Class-whammied is one of those things, actually. I mean while intersectionality means I can't talk about it properly in the context of this fic, in terms of the source even though Esca wasn't really working class, he was upper class come down in the world through fortune of war, nevertheless he was closer (eg in terms - especially! - of the attitude of Placidus to him) to my personal experience than a lot of other characters in the fiction of my working-class childhood, in that he was a role-model rather than a servile thing who could only be raised by being helped up by his superiors (see eg The Family From One End Street and other patronising crap).
It's something I've been thinking about a lot, recently (as per my recent post on Sherlock - specifically why fanfic writers who - as per the example under discussion - take the trouble to be well-researched and apologetic while getting race wrong, are completely oblivious when being objectionably patronising on matters of class.)
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Date: 2015-06-09 08:21 pm (UTC)It's something I've been thinking about a lot, recently (as per my recent post on Sherlock - specifically why fanfic writers who - as per the example under discussion - take the trouble to be well-researched and apologetic while getting race wrong, are completely oblivious when being objectionably patronising on matters of class.)