When defending class boundaries gets serious, muhfukka:

Providing an example of the harm that may be done through symbolic gentrification, Halnon cited Wooden and BlazakÂ’s study of San Francisco gutter punks who took drastic measures to defend against "frat boys and pro athletes" who invaded their "symbolic turf" by appropriating body piercing as a style. One group of gutter-punks responded by cutting off their pinky fingers.

"The extremity of such action may be understood as measure of the extreme value of symbolic territory for the socially and economically disenfranchised," notes Halnon.

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