Good piece but you left out 1 very descriptive adjective WHITE

man bashing..  What a surprise!! 

"Don't let the bastards grind you down"

Red

This is a related note.  Did anyone notice on aol today they posted a story on car thefts across the country.  In a sequence of about 10-15 photos of car thieves in action (actually models playing the part), there were zero, zip, nada minorities represented.  All of the thieves portrayed were very clearly white males--some with ski masks on, some with skull caps, but all white males.  There was nobody even remotely close to a minority (or female) in the group.  This is an example of political correctness run amok, especially when one considers the actual demographic of car thieves across the country.  How does aol post a dozen or more pictures of criminals and all are young white males?  I know aol is a leftist organization, but that is truly ridiculous.

Duplicate entry.

...Men don't do themselves or their images any good by trying to imitate the male goofball on TV and in movies.  So is it a vicious circle?  Which came first, the goofball in real life or the goofball on TV?  Anyway...

Next football season watch the games and notice the examples of American manhood in the end zone seats...yeah, the "Dog Pound."  Stand on any street corner in any moderate-to-large American city and just watch what walks by.  I have literally felt tempted to walk up to one of these guys, turn his ballcap around straight, pull his pants up, tuck his shirt in, tie his shoes, and say to him, "Now, you at least look vaguely like a man; try acting like one."  But I know they would pull out a Glock and blow me away.

I work in a healthcare-related practice with about fifteen nice looking young ladies on staff.  I've seen some of the slugs that drive up to pick these girls up for lunch or after work...mostly looking like oversized dough-colored thumbs with their shaved skulls (that term from Dave Barry.)  The tattoos, cut off t-shirt, scraggly goatee...empty wallet except for the girl's credit card, and yes, the ballcap on backwards.

So am I just an old, grumpy guy who is jealous of the slugs' ability to "get the milk for free without the bother of owning the cow?"  Maybe...just maybe there's a trace of envy.  On the other hand, having spent twenty-three years in the U. S. Navy, I really miss standing in front of a rank of well-groomed, well-mannered (well, some of them,) hard-working sailors...the pride I felt for "my men," guys who could work hard, party hard, look death in the face and laugh. 

Those were the days, my friends, and those were the men I would want by my side when trouble comes. 

Thank you for posting this. I've noticed over the last few years how poorly white men have been portrayed.

One of the worst series of commericals is for Washington Mutual. They have this young black guy talking about change while a group of older white men are standing in a roped in area. Can you imagine the outrage if it was reversed?

Currently on the V8 commercials (a person gets smacked in the head for not choosing V8) the majority of the people getting smacked are men.

In almost every commercial that portrays a family, the wife and kids are smarter, and more sarcastic, towards the father.

The list goes on and on.

You guys are all so money on this thread!! 

Except for Balboa...he/she is decidedly NOT money.

Anyone seen the commercial, I can't remember what it's for, I think some kind of credit protection, but it starts with an affluent black woman opening up her mail.  She then walks out of her upper-class home, out to her tree lawn, where she has placed three immaculate trash and recycle bins.  She drops some of her unwanted mail into her perfect blue recycle container, and then turns to walk back inside...but wait!!!  She failed to recognize the approaching menace!!

The 35 year old white man jogger, does a little fake shoe-tie move in front of her trash, and slyly picks up her discarded mail, which is presumed to have financial/credit information on it.

The white, 35 year-old dad is stealing financial information off of the curb of a black females tree lawn.  YEAH, THAT HAPPENS EVERYDAY!!

By the way...I have a graduate degree in political science from Ohio State and I wrote a thesis entitled, "The New Minority".  It focused on this exact topic.

This was pointed out to me about twenty years ago. Every now and then I take notice of new commercials to see if they follow today's "white males are the only ones that are to be marginalized and belittled" politically correct template and sure enough most of them do but it also appears to have gotten worse over the years. Right off hand Orbitz commercials are perfect examples - it's always the "white males" who are technologically challenged baffoons in their commercials but I see that Fed Ex has jumped on the bandwagon with their commercial about their expansion into China. If you have seen this one – you will see that it is the white male who doesn’t have a clue as to where China is when he is asked to put a push pin on the map on the wall. Fed Ex couldn’t have the African American or the female play the stooge here. Does it hurt my feelings or offend me? No - but even Helen Keller could see that there would be no end to the caterwauling that would happen if the roles were to be reversed in any of these instances.

Clinton's Military Philosophy - Tanks In Waco OK . . . Tanks In Mogadishu NOT OK

I live in the Greater DC area (the People's Republic of Alexandria) and what I see in "Real Life" is much different than what is portrayed on TV.  I have yelled for the last 10 years about how poorly men are portrayed in TV shows and in Ads.  However, men do have the ability to laugh at ourselves (something that other demographics don't seem to have). 

Back to "Real Life"--in my trustifarian, liberal neighborhood, I see more happy men than women.  Most the of the unhappy women don't work, have kids and are just plain mean--to their neighbors, kids, husbands, etc.  The men can't be too stupid if they make enough money for to live in the DC area and allow their wives to stay at home and drive her BMW. 

Anyone in the DC area see the same type thing?

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There's one (can't remember for what) where the mom / wife is on the sofa, she says something about the kids, the camera pans over to a pair of pigs.  She says something about her husband, and behind her you see a donkey's hindquarters.  It closes with her sitting on the couch (bed? I don't recall) with the donkey, "so now I can spend more time with my best friend"

Disrespect for the kids as pigs, the husband as a jackass, or horse's ass, the family unit as a whole, let alone implications of beastiality...