I was born and spent decades in the south and have lived in most areas of the country. The south has good and bad people, and like everywhere I’ve ever been the ratios are nearly the same. It’s the posing as morally superior that is so repulsive to me. I’ve certainly been south long enough to recognize phony gentility- that “no need for …
I was born and spent decades in the south and have lived in most areas of the country. The south has good and bad people, and like everywhere I’ve ever been the ratios are nearly the same. It’s the posing as morally superior that is so repulsive to me. I’ve certainly been south long enough to recognize phony gentility- that “no need for that language, bless your heart, aw shucks” passive aggressive phoniness. Same goes for the disingenuous small town shtick about how nice and safe it is there. A large portion of city dwellers fled small town life in terror. Add a small town to typical southern mindset and what you get are mountains of secret cruelties and crimes. I have no interest in giving examples. If I was to do so I’d publish that book.
I was born and spent decades in the south and have lived in most areas of the country. The south has good and bad people, and like everywhere I’ve ever been the ratios are nearly the same. It’s the posing as morally superior that is so repulsive to me. I’ve certainly been south long enough to recognize phony gentility- that “no need for that language, bless your heart, aw shucks” passive aggressive phoniness. Same goes for the disingenuous small town shtick about how nice and safe it is there. A large portion of city dwellers fled small town life in terror. Add a small town to typical southern mindset and what you get are mountains of secret cruelties and crimes. I have no interest in giving examples. If I was to do so I’d publish that book.
Thanks for calling me a phony, I thought I was pretty direct.
Phonyness, directness, and cheap moralizing are not only not mutually exclusive, but often go hand in hand.