Saturday, July 12, 2008

Sarah's Selections

Very disheartening.

Get out your tissue if you're a dog lover.

Really great editorial on Appalachia and stereotypes. "Favorite part: A decade ago, John Waters (you know him as the director of "Hairspray") said that the expression "white trash" is "the last racist thing you can say and get away with." That sums it up, all right. You can't even make fun of fat people anymore—unless they're from Appalachia."

And while we're on the subject of stereotypes and their effect. "It turns out you don’t want to sound southern, either. Although pretty imprecisely estimated, it is almost as bad for your wages to sound southern as it is to sound black, even controlling for whether you live in the south."

Lessons from the master.

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