maxalex
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I draw your attention to this recent Washington Post op-ed by David Coggins in which he makes the case for wearing tailored clothing on airplanes:
It's worth scrolling (trolling?) through the hundreds of comments, most of them oozing bile, to wit:
"You look like a complete moron sitting there in your sport coat."
"Pure snobbery."
"Reeks of elitism."
"What a bizarre and elitist little twit."
Many comments were variations of “nobody cares what you wear”—a common self-justifying trope that is objectively false, since strangers have only a few ways of judging you (and they do), one of them being your attire.[1]
One unwitting reader accused the author of being “overtly classicist,” although Coggins does not identify himself as a scholar of the Parthenon marbles.
I was not surprised by the pushback to wearing tailored clothing on an airplane (or anywhere else these days; I got eyes). What amazed me was the deep vein of anger this rather innocuous column opened. Apparently anyone who wears a sport coat and corduroy trousers is now a soul-crushing elitist conniver bent on world domination, despite that the true elites--corporate CEOs (oligarchs?) whose companies pay essentially no taxes--wear hoodies.
Well. We have entered the end times of...something?
[1] By the same token most people will claim they are “not influenced” by advertising, an assertion which if true would render the global $700 billion advertising industry a colossal waste of corporate resources.
It's worth scrolling (trolling?) through the hundreds of comments, most of them oozing bile, to wit:
"You look like a complete moron sitting there in your sport coat."
"Pure snobbery."
"Reeks of elitism."
"What a bizarre and elitist little twit."
Many comments were variations of “nobody cares what you wear”—a common self-justifying trope that is objectively false, since strangers have only a few ways of judging you (and they do), one of them being your attire.[1]
One unwitting reader accused the author of being “overtly classicist,” although Coggins does not identify himself as a scholar of the Parthenon marbles.
I was not surprised by the pushback to wearing tailored clothing on an airplane (or anywhere else these days; I got eyes). What amazed me was the deep vein of anger this rather innocuous column opened. Apparently anyone who wears a sport coat and corduroy trousers is now a soul-crushing elitist conniver bent on world domination, despite that the true elites--corporate CEOs (oligarchs?) whose companies pay essentially no taxes--wear hoodies.
Well. We have entered the end times of...something?
[1] By the same token most people will claim they are “not influenced” by advertising, an assertion which if true would render the global $700 billion advertising industry a colossal waste of corporate resources.
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