Your momma's a pleb!

June 29, 2019 6:29 AM

Sharing some screenplay-worthy highlights from her 3 years with a very "extra" student, author and educator Erica Buddington stans a Stan.
posted by drlith (14 comments total)

"We can't call your mom, because you detonated her" I just lost it.
posted by I-Write-Essays at 6:52 AM on June 29, 2019 [8 favorites]

Also, I don't think it's right to say that Plebeians are the working class. Plebeians were still members in the senatorial and equestrian classes, it's just their families weren't descended from the original founders of Rome, like the Patricians who held that only they were suitable for carrying out certain religious rituals as a result.

One of the big factors that made intermarriage between Patricians and Plebeians possible was that as the republic developed, some of the Plebeian families become more wealthy than the original Patrician families, so it became advantageous for the Patricians to loosen their grip in exchange for getting access to that wealth through marriage.

They were both at the very top of the 1%, though. The difference wasn't wealth, it was religious significance. If you are looking for a social class that's analogous to the working class, that would be the Proletarius, not the Plebeians. Someone descended from George Washington would be a Patrician in the US; Rockefeller would be a Plebian.

Yeah... I've been listening to a lot of Roman history podcasts recently....
posted by I-Write-Essays at 7:00 AM on June 29, 2019 [13 favorites]

My face hurts from giggling. And I loved this from the replies:

"May every Stan find their Miss Buddington."

Indeed.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 7:30 AM on June 29, 2019 [4 favorites]

... and for those such as me to whom stan should not be confused with my neighbor from four doors down, Stan ...

stan
A crazed and or obsessed fan. The term comes from the song Stan by eminem. The term Stan is used to describe a fan who goes to great lengths to obsess over a celebrity.
posted by philip-random at 8:27 AM on June 29, 2019 [2 favorites]

It has also become a verb, meaning “to admire”, as in the link of this post.
posted by Etrigan at 10:02 AM on June 29, 2019 [1 favorite]

And here I thought "stan" was a slightly pejorative term for a country in central Asia.
posted by heatherlogan at 10:34 AM on June 29, 2019 [2 favorites]

My favorite:

I told the advisory students that we'd be watching a movie one day. I already chose the movie, but they started going in once I cued up the Netflix.

"Can we watch Moana?"
"Can we watch Friday After Next?"
"Why do we have to watch something that's PG-13?"

I told them to stop talking over each other and I said we'd be watching the air conditioner if they didn't stop calling out.

We're watching the movie and Stan decided that he's gonna be extra.

He's been sitting at the AC for 15 minutes.

Stan:

"Nah uh! Don't blow that breeze girl!"
"Stop don't go in there! It's cold!"
"Forget Marvel and D.C.! LG makes the best films."
"Looking like I caught a chill! Yeah, I'm buying the soundtrack."

I can't. #humbled

posted by Flannery Culp at 11:14 AM on June 29, 2019 [3 favorites]

Huh. I thought "stan" was a smushing together of "stalker" and "fan."
posted by Navelgazer at 12:08 PM on June 29, 2019

Huh. I thought "stan" was a smushing together of "stalker" and "fan."

Well, that might be where Eminem got it. Though I bet the most important part was that it rhymes with "fan!"
posted by atoxyl at 2:03 PM on June 29, 2019

I made it all the way to "well the art teacher didn't know what she was doing" before falling off my chair.
posted by meinvt at 7:55 PM on June 29, 2019 [2 favorites]

I have to assume from context that Buddington didn't hate this student. Just from the anecdotes, this isn't at all obvious. Everything he says seems like it could either be incredibly disrespectful and antagonizing or "nah man it's just jokes." I guess you had to be there.
posted by chrominance at 12:52 AM on June 30, 2019 [1 favorite]

(though I have no idea where Flannery Culp's anecdote comes from, he doesn't seem like an asshole in that one)
posted by chrominance at 12:53 AM on June 30, 2019

It looks like she deleted one tweet which broke the thread. Go here for part 2.
posted by Flannery Culp at 7:02 AM on June 30, 2019 [1 favorite]

"48 hours. 2 consultants. 3 workspaces. 1 text/call with Stan/Stan’s mom. We have a one-sheeter, series bible, and a pilot script.

Let’s go.

#finallyusingthatenglishdegree
#letsfindthisahome"
posted by Flannery Culp at 5:09 AM on July 2, 2019 [1 favorite]