You’re just not going to convince me that playful cover for hitting people out of the blue is OK.
Yes, that’s the operative filter.
I have a pretty different class background from most LW posters (think “banlieue”), and “social ownership of the micro” reads to me like the fable of the princess and the pea. The egalitarianism of the lower classes is that, since not everyone can insist that the single pea be removed from under their twenty mattresses, no one is allowed to—and instead, you’re required to become the sort of person who doesn’t even notice it.
Another operative factor is that the appearance of being useful if the shit hits the fan is a desirable trait. No one likes a weakling, and squeamishness at the sight of blood is decidedly uncool. But people also like people who are socially useful; and since you can tell she’s a princess because she notices the pea, that pattern is countervailing.
I have a pretty different class background from most LW posters (think “banlieue”)
For others who weren’t familiar with the connotations of this word:
In France, a banlieue (French: [bɑ̃ljø]) is a suburb of a large city. [...] However, since the 1970s, banlieues increasingly means, in French of France, low-income housing projects (HLMs) in which mainly foreign immigrants and French of foreign descent reside, in what are often called poverty traps.
(If you just google it, the result that comes up says “suburb”, so I thought it was worth calling out that an American-style wealthy or middle class suburb is not the right connotation.)
Yes, that’s the operative filter.
I have a pretty different class background from most LW posters (think “banlieue”), and “social ownership of the micro” reads to me like the fable of the princess and the pea. The egalitarianism of the lower classes is that, since not everyone can insist that the single pea be removed from under their twenty mattresses, no one is allowed to—and instead, you’re required to become the sort of person who doesn’t even notice it.
Another operative factor is that the appearance of being useful if the shit hits the fan is a desirable trait. No one likes a weakling, and squeamishness at the sight of blood is decidedly uncool. But people also like people who are socially useful; and since you can tell she’s a princess because she notices the pea, that pattern is countervailing.
For others who weren’t familiar with the connotations of this word:
(If you just google it, the result that comes up says “suburb”, so I thought it was worth calling out that an American-style wealthy or middle class suburb is not the right connotation.)