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Re: Classism in fandom
Aaaaaa. I don't mind it if someone wants to be happy about something they just got - whether it's a BJD or a new computer or whatever, if it's really significant and important to them yaaay someone is happy - but the holiday/birthday HAULS and "look at this massive list of stuff other people gave me that I am casually listing here" makes me cringe so hard. Especially if they complain that they're only "meh" about half the stuff or COMPARE IT WITH OTHER YEARS then deem it to not be as good or something SHSJKJKSTJKFJKfhfjhfjjf
Re: Classism in fandom
...and would probably get offended if you told them what it looked like
Re: Classism in fandom
(Anonymous) 2014-03-29 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)And I get nothing *exciting) for Christmas. Not because I'm poor, or don't celebrate just because my parents believe in giving us razors, toothbrushes and "necessities" so we can use our extra money to buy things we like, and my siblings are college students who can't afford to buy presents. It's no big deal. I still kind of enjoy reading other people's hauls, though.
Re: Classism in fandom
(Anonymous) 2014-03-30 12:14 am (UTC)(link)Which, IMO, kids should get cut some slack for...after all, they probably don't have any concept of money yet, outside of "pieces of paper my family gives me that I can exchange at the mall for ALL THE STUFF" which, to be fair, is common among kids.
TL;DR: I agree with stella_down, but I would be more inclined to give a pass to a little kid doing this.
Re: Classism in fandom
I don't get the feeling of entitlement and such when people make a thread or a personal blog post about what they got for Christmas/their birthday as long as it isn't to complain about the stuff they got. Because I do so too (well not make threads), I just want to share my joy for the stuff I got and in turn be happy about what other people got.
I do understand where you are coming from and I know how bad it is to listen to people talk about the things they get to do because they have more money and they don't even appreciate it. Complaining about things that are given to you is something I don't understand at all.
What hits me most is:
In Norway we all have a confirmation at 15 either in church or through the agnostic/atheist foundation and we get money and such from our family because we are now "adults". The amount of people complaining because they only got 4000-6000$ and such is awful to hear. Because I am pretty sure my mother almost bankrupted herself to give me the 500$ or so she gave me. Same with the rest of my family members, they all gave more than what they should have and I didn't even get close to the amount people actually complain about, even if my family is a lot larger than most.
I am not as poor as some people and I do live in a place where people in general have more money than most of the world so I don't think Christmas hit us as hard, but I do remember celebrating Christmas with a church group as a child because my mother couldn't afford to make Christmas for us at home. But I have always been lucky with getting pretty good gifts, because my family does somehow always manage to pull the money together.
sorry this got a bit away from me... I don't even remember what my original point wasRe: Classism in fandom
It's not really about entitlement, it's just kinda like - wearing a mink coat to class in college, or something. Sure it's warm! Sure, it's nice and you love it! You're probably not trying to put anyone down and you might not even be trying to show off. But you do make a certain impression and you should be aware of the impression you are making, if you do that.
Re: Classism in fandom
Perhaps even more
depressinglyhilariously, during a high school government class in which a teacher was discussing the perks of living in the White House if you're the President. At one point, he mentioned servants, and most of us - either actually middle/lower class or at least strongly identifying with it more than upper class - started descending into sarcastic slave jokes, except for this one kid who looked really fucking confused and who was also the only kid in the class whose family had a maid. He didn't seem to get that most of the kids in the class were more likely to know or be related to maids than actually have maids, and thus a lot of his humor about his home life went right over people's heads or was honestly offensive or just not funny. -_-My high school was a...very diverse one, class-wise.
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