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As the mother of girls AND a boy, I am so tired of how people bend over backwards to elevate girls at the expense of boys. The latest example is Slate Magazine writer Heather Schwedel who wrote an article called “Why Are Some Male Faces Punchable?”
Um…
What? Ann Althouse brings up a very good point. “Slate must think the word ‘male’ in this headline makes it not just okay but hilarious,” she wrote.
Here’s a list of the people she thinks have a “punchable face:”
Martin Shkreli
Scott Disick
Ryan Lochte
Miles Teller
Justin Bieber
Eric Trump
Donald Trump Jr.
Ansel Elgort
You might not recognize Elgort’s name, but he’s the star of the new movie Baby Driver. Schwedel dislikes him because he had the gall to be born into a wealthy family: “Backgroundwise, he’s an upper-crust New Yorker: He went to the Fame high school, and his father is a fashion photographer.”
So, that’s all it takes? Notice that there are two Trumps on the list, of course. Here’s her “hot take” on it all:
There’s a certain class of public figure whose face routinely gets described as “punchable.” He’s usually male; though arguably society shouldn’t be encouraging the punching of anyone (with possible exception for Nazis), good etiquette would seem to indicate that women are considered the less punchable sex. The guy with the punchable face is usually white; it’s hard out there for white men lately, in case you hadn’t heard. He’s usually young, too: What’s more annoying than the know-it-all grin of impetuous youth? In addition to the privilege that being young, white, and male already affords him, he of high punchability often has a look that somehow scans as extra-privileged, a mouth seemingly born with a silver spoon in it.
Do you know who’s really privileged? Dumba$$ writers who never get called out for the idiotic things they say. Let’s end that.
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