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Do white men still matter? The far right: Pale males and the women who emulate them / Hal Crowther [View all]
Mira
Jan 2013
OP
I usually find Crowther's columns essential reading. thanks for posting!
NRaleighLiberal
Jan 2013
#1
Safest to say testosterone is the cause of much of the destruction and mayhem throughout history.
Rozlee
Jan 2013
#7
Unfortunately, the figure he bases his column on is wrong - 62% of white men voted for Romney
muriel_volestrangler
Jan 2013
#14