Growing up poor, I actually have a propensity for buying things for myself when I have a little extra $, because when you're growing up poor, if you don't spend any extra money you have RIGHT AWAY on something you want, you KNOW that it's going to disappear into something like "food" or "electric bill" or "medical…

Girl, it definitely sounds like you're at least a little poorer than you want to admit to yourself. I've noticed with friends of mine from college that are in similar situations as you that they don't see themselves as "low wage earners" so much as "temporarily not having enough money to live how I grew up" and that's…

Ha! I remember in college, a friend (white, upper-middle class) and I were talking about money, and I was mentioning how I was thinking about applying for food stamps because I was eating ramen while I waited for my financial aid check, and I had $350 and change to pay on my credit card, but was expecting a $200 check…

Everyone wants to call themselves "middle-class," though. Even people who aren't, because the U.S. is such a classist country. If you think of "middle-class" as people who can afford new cars, have a home that they can comfortably make payments on every month, and have savings for their kids to go to college (which is…

Exactly.

Not really what I was getting at.

They are a very nice family! Very trailer trash, but the mom tells her kids that they're beautiful at any weight, encourages their pursuits, and they all accept and appreciate one another. My family is more "Madea's Big Happy Family" but "mean and passive-aggressive" instead of "happy."

It's not the first time I've heard the "once you're poor, even when you're not poor, you still act like you're poor" idea, but it always resonates with me how true it is. If you come from a middle-class family, you might be poor but see yourself as "broke" and act like you're just broke and this is a temporary…

hot* doorman!

I like it, but I like the "this is a glimpse of what this person's life looks like" genre of television. The show is very character-focused instead of story-focused, and the characters are white, upper-middle class, and spoiled. There are some insightful moments in the show, and I think Lena Dunham's neurotic humor is…

This part really bothers me: "there was no evidence that Jordan Johnson knew that he had sex without consent" when used to describe a "not guilty" verdict from a juror.

Looks like an outdoor playpen.

I don't know that it's really slut shaming to say no one will want to live with someone who is a shitty person, is going to bring all of that into PUBLIC AREAS, and maybe will shit on you if you piss her off and she gets the chance, if you've seen her doing this with other people.

B''R means son of/daughter of.

Wait, what? He called someone a "faggot"? Then complained when Azealia Banks said it to him? Pfffft.

Some of those large posteriors and tiny bike seats are making me wince HARD. That's gonna hurt later.

"extremely young" is subjective, and Jezebel is, overall, a subjective and not objective news source. I'm 28 and I think 21 is extremely young. Some would say your "extremely young" at 18 is not so, because an 18 year old is an adult. Your comment is just kind of pedantic.

At least they had the decency to leave the car at the scene, so they can be traced. And hopefully they ran a couple red light cams, too. Assholes.

He will be OK. If this little boy http://www.mosheholtzberg.org/ is any indication, Orthodox Jews follow the "it takes a village" approach to childrearing.

Damn right! Too much interaction is right! I said "hello" to everybody, asked if they needed anything to eat, and then I excused myself and went in the room to watch the Lorax with our son because I can't take all those people asking me questions and talking and being social.