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NYT Writer: White Men, Shut Up!

Hank Berrien

On Friday, Johanna Barr, senior staff editor at The New York Times and former chief of HuffPost‘s newsdesk, gave us a prime example of white-men hating rhetoric.

Barr cited a new study from the University of Southern California’s Viterbi School of Engineering that argued white males dominated the silver screen, women and minorities were stereotypically portrayed, and females in general were not vital to the plot. The study also proclaimed language from women tended to be “more positive, emotional and related to family values, while the language used by male characters was more closely linked to achievement,” according to Barr.

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