yeah, no, and fuck you

[seperis]

Really.

On behalf of those of us who were and are single women on welfare with children in the South and at some point in our lives lived in a--I need to check the wording--"rural south USA in a welfare slum trailer"--and who do not think our population should be fodder for your smug little war on the word shack:

Fuck. You.

Are you fucking serious?

Are you comparing lower income women's lives--and since you used the word 'welfare', we all know you're talking about women, who make up the majority of welfare clients; women, whose choices and lives are limited by poverty and the difficulties raising children alone, without spousal support; poor urban women, a population that is statistically more likely to be battered by their male partner--to a fucking challenge using the word shack?

I suppose indywind felt it was 'problematic' to use the term 'trailer trash'; should I be grateful? Thank you. Your buddies in that thread who were so excited to read it--and that super clever "Now them's fightin' words!!!" jab--also have my abject gratitude that parts of my life--and my family, friends, and clients from when I was a caseworker who decided benefits for those renters of "rural south USA in a welfare slum trailer"--are being held up in humourous example of how southern poverty is totally like using the word shack. I feel as if social justice is on my side.

So, my night is shit. How's everyone else doing?

Comments

Re: A somewhat better response than my rushed last one

[saraht]

I just don't want people to get discouraged because sometimes less-than-thoughtful things are said. The more traction an issue has, the more people will hitch their own stuff to its wagon.

Re: A somewhat better response than my rushed last one

[thejeopardymaze]

At this point I don't bother with a lot of the disability rights blogosphere. Hell I used to try to like one of the group blogs until the woman who ran it declared making comparisons between the Holocaust and the genocides in the Americas was US-centric, it sounded so stereotypically college feminist. I'm not arguing there may not be limits to genocide comparisons, different cultures and histories and so on, but dismissing it as US-centric just floored me.