DCist: About Tonight

blittle

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:29:14 -0500

[rant] It's the position that she wrote her book. The whole "omg-ness, people live like this?" The ignorance stems from her d'oh moments in that she experienced and never understood from her elitist viewpoint. I was assigned this book for a class in college and had to pay for college myself, work three jobs and if I got tired of it all I couldn't call my dad and have him stop it all. So, yeah, the book's elitist and "well-meaning" perspective hit a sore spot. This "well-meaningness" gives liberals like me a bad name. It's great that she revealed what's it like for the working poor to a subsection of America that didn't "know", but it struck me as being unsincere, like Cindy Sheenan or Parish Hilton after she got out of jail. [/rant]

14thandYou

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:07:33 -0500

Ehrenreich ignorant? Do tell.

blittle

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:50:44 -0500

I can't stand Barbara Ehrenreich. Nickled and Dimed did nothing but exoticize the working poor for the privilege classes and show the world how ignorant and naivete Ehrenreich is.

smperk

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:43:39 -0500

I'm guessing tonight won't be the night where Georgetown prepsters "slum it up" in U Street and get trendy at Busboys.