There are still more CEOs named ‘John’ than female CEOs.” As far as I can see straight white males still dominate the world. Please tell me the countries that have black lesbians as heads of state or in any political position of power. As Michael Kimmel, a distinguished professor of sociology at the Stony Brook University, and a leading expert on masculinity, explains: “The ability to use a slur towards someone else comes with a certain kind of institutional power behind it.” Kimmel, who coined the phrase “aggrieved entitlement” in his book, Angry White Men, further asks: “What’s the opposite of the straight white male? It’s the black lesbian, right? Please name all the big corporations who have black lesbians as CEOs. Let’s be very clear: while straight white male may sometimes be used in a pejorative way, it is not a slur. And when I did a very scientific poll of straight white men I know (who may have been moderately surprised to get a late-night text from me asking: ‘U up? For a quick discussion of modern masculinity?), many of them admitted they’d started to feel the “straight white man” had become enemy No 1 in today’s culture. The Spectator followed this up by proclaiming that “‘White men’ is the most dehumanizing insult of our times”. In 2016, Simon Jenkins wrote in the Guardian, for example, that “pale, stale males are the last group it is OK to vilify”. However, Denny is far from an outlier when it comes to his views on the victimization of straight white men. Now they’re forced to think about it Tristan Bridges, professor Comparing the phrase “straight white male” to the “N-word”, which has been used to systematically subjugate people for centuries, is plainly ludicrous.ĭads and grandpas get to collect entitlements without really thinking about it.