Maliciousness in memes: #boganmovies and #tightsarenotpants

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Maliciousness in memes: #boganmovies and #tightsarenotpants

I always feel a bit self conscious ranting about class, since the more I think about it the more I realise that for all their left wing ideals my parents are basically middle class bohemians slumming it because they find the rat race too stressful. I never entirely fit in to the working class culture I grew up in, and have few connections to it now. Plus being a "working class" Australian in the suburbs in the 80s was in some ways less difficult than, say, what a lot of ostensibly lower middle class Americans are experiencing now.

Then again, I guess the fact that despite these cushioning effects I've still experienced enough classism to feel pretty angry about it is testament to how totally not class free Australia is.

Anyway, yes. The cheerful way that ostensibly left wing middle class people mock and belittle the working class and people from rural areas is gross. (And I wish this went without saying, but I don't want to see any of it in my comments)

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[lilacsigil]

I think that the "tights are not pants" and "leggings are not pants" arguments are used in classist and body-hating ways in Australia - the judgement is usually applied to young working-class women (it used to be "don't go out in your tracky pants" until expensive sportswear showed up) and/or fat women and/or working-class older women who are not being "classy". While there are definitely fashionable, thin young women who wear tights and leggings as pants, they're not the ones who are criticised for it (and I say this as a person who has been publicly mooed at while wearing leggings under a knee-length dress!)