why is the young white generation so socially awkward?

I can't speak for the adolescent and early twenties white kids out there. But I can speak for the fairly youngish white folks of my generation. Or at least those I've encountered in New York. Maybe other places are different. Or maybe I'm biased against them. Who knows. But I have found that a lot of late 20ish, early 30ish, white people are either rude or very socially awkward.

The office space that my company rents and the NYC subway system both have provided me the evidence on which I base my observations.

First space, my office. My company rents an office in Brooklyn. The office is a shared space called "Green Desk". Green Desk is a brilliant idea because they take a large space and divide it up using glass walls to make smaller work spaces of various sizes. They rent these out to small businesses and also to individuals who freelance or run their own companies and have extra money to throw around on space that isn't their bedroom. These spaces are much cheaper than most office space you can find, and come completely furnished with internet and a copier and all that...blah blah I'm boring myself now. I get a little excited when I think about my nice little green desk office because for 2 years my company had no office space of our own here. No mailing address, no storage space, nothing to call our own. We existed on the good will of the agencies we served, and I'm not one who likes to operate on the whims and goodwill of others. But I digress.
The company has two buildings in DUMBO and one in Downtown Brooklyn. My coworker and I chose the Downtown Brooklyn location because the DUMBO space was too far from the courts and also too hipster. Plus it was older and more crowded than the downtown location. Again, maybe I am biased against hipster-y types and didn't give it a chance.
Anyway, my office space has a pretty good mix of people, from young to older, with lots of different professions represented. I'm not sure what everyone does in my building, but there are quite a few attorneys, some small accounting firms, some small call centers and sales-types jobs, some freelance creative-type jobs, real estate people, and some internet businesses.
This being New York, there is also a mix of people, many different races, religions, etc. To illustrate my point about the social awkwardness or rudeness of the younger white, I will provide two identical scenarios (which are true and happened) but featuring two people of different races.

The typical white encounter at my office goes like this: I walk towards the tiny kitchen, which consists of a single wall with a small counter, sink and a full-size refrigerator on the end. I smile and attempt to make eye contact with the white person, who is either pouring coffee or filling a water bottle. I will say hello or good morning. The white person will not make eye contact, will not return the greeting with one of his or her own, and will not even acknowledge that anything was verbal was exchanged between the two of us. The white person will shuffle around for a bit and then awkwardly leave without making eye contact.

The typical encounter with a black person at my office goes like this: I walk up to the kitchen. I smile and make eye contact with the black person. The black person is either getting coffee or filling up their water bottle. I say a greeting, either hello or good morning. The black person will return my eye contact and return my greeting. We will engage in small pleasantries concerning the weather or the state of the coffee at the office. Once the black person is finished, her or she will usually say "have a good one", and leave without awkwardness.

UPDATE: I wrote the above paragraphs last week. Just yesterday, some white dude comes into the kitchen while I'm rinsing out my coffee mug and stands right behind me with a fork that he's waiting to wash. He doesn't say hi, acknowledge me, or anything. Just stands about 6 inches away from me holding a fork. When I turn around to leave he doesn't even make eye contact and shoves his fork under the faucet. WTF?

UPDATE: Today while I microwaved my lunch, I witnessed an awkward encounter involving a black woman and a white woman who both needed to use the water filter. No eye contact was made, no greetings were exchanged, and the situation was quite awkward. So there are exceptions to the stereotype.

My subway experience stems from the fact that when disabled people, pregnant people, or elderly people get on the train, it is usually a younger black or Latino man who gets up to offer their seat, or a woman. I have rarely seen a white man get up to offer their seat. These other people may beat them to it, who knows. I could be biased against whitey.

Not that anyone cares, but this is how I would dress a "female warrior"....like Aeryn Sun from Farscape. Just sayin'

Why I'm glad the Wonder Woman pilot failed to be picked up by any network

Fighting crime in hot pants is silly at best. Fighting crime in a bikini bottom? Sounds like a recipe for a terrible wedgie and some uncomfortable chafing to me. Plus the editors would need to make sure all the red bumps from biking waxing were taken out. Unless that's a strategy of hers. "I will distract you with my rashy crotch, and then take you down. Hahahaha!" Plus, like the whole nipple slippage issue that would be going on with the bustier, she would have to be worrying about a little lip slippage going on as well.

