rant · moment 13 of 22
The Straight White Male Boogeyman and the Stroller Tweet
from Bay Ridge Boys · #133
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4 minRiff on a comedian's tweet blaming straight white men for a subway death, mocking the racial score-keeping mentality, and defending the idea that comedians shouldn't march in step with mainstream narratives, including a Ted Bundy tangent.
- 34:00Straight white male has become the boogeyman blamed for all of society's problems.
- 34:22A comedian friend tweeted that a Black woman falling down stairs with a stroller was a "straight white male's problem" because people of color helped him with his kids.
- 34:47Tim argues that if you're a dad needing help with a stroller, you're a pussy, and as a gay white male he's never helped anyone with their children because it's weird.
- 35:15The guy's kid is apparently counting the race of everyone who helps carry strollers and posting about it on Twitter as a percentage breakdown.
- 35:48It's sophistry, self-aggrandizing narcissistic bullshit—you're a liar saying it because it's the fashionable thing to say right now.
- 36:34Blaming everything on "straight white guys" and the patriarchal system is lazy analysis that sounds good on a Long Island porch.
- 36:53Comedians got into this job because they didn't want to march in step with society and enforce mainstream opinions.
- 37:23Every time Tim sees a comedian with a hack, lazy, bad take like that, they're failing at their job.
- 37:46Ted Bundy could get away with stuff by playing the nice white guy in a turtleneck to Utah police, whereas a Black kid would get pulled over immediately.
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