I guess I don't agree because I had already seen analogous jokes about brunch made for several years prior to this year's brunch meme, in contexts where it would have been thoroughly nonsensical for them to be based on a common gender-based strand of bigotry
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Replying to @eigenvectrix @arthur_affect and
I regard 'brunch' jokes much the same way I regard 'wine mom' jokes — as fundamentally jokes that *involve* gender, that *are inseparable from* gender (there's no "wine dad" joke), but are *about* class, cultural and religious background, and privilege
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Replying to @eigenvectrix @arthur_affect and
But why? What is it about wine and brunch, precisely, that makes them about class, background, and privilege? What is it that constructs this association?
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Replying to @eggynack @arthur_affect and
Regarding wine: 1) decent wine costs more than decent beer 2) getting cheap wine is more stigmatised than getting cheap beer 3) wine is in larger units and spoils faster 4) wine has a culture of pretentious snobbery surrounding it due to, e.g., wine-tasting
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Replying to @eigenvectrix @eggynack and
Brunch, meanwhile: 1) is a trendy portmanteau word 2) in my experience, usually happens in a nice, upscale, gentrifying restaurant 3) happens between people of a middle-class cultural background 4) happens at a time in the day when people with a 9-5 are working
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Replying to @eigenvectrix @eggynack and
I'm a working-class person in a middle-class profession (music) — for me, brunches have always been occasions during which I have felt anxious and ill-at-ease
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Replying to @eigenvectrix @eggynack and
I understand that it is a thing, I understand the thing, I have participated in the thing plenty of times in the past I am saying it's not a good thing
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Replying to @arthur_affect @eggynack and
1) I'm explaining it to the person I'm replying to 2) I understand that I am willing to change my *behaviour* to avoid misogynistic splash damage I just don't agree with the contention that the meme is fundamentally or primarily based on misogyny or homophobia
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Replying to @eigenvectrix @eggynack and
Okay, well, I'm just saying "Grilling" is also objectively an expensive hobby A grill costs money, a grill requires outdoor space, it's a time consuming way to prepare food, you could just be grilling hot dogs but the connotation is with expensive quality meats
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Replying to @arthur_affect @eigenvectrix and
But it's not read the same way Even if most of Chapo's listeners live in apartments and can't actually grill as a hobby they don't feel offended by someone treating it as a normal aspiration to say "I'd rather be grilling" Obviously everyone *would* grill if they could
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This is what I mean, the coding doesn't really have much to do with money itself Hell if I say "Someday when this is all over I'm gonna go out for a $100 steak dinner" I'd likely get a very different reaction than if I said "sushi" Even though I literally said $100 each time
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