Really? My ex was arguably bogan and noone really seemed to mind (I mean, they didn't really like him, but I don't think that was why). Though I guess it works as an example of the complicated strata of society: his friends gave him crap for dating a "private school girl" and going to uni, he felt self conscious that he went to ECU after failing to get into UWA like I did (arguably thanks to bad teaching, since he's now doing a Phd) as well as in general being less intellectual and clever than me(*), I felt self conscious around his family for being better off than mine, and we both felt self conscious around the much richer people at uni (though I'd kind of gotten over that after going to PLC)
I think I have enough markers of privilege (thanks to my family's poor-but-not-bogan status) that I avoid a lot of the classism I would otherwise get, but I've certainly noticed and been pissed off at a lot of crap against eg children of single mothers who lived in homeswest houses on government benefits ("Oh but we don't mean you Sophie")
*cough* See, this is why I don't talk about class. I get pissed off and incohrent too quickly :)
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I think I have enough markers of privilege (thanks to my family's poor-but-not-bogan status) that I avoid a lot of the classism I would otherwise get, but I've certainly noticed and been pissed off at a lot of crap against eg children of single mothers who lived in homeswest houses on government benefits ("Oh but we don't mean you Sophie")
*cough* See, this is why I don't talk about class. I get pissed off and incohrent too quickly :)
(*)Two different things :D