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Anonymous wrote:Female here I can’t speak to other things but I can definitely say my young son is not seeing boys on tv being role models. Everything is geared toward girls now. Characters being changed to female all the time. It’s ridiculous to swing so far to the other side so all I can show my son is old tv shows or movies with a boy lead.

Why cant you son look to female role models? Girls have had to look to male role models for years! My nephew an avid skier just wanted a famous woman skier because that is his role model! If you are showing him old stuff he will get thr ideas that only white men can do stuff and save the day.

Your son wont break if he is shown women or POC as lead actors!

I hate when someone says it had "swung too far the other way" where we were you when yhe great white male way was the only way?

There have been strong female role models in the media, it's just that the media does it horribly these days and shoves the diversity crap down your throat. They used to do it better back in the old days. Evvvvvvvvvvvveryone loves a strong female character like Ripley from Aliens, or a strong black character like Sidney Poitier. But these days, they do diversity for diversity's sake, and it is lame as hell. It is phony grandstanding to cater toward an agenda. Everyone can see through the flimsy efforts.

Agreed. It is forced and contrived. Every ad these days features a white man/black woman couple. This is a really tiny percentage of marriages IRL. A white/Asian couple would be more realistic. But, no, the media, government and corporate America seems to have this rabid compulsion to pander to black people this year and earn their SJW points.

Corporate America cares about the money. They always have. So when you see more diversity in advertising, it is recognizing the reality of who is spending money, period. That's why the cleaning product ads are STILL all directed at women.

No, they do a LOT to mold cultural change in the US. It is not all about the money, or you would not see corporations making really political statements that alienate half of the country. They have political goals.

There's nothing political about an interracial couple. If you're alienated by that you deserve to feel alienated.

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Anonymous wrote:I think CIO as babies makes them angry. In the old day, all the black nannies were raising these boys and while they still grew up cruel and entitled, they were not angry.

I agree. Both my grandmother and my mom raised all their kids CIO (neither had any help) and we have all turned out angry and anxious.

I am sorry. Do any of their children also support NRA? Usually it goes hand in hand. I would suggest deep breathing exercises or other calming techniques.

This whole attitude is a lot like when a woman speaks 10% of the meeting and men complain that she was domineering and estimate she spent 70% of the meeting talking. Your perspective is f***ed.

Anonymous wrote:The gillette commercial a while back that was basically proselytizing about 'toxic masculinity' was an absolute farce. It was a pathetic display of pure pandering to an agenda. The commercial basically painted all men as rapists and boys as rapists in training. It was so ridiculously stupid that I haven't bought gillette razors since.

For those of us familiar with toxic masculinity, the ad rang true. But of course you can spend your money as you wish.

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Anonymous wrote:It's so hilarious.


White males are basically like cartoonish villains at this point. Every white dude is now a nazi, slave owner or a woman oppressor. The media enables the blatant and racist characterization of white dudes. It must make people insane when any white dude shows or feels zero guilt for being a white dude.

I mean we all know we couldn't start equally outrageous threads targeting black males, hispanic males, white women, or any other group without outrage over sexism, racism, or claims that the thread lacks sexuality sensitivity.

I say start with the family. Moms and wives need to give love and support to these males.

What about dads? Do they need to support and nurture their children?

c'mon, you know it's always the woman's fault.

Anonymous wrote:It would be nice if I could tune in to NPR and just once -- -once -- hear a white male announcer. Usually it is a female with a foreign accent that I can't understand. And the topic is typically how white men are the root of all evil in the world.

These are all male voices, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NPR_personnel. I don't know how many are white, but I am sure some are, and I'm not sure why that is necessary.

I hear a lot from Ira Flatow, Jack Speer, Steve Inskeep, Peter Sagal, Scott Simon, Andy Borowitz, David Brooks, Corey Flintoff, Noah Abrams, Ari Shapiro, and Dave Mattingly -- and they all seem to be white men.

I took out female names from the link. Not nearly half.

