TWITTER
Voices
KIA MAKARECHI
and television station has broadcast the perspectives of the most
privileged members of American
society. Those expressing outrage fatigue scoff at the variety
of topics which light up “black
Twitter,” but forget that newspaper editorial boards and opinion
pages basically remain “white
male Twitter” writ-large.
This continues to this day —
not only is the old-dude crowd
still firmly in power over in
America’s newspapers, where
the median age of an opinion columnist is 66 and men
outnumber women 105 to 38,
but we live in a world where a
(white, male) Business Insider
editor’s annoyance with bathroom attendants in fancy restaurants is cause for their dismissal.
It’s safe to say that we have and
will continue to have heard every idiosyncratic white male beef
with everything that has happened and/or will happen. We
are literally at the point where
men are not only recounting how “But who cares, really?
smoking weed made them feel
Why are people so upset
lazy when they were young in the all the time?!”
pages of The New York Times but
People care because the ismaking policy suggestions based
sues that may seem trivial from
on their adolescent experiences
a more privileged perspective
with puffing and passing.
— like whether Selena Gomez
wears a bindi — are often coded
on the bodies, cultural histories
and shared experiences of other
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Twitter users
express their
outrage
fatigue.