Oh, The Feminist Jimmies This Will Rustle

Saw this on Twitter yesterday. I love Milo. Sounds silly, but I was legitimately excited when he RT'd me the other day. Anyway, he's tackling issues that few others would dare talk about for fear of being ostracized by much of our blue pill, PC society. I'm totally applying for it. I'm going to sound slightly bitter here, because I am— I hate being bitter about anything, but sometimes I just can't help it.

When I was applying for colleges, my high school gave me a website to check out for scholarships. Despite the fact that I was top 5 in my class (finished with a 99.63 GPA; would've been ranked #1 in any other class that had come before or would come after), played baseball and was in several clubs and activities, and got a 2220 on my SAT, I qualified for none of the scholarships. Not a single one. It really hurts being a middle class, straight, white male from South Jersey. Middle class, male, and white because that disqualified me from nearly every scholarship. Being from South Jersey hurts because we get grouped in with rich North Jersey people who all go to private school, have connections, and are automatically accepted into the Ivy's and other top schools— therefore those top schools take less people from NJ because of quotas (and of course being white doesn't help since Affirmative Action discriminates against white and Asians, and schools are more likely to accept some mentally ill "pansexual" than a straight kid). Not being available for any of the scholarships killed me because my family being in the middle class actually made things worse in terms of school. The cost of living is so high here (like the rest of the northeast) that, although my parents' nominal income seemed okay and we're certainly in a much better situation than most people in my town (a lower-middle class, drug infested town), we really don't have much money for anything else. I couldn't afford to go to any of the good schools I got into, and am instead going to a state school a few miles away in one of America's poorest and most dangerous cities.

So yeah, Idc what anyone says, it legitimately is tough to be a straight, white male in today's society. I don't buy into that white privilege bullshit. I never had anything handed to me— in fact, I had opportunities taken away from me, no matter how hard I worked. The fact that Milo is doing this is great.

Also, all the people that are bitching about it calling it ridiculous need to see that he's doing nothing different from the people who offer black and female STEM major scholarships. That's pretty much what he's trying to point out: no scholarships should be based off of race, gender, or sexual orientation, but off of merit and need. But until— if ever— that day comes, there needs to be something to help white males, too.