On of my favourite scenes in Hugh Lofting’s Doctor Dolittle books, a series by no means necessarily socially progressive or always right-on, is one in which the doctor’s sister catches him in one of the unsavoury parts of London while she’s out slumming. There’s a great moment between the two where the doctor’s wearing filthy […]
Tag: poverty porn
‘She can’t be poor! She has a cell phone!’
In a society where misery policing is commonplace and sometimes actively encouraged, people feel endlessly free to comment on the lives of poor people. And everyone seems to have their own personal rubric of what makes someone ‘poor’ versus ‘not poor.’ The GOP, for example, has declared that having a refrigerator in your house means […]