White trash? Those are quite clearly hippie bumper stickers. White trash would have a #3 emblem, a "My other car is a tractor" and something hawkishly patriotic.
The Peeing Calvin sticker. Or praying one ... your choice.
A true "white trash" vehicle would not be a Nissan Sentra, either - I'm thinking a beat up Chevy truck with the bumper and tailgate held together with stickers and held on with bailing wire or some ugly home welding job.
I've always seen that term used pretty consistently, and never to refer to hippies.
Illiterate, alcoholic, meth-using, mean, stupid, on public assistance, unwashed, child-abusing, willfully living in filth, dishonest, lazy...
It's very similar to the worst stereotypes of black people. I suspect that's the origin of the "white" in the name.
The stay-at-home mom blogger must be coming from somewhere that "white trash" means something very different, and where it's acceptable to use in polite company. I hope she doesn't also toss around the N-word with other mothers at her childrens' play-dates.
Does white trash mean something different in Massachusetts? I don't attribute any of the attitudes displayed on the ass of that car as representing your stereotypical white trash sentiments.
But there is a distinctly recognizable masshole character represented by that bumper. What would you call that type? (be creative)
Or one of the gray-haired Cambridge hippie women who attend every protest.
Or one of the younger Cambridge wives, who isn't moving to Brookline or Newton yet because she wants their children to go to public school "in the city" for all the diversity experience.
So out of the 2+ dozen or so stickers the person has on that bumper, did he/she not consider the most important sticker...your plate registration sticker?! If that photo was taken recently, then the person hasn't paid for their car's registration for close to 4 years now!
I honestly doubt she is a even from Massachusetts. Her twitter feed says she lives in "South Shore, MA" which is not so much a place as a geographic area. So she lives some where along route 3, further south than Quincy and further north than Plymouth.
She does have a boutique college worth of followers, and is on the CBS short list for lifestyle blogger. Who does she know that the rest of of don't? I wonder where she found the picture? The car has an expired sticker, and the cops are kind of hard on that. No idea about the kind of person who owns the car? Maybe a trust fund baby in Cambridge who hates not having to work for a living and has a tiny bit of white guilt. Not enough to actually do anything, but enthusiastic about putting bumper stickers on their car.
No idea about the kind of person who owns the car? Maybe a trust fund baby in Cambridge who hates not having to work for a living and has a tiny bit of white guilt. Not enough to actually do anything, but enthusiastic about putting bumper stickers on their car.
From what I've seen, the kind of people who do the over-the-top car stickering like that also walk the walk.
A few stickers, who knows. A dozen stickers, yeah, they're different and don't care that people think they're eccentric, and there's a good chance they've structured their day-to-day lifestyle around those beliefs.
I have a different theory: people who adopt talk show memes like "people who talk about doing some positive in the world are just being hypocrites trying to make themselves feel good" are actually just trying to make themselves feel good despite doing even less positive in the world.
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Confused Stereotypes
By J. Dunne
Thu, 08/18/2011 - 9:31am
White trash? Those are quite clearly hippie bumper stickers. White trash would have a #3 emblem, a "My other car is a tractor" and something hawkishly patriotic.
Don't forget
By SwirlyGrrl
Thu, 08/18/2011 - 10:03am
The Peeing Calvin sticker. Or praying one ... your choice.
A true "white trash" vehicle would not be a Nissan Sentra, either - I'm thinking a beat up Chevy truck with the bumper and tailgate held together with stickers and held on with bailing wire or some ugly home welding job.
White trash
By anon
Thu, 08/18/2011 - 11:13am
I've always seen that term used pretty consistently, and never to refer to hippies.
Illiterate, alcoholic, meth-using, mean, stupid, on public assistance, unwashed, child-abusing, willfully living in filth, dishonest, lazy...
It's very similar to the worst stereotypes of black people. I suspect that's the origin of the "white" in the name.
