AIBU to think there has been far too many threads about class on mumsnet recently?

[Ginfordinner]

Why has there been so many class related threads on here lately?
I have read before that mumsnet posters are obsessed with class, but have managed to miss the threads about class, but over the last few days there have been so many.

After having read them I realise that I must be class blind, or that I just don't care what social class people are because I judge them on things like kindness, empathy, friendliness and respect, not how they hold their cutlery or how much they earn or what kind of TV shows they like.

For context I suppose that we would be considered middle class, but both DH and I have working class backgrounds.

Yes, they worried about how much money they had relative to their neighbours. But now, mostly because of rocketing house prices, they cannot give their children the lifestyle that was afforded to them as children and I think it rattles their identity as 'middle class'.

And yet you start another one.

What are you on about - there is literally a thread on here every week that descends into class war bullshit, whether it’s actually started off being about class or not.

My fav thing is when people say “oh I’ve only seen class discussed on MN, doesn’t exist in the real world” well quite. In the real world you’re busing living it, making heavy handed judgements about people for being posh or poor or middle class or whatever.

Can you tell I’m not British??

@GeordieGreigsButtButtZoom serve twigs and canal water made me laugh aloud!

@LEELULUMPKIN

And yet you start another one.

Asking why there were so many. Not an unreasonable question don't you think?

Caring about universities and job prospects may be a middle class obsession but it does matter. I’m a lawyer and trained at a big firm in the city. These firms receive 1000s of job applications each year and cut potential applicants down by degree, a-level results and university. If you don’t attend a Russell Group uni, you are unlikely to get a look in. I suspect the same is true for the accountancy firms and many other graduate positions. The middle classes know this; the working classes less so and it has a
real impact on social mobility.

I don't disagree with you about would be lawyers choosing universities carefully @WinniePig. It wouldn't be sensible to study law at Leeds Beckett, for example, instead of Leeds University if you were aiming high.

I think I didn't word it very well. It was the assumption that all students want to study to be a lawyer/accountant/banker/work in the city in the first place, which I have seen on some of the higher education threads.