Supernatural and the Underclass 6- Cars (b)

[laespada]

Supernatural and the Underclass 6- Cars (b)

Part 1- Intro | Part 2- Dangers of Underclass | Part 3- Music | Part 4- War | Part 5- Clothes | Part 6 a- Cars

Second part of the commentary on cars. This part deals with two characters of Supernatural. The first is the family in the Benders, and the second is Bobby Singer.

Let's look at some specific

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[fannishliss]

...or, true, they could be someone else's guys just dropping something off. hm!

My dad had an arc welder, so he made a fork that he could chain to the front scoop of his John Deere for round bale moving. :)

There were a couple of topics I thought of that I wondered if you wanted to talk about:
--the most obvious is guns. Living here in the suburbs, gun ownership is a really verboten idea to my middle class friends. But living in the country and being part of a hunting culture, my dad had a ton of guns.

-- another is wealth. I mean, it's kind of obvious, but access to wealth is the primary class indicator, not income. I guess I kind of think of the 401K as a big indicator of middle class status. The working class, such as it is, might have access to pensions or stock options.... my husband, as a child care guy, works for a really good company that professionalizes its workers and offers them the 401K, health care and other good benefits. The underclass has exhausted its capital or never had access to any.

--and really, schooling. Vocational training was a huge thing in my home county and there was a real difference in high school between people who went on to college and those who went to vo-tech to learn masonry, carpentry, or electrical. the girls went to learn secretarial skills. I've always been interested on Dean's skills as a mechanic and/or wiring expert. And of course with s6 we got to see him become a construction worker.

cheers!

[laespada]

Man, most awesome bale spear ever, or most awesome bale spear ever? We haven't used round bales in forever; sumbitches to feed, let me tell you what. Especially when the grass gets cut when it's way too long and doesn't dry, augh. We do these massive 3.5x7 foot square bales, takes like three damn people to roll them around by hand.

Thanks for the subject recs! Guns is definitely a good one to touch on; guns and weapons in general. My family never had guns because we never had time to hunt, and my Dad's just as liable to kill something with his hands or a shovel/pick/iron bar as he is a gun. Plus the truck for coy dogs going through the lawn, spoody fuckers. Though he did get a BB rifle recently to kill raccoons and skunks. Then again, he's almost 60, so maybe he's getting to tired to kill shit with a spade.

Wealth is another REALLY good one I should do a piece on. Wealth plus type of job is key for defining classes. My parents, as farmers, sink all income into operating expenses, and literally no insurance agencies will insure us because we get hurt and sick so often. We don't have a choice. Then there's the 26 year old high school dropout, with 4 children under the age of ten, and whose husband is a stoned out malcontent- she doesn't have a choice either, really. 401Ks have always been so far out of reach I don't even understand what it means. What does a 401K do anyway?

-Oh yeah. BOCES, and the stigma attached to that. Also community colleges, and now 4 year colleges vs. masters. I love how educational stimga have evolved over the years. Definitely should cover that.

Thanks!