[ctrl-j]

If you are poor, you do not have a higher tolerance.

If you are poor, you have significantly less agency to effect change to remedy your situation - so you have no choice but to tolerate things like these.

A rich person can move, install soundproofing, afford air conditioning to sleep with the windows shut, etc...

A poor person can have interrupted sleep.

[evincarofautumn]

Yup, you have “higher tolerance” to things that have been continually forced on you—doesn’t mean your tolerance is actually higher, just that you’re more experienced at sucking it up.

I distinctly remember the day when I, as a young teenage boy, observed “Huh, the girls in my class are a lot better than the boys at doing work they don’t want to do. The boys complain and try to get out of it, the girls generally just do it whether they like it or not.”

Then I realised—oh, the girls feel like they’re expected to just do it. They don’t feel as entitled to a say in the matter as the boys do, because that’s how they’ve each been socialised.

And then I began seeing parallels everywhere…so that was the moment that set me on the path of social activism, really.