Fat is not socially acceptable for affluent women, but affluent men can be a bit overweight (20-30 lbs.) without paying a social penalty for it. I know quite a few affluent couples where the wife is a skinny minnie (and works very hard to remain so) while the husband is a bit heavy (and couldn't care less about it).

I don't like a beer gut, but I do like guys who are sturdy & buff rather than skinny. Maybe it's because I'm petite myself and the cavegirl in me wants a guy who can protect me?

Charlotte spoke to my romantic side, Miranda to my cynical side. Samantha is that slutty sorority sister who entertained you with her shenanigans that you would never in a million years actually do yourself. Carrie was just self-absorbed and annoying. I stopped watching after she refused to marry Aidan.

At Stanford, high schoolers could enroll for college credit in the same classes that undergrads took in the summer. I took a chem course between my freshman and sophomore years and there were a bunch of high school students in it.

My local branch of Cal State went from accepting 2 in 3 applicants to rejecting 2 in 3 because of budget cuts. So a LOT of kids in my neck of the woods who were expecting CSU to be their "safety" school had to find a different "safety". And a lot of them who had expected CSU to be their "within range" school, suddenly…

My local branch of Cal State went from accepting 2 in 3 applicants to rejecting 2 in 3 because of budget cuts. So a lot of kids who expected CSU to be their "safety" school, suddenly didn't have that as an option. And a lot of kids who expected CSU to be their "within range" school, suddenly had it go to "reach".

Many Mediterranean ethnicities have olive skin, but they're still white. Katniss was not described as having "caramel" skin or any other descriptor that would make me think biracial.

Katniss has GRAY eyes and her mom/sister are blonde with blue eyes, so I'm not sure how you come up with anything but white for her. I always pictured her as looking kind of Mediterranean, like the Italians, Greeks, and/or Portuguese I grew up with. Not JLaw, as awesome of an actress as she is.

Baking is a hobby of mine, so one time I baked a chocolate cake from scratch for my now-hubby because I saw a recipe in some magazine and thought it looked yummy.

My first job out of college was through a temp agency and only paid $1.50 more than the minimum wage at the time. I worked hard, did well, and used the reference from my supervisor to land my second, slightly less shitty job. Lather, rinse, repeat until I had worked my way up into a junior executive position by age…

No, I don't think you pass up the shitty entry level job. I think you take it, and then whine endlessly about how it's beneath you. I hear these whines CONSTANTLY from Millennials I know. Whereas previous generations of 20somethings understood the necessity of paying one's dues and that it was up to them to earn their…

Nope, you Millennials aren't my kids (my oldest is 10, so all 3 of them are the post-9/11 generation). You are my whiny, spoiled, overly entitled youngest brother, brother-in-law, and their friends. Whereas Gen Xers like me understood that we'd have to start in a shitty entry level job, pay our dues, and earn our way…

My husband and I are both from Irish Catholic families so even leaving out most of our extended family, we still had a hard time keeping the guest list to 110. I got a lot of flack for not allowing +1's for single relatives & friends, but if I didn't have the cash to invite 2nd cousins whom I'd seen multiple times per…

Back when I was an employed mom, I always hated when sanctimonious SAHM's started talking about the "sacrifices" they made to be home with their kids. It was always something that I was ALREADY DOING and it still wasn't f*****g enough. I never heard anyone say something along the lines of "we decided to go without…

I don't think it's so much that fewer people are having kids at all, but rather than those who do, are choosing to have 1 instead of 2, 2 instead of 3, and 3 instead of 4+. Most of my friends and relatives are "one and done" and pretty much the only ones who have 3 or 4 had twins (or triplets! conceived naturally, no…

I've Catholic and know hardly any families with more than 2 kids. We're seen as having a "large" family because we have 3. We always planned on having 4, but our 3rd child has high-functioning autism and we wouldn't have the financial or emotional resources to deal with a child more severely disabled than her. If…

Exactly! I guarantee that virtually ALL of these "single ladies buying on their own in the Bay Area" had a shitload of financial support from their well-off families, either to pay for their college (and likely grad school as well) or to come up with the down payment, or both.

Seriously! we couldn't afford to purchase a home until we were in our mid-30's, had been married for 11 years, and had 3 kids. It took us that long to pay off student loans and save up the 20% down.

He's supposedly a closet case. If he were liberal, he'd just be open about it and be the darling of the MSM & blogosphere. But since he's conservative, he's got to keep his double life.

Yes, fishnets are still worn. I rented a car last weekend and the girl (she looked to be 22 MAX so "girl" is the appropriate term) who worked the counter was dressed in a business suit and fishnets. Ay-yi-yi.