I got off twitter a while ago, so I lost connection with Titania McGrath. Titania is a breath of fresh air. Here’s a page that shows some of Titania’s best tweets.
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I expect the $h17 to hit the fan by tomorrow. Watched SNL…had to. Knew they were going to do the Michigan hearing. How could they not?
Anyways, on the news segments, Pete Davidson made a joke about the people on Staten Island (he’s a native) whining about not drinking indoors… with a Boston accent and pretending to be from Boston he called the Staten Islanders a bunch of queers. I wonder what will happen…
Hmm. Good question.
My unscientific impression is that if you’re tight with the mean girls, an offense like that will go unnoticed (at least for the time being — they’d keep on file for later use, if necessary), but if the mean girls have it in for you, something like that would be grounds of obliteration.
Alternate theory: there’s something about a Boston accent that is insulating. I have some younger relatives from that area and there appears to be a sense of pride in being rude and obnoxious (like New York, but more overtly anti-social) that might give this a veneer of acceptability. It’s like the way some Twitter types act like the more F-bombs you use, the more insulated you are from criticism because anyone who criticizes you is just an uptight Boomer.
Charles Emerson Winchester III on Mash.
Well, not precisely, though maybe there’s a common root there. I’m thinking of something that is more self-consciously and proudly LOW class, with the harsh, urban Boston accent, not condescending with the Boston Brahmin/transatlantic accent. Maybe it’s two sides of the same coin depending on personal background, though.
And by self-consciously and proudly low class, I don’t just mean “lower class” on the socio-economic scale. I mean “low class” in the lack of social niceties sense, but aggressive about it and proud of it.
I see. There is actually a southern variant of that, where every word seems to say, “You ain’t got no common sense.”
It’s a kind of “plain talk” snobbery.
I see. If being rude is just part of the culture, you don’t take it so personally. It’s like guys ribbing each other in the locker room.
You don’t take it seriously at all, but it still might get on your nerves. You know that there is the possibility of real conversation among adults – outside of the locker room.