EVERYONE HATES LOSERS, even SJWs.

“I asked a roomful of women, queer people and minorities, ‘What do you want straight men to do? And what do you want them to be like?'” she recalls.

Lee wrote down all of the answers. It boiled down to this: They wanted the straight white male character to sit down and shut up.

“When you hear that around the table, you just feel yourself sinking slowly into the chair,” remembers James Stanley, who plays the character created from the list. The character, named Matt, is a sort of idealized straight white male. He works for a not-for-profit and is guided by a sense of trying not to — in his words — “make things worse.” Lee and Stanley workshopped the character in front of the students. Who hated him.

“Hated him,” Lee said, clearly still surprised. “And I realized that the reason why they hated him was — despite all their commitment to social justice — what they believed in most was not being a loser. [Matt] is exhibiting behavior that gets attributed to people of color: not being assertive, not standing up for himself, always being in a service position.”

The actor played the straight white male the leftists said they preferred, and they ended up having utter contempt for him — just like they do for real-life straight white males who try to be as inoffensive as possible by being apologetic and weak.

The best bit is at the end:

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