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Pretty sure it’s because she sounds like an aristocrat, and no one is surprised by an obnoxious rich dickhead being into a light spot of animal cruelty?

It’s a needless prejudice to assume that because of a characteristic beyond a persons control that they will be a certain way. Their name is something they were given/inherited and like race or gender does not determine how someone will behave.

These kinds of conscious or unconsciousness biases say more about the person who holds them than the person they are pre judging. The generalisations from some posh people are cunts to all posh people are cunts doesn’t hold up.

I remember when people often assumed a double barrelled name was a posh indicator though these days it can also be something used to disrupt the patriarchal notion of a wife taking their husbands name.