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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

to ask, can you all just make it clear whether you are WC or MC?

331 replies

bejeezusWC · 29/05/2012 11:04

so I know whether I value your opinion on any given topic, or whether I will just humour you

I am working class, just so you know. Although 'I pass' for MC, so I may be moving amongst you undetected. be afraid

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dazzledsazzle · 29/05/2012 11:44

WC in disguise ... and working in totally MC corporate world where i now see it as an asset/shamelessly use my WC'ness to my own advantage if necessary/in the doo dah: while playing on the fact that i 'pass' for MC!

Hippymum89 · 29/05/2012 11:50

Have you nothing more important to worry about?
No idea what class I am.... went to private school, joined army as a squaddie at 18, became a single mum on benefits at 24, now a registered nurse (professional) living in owned ex-council house.
What does that make me? Seriously, I'm intrigued Smile

bejeezusWC · 29/05/2012 11:53

i dont worry about it

i am proud of being WC. It is very much part of my identity

I cant tell you what you are. What do you id as? it doesnt sound like its important to your identity

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lollilou · 29/05/2012 11:54

Neither, I disagree that people should be sterotyped into brackets of class.

FreudianSlipper · 29/05/2012 11:55

i am a classy

that is all you need to know

geegee888 · 29/05/2012 11:55

Went to a slightly rough state school with low exam results, council house background, but somehow came out middle class. Even the teachers at school used to joke about it, my schoolmates didn't bully me but gave up trying to convert me as I was "too posh". It was unsurmountable. Couldn't help it.

HandMadeTail · 29/05/2012 11:56

I have no class at all.

loopyluna · 29/05/2012 12:04

I was brought up in council house by working single mum. Grandparents paid for private school. Uni, moved abroad, good job, nice house, kids in private school, vote socialist, shop in lidl, clothes from gap.
The French don't talk about class as such anyway but in the posh town near my village, all the people look the same -RL polos for the men, bobbed hair and chanel dresses for the women and little boys in knickerbockers (yes really!)

mayorquimby · 29/05/2012 12:06

UMC

cory · 29/05/2012 12:07

No, totally confused. Half our living room is taken up by books and the other half by a whacking big fish tank, which I was informed on another thread is the ultimate in chaviness.

bejeezusWC · 29/05/2012 12:08

slipper Grin

lou i agree people shouldnt be stereotyped
but people can choose what ever criteria they like to form their identity

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sugarice · 29/05/2012 12:14

Is it only on MN that class is important? In RL where does the matter come up and how does it affect our decision making?

MissFaversham · 29/05/2012 12:14

Working Class and wishing I could win the damn lottery Grin

bejeezusWC · 29/05/2012 12:17

cory really? about the fishtanks?

cant abide the word chav

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bejeezusWC · 29/05/2012 12:28

sugarice it doesnt really come up in RL IME

But I do notice a difference often between my MC friends and me/my WC friends...in terms of 'approach' to life/problems etc I think

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Pekka · 29/05/2012 12:29

I'm a foreigner! We are in a class of our own.

Sparklingbrook · 29/05/2012 12:29

I have no idea. Confused

TantrumsAndBalloons · 29/05/2012 12:30

I too am WC but could be mistaken for MC

I may well be both, I have a whacking great fish tank, but an untidy house, apparently WC houses are always clean?!?
MC DCS wear odd sock, which mine do

TheUnMember · 29/05/2012 12:31

Dunno, I grew up on a council estate in Liverpool and watch Jeremy Kyle but I went to private school and am married to a professor. Confused

blueglue · 29/05/2012 12:32

I am middle class.

For some reason, this seem to be something I should be ashamed of on MN.

exexpat · 29/05/2012 12:37

I know we don't like tickers and stuff on here (too reminiscent of that other website) but so that you can tell instantly whether or not to agree with a poster, there is obviously a need for something underneath each and every post to make a few of the following things clear: working v middle class; type of school DCs attend; working or non-working mother; supermarket preference; number of items of Boden in wardrobe; and of course, most vitally, favourite biscuit.

I'm sure MNHQ tech bods could rustle up something suitably informative and sparkly by this afternoon?

letseatgrandma · 29/05/2012 12:38

I think we need definitive MN criteria so we are quite clear on what makes us MC or WC...

  1. Size of televisual equipment
Noqontrol · 29/05/2012 12:39

WC, but now send children to private school and wander around the middle classes undetected (so far)

LST · 29/05/2012 12:39

I'm WC and proud. I don't want to have all these MC worries now do I? As WC have none of there own of courseHmm

Blatherskite · 29/05/2012 12:39

Ooh, a thread about a thread. How very lower class.

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