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Go To Work Straight, White & Male Day

I need to know how that “Call In Gay Day” thing is going, whether the economy’s been shut down and if anyone gives a damn. Because I don’t know about you, but I’ve been feeling pretty unappreciated, rights stepped on, all that, and it’s time to take action.  They might be on to something.

Ever been passed over for a promotion? Or not get hired at all because of things people you don’t even know did 50 or 100 or 250 years ago? Ever been called “white bread,” get the jokes about your lack of “rhythm,” how basically geeky you are? Tired of Will Smith and Chris Rock making fun of the way you talk? If you’re married to a woman and you’re a breeder, I already know you’re getting no relief from the rampant sexism and ageism when you go home to her castle.   Afraid to say anything to anyone for fear you’ll be fired, sued or brought up on hate crime charges?  

“Go To Work Straight, White & Male Day.” Make that “Go To Work Straight, White, Male and Didn’t Go To An Ivy League School Day.” Or maybe, “Day With A Bunch Of Straight White English-Speaking Dcoumented Males Who Didn’t Go To Ivy League Schools.”

Show them how much the economy depends on straight white English-speaking males with United States citizenship who didn’t go to Ivy League schools. When the stock market, the federal government, the Iraq war, interstate commerce, law enforcement, the Internet and even the clueless greedhead auto industry continue to plug along, the sun keeps rising, lawns get mowed and snow gets plowed, etc., inspite of dire economic times, car bombs, wild fluctuations in gas prices, bankruptcies, global warming, Obama’s election, bird flu, AIDS, days without gays and a lot of illegals reportedly headed back home, they’ll know it’s you.

OK, here’s the Join The Impact’s Day Without A Gay page for pointers on how to set up a day of protest. Not seeing any updates there on how they are doing today, though. No updates at DayWithoutAGay.org, either. Here we go. AP: Day Without A Gay Participation Spotty. Apparently businesses in San Francisco’s Castro District opted out because of the economy. Whatever, I’m pretty sure it was everyone else who was supposed to do without a gay. Looking at the quotes, it sounds a little like people didn’t want to hurt other people’s feelings, didn’t want to be deadbeats, didn’t want to lose money, that kind of thing. Maybe didn’t want to get fired for making political statements at other people’s expense.

So not going to work didn’t work. If the gay experience has any relevance for straights, then it looks like maybe going to work is the only way all the rights-trampled, unappreciated straight white English-speaking males with legitimate Social Security cards who didn’t go to Ivy League schools are going to get any respect. Though in the case of straight white English-speaking documented males who didn’t go to Ivy League schools, that probably should be shutting up and going to work. I guess we could be big about it and let women, minorities and gays in on it. Illegals, too. Everyone who is lucky enough to have a job shows up for work, gets needed.

Malkin calls in with some news NYT deemed not fit to print. Day Without A Gay having passed … without gays … Malkin notes No on 8 campaigners falling back on other tactics. Kind of looks like its devolved into bickering.

Gateway on Go To The White House Cuban Day.

Hot Air on a meeting of minds on the issues: Huckabee and John Stewart.

Welcome Vodkapundit, etal. Banging in anyway? Why not, everyone else is. Here’s some light reading to while away the hours of earnest layabout protest. Retribution vs. Danger’s Hour, and A Combat Vet’s Reading List.

Topics: griping, racism, sexism

  Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:08 pm on Wednesday, December 10, 2008

4 Responses to “Go To Work Straight, White & Male Day”

1. RebeccaH Says:
   December 10th, 2008 at 9:20 pm

   Try white, female, overweight, and older than 50.

2. Liberals Will Protest Anything to Get Out of a Day’s Work « The Forum Says:
   December 11th, 2008 at 11:12 am

   [...] Go To Work Straight, White & Male Day [...]

3. Vodkapundit » Every Dog Gets His Day Says:
   December 11th, 2008 at 12:21 pm

   [...] by Stephen Green on 11 Dec 2008 at 10:21 am I’d call in fabulous, but then they’d just want me [...]

4. sarah rolph Says:
   December 11th, 2008 at 3:29 pm

   Yeah, we’re callin’ in too, Rebecca.

   World’s gonna come to a standstill, I tell you!

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