Even if camp has a history of being looked down upon (particularly in the mid-20th century), that view is a bit outdated as postmodern artists have long incorporated camp and kitsch into those same elitist contexts that previously rebuked it.
Art history and shifting attitudes towards camp aside, it doesn’t seem like the context of Vivian using a descriptive term like camp to point out the almost excessive artifice in Elon Musk’s made up stories is intending to denigrate the lower classes, even if for some people “camp” carries some classist associations.
It is good to be sensitive to classist attitudes, but it seems a bit weird to call it out in this context, especially considering the power dynamic of the context where Vivian, the victimized trans daughter, is standing up to her father, Elon Musk, literally one of the richest people in the world.
Isn’t calling someone or something “camp” classist and elitist?
Even if camp has a history of being looked down upon (particularly in the mid-20th century), that view is a bit outdated as postmodern artists have long incorporated camp and kitsch into those same elitist contexts that previously rebuked it.
Art history and shifting attitudes towards camp aside, it doesn’t seem like the context of Vivian using a descriptive term like camp to point out the almost excessive artifice in Elon Musk’s made up stories is intending to denigrate the lower classes, even if for some people “camp” carries some classist associations.
It is good to be sensitive to classist attitudes, but it seems a bit weird to call it out in this context, especially considering the power dynamic of the context where Vivian, the victimized trans daughter, is standing up to her father, Elon Musk, literally one of the richest people in the world.
camp /kămp/ noun