‘Stuff White People Like’ is written and read by white people who want to feel superior to other white people… but ‘feeling superior to other white people’ is in itself an activity that White People Like.
Also, is it not a First World Problem to be bothered by ‘First World Problems’ to the extent that you create a website for them?
Maybe I am overthinking it, but websites like this tend to perceive a problem and then actively try to become part of it. Except they lack the self-awareness to include themselves in their own disdain.
I’m bothered that we all still use the terms “first world” and “third world” (myself included), despite the fact that the whole socioeconomic world division thing died out at the end of the Cold War (“first” being America and the West, “second” being the Soviet Union, and third being everywhere else).
your strip has a way of taking something as comforting as looking at distractions online and turning it into something that intrigues me in new ways and horrifies me simultaneosly.
Racism is as pervasive as the false notion of ‘race’. The Han Chinese treat the other Chinese people terribly. The tribal fighting in various countries in Africa. Hell, Mexicans don’t get along with Cubans or Puerto Ricans because of the African ancestry. No one is ever too poor to be exclusionary.
January 12, 2012
David Bowie!
January 12, 2012
Cat and Girl
January 12, 2012
Detroit’s alright again
January 12, 2012
‘Stuff White People Like’ is written and read by white people who want to feel superior to other white people… but ‘feeling superior to other white people’ is in itself an activity that White People Like.
Also, is it not a First World Problem to be bothered by ‘First World Problems’ to the extent that you create a website for them?
Maybe I am overthinking it, but websites like this tend to perceive a problem and then actively try to become part of it. Except they lack the self-awareness to include themselves in their own disdain.
January 12, 2012
Apart possibly for Meth, these are not problems that can be distinguished as “first World” in particular.
January 12, 2012
At this rate, we’ll be so occupied with actual struggles we’ll barely have time to feel persecuted.
January 12, 2012
nicely done.
January 12, 2012
<3
January 12, 2012
Jim: cause First World Problems = World Problems.
January 12, 2012
Are you really blind to the fact that the USA is trying hard to become a 3rd world country?
January 12, 2012
I’m bothered that we all still use the terms “first world” and “third world” (myself included), despite the fact that the whole socioeconomic world division thing died out at the end of the Cold War (“first” being America and the West, “second” being the Soviet Union, and third being everywhere else).
January 12, 2012
your strip has a way of taking something as comforting as looking at distractions online and turning it into something that intrigues me in new ways and horrifies me simultaneosly.
January 12, 2012
AHHH Why do I never learn? “Don’t read the comments, don’t read the comments.”
When is next donation derby?
January 13, 2012
Yes, I completely misread this. I’ve got to stop reading things so early in the morning.
January 13, 2012
“Maybe I am overthinking it, . . .”
Yup.
January 16, 2012
Detroit is definitely not alright.
February 20, 2012
Hahhaha, good one! Made my day
June 20, 2012
Racism is as pervasive as the false notion of ‘race’. The Han Chinese treat the other Chinese people terribly. The tribal fighting in various countries in Africa. Hell, Mexicans don’t get along with Cubans or Puerto Ricans because of the African ancestry. No one is ever too poor to be exclusionary.
October 20, 2013
Sadly, a good portion of those are World problems. No first, second, or third can claim sole ownership.
October 20, 2013
And Globalization has been quickly dissolving the silly notion that there is really any separation. We’re all competing for the same resources.
September 14, 2023
Normally I look back at comments I made more than a decade ago and cringe at how judgemental I was about trivial things.
In this case I still kind of agree with myself.
I will add a note to my calendar to check back again in 2034, see if my opinion about white people hasn’t changed by then.
I will be very old, Dorothy.