Hosts​
David Bianculli, guest host, Fresh Air
Bob Boilen, host, All Songs Considered
Neal Conan, host, Talk of the Nation
Robert Conley (1928-2013), first host of All Things Considered
Dave Davies, guest host, Fresh Air
Scott Detrow, host, NPR Politics
Ira Flatow, host, Science Friday, no longer with NPR since 2013
Bob Garfield, co-host, On the Media
John Hockenberry, host, The Takeaway
Steve Inskeep, co-host, Morning Edition, Washington, D.C.
Bill Littlefield, host, Only A Game
Tom and Ray Magliozzi, former hosts, Car Talk
Michel Martin, weekend host of All Things Considered
Christopher O'Riley, host, From the Top
Guy Raz, host, How I Built This
Peter Sagal, host, Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me"
Robert Siegel, former host, All Things Considered - retired January, 2018
Scott Simon, host, Weekend Edition Saturday

Commentators​
Joe Bevilacqua, Weekend Edition Saturday, Sunday, Day to Day, Latino USA, All Things Considered
Andy Borowitz, Weekend Edition Sunday
David Brooks, All Things Considered
Alan Cheuse, All Things Considered
Andrei Codrescu, All Things Considered
Ed Cullen,
Frank Deford, Morning Edition - final regular commentary on May 3, 2017. [6]
John Feinstein, Morning Edition
Keith Hammonds, All Things Considered
Miles Hoffman, Morning Edition
Kevin Kling, All Things Considered
Bruce Kluger, All Things Considered
Andrew Kohut, All Things Considered, Morning Edition
Andrew Lam, All Things Considered
Geoffrey Nunberg, Fresh Air
Daniel Pinkwater, All Things Considered, Weekend Edition Saturday
Ron Rapoport, Weekend Edition Saturday
David Sedaris,
David Slavin, All Things Considered
Brian Unger, Day to Day
Andrew Wallenstein, Day to Day

Correspondents and reporters​
Larry Abramson, Correspondent, Telecommunications, Science Desk
Jad Abumrad, Correspondent
Noah Adams, Senior Correspondent, National Desk
Greg Allen, Correspondent, National Desk, Kansas City, Missour
Jason Beaubien, Correspondent
Howard Berkes, Correspondent, Rural Affairs, National Desk, Salt Lake City
Joe Bevilacqua, Arts, Humor, Animation, Essays, Profiles, Self-Portraits, Napanoch, New York
Brakkton Booker, National Desk, Washington
Jeff Brady, Reporter, National Desk
John Burnett, Correspondent, National Desk, Austin, Texas
Dan Charles, Food and Agriculture Correspondent, Science Desk
Felix Contreras, Reporter/Producer, Arts Information Unit
Adam Davidson, Correspondent, International Business and Economics
Scott Detrow, Congressional Correspondent and NPR Politics Podcast host
Corey Flintoff, Foreign Correspondent, Moscow[7]
David Folkenflik, Correspondent, Media, Arts Information Unit
Rob Gifford, Foreign Correspondent
Tom Gjelten, Correspondent, Religion, National Desk
Tom Goldman, Correspondent, Sports, Portland, Oregon
Don Gonyea, Correspondent, White House, Washington Desk
Richard Gonzales, Correspondent, National Desk, San Francisco
Wade Goodwyn, Correspondent, National Desk, Dallas
David Greene, (Host, Morning Edition)
Jon Hamilton, Correspondent, Science Desk
Richard Harris, Correspondent, Science Desk
Jim Hawk, News anchor
Scott Horsley, White House Correspondent, Washington
Christopher Joyce, Correspondent, Science Desk
Rick Karr, Contributing Correspondent
Martin Kaste, Law Enforcement Correspondent, National Desk, Seattle
Peter Kenyon, Foreign Correspondent, Cairo
David Kestenbaum, Correspondent, Science Desk
Lucian Kim, Foreign Correspondent, Moscow
Richard Knox, Correspondent, Science Desk
Robert Krulwich, Correspondent
Anthony Kuhn, Foreign Correspondent, Seoul
Frank Langfitt, Foreign Correspondent, London
David Malakoff, Supervising Editor/Correspondent, Science Desk
Brian Naylor, Senior Correspondent, Capitol Hill, Washington Desk
Joe Neel NPR Deputy Senior Supervising Editor, Science Desk/Correspondent
John Nielsen, Correspondent, Environment, Science Desk
Peter Overby, Correspondent, Power, Money and Influence, Washington Desk
Joe Palca, Correspondent, Science Desk
Philip Reeves, Foreign Correspondent, London
Claudio Sanchez, Correspondent, Education, National Desk
David Schaper, Reporter, Chicago Bureau
Ari Shapiro, Host, All Things Considered
Joseph Shapiro, Correspondent, Science Desk
Mike Shuster, Correspondent, Diplomacy, Foreign Desk, Culver City, CA
Robert Smith, Correspondent, National Desk, New York
Jerome Socolovsky, Correspondent, Spain and European Union
Jack Speer, Newscaster
Rob Stein, Editor, Science Desk
Jamie Tarabay, Correspondent, Foreign Desk
Shankar Vedantam, Correspondent, Science Desk
David Was, Arts Reviewer
David Welna, Correspondent, Capitol Hill, Washington Desk
Eric Westervelt, Education and Arts Correspondent
John Ydstie, Correspondent, Business Desk
Jim Zarroli, Reporter, Business, New York
Paul Brown, Newscaster/Reporter
Corey Flintoff, Newscaster
Jim Hawk, Newscaster
Dave Mattingly, Producer/Newscaster
Giles Snyder, Newscaster
Jack Speer, Newscaster
Shay Stevens, Newscaster
Dwane Brown Newscaster
Jim Kane, Newscaster
Windsor Johnston, Newscaster
David Bianculli, TV critic, Fresh Air
David Edelstein, film critic, Fresh Air
Milo Miles, world music critic, Fresh Air
Bob Mondello, film critic, Arts Information Unit
John Powers, pop culture critic, Fresh Air
Lloyd Schwartz, classical music critic, Fresh Air
Ken Tucker, pop music critic, Fresh Air
Kenneth Turan, freelance film critic, Morning Edition
Kevin Whitehead, jazz critic, Fresh Air

