maybe bitching about the new yorker is stupid? because the new yorker is stupid? for the reasons i and all these others have stated time and again for years now? so how about instead of getting mad at these (thankfully) dying crotchety men, what if we just agreed we won't submit to them? and by we, i mean this current generation of white males.
standard white males only stop misbehaving when other standard white males tell them they are misbehaving and that they must stop, and even then, it is a crapshoot.
if we start our own forms of literature (journals/magazines/websites/whatever else you want to do, holograms or some shit) with progressive policies, or contribute only to those whose policies we agree with, then the pools of submissions for these awful Old Guard publications will begin to dry up real quick. or maybe the new yorker won't die, but might become even more obscure than it has become in 2013 compared to its glory days, and get turned into some shitty annual thing for people nobody cares about.
to reiterate, it would not surprise me a single iota if the criticism received by the new yorker was wholly dismissed under some grand sweeping sexist/racist gesture; therefore, you stupid god damn old white dudes need to fucking die out if you're not going to benefit the rest of the world, and us stupid god damn young white dudes need to never submit to biased publications ever again so they will be forced to either play nice or die starving.
p.s., to any young white male reading this, if i saw your name in an issue of the new yorker or other similar pub of questionable standards, and saw it was a lineup like that in the link above, i would definitely assume you did not get in based solely on your individual talent, and i would possibly also assume you were a piece of shit person, unless you were explicitly discussing something/someone that subverted the publishing regime. don't be stupid and think that because you have an easier time getting in that it will be a benefit to you. the world has changed for your generation. others, and i, will think you are shitty.
p.p.s., to the same individual, this is not some "totally crazy and incorrect Tumblr-social-justice" treatise on the white male, because i don't think we are scum who should lie down and die. i think we are great people who are capable of doing great things, like every other kind of person i could list here, except since our ancestors grabbed the privilege stick first, if we don't throw it down, we're total assholes and deserve very very harsh criticism like i censored myself from going into in this blog post.. so just put down the stick. you may not even be one of the people beating others with it, but that's not enough. carrying around your privilege stick still makes you a dick. just put it down and write good things to share with the world. be active and positive.
