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MAWG - acronym for Middle Aged White Guy.  First sighted in William Gibson's cyberpunk novel Pattern Recognition.

Citations: 1994 Michael Kelly Omaha World Herald (Nebraska) (Dec. 15) “His Campaign Was Seasoned” p. 25SF: I’m a middle-aged white guy, and I have nothing against middle-aged white guys. Some of my best friends and basketball buddies are MAWGs. 1998 Joel V. Mike Usenet: rec.arts.tv.mst3k.misc (Jan. 4) “Night Of The Living Dead, by JimL2”: Black guy is the protagonist, and middle aged white guy is his antogonist. MAWG thinks they should barricade themselves in the basement. 2004 Scott K. Summers Newtopia Magazine (Mar. 26) “Middle Aged White Guy Has Political Catharsis”: Middle aged white guy’s (MAWG’s) political catharsis, continued: enraged by seeming police tolerance of intimidation, and fuming about corporate welfare (both as manifested in the entirely unlikely community of Harvard, IL) MAWG joins Illinois Green Party at the end of March, 2003. MAWG’s wholly unlikely “career move” morphs and mutates exactly one year later into an entirely unexpected dimension. 2006 Lola Ogunnaike New York Times (Oct. 22) “I’ll Take ‘Friendship’ for $100”: Ms. Ritterskamp supportively chalked his bad luck up to being a middle-aged white guy, or MAWG in game show parlance. “They’re desperate for minorities and women,” she said. (Michael Davis, the executive producer of “Millionaire,” said that without MAWG’s, “there would simply not be television game shows,” adding that “we’re looking to represent diversity in every sense of the word.”)