Straight white men built the civilization we enjoy today and it was straight white men who gave equality to women, to gays and to POCs/immigrants. I'm just wondering why we did it? The POCs/Women/Gays don't seem to appreciate us and in fact have used their new found power to oppress straight white males, so why did we do it?
Serious question: why don't we take the power back for ourselves?
I might be part of that start of the white male decline.....I'm in my early 50s I was raised by a single hippy mom with my brother and was mistaken for a girl a lot in the 70s and 80s because of our long hair. I was given a name that can be a boy's name but is most often a girl's name....My mom was a military brat kid that was moved all over the world and was super rebellious of her military father (WW2 POW). My parents split up when I was 2 and my dad was a hippy burn out that killed himself when I was 15. Both of my parents remarried 2 more times. I've had to struggle for everything in my life. I have been self employed and had a girlfriend for 16 years but split up once she found drugs and alcohol. Been raising my two children by myself for 6 years but tragically my beautiful 11 year old daughter just lost her life (Sept 4)in a tragic playing accident at home while we have been so bored with this stupid home quarantine. So yeah this is why I feel like I have been kicked in the stomach my entire life as a white privileged male.
I'm so very sorry about the loss of your daughter. No father should have to go through that. It pained me to read that. I'm sorry...
It sounds like you've had a lot of adversity in your life. Way more than my own. I don't think you're a part of any decline. The changed that have occurred to our society over the last century are larger than any one person or even any one generation.
It sounds like you've struggled to make the best out of your life. Honestly, hearing what you've gone through compared to myself, I feel privileged.
I do think single parents have led to a major problem in our society. Without knowing you, I'd say you lack masculinity and the lack of strong masculine father figures who are enact discipline in society is a major problem in society. I don't want to speculate too much though because I don't know you.
I will say that I do believe as a straight white male you have not been given the kind of community and experience you deserve. The last 60 years of our society has been about undoing everything straight white males built. You happened to live through all of it. It isn't fair to you.
I hope though that despite all this you've found some sort of faith to believe in. You have been through far more tragedy than myself so I honestly cannot relate but I wish you the best and I stand with you in body and spirit. You are not alone. You are my neighbor and I wish you the best!
Thank you for your kind words. My daughter was an angel and we are the last people this should have ever happened to. Her name was Mischa and she was my whole world. I am struggling every second of the day without her.
So I felt I needed to reply to your post because me and my 15 year old son are asking ourselves the same question every day as well. Why are white males being treated with such a toxic attitude in society / media. It's mind blowing what we are seeing. Look up on youtube a channel called Mr Regan for his video today as he found a video about how white people are sub human