tangentially related, reminded of this article about tech/finance managers interviewing in the gym https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/thanks-for-your-job-application-shall-we-begin-at-the-squat-rack/ar-BBBNIdQ …
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Replying to @alicemazzy
I don't think the stupid cultural signifiers like knowing nonsense bourgeois sandwich ingredients means anything
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Replying to @alicemazzy @tcjfs
Not being able to afford the things that everyone around you talks about is certainly a bit isolating.
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Replying to @anomalyuk @alicemazzy
Especially for an introvert, that kind of shared experience is essential just to be able to have conversations with people.
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Replying to @anomalyuk
the context was not inability to afford but lack of knowledge of signifiers ie cultural rather than economic capitalpic.twitter.com/QISwSJyDhz
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Replying to @alicemazzy @anomalyuk
or I guess I'm being hasty in dismissing it because it is important for belonging, for those who want that, but I don't
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Replying to @alicemazzy @anomalyuk
I hold onto working class manners, but I'm unusually competent, so it becomes a way of signalling superiority instead
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a sort of "I do not consider myself bound by the same strictures as you are"
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