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Article: The put-upon privileged ones Feelings wounded, white men complain society stereotypes them as boring jerks
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 22, 1992
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CopyrightCopyright 1992 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The message often comes quiet as a whisper, but it's hard to
miss.
One white man got it sitting in a parents group at his son's
school: "Everyone wants to know what the African-American and the
Haitian and the Native American think, but no one really cares what
the white man thinks. I am a known quantity. I am invisible."
Another white man got it from white women.
"They think white men are very uncool; they've heard it all
before," a Boston lawyer said. "Sometimes I think I should make it
up, like I tell them I was emotionally abused. Fortunately I have my
ethnicity to fall back on since I'm Jewish."
They are white men in a changing world, the only ethnic group --
as they see it -- that is ...