Angry White Men Analysis

Meet Rick. Rick is “one of the men who feel they have been screwed, betrayed by the country they love, discarded like trash on the side of the information superhighway” in Michael Kimmel’s book, Angry White Men. In Kimmel’s book, he addresses what he calls a collective of men who like Rick’s, fury is guiding them to come together and decide who to blame for their problems. Kimmel chimes in and decides that is an obvious answer to these men’s rage, it is the women in their lives. It is their mothers, their wives, their ex-wives, and the black women who steal their jobs. However, to Kimmel the answer to these angry white men from middle to lower-middle-class demographics also tells the story of their relationship with violence, masculinity, and …show more content…
While Kimmel handled the book with a sense of professionalism, he fails to give these angry white men more credit for what they have been through. Especially since there has been numerous economic downfalls and unexpected technological and political developments that would make anyone try to stick to their roots. Kimmel instead of approaching this from a more understanding outlook, the book slowly took a turn to blame worthy and unacceptable outlook. In similar topic books like, Jennifer Sherman, Those Who Work, Those Who Don’t: Poverty, Morality, and Family in Rural America, Sherman remembered to give the people of the small town of Golden Valley the benefit of the doubt in their sociological structure. Rather, Kimmel feels the problem goes beyond the individual level; these angry white men are becoming a sociological problem. However, beyond that, studies have shown that angry white men have been facing social problem too. For instance, white men without a college degree have higher divorce rates, yet more people are giving birth without getting married taking away fatherhood, another thing these men find