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Straight White Boys Texting: A Tumblr ode to male entitlement

“Want to play 20 questions?”

 

EJ Dickson

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Posted on May 30, 2014   Updated on May 31, 2021, 5:32 am CDT

With the rise of #YesAllWomen, we’ve been talking a lot about male privilege and sexual entitlement, and how we live in a world that caters to the desires of straight white men at the expense of pretty much everyone else. The apotheosis of this discussion is Straight White Boys Texting, a Tumblr that compiles the best of the worst of straight white boys asking women for sex.

So ladies, how can you tell if a Straight White Boy is texting you? Well, for starters, he’ll probably open with asking if you want to play 20 Questions…


 

…which nvariably devolves into an FBI-level interrogation about your sexual history.


 

From there, the Straight White Boy will most likely segue into a discussion of his personal fitness and grooming habits.


 

That is, if he doesn’t just straight-up ask you for a blow job first.


 

Occasionally, the Straight White Boy will open with a little bit of gendered vegetable humor.


 

But that’s only if he’s generous enough to share with you the punchline for his own joke.

 

bananarolex:

a white boy tried to initiate a conversation with this text message

bananarolex:

a white boy tried to initiate a conversation with this text message

 

Some Straight White Boys are sensitive.

 

Others, not so much.


 

But they all share one defining trait: the ability to change the topic of any conversation to us showing them our tits.


 

But hey, ladies, who are we to deny them?

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*First Published: May 30, 2014, 1:01 pm CDT