Re: [*FSFFU*] genres, etc. (+ popular culture, back on-topic)

From: Pat (mathews@unm.edu)
Date: Sat Dec 06 1997 - 15:31:56 PST

On Sat, 6 Dec 1997, Heather MacLean wrote:

> >
> Sorry, didn't mean to be patronizing in the slightest--I just thought that
> one of the very components of lower class status was being less educated and
> hence, having a lower reading level.

        Nonsequiter alert! Being less educated and having a lower reading
level do not, in these times, have that much relationship to each other.
A lot of readers are either self-taught or taught by a relative, friend,
etc before they see the inside of a school. And on an SF list )fprget
which one!) we went round and round about reading - and hiding our novels
behind Dick & Jane - while Teach was plowing thru Dick & Jane. And there
are PhD physicists who boast of haveing never cracked a book that didn't
have mathematical tables in them.

        Nor does a lower class origin mean either a lesser educational
level OR a lesser reading level. Ask any old time Socialist who is still
out there in the neighborhoods organizing.

Patricia (Pat) Mathews
mathews @unm..edu

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