Starting to notice that just as straight dudes have the virgin/whore complex, women and gay dudes have the dumb brute/smart&cultured complex
@ConnerHabib Could be. Haven't surveyed 'em. Just sayin', virgin & smart+cultured map to ruling class, whore & dumb brute to working class.
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@chaosprime the whores are often high-heeled rich and the virgins are often housewives. dumb white rich jocks etc Fluidity on both sides. -
@ConnerHabib True. These are constructed as class deviant or class aspirational, though, aren't they? Worst thing is acting *poor*. -
@ConnerHabib Housewife acts virginal and avoids "vulgar language" in an attempt to emulate the middle class's image of the ruling class. -
@ConnerHabib Shit, even the concept of "vulgar language". Literally means "how the commoners talk". -
@chaosprime oh I dunno. I appreciate class and keep an eye on it; but as a concept, I think it's overblown/overused. But I hear you -
@ConnerHabib I do think the concept has a lot of dead-weight baggage from times when the lines were drawn far more sharply and clearly. -
@ConnerHabib But the drive to construct social status is STRONG. Though I do work in NYC, a town almost literally made of status anxiety. -
@ConnerHabib So I might think of it more reflexively than I would if I weren't drowning in it every day.
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