People of Walmart

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by Munchkin03

The thing is, poor people everywhere else in the world DO NOT DRESS LIKE THIS. You don't see beggars in Cambodia dressed like Elvis. You don't see poor schoolchildren in Italy wearing shirts with Nazi Party insignia. For people to say that a website like this is classist is extremely patronizing. No one's dressing like this because they don't have anything else to wear.

If you go back and look at the site, I think you do see something that indicate probable poverty and misfortune rather than just bad taste. Not all of it, but some of it.

It is a class based commentary, predominately, I think, because I think the nature of fashion is to value stuff that looks rich basically. What are we really saying when we describe something as "tasteful" or "elegant"?

The most extremely humorous examples on the site where people are clearly making an effort to achieve a particular look, not so much, sure.

I think you can find pictures of poor people globally wearing crazy stuff. Most of it is random American stuff they've probably gotten from aid groups, and they probably are wearing it because they don't have too many other options.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

I think you can find pictures of poor people globally wearing crazy stuff.

"Bad fashion. On a budget."

I've seen photos of poor people all over the world wearing things that would be considered unfashionable and tacky.

[Munchkin03]

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

I think you can find pictures of poor people globally wearing crazy stuff. Most of it is random American stuff they've probably gotten from aid groups, and they probably are wearing it because they don't have too many other options.

But, that's still different from what the Wal-Mart folks are wearing.

Seeing an old man in Kenya wearing a TriDelt Date Night shirt=he doesn't have anything else to wear because Kenya's a poor as hell country.

Seeing Bubba in Wal-Mart wear a shirt that says "I hate Queers"=he's an ignorant a-hole.

No one (outside of middle school girls) would make fun of someone who didn't have anything else to wear; the creators of the website have said as much--they get pictures that they don't publish because it's clear that the people really are down and out.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by Munchkin03

No one (outside of middle school girls) would make fun of someone who didn't have anything else to wear

Really?

[Munchkin03]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

Really?

Not to their faces.

This whole thing reminds me of the outrage some of my friends had about whythefuckdoyouhaveakid.com. They said it was classist and racist. Dude, it's neither classist nor racist--some people are just going to do stupid shit. I will not make fun of someone for being poor. I will, however, make fun of them for doing stupid shit.

[FHwku]

i don't see the classism. it's a NASCAR #38 limousine.

and i dig mullets. they're the last refuge of a rebel haircut. even the mohawk has lost some of it's badassness because through poseur scenesters and weekend-warriors.

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by Munchkin03

But, that's still different from what the Wal-Mart folks are wearing.

Seeing an old man in Kenya wearing a TriDelt Date Night shirt=he doesn't have anything else to wear because Kenya's a poor as hell country.

Seeing Bubba in Wal-Mart wear a shirt that says "I hate Queers"=he's an ignorant a-hole.

lol lol lol lol lol

Originally Posted by Munchkin03

Not to their faces.
I will not make fun of someone for being poor. I will, however, make fun of them for doing stupid shit.

THANK YOU!!!! And that's what seems to happen at Wal-Mart, at least the ones I've been to. Those t-shirts they sell that I see their customers wearing are as dumb as the people wearing them. Oh, and try standing in a long line at a self service checkout station, all because some moron doesn't know how to use the uscan station (helloooo it talks to you...duh...what part of that don't they get?), so then the line gets longer and longer. So much for speedy check out. It happens everytime, they are SO slow. It's like the wheel is spinning but the hamster's alseep. The other places I go, people don't seem as slow. I avoid Wal-Mart at all cost.

Originally Posted by FHwku

i don't see the classism. it's a NASCAR #38 limousine.

and i dig mullets. they're the last refuge of a rebel haircut. even the mohawk has lost some of it's badassness because through poseur scenesters and weekend-warriors.

lol lol
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