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[quote=Anonymous]12:42 here.  I think she is an admirable women, doing her best to do all the right things, and a highly sympathetic character.  I only pointed all of that out to say (as has been validated by other posters) that if you are poor, no matter what people will find something to nitpick and victim blame for you, especially right wingers looking to validate their worldview.  You have to be 100% perfect, otherwise people will nitpick your choices to the nth degree, and it isn't really fair at all.  I agree poor people are people too.  If you got a large tax refund that you use 90% of to pay the bills, and you haven't treated yourself to an extravagance in a long long time, what, really, is one 87 dollar hair salon appointment over the course of a year.  It's not like she does that all the time, and people have to do something to keep going and distract themselves from the dreary day to day of treading water.  Also, in that part of the country, people don't take their animals to the vet or stress about them the way DCUMers do.  The cat wasn't even spayed--I doubt it ever saw a vet.  Cat food and litter isn't that expensive.  I thought getting rid of the dog was responsible, and it was sad to see her kids upset.

But sadly, people like to nitpick, and I doubt anyone who has an Ayn Randian world view of the poor as lazy is really going to be swayed by this movie.[/quote]

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