Anonymous wrote:I think CIO as babies makes them angry. In the old day, all the black nannies were raising these boys and while they still grew up cruel and entitled, they were not angry.

I agree. Both my grandmother and my mom raised all their kids CIO (neither had any help) and we have all turned out angry and anxious.

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Anonymous wrote:It's so hilarious.


White males are basically like cartoonish villains at this point. Every white dude is now a nazi, slave owner or a woman oppressor. The media enables the blatant and racist characterization of white dudes. It must make people insane when any white dude shows or feels zero guilt for being a white dude.

I mean we all know we couldn't start equally outrageous threads targeting black males, hispanic males, white women, or any other group without outrage over sexism, racism, or claims that the thread lacks sexuality sensitivity.

I say start with the family. Moms and wives need to give love and support to these males.

What about dads? Do they need to support and nurture their children?

The gillette commercial a while back that was basically proselytizing about 'toxic masculinity' was an absolute farce. It was a pathetic display of pure pandering to an agenda. The commercial basically painted all men as rapists and boys as rapists in training. It was so ridiculously stupid that I haven't bought gillette razors since.

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Anonymous wrote:Female here I can’t speak to other things but I can definitely say my young son is not seeing boys on tv being role models. Everything is geared toward girls now. Characters being changed to female all the time. It’s ridiculous to swing so far to the other side so all I can show my son is old tv shows or movies with a boy lead.

Lots of male characters and male leads. What are you talking about?

Younger kids:
https://www.fatherly.com/play/most-popular-kids-shows/
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/entertainment/g28087907/best-kids-tv-shows/
https://www.timeout.com/new-york-kids/things-to-do/best-kids-shows-on-tv-for-families

Teens:
https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/best-teen-shows-on-netflix
https://www.glamour.com/story/best-teen-dramas
https://www.ranker.com/list/teen-drama-tv-shows-and-series/ranker-tv

I mean, there are some without male leads, but certainly not even half. How much representation do you need for your boy, and must it really be that highly prioritized over everyone else?

My kids are just out of the preschool cartoon age and the majority of those cartoons had all male characters with one token female. One of my daughters asked why there’s only one girl in Paw Patrol, or Agent Oso. Boys are still the default and the “norm.”

