It's not just about the education, but a certain lifestyle. A woman with a few degrees and making $90-120K a year can marry a plumber (without any sort of degree) who makes the same or more, but if we're purely going on stereotypes, she might not get that upper middle class, suburban lifestyle that she's been…

I was at Woodbury a couple of years ago and it's crazy to see that line outside the store. It's as if the Factory store was some sort of cool club. I was at another outlet mall in the US and for some reason, it wasn't clubland. Went in and everything was cr@p and logoed.

That's why I never buy monogrammed Coach bags. I have to admit that I have a few, but none of them have "Cs" all over it. Ewwww.

Natalie Portman is proportionately less thin than most models on the runway (and I'm not saying that only because she's pregnant). Natalie is around 5'3" or 5'4" and probably wears a size 0. Models are about 7" taller and also a 0. In other words, people like Natalie and even Kiera, who's about 3 inches taller, are…

The current FASHION standard is extreme thinness. Models are proportionately much thinner than most Hollywood actresses when height is taken into account.

Once again, isn't this a repeat?

Some of the most ignorant people I've met come from the most diverse parts of the world. A girl I once worked with (here in TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA!!) and from one a pretty diverse part of town (Scarborough) was surprised that my parents didn't have an arranged marriage and that brides in my culture wear white (when…

GWB is like the current Canadian Prime Minister. Stephen Harper thinks he's a westerner when he grew up in Toronto and didn't move to Calgary until he was like 20.

I find that those who didn't grow up here are more likely to be okay with staying at home, while those who DID grow up here only stay home because they're guilted into it or can't afford to live outside.

I've been saying that since BEFORE the economy tanked. And boomers/people born during WWII not retiring isn't helping the glass ceiling break either. But that's a WHOLE OTHER POST.

I was guilted into staying home when I came back from my undergrad. They kept on telling me that I wouldn't be able to have the kind of lifestyle I had growing up if I moved out. Part of it is cultural, I think (traditionally, Chinese people don't leave until they're married). The other part is that they felt that…

I think a lot of the students who go to these schools are not legacies, but first generation to do so. The parents want their children to have good connections, something that they believe can't be done at public school. private school=networking.

Isn't the Prep for Prep program for kids from lower income neighbourhoods? If that's the case, it's highly unlikely that the children of a law school grad would have participated. I don't know about the US prep school system very much, but most of the non-white students at my alma mater applied like the white…

Just because you have one kid at a school doesn't mean the next kid will automatically get a spot (though they may get "priority" over someone without any connections). Why bother getting upset? Anyway, this woman should have kept her mouth shut and her fingers off the keyboard and phone. Blasting these issues to…

I've been hearing a quite a few stories about spouses being abandoned because the foreign half only wanted to come to a developed country.

This is EXACTLY why marriages where one partner is from a foreign country with issues or from developing countries can be verrrrrrrry risky.

WHile I agree that the reporter should have been allowed in the locker room, I don't agree with the anger about Augusta not allowing women members when men can't join say, Curves or the Junior League.

Totally not surprised about the Chinese tourists. Even people who've been abroad for a very long time are interested in lux items if they can afford it. When my husband went to buy a new car, half the people working at the dealership (a luxury brand) spoke Chinese of some sort (mostly Cantonese, based in…

I live in the core myself and I think many of us who live here are more "sophisticated" and "exposed" than those who are in the 'burbs. My family is Hong Kong Chinese and seriously, in parts of the 905 suburbs, you can get by without seeing anyone who isn't Chinese or speaking any English. These people are more…

What's very interesting is that the women in the photos are all very plain-looking - not very made-up and not at all like the movie stars of the time.