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October 1, 2005

Angry White Males

I've noticed that people on the left have an amusing habit of dismissing those to sitting to their right on the political landscape as Angry White Males. It doesn't matter if the person the label is being hung on is actually male, or even white, this is the sign you're expected to carry around as punishment for not being progressive enough.

Okay, fine.

Please allow me to introduce Canada's own Angry White Males. They're comic strip characters living in a fictional rural area somewhere in Central Alberta, although you'll notice that they aren't all white males. While the characters and the location are fictional, the content isn't. A lot of the scripts were pulled from overheard conversations in coffee shops and grocery stores where I live (East Central Alberta, but that's probably a co-incidence). I've got no shortage of material out here, that's for sure.

AWM will be published twice weekly on Tuesdays and Fridays. I hope you enjoy it.

Posted by at October 1, 2005 3:47 AM

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It will probably be a great strip once you replace the placeholders with an actual strip.

Posted by: Intcord at October 1, 2005 5:14 AM

Looks great. I think you've got a winner on your hands there. Next stop, Western Standard.

Posted by: BBS at October 1, 2005 6:59 AM

umm... the left (and by therefore by your definition the majority of canada as a whole) sees the right as a party based on the angry white male. are you so floral with your language that you cant see the semantic link between 'angry white male' and 'western alienation'?

Posted by: factuallyuntrue at October 1, 2005 9:23 AM

For a great comic strip theat tears the left a new one, check out "The Leftersons".

Posted by: Eskimo at October 1, 2005 10:18 AM

Wow this is some strip...I know these guys! First time I saw Canadians I know portrayed in the Canadian media....but wait, I thought "angry white mailes" were stupid or infantile...like "the trailer park boys"...or rural folks were comicly rustic and politically/culturally inarticulate like "corner gas"...ohhhhh too much information... I'm so confused....Better grab the dog and the scatter gun and go kill some ducks to straighten my head out ;-)

It is dangerous to allow the media to define us in a compartmentalized groups, but if it's going to be done, AWM is a fairly accurate portrayal.

Posted by: WL Mackenzie Redux at October 1, 2005 10:52 AM

"It will probably be a great strip once you replace the placeholders with an actual strip."

You must be getting a cached copy of the page from an upstream proxy server at your ISP. I deleted the placeholder file off the server around midnight last night and replaced it with new content.

"Next stop, Western Standard."

Oh, I doubt that for two reasons. First, my sense of humour (which is warped) won't go down well with their readers. Second, the comic is designed to be equally infuriating to people on both the left AND the right -- it would turn off large chunks of their readership.

Posted by: Sean at October 1, 2005 12:06 PM

"are you so floral with your language that you cant see the semantic link between 'angry white male' and 'western alienation'?"

Correlation does not imply causation, as the saying goes.

Posted by: Sean at October 1, 2005 12:09 PM

Maybe it should be Angry Disenfranchised Whites.

Disenfranchisement is something the government does to you.

Posted by: steve at October 1, 2005 12:26 PM

Absolutely hilarious! I'll have to mark my calendar to catch them.

Posted by: Candace at October 1, 2005 5:02 PM

Check it out:

http://www.leftersons.com/panel015.shtml

Posted by: Eskimo at October 1, 2005 10:11 PM