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Anonymous wrote:Female here I can’t speak to other things but I can definitely say my young son is not seeing boys on tv being role models. Everything is geared toward girls now. Characters being changed to female all the time. It’s ridiculous to swing so far to the other side so all I can show my son is old tv shows or movies with a boy lead.

Why cant you son look to female role models? Girls have had to look to male role models for years! My nephew an avid skier just wanted a famous woman skier because that is his role model! If you are showing him old stuff he will get thr ideas that only white men can do stuff and save the day.

Your son wont break if he is shown women or POC as lead actors!

I hate when someone says it had "swung too far the other way" where we were you when yhe great white male way was the only way?

There have been strong female role models in the media, it's just that the media does it horribly these days and shoves the diversity crap down your throat. They used to do it better back in the old days. Evvvvvvvvvvvveryone loves a strong female character like Ripley from Aliens, or a strong black character like Sidney Poitier. But these days, they do diversity for diversity's sake, and it is lame as hell. It is phony grandstanding to cater toward an agenda. Everyone can see through the flimsy efforts.

Agreed. It is forced and contrived. Every ad these days features a white man/black woman couple. This is a really tiny percentage of marriages IRL. A white/Asian couple would be more realistic. But, no, the media, government and corporate America seems to have this rabid compulsion to pander to black people this year and earn their SJW points.

Corporate America cares about the money. They always have. So when you see more diversity in advertising, it is recognizing the reality of who is spending money, period. That's why the cleaning product ads are STILL all directed at women.

No, they do a LOT to mold cultural change in the US. It is not all about the money, or you would not see corporations making really political statements that alienate half of the country. They have political goals.

Wrong. Corporate America is all about the money. Most Americans said they support BLM, and boom, all of a sudden there is Target "taking a stand." People 18-34 overwhelmingly support racial and gender equality and are comfortable with same sex marriage and intermarriage. Nike was ahead of the game a little with support of Kaep, but that's only because they know their buyers.

Anonymous wrote:Female here I can’t speak to other things but I can definitely say my young son is not seeing boys on tv being role models. Everything is geared toward girls now. Characters being changed to female all the time. It’s ridiculous to swing so far to the other side so all I can show my son is old tv shows or movies with a boy lead.

Lots of male characters and male leads. What are you talking about?

Younger kids:
https://www.fatherly.com/play/most-popular-kids-shows/
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/entertainment/g28087907/best-kids-tv-shows/
https://www.timeout.com/new-york-kids/things-to-do/best-kids-shows-on-tv-for-families

Teens:
https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/best-teen-shows-on-netflix
https://www.glamour.com/story/best-teen-dramas
https://www.ranker.com/list/teen-drama-tv-shows-and-series/ranker-tv

I mean, there are some without male leads, but certainly not even half. How much representation do you need for your boy, and must it really be that highly prioritized over everyone else?

Anonymous wrote:It's so hilarious.


White males are basically like cartoonish villains at this point. Every white dude is now a nazi, slave owner or a woman oppressor. The media enables the blatant and racist characterization of white dudes. It must make people insane when any white dude shows or feels zero guilt for being a white dude.

I mean we all know we couldn't start equally outrageous threads targeting black males, hispanic males, white women, or any other group without outrage over sexism, racism, or claims that the thread lacks sexuality sensitivity.

I say start with the family. Moms and wives need to give love and support to these males.

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Anonymous wrote:I have discussed with my WOC friends that white women have been also weaponizing privilege forever in order to maintain their place atop the societal hierarchy. I also think that this must be taken into account in any discussion about race, resources, and opportunity hoarding.

Yup, white women are very low on the totem pole in the oppression olympics. Remember how a white woman falsely accused a black man of assault in Tulsa, which sparked off a huge race riot/massacre and burning down of black businesses?

White women have a LOT they should be ashamed of and need to pay reparations for. They only get about +0.5 bonus points, for their vaginas only, in the oppression olympics, and should be near dead last for diversity quotas due to their historical privilege.

White women need to pay reparations? GFY u fat cow.

I think CIO as babies makes them angry. In the old day, all the black nannies were raising these boys and while they still grew up cruel and entitled, they were not angry.