While white people certainly love “the cinema,” they are required to balance their interest in film with an interest in live theater, most notably plays.
In spite of plays having minimal sets, no special effects, an intermission, and a higher admission price, white people believe that live theater is essential to any cultured city.
It is not known if white people actually enjoy plays or if they are just victims of massive peer pressure from the 45% of white people who have acted in a play at some point in their life.
The only real advice around this subject is to never accept an invitation from a white person to go see a play. Often times you will be supporting their friend or cousin and then get stuck with a $45 ticket (at least) and three hours of trying to figure how close you are to the end.
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“The only real advice around this subject is to never accept an invitation from a white person to go see a play. Often times you will be supporting their friend or cousin…:
It should read “You will be supporting his or her friend or cousin” because it refers to one “white person” and not a group of people.
uh …
actually
for brevity it was changed from “his or her” to “their”.
it’s a legit grammar rule now … which as a white kid grammar nerd, you should have probably known.
K, I’m a proofreader by profession, and even I find these comments riddled with douche-baggedness. I mean come on, it’s written dialogue. It doesn’t have to be grammatically correct.
Classic episode of Peep Show ripping into plays
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=J4GLXUw2qaI&feature=related
Hmm. I think I am maybe the un-whitest white person because I don’t do many of these things. I do some of them though and I know people who do A LOT. But it’s all funny because it’s all true about most white people.
Stuff White People Like: Advertising that they don’t like something on the SWPL list.
Also, abbreviations.
Oh man, I never realized just how white I was. All of these things, excluding indie music and Juno, describe me.
Who cares? Don’t be ashamed of it, that’s for sure. On a another note: this really isn’t about “white people” it’s about “white, yuppy, middle to upper class white people.” I know plenty of white people that don’t do any of these things.
Amen. This is satire, and not to be taken too seriously. However, this is also part of our culture, and we have been conditioned to think that white culture is a heritage of slavery and genocide (not true). Be proud of who you are, what you enjoy, and who your people are. Pride doesn’t make you a supremacist. It’s okay to have a little pride. This isn’t a blanket racist statement claiming that ALL white people are like this. However it’s the “funny because it’s true” style of humor that makes this so applicable to White People, because we can attribute so much of this to ourselves and people we know. Hell, this list describes my entire city. It’s brilliant.
Hey, plays can be fun. I love plays, but not Shakespeare, I like plays about heroin addicts or someone being possessed by the devil.
Plays can be more risque than movies often times. They don’t have to worry about ratings.
So is this site just funny as hell or is there an end? It seems to be a guide to exploit or simply befriend white people. Either way I love it.
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I found this blog pretty funny and very true, even though I am white myself. The main theme in most of the posts being white people trying to look “informed, current, hip, right, just etc without actually being so” is true, I agree a lot of PRIVELDGED white people do this just to seem this way, but are actually and truly ignorant. (I would know, I moved to a privileged white neighbor from a not so privileged and run down city). I got a bit angry reading this post about plays, being an avid thespian myself. As a previous comment said rightly, theater is about EDUCATION,HISTORY, and COMMUNICATION. It’s not supposed to be a ruckus or fun time, and not necessarily fun or entertaining either.( I might add, it is a dying art in this day and age here in America, but there are still some committed people out there.) Many cultures have different forms of theater. It’s goals are similar to books, or any pure art form. I enjoy movies as well, but increasingly fewer and fewer( Give me Old Hollywood, and classic British style acting any day.) And I agree “indie” and “avant garde” films are bullshit. I don’t even want to get started on the horrible acting and terrible self consciousness of their “low budget” and “quirky” -ness. Trash. And I can safely say most white people don’t give a damn about Shakespeare let alone UNDERSTAND it. HEAVENS! You’d be hard pressed to find one that actually took the time to decipher Shakespeare’s backwards language, piece it back together, understand what it’s all about, and be able to learn and appreciate it’s detail, complexity, completeness, universal truths and lessons, history, and beauty. That would be way too much effort, and it would be easier to see an “21st century take on Hamlet taking place in the city”. SORRY, you’re not meant to relate to Hamlet, and he was not “a guy like you”. Disgusting. Despite the fact that a good amount of their oft corrected English was formed by Shakespeare…white people don’t really get it they would rather see an indie piece of shit play or movie( no one will remember or care about in a couple years because all it is, is a self-glorifying shit fest) instead of universally true and celebrated plays which have been around for hundreds of years.
Wow. This comment is the whitest thing on this site.
I gotta agree with Devon. This is post is as white as possible. We should all be thankful to see such a textbook example right on the “Stuff White People Like” site. Now we aren’t just learning about white people. We’re experiencing them firsthand.
Wow Nekita, get over yourself. Everyone has to decipher and understand the themes and universal thruths of Shakespeare to pass grade 10 English. Get off your high horse and refer to the ancedote on white people liking arts degrees.
And as you are such a noted thespian, have fun wasting your life doing something that you describe as an activity that “is not supposed to be a ruckus or fun time, and not necessarily fun or entertaining either.”
Life is too short to act uppity, I should know, I am a priveleged white guy.
“Everyone has to decipher and understand the themes and universal thruths of Shakespeare to pass grade 10 English.”
Seriously. I think it’s safe to say Nekita’s the sort who claims ‘no one understands’ every play that’s gotten bad reviews after he’s ruined it with his non-fun, non-entertaining approach to acting.
Ladies and gentlemen, above you will see a white person exhibiting example # 101, Being Offended. Thank you very much for offering this keen insight into the world of stuff white people like.
Also note the smattering of Appearing Empathetic with Personal Anecdotes of ”Poverty” Thanks so much for this. For those not in the know consider this post, and subsequent posts to be an improper use of “Irony” and “Sarcasm.”
You’re awesome Devon… but perhaps you didn’t notice your own invocation of “irony” in your own stupid post. You’re obviously a complete idiot, and have a huge chip on your shoulder. I’m sure it sucks to be unsuccessful and insecure and have an inferiority complex (as you and everyone that’s contributed to this site clearly deal with).
Here’s something without irony: you’re nothing.
Touché, Eastwood.
Yeeeaah plays!
Plays? Oh no. CATS. RENT. HAIR. Annie. the Chorus Line. and the Lion King (that’s Disney not on ice). What about the Phantom of the Opera, the most romantic moment is when a lovely lady takes off the pianist stranger’s mask. What does she see? Freak show. +
Plays. Yawn. Oh, wait, I can get a little nap here. Time not wasted.
HAHA! I actually do LIKE plays, but I also understand that they are strange and tedious experiences for those with short attention spans.
PS the photo is priceless.
I was a theatre major, so yes, I like plays and have acted in them.
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