Reviews tagging 'Ableism'

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich

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This book is trash. An upper-middle class white lady pretends to be poor for one month at a time, has a car and a get-out-of-trouble free card. Need a prescription? Call up your private doctor. Low on rent money? Dip into your savings. On top of that, while she pretends to be poor, she really, really judges the poor people around her, especially women. She makes classist, racist, ableist, and fatphobic comments left and right. I wasn't expecting this to be good but I dug in to read a banned book that had topical appeal; I ended up rage-reading it, taking notes on every messed up thing this lady said. Only a few useful bits of information were sprinkled in. And - this was like "poor 101" in the same way that the Barbie movie is "feminism 101." For somone who can relate to being financially unstable, none of this is news. This is written for wealthy people who are also looking down on poor people. This book is gross.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Classism, Racism, and Ableism