Comments | archaeomom8: that privilege meme

archaeomom8

that privilege meme

Dec 31, 2007 19:45

Bold the true statements.

1. Father went to college (finished 8th grade)
2. Father finished college
3. Mother went to college (graduated from high school)
4. Mother finished college
5. Have any relative who is (was) an attorney, physician, or professor (I want to be the professor dammit)
6. Were the same or higher class than your high school ( Read more... )

working class, meme

Comments 8

egretplume January 1 2008, 08:08:15 UTC

I did this in my own journal, but I wanted to nod in agreement about the downsizing of resources for young people. I agree with the reasons you give but also think that it is partly due to fear of litigation -- no one wants to be liable for other people's kids anymore ( ... )

blackbyrd2 January 1 2008, 16:43:36 UTC

Regarding your last paragraph; Isn't it interesting how media affects our perceptions? Statistics show that most child sex crimes are actually committed not by strangers, but by relatives and friends of the family.

archaeomom8 January 2 2008, 05:32:38 UTC

Yeah, this is a fact that the media has shoved under the carpet. I have to admit that my younger teens went through a phase of wanting to watch "To Catch a Predator." Seems like it was tied in to how much we all use the Internet around here. That phase seems to have passed now. Now they are hugely into the Foodie shows and cooking all the time. Now THAT I can get behind! ;)

archaeomom8 January 2 2008, 05:28:56 UTC

Babysitting, I hadn't thought about that one. My older brother babysat me sometimes but I was mainly what would be called a latch-key kid today. I remember feeling kind of grown-up to have my own key of access to let myself in after school. And, oh, yeah - I remember that whole thing of babysitting for people who had big houses and all this amazing stuff*stuff*! One family had an incredible collection of books, or so it seemed to me at the time ( ... )

gillyp January 1 2008, 13:37:36 UTC

This doesn't really work for non-Americans; it's pretty culturally specific. I tried to Anglicise it but it really doesn't work ( ... )

archaeomom8 January 2 2008, 05:37:31 UTC

I want to live where you do. Even if things are less socialist-minded now - you are way ahead of us.

I'm not sure why the camp thing was on there. I suppose there were (are) camps that are so expensive that they are a class thing. In my case the church camp was made available to me and there didn't seem to be any distinction between rich kids/poorer kids as to who went. And I completely forgot about Girl Scouts until Katuah posted about it. It was a great equalizer . More on that later.

katuah January 2 2008, 03:54:32 UTC

as you might imagine, our lists would look very similar ( ... )

archaeomom8 January 2 2008, 05:49:07 UTC

You are really jogging my memory. I had forgotten about comic books. I used them too, to help me learn to read. I was able to get my dad to run me to the closest library also. That became a haven for me...especially once I learned to ride my bike there ( ... )