news flash, 20somethings: all these young, rich, boring, unidimensional white people weren't here 20 years ago.
--pm
05/16 |
ah. but SWPL isn't about the middle class. It's about the Upper Middle Class.
--RS
04/24 |
I think yuppies need to get over themselves. They are a subculture, one as real as any Italian restaurant family. Think of all the televsion shows/movies celebrating the NYC yuppie ghetto: Friends, Sex and the City, Kissing Jessica Stein...it's rampant. And it's okay! Those diverse Others are also dating people with whom they're comfortable and they have things common. Lose the self-consciousness and welcome to Humanity.
--KC
04/14 |
But, as you've clearly read SWPL numerous times, white people, specifically white men, have taken to Asian women as ways to lay a claim to authenticity. It's incredibly creepy to think that you would want to date someone just because they're so much more "different" from you. People of color are viewed as touristic adventures or experiences white people use to beat back the ennui of their bourgeois life. Just stick with what you know.
--ej
04/04 |
Dead on. Same goes for the second city... Ha!
--cp
04/02 |
boo mutha-f-in hoo, peckerwood!
--DUD
04/01 |
God. Your egotism is almost unbelievable.
--AG
03/31 |
I was with you until the last paragraph, which was stupidly self-congratulating. Do you really think you only date/fuck other white people because you're so above garnering "ego-fueling diversity points"? The reason "diverse" dating is so uncommon is because people are generally ignorant and scared of what lies outside their tiny comfort zones. You might have had plenty in common with the Queens girl, but you were so paralyzed by superficial lifestyle signifiers ("Angelino's!" How ethnic!) you never got below the surface. Own your fear.
--JCB
03/30 |
It sounds, unfortunately, like the author wants to have a diverse dating life without having to *do* anything about it. Waiting for her to walk into your favorite bar will NOT cut it; you need to walk into hers. Expect to get the weird looks and weirder remarks. Expect to be told, "You're funny." Remember that this is a necessary and good process--you're learning poise. P.S.: For some real family fun, try it while black.
--NJR
03/28 |
You have nailed my feelings and experiences with stuffwhitepeoplelike.com in much the same eerie fashion in which it has nailed my experience in being a white person who likes things.
--mm
03/28 |
I agree that A. This was a wonderful essay and B. Crash was one of the worst pieces of crap I've ever seen!
--Sara
03/27 |
Clearly you are doing the things you like to do and dating the people you like to date, and I think you should stop feeling awkward about doing so. If you felt differently, you'd act differently -- it really does not take much effort at all to do so. I'm a white guy who moved to New York and without looking outside my immediate circle of friends (of friends) and co-workers dated about 80% non-white women. I didn't put any particular level of effort into it either -- that was just the intersection of people I liked and who liked me. In the words of some wise person, "just do you."
--LW
03/27 |
"Crash" should also be added to the list of things that White people like. That movie is GARBAGE.
--AJS
03/26 |
Hey, I'm the guy who writes Stuff White People like. This is a fantastic article. You've done a great job, and thanks for getting the joke, and building on it in such a great way. Great job.
--CL
03/26 |
yep - its true where are the funny burg on Hooksexup?
--pb
03/26 |
The cultural insight here is lapidary. A lovely little jewel of a piece that makes me stop and reflect on how class, romance, and urban hipsterdom intersect.
--PYC
03/26 |
Let's just make this perfectly clear. Stuff White People Like is not about white people. It's about a specific left-leaning segment of upper-middle-class urban whites who tend to live on the coasts. I see myself caricatured in it -- sometimes in surprising ways -- as in "Not having a TV." But don't try to tell me the rest of the white population is thinking this way! It's a subgroup -- yes, an extremely annoying and humorless subgroup, at times -- but a SUBgroup. Not "white people."
--AD
03/26 |
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