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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DH and I are both white, but it does drive me crazy that he doesn't or won't acknowledge systematic sexism and misogyny. He loves to play the devil's advocate on something like the lack of interesting roles for women in film, for example. It gets old. I think it stems from feeling defensive about being a privileged straight white guy in general. I'm not one of those guys so this doesn't really happen. It's annoying and diminishes my opinion of him, honestly.  [/quote]

[b]"Straight white males" are the people who built every institution in this country,[/b] as well as your father, husband and any brothers you have.  Start appreciating your husband and stop bothering him about worthless crap.[/quote]

Let me fix it for you -  "Straight white males" are the people [b]who exploited others to achieve their power and they like to take credit[/b] that they built every institution in this country[/quote]

Partially true. Some did, and some were the founders and pioneers who did build this country's institutions and high standards of living.

Don't like it? Hey, with your US passport, the world is an oyster. Go find a better country to thrive and prosper:
http://www.globalallianz.org/visa-free-countries-for-us-citizens/[/quote]

Defensive straight white male? Who the hell said anything about the founding fathers, god rest their slave owning, non-voting wife having, did it all by their lonesome, bootstrap pulling up, souls.

The point was, I imagine, that OP's spouse can be oblivious to systematic racism because he has the option to not see it, just like PP's spouse can chose not to see sexism in a film. Just like you can chose to derail a thread and ignore the topic at hand.  Must be nice.[/quote]

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