Although I will give the actress credit, she doesn't look super skinny. She's still thin, but looks healthy, like she is actually an active person and could take a few hits without shattering into a million pieces.

the many nicknames of Lando the cat

It seems our culture is in somewhat of a cute animal craze. Nearly every day on the internet I get some freaking adorable video or picture of a cute kitty or other animal. You would think I would start to get desenitized to all this cuteness but so far I haven't. I have oohed, aahed, and said "bebe!" hundreds of times to all this cuteness for quite awhile now.
It also seems I will never be immune to the cuteness of my cat. Even though I see my cat every day, and he basically does the same cute things every day (batting my hand when I sit on his chair, rolling over on his back and posing in the middle of the living room), I still exclaim every day over his cuteness. To be fair, my roommate hasn't become immune to the cat's adorableness either. A testimony to our inability to get over the cat's cuteness is the absurb amount of nicknames we have given to Lando over the years, even when Lando is probably the coolest cat name ever.

The many nicknames of Lando, invented by me or John:

Stinka
Stinka kitty
Fat stinka
Fat kitten
Precious lamb
Kitten Lamb
Lamb kitty
Lamb kitten
Fatty fatty boombalatty
Lannikins
Psycho kitty! Que-est que ce?
Moopy
Moopy-doo
Hang, hang on Moopy. Moopy Hang on!
Moopy doopy doopy-doo
Moopleton
Lord Moopleton, a minor lordling of moderate landholdings in the kingdom of Moopledonia
Moomi
Moomi-doo
Moonami
Senor Fatness
Angry moo
Tubby
Fat moopy

I'm sure there are more that I will add as I remember them-

Why the New Wonder Woman Sucks

I am with the majority of the internet (at least the majority of the internet that cares about Wonder Woman) in saying that the new Wonder Woman costume is hideous. Apparently after the uproar they changed the costume so it looked less like a Halloween costume. Honestly, I don't see the difference between the two. Now, I have an interest in this issue because as a very young girl, I watched Wonder Woman and idolized her. I was her for three Halloweens(age 2, 3, and 4). So she does make up a little part of my childhood.
Let's have a look, shall we?

She looks like the Playboy Bunny version of Wonder Woman. The headband, the shiny blue pants, the high-heeled boots, the plastic bustier; it's all hideous. I'm not quite sure how Wonder Woman is going to be kicking ass and fighting baddies, when she'll be so distracted from worrying about her boobs popping out of her strapless top. I know the thought process I would be having if I was doing strenuous physical activity while wearing that top. It would be, "Is my nip showing now? Oops, raised my hand above my head, did my nip show? Wow, I really hope that my nipples aren't hanging out of this top while I'm wrestling this bad guy to the ground."
Apparently the entertainment industry has chosen to ignore the lessons of the Victorian Age, when women's corsets caused serious problems, the most common being light-headedness and shortness of breath. So this Wonder Woman won't be able to chase after any criminals, she'll be too busy gasping for breath and trying not to faint.

But, to be fair, after many people pointed out the silliness of this costume, the show's creators came out with a change. The end result (supposedly) will be this:

So all that's really changed is her pants aren't as shiny. And her boots are red. But she's still got the stupid headband and the tight corset top. You could argue that the original Wonder Woman's costume featured a bustier and tiny hot pants. And you would be correct. But that was the 70's people. That was forty years ago. Charlie's Angels and Wonder Woman were about all the female empowerment society could handle. You would think in 2011 we could actually feature a powerful, successful, kick-ass female whose attire would be both practical and attractive. I'm thinking a supportive sports-bra type top (would be tight, as to not get in the way), a looser pant for freer movement, and lower-heeled boots. Maybe a leather-jacket with the Wonder Woman logo on it, I don't know. But this costume, to me, is just stupid. It also proves that the entertainment industry has also got the idea of the kick-ass female all backwards.
Case in point, the recent Zack Snyder film "Suckerpunch." To act like that film is supposed to be about girls kicking-butt, and finding strength in who they are through doing so, is ludicrous. Any woman entering in a fantasy realm in order to save herself by beating up a whole lot of big, bad dudes wouldn't be dressing herself in a slutty schoolgirl outfit. A male fantasy, however, would do exactly that. There's nothing wrong with the male fantasy, but don't act like you're making some artistic statement about female empowerment through your movie, Zack Snyder. Because you're not. And no, this is not "300" for girls. This is "300" for heterosexual males.

What is the deal with all these movies and shows featuring women being very physical and violent and beating people up anyway? Women don't need to use physical force to serve their purposes. We are much more subtle and devious than that.

Also, to be fair, I just saw the trailer for "Green Lantern." And damn! You can see all of Ryan Reynolds in that costume. And I mean ALL of Ryan Reynolds. So at least the entertainment industry is a little more balanced about who they are sexually objectifying.