G.M. Kidder
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The Wrong Kind of Poor
The inability for large portions of the developed world’s populations to understand the actuality of those living in poverty having nothing or no one to help them, had once appeared to me to be a defect of privileged circumstance. The past ten years has changed the sympathetic opinion once held for the practically ignorant, to the conclusion they are willfully arrogant. It isn’t ignorance of the realities in poverty that fuels the societal idiot to make asinine proclamations such as, “If they don't want to be poor, why don’t they get better jobs?” It is narcissism that pollutes and avoids serious conversation. The statement (almost) always comes from someone who was fully supported by their parents until the end of adolescence, then presented with a high paying job right out of college due to various connections and recommendations that have no concern with ability. While these overgrown toddlers continue to dominate the highest paying jobs, it is my experience they are the least problematic people affecting the upward mobility of the working class and poor.
By G.M. Kidder6 years ago in The Swamp
Sexism: Not Just a Boy's Club
You've made it to the second interview, assured that this is nothing more than a preliminary meet and greet with your new administration. You feel confident, celebratory, and ready to get through this last step and get back to work. Two minutes into this interview, you realize that this person sitting in front of you decided before you even walked into the room that you were not going be hired. Your experience and education far surpasses hers and you are well-liked by everyone else who has met you in this office—this may have injured you, but your gender, well, that was the kill shot.
By G.M. Kidder6 years ago in Viva