class tourism and other stuff

Ok, this is blatant cheating: last night, I read Davka's scathing review of THE NAKED TRUTH ABOUT STRIPPING. Her arguments reminded me of the arguments against books like Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickled and Dimed, a book I hated for a) being a piece of voyeuristic trash, and b) my ability to identify with the narrator, and simultaneously wanting to beat her to a bloody pulp.

I wrote on Davka's blog:

this isn't the only kind of slumming we (rich kids with newly minted college degrees) are encouraged to do - we're told to go, take time off, have some fun in the slums, and then take perspective like some kind of Teach for America party favor and go off to enjoy the other perks of our privilege that were available to us the whole time

anger, too. anger, too, Davka. When you write that book, I will be the first in line to buy it, and tell all my friends to do the same.