I don’t have time to explain that learning to share anger at injustice is the start of a common conversation, and that they can learn how to recognize where privilege resides in their own lives by reading about and listening to the experiences of others who do not have it. Either way, I and my fellow authors will bring to you the best of the best. Peter Parker is not a douchebag, neither is Clark Kent. We may be familiar with the personal style of the hipster, but in terms of their social position, the hipster represents a distinct generational / economic class of the over-educated and under-employed. Actually insulting Steve Jobs and proclaiming Bill Gates is a better man is a popular pass time on Digg. Whether it's the mid-pop or the full-blown pop (bonus if it's two layered popped collars), you're well on your way to doucheville. What's that? However, it takes a douchebag to see the financial profit to be gained in pushing poor people of color out of their homes. Pro sports is a dense field of douchebaggery. “The white folks had sure brought their white to work with them that morning.” Chester Himes, If He Hollers Let Him Go. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Every time Schmidt demands his first world privilege, his roommates cry foul and order him to stuff cash in the “douche jar,” thereby collecting a punitive tax on the rich and douchy that can be used to subsidizes the house beer fund. And given that the hipster is totally ok with living in racially diverse neighborhoods, they often find themselves cast into the role of pioneers of whiteness in Washington Heights or West Oakland. Sometimes the burden of representation is proudly shouldered, even celebrated. Maybe. But I assure you it is not. But Bruce Wayne and Tony Stark sure are. So the inhibitions to participation in this insane activity are already pretty great. Adam Levine, like Ryan Lochte before him, is so commonly labeled as a douchebag in social media that in a recent GQ celebrity profile he offered up his own three part definition of the douchebag, coupled by a point by point rebuttal as to why he should not be counted amongst the category he so defined. Tech, finance and consulting douchebags predominate in the category, but there are also high concentrations of douchebags in real estate, mid-level management, gamers, fitness-types and television entertainment. Your popped collar sends the message: “Hey everybody, I’m a douchebag. Hal Jordan is a douchebag, but Captain America (perhaps surprisingly) is not. Everyone else gets some form of discrimination. Is this silence because these groups are or are not white? He would be portrayed bullying nerdy kids, getting into fights or showing off his fancy car to girls. But there is a history beyond this history, a medical history that provides the unlikely background to this character type. Even if they don’t play sports, popped collars rarely serve any practical means. If celebrities are doing it, then why is the popped collar douchey? So why had none of us recognized this before? It’s a hard-won and well-tested insight that came out of a spontaneous hypothesis using the multicultural classroom as laboratory. Our policy attack on social douchebaggery can begin with with taxes on yachts, segways and vacation homes. You should pay taxes to San Francisco for the roads and bus stops your privatized mass transportation relies upon. But this type does not just exist in fiction. as brilliantly defined by Ta-Nehisi Coates, “hey that person over there with the google glass is an asshole!”, recent, and all too premature, assessment by Gawker and Jezebel that the term has “jumped the shark.”, Dan Harmon considers merely “a more potent way to call someone a jerk.”, one of social media’s most favorite games, The Conspiracy of Capital: Law, Violence and American Popular Radicalism in the Age of Monopoly, A century-old stereotype still dictates how far a Latina immigrant can go in America, W.A.V.E. But as everyone who is not colorblind can plainly see, this is not yet that day. For one, a majority of its practitioners neither play golf nor tennis. The asshole — as brilliantly defined by Ta-Nehisi Coates — is someone who insists that all social encounters occur on their terms, as in, “hey that person over there with the google glass is an asshole!” (Glasshole! Writing in 2004, Dr Mary Ann Iannachione states it clearly, “douching is unnecessary and carries inherent risks… leaving women at greater risk of upper and lower vaginal tract infections.” In spite of the new effort to rebrand this ancient anti-feminism with an new ad campaign that links women’s empowerment to their sexuality (“Hail to the V!”), it remains a fact that human genitalia, by virtue of its location on our bodies, gives off distinctive odors. 3. Some j-hole you work with, that dude at the coffee shop every day expounding upon pointless topics at full volume, the jerk who tails you on the highway just to pass you and then slow back down in his overpriced ride? We carry the absent mark which grants us the invisible power of white privilege. What comes to mind when you think "douchebag?" You know who you are, working at Target, Starbucks, Best Buy, or any other major retail operation. The 60s era black nationalist terms come out next, usually from one of the all too few black male students in the room, sometime from a student athlete. Steven Colbert and his entitled, uninformed, self-promoting, and colorblind persona is its most thorough parody. Yes, it turns out, only rich, white heterosexist men are douchebags. © 2020 Ziff Davis Canada, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Welcome to r/Funny, Reddit's largest humour depository. Absolutely! Getty Images "Popped collar polo shirts." Take that young, rich and depressed douchebag who shot up Santa Barbara this past May because the girls didn’t throw themselves at him and his flashy car. It took me half an hour to get dressed. The point of this sanctioned spewing of hate speech is that none of these words can hurt me. Boys are usually wearing a pre-ripped up hat, cop sunglasses, shell or hemp necklace, Abercrombie, (pink) polo shirt with a popped collar or even better another one on top of that with 2 t-shirts underneath, ripped jeans, and my favorite some kind of sandals mostly flip-flops. “What do you call a black man with a PhD?” sez the old Klan joke book: “N——r.” That hurts for all sorts of reasons. Best of all, we can stop calling the threat to raise taxes on the rich “class warfare” and just start calling it the “douchebag tax.” That’s a ballot measure we can all get behind! Don't hate. In fact, the chances are slim that they play any sports at all. But he is more than that. Wall Street guys are douchebags to be sure, but so is anyone looking to cash in on his white privilege. The hipster brings art, coffee and cocktails to a neighborhood, the douchebag brings reconstruction contractors, private security and real estate agents. Actually insulting Steve Jobs and proclaiming Bill Gates is a better man is a popular pass time on Digg. From this position, on the cool edge of the class division, the hipster adopts an ironic stance towards white privilege. I'm not even sure he works there. Douchebags can be deadly, especially to women. So hard at looking effortlessly cool. So it turns out that the term douchebag is a great deal more, and a great deal more precise, than what Dan Harmon considers merely “a more potent way to call someone a jerk.”. “Honky!” This gets a chuckle from the class, after all, it is a funny word to say out loud. Really? popped collar The act of popping up the collar of a polo shirt, so it covers the neck. Whiteness, like the douchebag, has a form that is not dependent upon biological notions of race, but is rather shaped by our history and by our actions. Thanks for all your responses, comments and feedback. There are billionaire CEO douchebags like Larry Ellison and Donald Trump, and wage slave douchebags that work as lifeguards, bartenders and in sporting good stores but aspire to be billionaires. But white men are just people. Sam Spade is not a douchebag but John Wayne sure was. ( Log Out / Shares. What Sorry to Bother You and BlacKkKlansman are saying about double consciousness. The southern plantation aristocracy were probably the most powerful douchebags in American history, and the Civil War was fought to suppress them and win human rights for the enslaved.
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