There's something that winds me up as much as people ragging on skinny folk, which I come across multiple times every time I log onto my flist.
Classism.
Take yer snobbery and shove it.
Don't assume that because I have more letters after my name than make up my name and can read more dead languages than most people can live ones, that I'm from a comfortable suburban background. Don't assume that some of my best friends didn't grow up in trailers.
Conversely, don't assume that because I got myself some education that I want to hear about how all less well off people are bad, lazy and have no taste. "Good Taste" is something the upper classes invented as a way of excluding those without "breeding".
There's the tiniest possibility I should have blood sugar episodes more often - I'd put up with a lot less crap.
Classism.
Take yer snobbery and shove it.
Don't assume that because I have more letters after my name than make up my name and can read more dead languages than most people can live ones, that I'm from a comfortable suburban background. Don't assume that some of my best friends didn't grow up in trailers.
Conversely, don't assume that because I got myself some education that I want to hear about how all less well off people are bad, lazy and have no taste. "Good Taste" is something the upper classes invented as a way of excluding those without "breeding".
There's the tiniest possibility I should have blood sugar episodes more often - I'd put up with a lot less crap.
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Date: 2009-08-24 01:42 pm (UTC)