Meta snobbery is every bit as nauseating as plain old reverse snobbery – is this the worst and most leadránach take of the year so far?
by July111969
Meta snobbery is every bit as nauseating as plain old reverse snobbery – is this the worst and most leadránach take of the year so far?
by July111969
28 comments
Cant I just enjoy the sport?
Do you think they post on Reddit, moaning about people moaning.
Ah shur a good moan here means less of a moan in real-life.
I don’t know who this kind of article is written for. It’s just faux-intellectual nonsense.
Flip I have a deadline. What opinion can I have about something significant at the moment
Post the article if you want us to talk about it, slagging off a jpg is boring.
Life’s hard being well off guys.
We have a two tier society in Ireland, where adject poverty is analogous to getting slagged.
“Your valid criticism of something I like makes me sick”
Not read the article but something about that picture of Justine McCarthy is quite unsettling, like a trainee Bond Villain struggling to contain her excitement at feeding her first incompetent henchman to a Shark.
🔁🔃
Forgetting about rugby for a second. But I do believe that there is a bit of a double standard that goes on where it’s perfectly okay and open game to take the piss out of middle class Dublin. But it’s classist and snobby when it’s the other way around.
Both are classism in my opinion.
I know people are going to downvote me for this but I don’t care. It’s true.
Really bizarre how people can’t let other people just enjoy rugby. Especially those actively rooting against the national team because of the school they went to.
She used to be a decent journalist/commentator. Just drivel for the last few years.
I really don’t see anyone slagging off the team. It’s the D4-esque obnoxious fans and/or Jamie Heaslip that seem to get the slagging. And rightly so.
Haven’t read the article so can’t comment on it. But the snobbery thing is true “Did you hear how those people talk, dragged up scrotes”, “Did ya’s hear the D4 accent on that one, posh fucker”. It genuinely does go both ways and it’s ridiculous.
Let’s not get divided. It’s all of us vs Jamie Heaslip.
She’s the face of a woman who’s just had a mouthful of wasabi thinking it was mushy peas
Been a fun rugby world cup to watch so far
Not like the Irish Times to grossly overestimate or simply make shit up to get clicks on an opinion piece.
I wouldn’t describe it as an elite sport I have to say, certainly not in the way it was decades ago. There are fans from all over the country, and walks of life, at rugby games and hoping the rugby team does well.
In Munster rugby is largely just seen as a sport but when you go to Dublin it takes on this supposed upper class identity where a lot of people take pride in not liking the sport or players, always seemed a bit odd to me but I’m not sure I’d describe it as “reverse snobbery” lol
This is the kind of issue where if you notice yourself worrying about it, that’s a signal that you need better issues to worry about.
I thought we were all kind of united in wanting our national team to do well at a world cup.
I mean I don’t know why you wouldn’t want to root for them. We cheered on the women’s football team earlier this year, even when they were knocked out. Different sport and now we’re less supportive?
I actually don’t think anybody dislikes the team and most hope they do well. It’s the culture around it and the fawning saps in the media that can make supporting them feel like a chore
Had to Google what Leadránach means and it’s now part of my vocabulary, thanks OP. What an amazing word.
What a load of bullshit. Rugby is watched by huge amounts of people from all backgrounds in ireland.
TBH this is a very Dublin centric approach. Being from Munster there is just very little comparison in terms of what she thinks is the case and what actually is.
That said I know there are soccer fans who are anti rugby I just put it down to the poor lads having never really known what success is like as a fan. Unfortunate but true.
Coupled with that there is a weird political element (small enough) that is quite anti Rugby. Tend to be Shinners usually start off rating about Ireland call and then move on to rant about some other s***e takes they have about rugby. Again quite ironic given it the most successful all island sports team we have and always has been.
Pfff… the only thing worse than reverse snobbery, is reverse reverse snobbery. I completely look down (up? back??) my nose at that!
I support the rugby team as much as the next person but I’m not going to lose any sleep over it. This however, is a bullshit take that reads like “Please stop being mean to the elite, it’s hurting their fweelings”