I remember one of my first experiences of blatant classism vividly. I was 17, on holiday in Turkey with my mum, explaining to a woman she had made friends with that I was interviewing for a job at New Look when we returned home. ‘You’re going to want to tone down your accent then,’ she told me. ‘You’ll never get a job talking like that.’
But, having climbed up the career ladder at Liverpool City Council, she experienced upward social mobility by the time I was a teenager, raising me with a sense of financial stability working class families simply aren’t afforded. I’d be proud to be working class if I was, but it’s just not something I can claim to be anymore.Made In Chelsea’s Sophie Hermann
That’s how he ended up with Sophie Hermann anyway, making his Made In Chelsea debut this week by surprising her on her birthday. But it was the conversation before he arrived that felt oddly familiar to me. ‘I’ve met this man, his name is Tom Zanetti, I’m not sure if you’ve heard of him. He’s a DJ,’ Sophie tells Ollie Locke and his husband, Gareth.
I’ve had posh men assume I’m uneducated, detail how hilarious it would be to take me home to their even posher parents and act completely baffled by the fact I’ve never been in a physical altercation. According to them, the mere sound of my voice means I’m an aggressive, unintelligent criminal who wouldn’t know decorum if it slapped me in the face – or should I say, I slapped it in the face, since apparently being scouse means you’ll knife someone at the first sign of conflict.
Now, much of this we can shrug off at the time, laugh and likely never go on that second date, but over the years, it all builds up. Last summer, I dated a relatively posh guy virtually. He was funny, emotionally mature and seemed to have his life together, but watching his social circle through his Instagram, I couldn’t get rid of this uncomfortable feeling that we weren’t relationship potential.
she shouldn’t apply for a particular college at Oxford University because as a scouse woman, she couldn’t compete with ‘posh boys from Eton’.My mum tells me of time she’s attended award ceremonies in London on behalf of Liverpool City Council, only for the host to tell the room of UK’s city councils ‘there are people from Liverpool in, watch your handbags and wallets everyone.
so what, live with it.
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