When comparing what you have to what the 1% has, it might be comforting to say to yourself, "At least I'm not one of those stupid people who walks around Wal-Mart drinking a big soda."
I wonder if this phenomenon sometimes has a gendered nature. I'm thinking, for example, of the girls in the movie Clueless (I'm probably dating myself by bringing it up) doing a lot of things that men think of as "stupid." Like, men get to define women's behavior as stupid, and then have the societal power to penalize them because of it...
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Date: 2012-12-31 11:07 pm (UTC)I wonder if this phenomenon sometimes has a gendered nature. I'm thinking, for example, of the girls in the movie Clueless (I'm probably dating myself by bringing it up) doing a lot of things that men think of as "stupid." Like, men get to define women's behavior as stupid, and then have the societal power to penalize them because of it...