The White Male Ego

Times ^ | 4.29.03 | Mailer, Norman

[pianomikey]

We went to war just to boost the white male ego.

[SGCOS]

"yo, i gotcha white male ego right here...And yer sista, I gotca sister right too."

[dighton]

Stabbing and anal rape, what a charmer. That **** needed locking up.

[joesnuffy]

Good I feel better...and Clinton sure didnt do anything for it....smile if you're a white male with an improved ego..courtesy of GWB and Tommy Franks and the Grunts who did the dirty work....
so magnificently...

[HHFi]

This was the reply letter I sent to the Times...

I just wanted to congratulate you on running the funniest Norman Mailer parody I've ever read! It not only makes Mailer a laughingstock, it also perfectly captures his writing style, complete with antiquated four-dollar words to make him seem intelligent, unsupported and outrageous accusations against his perceived enemies, wild leaps of logic, and of course, a world view formed almost entirely by hilariously inflated male ego. Kudos to whatever brilliant satirist wrote it!

What's that?...It actually was written by Norman Mailer?!

Oh dear Lord...Perhaps an Alzheimer's test is in order.

[Adrastus]

I thought mailer was dead......I guess he only smells that way. Pity. Another oxygen thief.

[AndyTheBear]

(For those of us who do not like George Bush, we may as well recognise that putting up with him in the Oval Office is like being married to a mate who always says exactly what you know in advance he or she is going to say, which also helps to account for why the other half of America loves him.)

Yeah, Norman, its that darn honesty that burns your kind like the sun on a vampire.

[AndyTheBear]

He is more of a white male by at least an order of magnitude...

How can one read this and not conclude the author is a racist?

[Dialup Llama]

Since Mailer likes symbolism, maybe he could explain the phallic and racial significance of stabbing a woman nearly to death (his second wife who was black) and leaving her for 3 hours before taking her to a hospital.

[Salamander]

Oh dear God......

[D.P.Roberts]

What's Joseph Heller think about it?

[Calvin Coolidge]

If the war was designed to satisfu white male's need to feel in charge, then why was a black man chosen to be the main Pentagon spokesman? Wouldn't that choice of itself almost completely wipe out the reason for the war in the first place?

[warchild9]

The Iraq thing aside, I have to admit I felt pretty good when bits and pieces of Taliban went flying.

[pianomikey]

The Iraq thing aside, I have to admit I felt pretty good when bits and pieces of Taliban went flying.

As did I, my friend, as did I. It was like honeymoon love: effective, complete, satisfying, and over almost before it began.

Lovely.

[STD]

Works for ME

[aculeus]

Mailer is among the top ten most-boring people alive.

[pianomikey]

What's Joseph Heller think about it?

He thinks it's a catch-22: if we go into war, we're accused of brashly forgoing diplomacy to lengthen our nation's collective penis. If we ignore it, we're accused (like we were about OBL and 9/11) by the liberal left of political stagnation and myopia because we were "too /weak/stupid/powerless/mean/evil/selfish/out of touch to forsee it, and we had it coming anyway." According to the Left, either choice in the dilemma immediately validates the reason why we should have chose the opposite. These guys need to take Critical Reasoning, 101.

And yes, I bet Joseph Heller would have some words to say about war, but who cares, he's dead.

[pianomikey]

Hence your handle??

[wardaddy]

I don't even think G-d can help this cretin.

[MeekOneGOP]

What an arse !! Thanks for the post, PM, and for the link, RD !

Now, even as the patient is being stitched up, a new and troubling question arises: have any fresh medicines been developed to deal with what seem to be teeming infections? Do we really know how to treat livid suppurations we were not quite prepared for? Or would it be better to ignore the consequences? Mightn’t we keep trusting our great American luck, our faith in our divinely protected can-do luck? We are, by custom, gung-ho. If these suppurations prove to be unmanageable, or just too time-consuming, may we not leave them behind? We could move on to the next venue. Syria, we might declare in our best John Wayne voice: You can run, but you can’t hide. Saudi Arabia, you over-rated tank of blubber, are you out of gas? And Iran, watch it, we have eyes for you. You could be our next real meal. Because when we are feeling this good, we are ready to go, and go again. We must. We have had a real taste. Why, there’s a basket-full of billions to be made in the Middle East just so long as we stay ahead of the trillions of debt that are coming after us.

Be it said: the motives that lead to a nation’s major historical acts can probably rise no higher than the spiritual understanding of its leadership. While George W. may not know as much as he believes he knows about the dispositions of God’s blessing, he is driving us at high speed all the same. He is more of a white male by at least an order of magnitude than any other boyo in America, yes, we have this man at the wheel whose most legitimate boast might be that he knew how to parlay the part-ownership of a major-league baseball team into a gubernatorial win in Texas. And — shall we ever forget? — was catapulted, thereafter, into a mighty hymn: All Hail to the Chief!