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Aug. 22nd, 2010 08:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nilchanceBut we celebrated SIL's birthday and also successfully transported our 100th rescue dog. Obviously we're not going to stop, but zomg, 100 dogs saved. That's fantastic.
Man, I love and feel this post: Poor people aren't supposed to want nice things. "All rags-to-riches (or rags-to-bitches, if you want to get all Boondocks about it) stories start with people who are poor but industrious. Tales of kids eating cigarette ash sandwiches to survive. Tales of people saving mustard packets so they have food that stretches through the whole year. Bonus points if your parent proudly refuses government help, or if you suffer through and survive a vitamin deficiency. You’re a rock star if you live many years out on the streets and still pull down a 4.0+ GPA. You have done poverty correctly." I have bought into this narrative myself, and it's bullshit. I can't live in a gray formless self-deprivation, because odds are, due to gender and health and sexual orientation, I am going to be some level of poor forever.
Sympathy grifting: this story is interesting both because of how she got away with 20k in sympathy fraud and the fandom perception of grifting. I'm sure it's no coincidence that it's more believable for Dean Winchester, Sophie or Jensen to get away with con artistry than, say, Naveen Andrews or Idris Elba.
Um. So does anybody have a recommendation for a good book on lupus?
Man, I love and feel this post: Poor people aren't supposed to want nice things. "All rags-to-riches (or rags-to-bitches, if you want to get all Boondocks about it) stories start with people who are poor but industrious. Tales of kids eating cigarette ash sandwiches to survive. Tales of people saving mustard packets so they have food that stretches through the whole year. Bonus points if your parent proudly refuses government help, or if you suffer through and survive a vitamin deficiency. You’re a rock star if you live many years out on the streets and still pull down a 4.0+ GPA. You have done poverty correctly." I have bought into this narrative myself, and it's bullshit. I can't live in a gray formless self-deprivation, because odds are, due to gender and health and sexual orientation, I am going to be some level of poor forever.
Sympathy grifting: this story is interesting both because of how she got away with 20k in sympathy fraud and the fandom perception of grifting. I'm sure it's no coincidence that it's more believable for Dean Winchester, Sophie or Jensen to get away with con artistry than, say, Naveen Andrews or Idris Elba.
Um. So does anybody have a recommendation for a good book on lupus?