Here's what he said. For the fucking RECORD, I come from a mixed class background. My father was middle class. My mother was lower-class shit poor. My mother did not have her own underwear or clothes or bed or room, but shared with her (nine other) siblings. My parents divorced and I lived with my mother. My father was not legally obligated to support me by the results of the divorce agreement and because he is an asshole, he DID NOT. Do not anyone dare say that I should somehow have managed to get him to pay. He threatened to starve my dog when I was ten.
My first year of college, my family's entire household income was six thousand dollars. Yes, that's right. SIX FUCKING THOUSAND DOLLARS. I used some of my school loan book money to buy groceries for my mother because she did not have any food in the house.
When I was in college, yes, that super duper expensive college Mr Fucking Will Shetterly, I had one pair of underwear that I washed out every night before I went to bed, and if I forgot, then I wore it anyway. And if it didn't dry, I wore it wet.
When we lived in the duplex, we had rats. The landlord didn't care. The city didn't care. You want to know how to get rid of rats if you have no money? Mix chlorine bleach and ammonia together and pour it down their holes. Of course, it creates a deadly gas, but hey. You do what you gotta do. That's the kind of life I led.
That's lower class.
FUCK YOU. FUCK YOU. FUCK YOU.
How DARE YOU COMPARE US, you little trust fund baby.
I worked my ass to the bone, I went gray in my twenties, I never slept, I worked every fucking holiday, every fucking vacation to get that education. Also, you're still banned.
Learning Micole’s class made me wonder about the class of some of my other critics, so I did a couple minutes of googling to see what they’d said on the subject. The answer, not surprisingly, is very little. There's
veejane a graduate of Choate, the prep school I was kicked out of (for being caught drinking and, as I was told, being suspected of dealing drugs—my grades were around a B+, as I remember). There’s
icecreamempress , who describes herself as being from a “very upper-middle-class white WASP family.” There’s
vom_marlowe , whose grandmother and mine (on my father’s side) could share hardship stories, but whose college cost $30,000, so if that came from family, vom_marlowe is, at least, as privileged as I was.
My first year of college, my family's entire household income was six thousand dollars. Yes, that's right. SIX FUCKING THOUSAND DOLLARS. I used some of my school loan book money to buy groceries for my mother because she did not have any food in the house.
When I was in college, yes, that super duper expensive college Mr Fucking Will Shetterly, I had one pair of underwear that I washed out every night before I went to bed, and if I forgot, then I wore it anyway. And if it didn't dry, I wore it wet.
When we lived in the duplex, we had rats. The landlord didn't care. The city didn't care. You want to know how to get rid of rats if you have no money? Mix chlorine bleach and ammonia together and pour it down their holes. Of course, it creates a deadly gas, but hey. You do what you gotta do. That's the kind of life I led.
That's lower class.
FUCK YOU. FUCK YOU. FUCK YOU.
How DARE YOU COMPARE US, you little trust fund baby.
I worked my ass to the bone, I went gray in my twenties, I never slept, I worked every fucking holiday, every fucking vacation to get that education. Also, you're still banned.

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Do you want me to find him and beat within an inch of his life with his own shoes? Because, for you, I'd do it for free. Normally that kind of job costs.
I love you.
*hugs*
Also. Dude. Wearing second-hand clothing/sharing a room with siblings/living in a small house? That is not lower-class. Lower-class is going hungry because you have no money for food. It's living in a car because you can't even afford a roof over your head. Having your 'basic expenses covered', as he put it, means you are comfortably middle-class. Oh boo-hoo, he washed dishes for spending money! Obviously he knows the trials and tribulations of the truly poor! Give me a fucking break. What a douche.
Yes. So angry.
Not you, dear, but this moron who's got an axe the size of the university in question to grind.
WHAT THE FUCK.
Could he possibly get more revolting? I'd love to be able to say "no," but sadly, he keeps surprising me. What a tool.
You oughta let me have first punch at him. That way, he'll also have the shame of being decked by a 50-year-old woman with a heart condition.
>hugs!!<
Also, hee!
Who seems to think you're a dude.
Whatta genius?
Oh, he's a SFF writer. I think he's more famous now for being a jerk on the internet.
And yeah, I don't know where he got the idea I'm a guy. I just... *scratches head*
I wouldn't be surprised.
I know someone (mostly electronically) who has been friends with him & his wife for years, and my aquaintance swears they're really lovely people, and yet... yikes. How is that possible? Internet Derangement Syndrome strikes again.
Hopefully you can see past your anger and your sounding chamber of support to realize a supposition is not a claim: "...if that came from family..."
Note the key word in his statement, at least if you're done swearing, misrepresenting claims, calling people sexist, and threatening violence. (But given the shameful display I've seen so far: here's to being sworn at and banned!)
IDS indeed.
That is an interpretation, certainly.
However, I've seen Will argue enough that I feel that it was a statement against my character, yes.
I'm sorry.
The more I read of what he's written, the more I wonder why anyone who actually cares about him hasn't locked up any means he might have for contacting the Internet and threatened, in a totally loving interventional toughlove sort of way, to smash his fingers the next time he touches a keyboard connected to the Internet. Because every time he writes, the message that appears between his lines is, "LA LA LA I HAVE NO PANTS PLEASE ADMIRE MY MIGHTY ASS WHICH I HAVE EXPOSED HERE JUST FOR YOU!"
I was hoping this shit was over, but well, people still coming to the race fail.
That's what I call derailing the conversation. When someone calls you on your racism you can always appeal to some supposed privilege they have over you even if it wasn't mentioned in the conversation and has no problematic connotations (you know, it isn't like some random white person calling Indigenous people on "the sexism of their culture!!" or something like that).
And you know. Shetterly and class. Don't these people get a clue?
It's just their little dodge to dealing with real people and real criticisms of things they've said.
And they'll just keep going on because they have to defend the house of cards that is their belief that they're "fighting the good fight" or something, while other people are hustling to make it day to day.
Or not be attacked by some vicious hate group that's looking for the closest target...