"You can just"

[firecat]

About providing food for your family when you don't have a lot of money, and the thoughtless advice that people sometimes give if they don't know much about a difficult problem you have, especially if they give the advice using the adverb "just" (with the "it's so simple" connotation).

http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2011/08/31/you-can-just/

Comments

[firecat]

I switched from being the second kind of person to being the first kind of person. So I signal-boost essays like this in the hope that maybe they would help another person make that switch.

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

Thanks, it's good to know that it can happen!

[mama-hogswatch.livejournal.com]

It can. It did with me. I grew up well-to-do and couldn't understand WHY poor people WASTED their LIMITED money like they did.

'Course the Vimes Boots Theory of Economic Unfairness (http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/vimes) explains it pretty well, but I had learned a bit before then.