losers was re stop putting down white het males in article apr galileo cc rochester edu as b uhura cc rochester edu tree of schnopia writes in apr jato jpl nasa gov michael neuron jpl nasa gov michael rivero writes i don t know what you as a white male did i do know what white males as a class have done they ve invented the light bulb the automobile the airplane printing with movable type photography computers the electric guitar anasthesia rocket powered space flight the computer electricity the telephone tv motion pictures penecillin sp telescopes nylon and the x ray machine two glaring errors here first white males don t do anything as a class individual white males invented those things which means nothing to white males as a whole second you neglected to mention charles manson hitler mccarthy jack the ripper ted bundy and a whole slew of individuals who have done horrible evil things if white males can take the credit for our fellow white males boons we must also take the blame for our fellows blights i claim we deserve neither credit nor blame for these things we are told by u s congresswoman barbara jordan that we are biologically incapable of compassion she s full of shit we are told by susan brownmiller that we re all rapists and that s all we are she s full of shit we re told by catherine comins that a false rape charge is actually good for us she s full of shit we are told by the feminist lawyers that we are not to be trusted with children they re full of shit we are told by newsweek magazine that we are poor sports if we complain newsweek is full of shit the point ladies and gents michael is not entirely correct in his theory that because members of our race and gender made great advances the race and gender as a whole deserve more respect than they receive white males do deserve to be treated better than they are being treated but not for that reason and the male bashers he quoted are repugnant hate mongers no better than the chauvinists they despise so no one s right as usual white males need to wake up and realize that they re being unfair yes but everyone else needs to wake up and realize that being unfair right back is disgusting racist and sexist why can t we learn to treat everyone fairly without generalizing what stupidity gene makes this so difficult i d like to buy the world a clue the word that is missing in this whole discourse is not the b word or the h word or even the n or w words it is the l word loser that s right when we boil all the crap out of this argument it is all about winning and losing and nothing else let me explain remember the eighties no excuses nobody who can handle a mail buffer can claim they are too young to remember ronald reagan yet the eighties were about how america learned to win once again then wouldn t you know we won so well that there was nothing left to win no cold war to endure no nuclear holocaust no more worlds to conquer we forgot about outer space long ago the kind of overwhelming no holds barred success that killed alexander the great yes there were a few little problems along the way stock market meltdown here an s l bailout there a few revolts and crazy middle eastern dictators to contend with but as tacitus would tell ya the god augustus never had it so good in the meantime there is guilt for winning maybe a fear that one doesn t deserve one s bounty or success so there is a kinder and gentler type of politician these days bill clinton affirmative action and lots of discourse about people who don t get it for those of us in the winning business this kind of talk is mildly irritating but there is still no suggestion of losing but what do we find now to put it mildy the stereotype of our white male non winner is woody hayes in the rose bowl punching out photojournalists when those california fruits and nuts steal another one with a hail mary pass in the fourth quarter the whole idea behind three yards and a cloud of dust is to wear your opponent down until he collapses in the final period but woody just used his fists uzzies seem to be the weapon of choice these days who is d fens anyway the answer is as plain as the horn rims on your face the guy is michael douglas posing as a loser this is known as controversial casting but that baggy short sleeved white shirt sure does look natural on mike doesn t it gordon gekko will never look the same though woody always dressed that way did we really expect gekko to take it easy and enjoy that kind of wardrobe without putting up a fuss what we are starting to lose sight of is that bashing d fens is the same game as bashing that poor african american slug that clint eastwood used to blow away all the time as that arch wasp male gender george c scott declaimed americans traditionally love to win they love a winner and will not tolerate a loser and so on the political implications are simple if as many socialists and democrats do you consider society a finite pie to a apportioned in some equitable way then you have to worry about who is a winner and who is a loser to tell whose side you are on that could be black women today asian homosexuals tommorrow and yes indeed white men some yet to be determined day when the balance of the pie has finally swung against that minority or you can just blow the whole thing off and say as do most conservatives and all the libertarians and act is if you didn t care who s winning and who s losing in some cases you might say something about make sure the game is fair equality of opportunity not of condition in the latter case you might be able to identify yourself as a neoconservative or a neoliberal depending on how much you want to limit the pot either way you go the way of the winner is no longer the way to be popular at least after you graduate from high school but you ll still be popular at high school reunions but it beats being a nerd as i would imagine michael douglas would now agree and in the long run it is the only way to go even in hollywood which treats losers worse than any other place in america except for new york and washington d c and even in columbus ohio which produced alex keaton but no champion football teams in the eighties and the first quarter of the nineties i d like to see more winners in this society regardless of race gender religious preference and sexual orientation maybe we should even let a few more of them be white men we should definitely let the buckeyes win the rose bowl someday bill r the only proposals in the senate that i my opinions do not represent have seen fit to mention are particularly those of my employer or praiseworthy or particularly scandalous ones any government agency it seems to me that the historian s foremost bill riggs duty is to ensure that virtue is remembered and to deter evil words and deeds with the fear of posterity s damnation tacitus annals iii
