I am secretarialist?
I submitted my poem to my mother (does this count guys?).
She said she liked the poem a lot but:
"I think you should take out the reference to secretaries. It seems snobby and classist. There are dopes with no taste at all levels of society, and I know some pretty smart secretaries. You were one when you worked at Temple [Medical]."
I meant to use these menial-job workers in the poem to illustrate the bankrupt-of-real-meaningness and consequential superficiality such lives entail (this automaton numbness something I have indeed known from first hand shit-job experience). But do I just come off as being a big snob?
She said she liked the poem a lot but:
"I think you should take out the reference to secretaries. It seems snobby and classist. There are dopes with no taste at all levels of society, and I know some pretty smart secretaries. You were one when you worked at Temple [Medical]."
I meant to use these menial-job workers in the poem to illustrate the bankrupt-of-real-meaningness and consequential superficiality such lives entail (this automaton numbness something I have indeed known from first hand shit-job experience). But do I just come off as being a big snob?
posted by siri lakshmi at 7/08/2005
4 Comments:
that is very funny. i want to write some poems and submit them to your mom. she could be our ghost-critiquer.
Well I think my issue with it was probably the same one your mom voiced, but she said it better. Plus, we make images with hott secretaries on them, so how can we then use them as "drones" in poems. They usually have more brains than their bosses, and I am a glorified one.
My question is how'd you know that they were secretaries? I suppose your assuming someone was a secretary could be seen as snobbishness of a kind, though I'd call it something else.
secretary vision:
the ability to see everyone in the vicinity and imagine them as secretaries?
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