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A lot of it is racial; it’s much more common for people who grew up in other countries to dry their clothes outside, so it quickly gained a stigma due to being seen as “lower class” and “not our kind of people”. tl;dr people are awful. As usual.
oh, I don’t doubt that– but around here, where many neighborhoods are very monochromatic white with little recent immigration, it’s classist too. I don’t know when electric and gas clothes-dryers became de rigeur (a quick Google suggests the 1950s) but anyone who didn’t promptly adopt one was looked down on for being low-class and unsophisticated. My mother had one, but she was a hippie, and also we lived in the middle of nowhere so nobody’d see it. You see them out in rural areas still, but in the suburbs, everyone here is so class-conscious.
I think it’s almost been long enough that to people of my generation and younger, they’re sort of a quaint curiosity. But the homeowners’ association rules and such have fossilized the previous generation’s view, that they’re low-class; that’s probably compounded by race considerations in areas that are less segregated than mine, I’m sure.
A lot of it is racial; it’s much more common for people who grew up in other countries to dry their clothes outside, so it quickly gained a stigma due to being seen as “lower class” and “not our kind of people”. tl;dr people are awful. As usual.
oh, I don’t doubt that– but around here, where many neighborhoods are very monochromatic white with little recent immigration, it’s classist too. I don’t know when electric and gas clothes-dryers became de rigeur (a quick Google suggests the 1950s) but anyone who didn’t promptly adopt one was looked down on for being low-class and unsophisticated. My mother had one, but she was a hippie, and also we lived in the middle of nowhere so nobody’d see it. You see them out in rural areas still, but in the suburbs, everyone here is so class-conscious.
I think it’s almost been long enough that to people of my generation and younger, they’re sort of a quaint curiosity. But the homeowners’ association rules and such have fossilized the previous generation’s view, that they’re low-class; that’s probably compounded by race considerations in areas that are less segregated than mine, I’m sure.
