Over at AlterNet:

Perhaps it’s obvious, but there are no Shit Straight White Guys Say videos. That’s probably because, well, most videos are Shit Straight White Guys Say videos. Shit Straight White Guys Say is most pop culture and most movies. The everyday straight white maleness of the cultural horizon is reminiscent of an Aziz Ansari joke:

Are white people just psyched all the time?” It’s, like, Back to the Future, that’s us! Godfather, that’s us! Godfather Part 2, that’s us! Departed, that’s us! Sunset Boulevard, that’s us! Citizen Kane, that’s us! Jaws, that’s us! Every fucking movie but Slumdog Millionaire and Boyz n the Hood is us!

The lack of jokes in Shit Girls Say and Shit Black Girls Say relates to this horizon. The privileging of the male perspective, its factual empirical existence, is just not that funny if its your only joke. That’s arguably why $h! My Dad Says was such a flop: it was predicated on a white guy making jokes, which is basically every other TV show.*

I can’t tell if I’m kinda bummed or not about how virtually everything I’ve been working on has been anticipated by Aziz Ansari.