The stay-at-home mom blogger must be coming from somewhere that "white trash" means something very different, and where it's acceptable to use in polite company. I hope she doesn't also toss around the N-word with other mothers at her childrens' play-dates.
prima facie evidence of trashiness
By TroubleMaker
Thu, 08/18/2011 - 1:33pm
I think starting a blog called "Masshole Mommy" would be a greater indicator of trashiness than being a political bumper sticker collector.
"white trash"?
By John-W
Thu, 08/18/2011 - 9:51am
Does white trash mean something different in Massachusetts? I don't attribute any of the attitudes displayed on the ass of that car as representing your stereotypical white trash sentiments.
But there is a distinctly recognizable masshole character represented by that bumper. What would you call that type? (be creative)
Could be
By anon
Thu, 08/18/2011 - 11:26am
JP lesbian hippie.
Or one of the gray-haired Cambridge hippie women who attend every protest.
Or one of the younger Cambridge wives, who isn't moving to Brookline or Newton yet because she wants their children to go to public school "in the city" for all the diversity experience.
Out of all those stickers...
By LifeStar
Thu, 08/18/2011 - 10:02am
So out of the 2+ dozen or so stickers the person has on that bumper, did he/she not consider the most important sticker...your plate registration sticker?! If that photo was taken recently, then the person hasn't paid for their car's registration for close to 4 years now!
There's no way it was taken
By mike
Thu, 08/18/2011 - 10:08am
There's no way it was taken recently. There's no Obama or Hillary stickers.
I think the owner ran out of
By got2trotlibrarian
Thu, 08/18/2011 - 10:16am
I think the owner ran out of room prior to those stickers being available.
It is old...that plate is on
By AlertNewEngland
Thu, 08/18/2011 - 11:31am
It is old...that plate is on a Ford now.
Masshole Mommy
By Flyover Fig
Thu, 08/18/2011 - 10:05am
I think Masshole Mommy should:
1. Learn the difference between "white trash" and "blissed out hippie".
2. Put some skulls and hearts on her website.
3. Learn what the criteria for "trophy wife" are.
4. Put some skulls and hearts on her website.
White Trash?
By Matt_J
Thu, 08/18/2011 - 10:17am
If there are no Truck Nutz then its not white trash.
America's trash is a Massachusetts liberal's treasure
By O-FISH-L
Thu, 08/18/2011 - 11:20am
America's trash is a Massachusetts
liberal'sprogressive's treasure.You need to travel more
By SwirlyGrrl
Thu, 08/18/2011 - 12:27pm
For every such vehicle I have seen in Cambridge and environs, there are probably three or four like it in Austin, Berkeley, etc.
Come to think of it, that could have been my late mom's car - except it looks like it has seen a car wash in its lifetime.
Come to think of it, that
By Haviland
Thu, 08/18/2011 - 7:11pm
No wonder you're a freakshow.
LOL
By cybah
Thu, 08/18/2011 - 12:55pm
I think I know that car!
I doubt she is a true Masshole
By fibrowitch
Thu, 08/18/2011 - 10:01pm
I honestly doubt she is a even from Massachusetts. Her twitter feed says she lives in "South Shore, MA" which is not so much a place as a geographic area. So she lives some where along route 3, further south than Quincy and further north than Plymouth.
She does have a boutique college worth of followers, and is on the CBS short list for lifestyle blogger. Who does she know that the rest of of don't? I wonder where she found the picture? The car has an expired sticker, and the cops are kind of hard on that. No idea about the kind of person who owns the car? Maybe a trust fund baby in Cambridge who hates not having to work for a living and has a tiny bit of white guilt. Not enough to actually do anything, but enthusiastic about putting bumper stickers on their car.
You don't know any of those people?
By anon
Thu, 08/18/2011 - 10:20pm
From what I've seen, the kind of people who do the over-the-top car stickering like that also walk the walk.
A few stickers, who knows. A dozen stickers, yeah, they're different and don't care that people think they're eccentric, and there's a good chance they've structured their day-to-day lifestyle around those beliefs.
I have a different theory: people who adopt talk show memes like "people who talk about doing some positive in the world are just being hypocrites trying to make themselves feel good" are actually just trying to make themselves feel good despite doing even less positive in the world.