These self-conscious, misguided lemmings have adopted a paradigm of socially constructed βage roles.β Unlike βgender roles,β these are largely actually social constructs.
A white, male, aspiring actor goes to a Hollywood audition. There’s a pink-haired, female casting director sitting on a panel with other purple-haired industry professionals. A black diversity hire is filming the audition with a camera.
Aspiring Actor: Hello. I’d like to audition for the role of “Grown Ass Man.”
Casting Director: ok. well, let’s see what u got
Aspiring Actor: FUCK!!!!!! I’M ANGRY AND STRESSED!!!!!! I HATE MY 9 TO 5 JOB!!!!!!!!! I’M SO SICK OF PROVIDING FOR MY FAMILY AND GETTING NO CREDIT FOR IT!!!!!!!
Casting Director: whoa, whoa, hold it right there, fam. do u know what role ur auditioning for?
Aspiring Actor: “Grown Ass Man”?
Casting Director: so then why are u acting like a petulant manchild and throwing a tantrum??????? u mad? we don’t hire salty manbabies with Fragile Egos here. sorry not sorry.
Purple Haired Panellist: You π Need π To π Lose π The π Male πEntitlement π π oh, and cool it with the aggression. showing vestiges of ur socially conditioned toxic masculinity, i see. now, how about u try again, and this time without normalizing the nuclear family???
Aspiring Actor: Wow, that was a bit harsh, don’t you think? Do you insult all of your auditionees?
Casting Director: awwww π¦ *turns to fellow panellists* u see that, y’all? he’s literally crying. his fragile male ego can’t take even the slightest bit of criticism without him lashing out like a toddler who just had its toys taken away. men are such children.
Purple Haired Panellist: hahahaha. “ThAt WaS a BiT hArSh, DoN’t YoU tHiNk?” he literally looks like he’s about to cry. i fucking bathe in male tears i swear to god y’all. look. we’re not here to sit and listen to u whine all day. thats unpaid emotional labor and energy.
Casting Director: imagine being a fully grown adult man and crying when someone criticizes ur Bad Acting
Aspiring Actor: Okay. I give up. I don’t know how to adult. What do I do?
Casting Director: hmph, well, at least ur using “adult” as a verb. thats a start. if u want to become a grown ass man, take all ur gross clothes off and close ur eyes
(Aspiring Actor removes his clothes and closes his eyes. Casting Director gets up, walks over to him and cuts his balls off and puts them in a jar.)
Aspiring Actor: (high-pitched girly scream) Owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! you juth thnipped my ballth off with thithors. it hurth thoooooo much.
Casting Director: hahahaha. get on ur knees
(Aspiring Actor gets on his knees)
Casting Director: ok. now apologize for ur bad acting.
Aspiring Actor: im thorry for my trath acting and being a thitty human. ath a white male, i recognithe my inherent privilege and i tholemnly thwear to grow ath a perthon and Do Better.
Casting Director: …ok, that was pretty good acting (writes a positive comment on her clipboard)
Purple Haired Panellist: ya i cant lie y’all that was pretty lit. i really liked his self awareness. emotional intelligence >>>>
Aspiring Actor: i wath wondering if u could pleathe cut my dick off as well???? i won’t be needing it anymore.
Casting Director: …holy shit, that’s some good adulting (writes another positive comment on her clipboard) maybe i was wrong about this guy. shaniqua? do u mind showing the eunuch footage of his performance?
(The black girl walks up to him.)
Black girl: yo, if u want me to spend mental and emotional energy pressing “play,” u need to pay some reparations, nigga
(Aspiring Actor kisses the black girl’s shoes)
Aspiring Actor: black liveth matter. prayerth to george floyd and ahmaud arbery *gives her 3000 dollars*
Black girl: yea. thats a good white bitch. aight (Black girl presses play. Aspiring Actor watches the footage back.)
Aspiring Actor: wow. the thtart of my audition wath literally the cringieth thing i’ve ever theen. i wath acting like thuch a petulant manchild. i had thuch a fragile ego. “Do YoU iNsUlT aLl Of YoUr AuDiTiOnEeS?” imagine being a fully grown adult and crying when someone criticizes ur Bad Acting. like, i cant even… wow. i wath exploiting ur emotional labor. im tho thorry
(The room is silent for ten seconds and then it erupts into applause. The panellists give him a standing ovation, but with feminist jazz hands, since clapping is triggering.)
Casting Director: that was the most woke and progressive audition ive ever seen in my entire career…. wow.
Purple Haired Panellist: yeah that was rly incredible. u’ve got the part *hands him the script for the “Grown Ass Man” role* now, once u’ve memorized all ur lines, i want u to go out there and tell every other manbaby who isn’t adulting that they’re a pathetic, whiny, garbage human who needs to Do Better.
Aspiring Actor: yeth ma’am.
Purple Haired Panellist: good. bye Vaush!