Esquire cover featuring white, middle-class ‘American boy’ sparks backlash: ‘How is this real?’

Kristine Solomon
YAHOO!

Esquire magazine just debuted its March 2019 issue, and the cover shines a spotlight on what it’s like for “an American boy” to grow up “white, middle class, and male in the era of social media, school shootings, toxic masculinity, #MeToo, and a divided country.”

Esquire magazine’s latest issue sparked outcry on Twitter for focusing on white males during Black History Month. (Photo: Esquire)

But many people on Twitter are having none of it. Some could hardly believe the magazine seemed to be sympathizing with white male privilege in such a fraught cultural and political climate.

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