Yeah, no.
Via Salon:
Recent reports on a dramatic spike in middle-aged white male suicides has thrown a spotlight on a trend that has been years in the making but long remained in the shadows as a taboo subject.
For a whole host of reasons, white men my age have real brand problems. There just is not the societal concern over a demographic cohort whose skin color alone is one that historically conferred privilege. To be honest, as a collective brand, older white guys overplayed our hand. Don’t expect a telethon or a White House Conference on our predicament. Certainly, centuries of treating people as chattel, targeting Native Americans for genocide, denying women political autonomy — the list goes on and on — has narrowed our fan base.
No doubt there’s a reason we feel so alone and angry. We were masters of the universe, until we weren’t, and in the violent world we created a handgun becomes our last refuge to meet our maker.