Daily Candy: saving snobby girls from the stank of steerage

Posted at 1:15 PM Dec 03, 2008

By Andrea Grimes

Looking to be talked down to in 200 words or less? Like cliche-driven prose about overpriced non-necessities? Enjoy being reduced to trite gender roles based on consumer trends? Then you're probably already a Daily Candy subscriber, but just in case you aren't, I figured I'd spread the good word.

Today in the D-C travel edition, "chic new bus companies" are touted as the new in way to get from city to city when, presumably, that first class seat on American fell through. Scoffs D-C:

"Take a bus? Really? Snuggle up to a Greyhound crackhead or brave ankle-deep garbage on the Chinatown Express?"

Get it--because poor people who are messy druggies take the bus! I bet they're, like, minorities or something, too. Grodie!

I know taking the bus isn't the most prestigious way to zip around the country, but this blatant snobbery is petty and petulant. Especially coming from a website that considers $295 clutch bags something you might pick up on your way to the grocery store. Granted, the "chic new bus companies" in question sound cool--give me WiFi or give me death--but there's no need to make people who actually have to ride the bus for economic reasons feel bad about it. The whole thing reads a little too much like a movie montage, the one where the rich girl loses her fortune and has wacky adventures trying to live like the regular folk. Soundtrack suggestions welcome--but I'm thinking a Beyoncé "Wheels On The Bus (Go Round And Round)" remix.