Caucasian Refuse Lad
I have been wondering a lot lately if I am White Trash or not. I am not ever sure what that term really means, but it's like some bad art: you know it when you see it, but it's hard to explain why or what it is. White Trash just is.
Courtney Love is white trash, but I don't think Brittany Spears is. Christina Aquilera is Trash, but she's not 100% white. She's more like trashy Latina tart. Would Sheryl Crow be white trash? I like her a lot, but I'm afraid she is. Rosie O' Donnel? Lesbian White trash. Eminem? Oh yes.
(In defense of Sheryl, whom I love, which makes me a Caucasian refuse lad, she does manage to represent pretty accurately a White Trash sensibility, in an artistic form, which transcends White Trash-ess. John Cougar Mellencamp? He sentimentalizes, glorifies, romanticizes White Trash, and he of course, is White Trash.)
Going by this, then we could say white Trash has to do with being dirty or gaudy, in bad tastes, and not caring, or thinking it marks you as unique and interesting.
I have been hunting for apartments lately, and though I resisted, I have looked at some places that are in those large apartment rows where hundreds of complexes sit side by side. It's depressing. A lot of White Trash out there. I admit, I am afraid that if I rent there, then I become White Trash again - if I ever was White Trash. I walk through these places internally thinking, people must look at this man and think, ah, yes, he is one of us.
Some White Trash characteristics:
+ Not wealthy, though some people with money are White Trash, if they have a motor boat they hitch up to their truck and put a master craft sticker on their back windshield and drive to rivers or deltas to "party" all weekend then come home all sunburned, hung over, and maybe with a black eye or some new venereal disease.
+ Lives in an apartment in a large complex.
+ Loud in public places. I mean loud as in, they make enough noise so other people can hear them, so they intrude on the sound space of those around them, and look at the people they know they are disturbing to see if they are being noticed. This applied also to clothing, cars, anything that makes a lot of noise because the Trash Person wants to be noticed, even if it is with scorn.
+ Men: Walk around the neighborhood by their house without a shirt, perhaps no shoes, maybe holding a can of beer.
+ Women: Wear short shorts (regardless of weight) and tube tops and blue eye liner.
+ Has or attends a lot of barbeques.
+ Has cable TV and really, really is considering getting satellite or digital cable.
+ Listens to, likes, and buys CD's of modern pop-country music.
+ Has a great number of clever stickers on their car.
Next Post: More on why I might be pure White Trash.
I have been wondering a lot lately if I am White Trash or not. I am not ever sure what that term really means, but it's like some bad art: you know it when you see it, but it's hard to explain why or what it is. White Trash just is.
Courtney Love is white trash, but I don't think Brittany Spears is. Christina Aquilera is Trash, but she's not 100% white. She's more like trashy Latina tart. Would Sheryl Crow be white trash? I like her a lot, but I'm afraid she is. Rosie O' Donnel? Lesbian White trash. Eminem? Oh yes.
(In defense of Sheryl, whom I love, which makes me a Caucasian refuse lad, she does manage to represent pretty accurately a White Trash sensibility, in an artistic form, which transcends White Trash-ess. John Cougar Mellencamp? He sentimentalizes, glorifies, romanticizes White Trash, and he of course, is White Trash.)
Going by this, then we could say white Trash has to do with being dirty or gaudy, in bad tastes, and not caring, or thinking it marks you as unique and interesting.
I have been hunting for apartments lately, and though I resisted, I have looked at some places that are in those large apartment rows where hundreds of complexes sit side by side. It's depressing. A lot of White Trash out there. I admit, I am afraid that if I rent there, then I become White Trash again - if I ever was White Trash. I walk through these places internally thinking, people must look at this man and think, ah, yes, he is one of us.
Some White Trash characteristics:
+ Not wealthy, though some people with money are White Trash, if they have a motor boat they hitch up to their truck and put a master craft sticker on their back windshield and drive to rivers or deltas to "party" all weekend then come home all sunburned, hung over, and maybe with a black eye or some new venereal disease.
+ Lives in an apartment in a large complex.
+ Loud in public places. I mean loud as in, they make enough noise so other people can hear them, so they intrude on the sound space of those around them, and look at the people they know they are disturbing to see if they are being noticed. This applied also to clothing, cars, anything that makes a lot of noise because the Trash Person wants to be noticed, even if it is with scorn.
+ Men: Walk around the neighborhood by their house without a shirt, perhaps no shoes, maybe holding a can of beer.
+ Women: Wear short shorts (regardless of weight) and tube tops and blue eye liner.
+ Has or attends a lot of barbeques.
+ Has cable TV and really, really is considering getting satellite or digital cable.
+ Listens to, likes, and buys CD's of modern pop-country music.
+ Has a great number of clever stickers on their car.
Next Post: More on why I might be pure White Trash.
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