t’s easy enough to trace the decline of young white men in American letters—just browse The New York Times’s “Notable Fiction” list. In 2012 the Times included seven white American men under the age of 43 (the cut-off for a millennial today); in 2013 there were six, in 2014 there were six.What to conclude from this? That there are suddenly no good white men writers anymore? That no one wants to hear what they have to say? That publishers know better what is good for us?And then the doors shut.
By 2021, there was not one white male millennial on the “Notable Fiction” list. There were none again in 2022, and just one apiece in 2023 and 2024 (since 2021, just 2 of 72 millennials featured were white American men). There were no white male millennials featured in Vulture’s 2024 year-end fiction list, none in Vanity Fair’s, none in The Atlantic’s. Esquire, a magazine ostensibly geared towards male millennials, has featured 53 millennial fiction writers on its year-end book lists since 2020. Only one was a white American man.
Over the course of the 2010s, the literary pipeline for white men was effectively shut down.
No, all of that is ridiculous. This has become an anti-white-men age.
We canot get a fictional white man President anymore.
News got you down? Need a break from politics? Want to forget your country’s troubles? If substance abuse isn’t your thing, luckily Amazon Prime Video dropped a new movie on Thursday called G20. It’s set in a far-fetched fantasy world where a Black woman was elected president, she is a principled and heroic figure, and the United States still cares about its allies and is respected on the world stage. I know, it’s a leap! But if you can suspend your disbelief, you might just be able to waste over 90 minutes of your time watching this preposterous popcorn thriller just like I did!Casting a black woman as President was obviously a very deliberate decision. What was the rationale for that decision? To try to make a point that black women are better than white men? To get an audience among those who hate white men?
I don't know, but I see no good explanation. It cannot be to just gain black women viewers. I am not going to watch it, as I am apparently not part of the target audience.
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Women writers have largely steamrolled science fiction and fantasy genres. The primary problem is that most women apparently don't know the difference between science fiction and fantasy. They have become interchangeable woke goo where everyone a agrees politically and is worried about their feelings and perpetually unfolding emotional baggage.
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