Surprisingly most of the comments are telling him to shove it. I think a got a small sliver of faith back today.

Plus, women are always soooo sensitive and emotional. Not like rational men 🤮

If it was truly a meritocracy, this putz would never have gotten a writing job, so...

Much to my relief, the majority of the WaPo comments section is actually a bloodbath for Cohen. He is shockingly obtuse, and the vast majority of commenters called him out on it.

This made me laugh out loud. Then I went to the actual comment section and laughed some more, then got sad with this one:

Now is the Cohen of our discontent made glorious summer by this blog of Rothkopf.

“Overbaked potato” is now my new favorite way to describe willfully oblivious white dudes

He’s complaining because, as a privileged white man, you get taught that the only thing you need to do is show up, put in the work, and you’ll win. Actually, “taught” might be too strong. It’s closer to the water that the proverbial big fishes of the world swim in.

“In short order, I was made a columnist, so I didn’t even get a chance to cry”

Right? A lot of guys seem to suffer from just that same problem— “Look, I ACKNOWLEDGE that you’ve been held back and oppressed and discriminated against, okay? I just find it offensive that you ask me to CARE about it, and it’s utterly unconscionable that you ask me to DO anything about it.”

I know, I have to go to the wayback machine every time I want to post a copy of “As a father of daughters”! Come baaack, Toast!

Here’s a good one:

Lol. These assholes have never, ever, had to compete in a TRUE meritocracy and it fucking shows. They got ahead historically by making sure the talents, voices, and work of everyone who was not a cis, straight, white man was suppressed, while claiming they only achieved their success through hard work and merit.

He should have just titled it“This is what privilege looks like”.

Also, the very qualified woman who got the job that Cohen wanted and didn’t get may have been the better candidate, but it’s easier to tell a white guy that he didn’t get the job because they needed a [diversity] candidate instead. So, this is bullshit all the way around. Diverse employees/…

There’s a link in the first sentence of the article that goes to what it’s satirizing.

“I’m on your side. But.....”

I really like the way he doesn’t have a plan or anything. He “acknowledges” that all of his work places have been white male dominanted for like, forever, but addressing that issue is...making sure no white dudes feel bad or put out?

“But when I see op-eds, such as the one recently in the New York Times that states in the headline that the Metropolitan Museum of Art should not have appointed “yet another white, male director,” I recoil. That’s just another way of saying that white and male is a disqualification.”

“Change is great, change is needed, but I already said those two things so why are you asking me to do anything different? Why not go find someone who doesn’t say those two things and argue with him, then I can come by halfway through the conversation and loudly agree with you until me and that dude are yelling at…