Hot dayum! I believe because I’m following Glenn Fleishman on Medium.com that I was alerted to this essay in which the author calls for a public and long-term assigning of the slur, “douchebag”, to privileged white males. I’ve been posting links to it almost everywhere I can:
The douchebag is, quite literally, a useless sexist tool. And that is why it makes for such an attractive, even overused insult. But what does the human douchebag really look like? Why do we call him that and what do we hate about the douchebag?The douchebag is someone — overwhelmingly white, rich, heterosexual males — who insists upon, nay, demand their white male privilege in every possible set and setting.
