Cause like there are a lot of heavily classed and gendered forms of anti-black racism I see and I’m having trouble finding stuff that includes class explicitly in its analysis and like classism in the US is heavily gendered and racialized
Tag: class struggle
Working Girl 1988
Note the difference between secretary and boss, note the difference in types of femininity.
When You Google Image “Trashy” What Do You See?
Women of color, sex workers, prole women. What does trashy look like? Too much makeup, bright colors, big hair, fake tans, obvious extensions or plastic surgery, unchecked aging, too much skin showing, fat bodies, tattoos, high numbers of sexual partners.
All of this shit is a big mixture of classism, misogyny, racism, whorephobia, and a lot of other horrible shit (what’s also interesting is I saw nary a dude in this google image search),
“Classy” is often used in opposition to “trashy” classy seeming to denote a person who manages to conform to bourgeois standards of morality and appearance, trashy is a person who does not.
Trashiness can be a rejection of bourgeois morality.