{"id":324,"date":"2017-03-05T21:19:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T02:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/?p=324"},"modified":"2017-03-05T21:19:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T02:19:41","slug":"barbara-you-are-not-a-survivor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/barbara-ehrenreich\/barbara-you-are-not-a-survivor\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbara, You Are Not A Survivor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;m reading this book, I&#8217;ve noticed a couple of infuriating times where Barbara falsely equates herself to a war hero or in some way pats herself on the back for &#8220;surviving&#8221; a day in the life of something\u00a0she willingly chose to do in contrast to the people who are all but forced to live in these conditions. I&#8217;ve compiled a list of quotes again to best voice my frustrations.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>&#8220;&#8216;Hardly anyone comes back after the first day.&#8217; I feel powerfully vindicated -a survivor- but it would take a long time, probably months, before I could hope to be accepted into this sorority&#8221; (31).\n<ul>\n<li>First off, I strongly dislike how she refers to\u00a0her coworkers as a &#8220;sorority&#8221;. What they do to make ends meet has nothing in common with the privilege inherently associated with any college sorority. I am also against how making it\u00a0a single of day working in a diner\u00a0in any way makes Barbara a &#8220;survivor&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;In real life I am moderately brave, but plenty of brave people shed their courage in POW camps, and maybe something similar goes on in the infinitely more congenial milieu of the low-wage American workplace&#8221; (41).\n<ul>\n<li>I shouldn&#8217;t even have to say this, but no. The experience of a PRISONER OF WAR has very little in common with Barbara&#8217;s situation. It is an incredibly different set of circumstances, especially for Barbara, who again, willing chose to do this.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Much of what happens next is lost in the fog of war&#8221; (47).\n<ul>\n<li>I think this is a totally rational opinion, but Barbara&#8217;s experience is very much removed from anything to do with war. I find her\u00a0continuous analogy between her experiences and \u00a0those of war incredibly\u00a0off-putting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;m reading this book, I&#8217;ve noticed a couple of infuriating times where Barbara falsely equates herself to a war hero or in some way pats herself on the back for &#8220;surviving&#8221; a day in the life of something\u00a0she willingly chose to do in contrast to the people who are all but forced to live [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barbara-ehrenreich"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}