No, but very similar to various OC places.

Same, and I disagree with her that women who are very retrograde are using it. The suburban mom set I know is mostly still very against the term. I actually had a friend I like a lot blurt out in the middle of a sentence, I’m not a feminist or anything, but . . . And she meant it in the “I’m not some man-hating…

Could be, although the comments here are asking about Minneapolis and such. I’m in SoCal, where most wealthy suburbs fit this description, at least the ones west of maybe Pasadena.

Ah, interesting. That comports with what I recall of the Marin contingent at college in San Diego years ago. I guess I thought Monterey was too far away from SF to be all that uber wealthy? I know Carmel is ultra rich, but it always seemed more retirees to me. I took my kids there a few years ago and man did we get a…

Nope, SoCal. Are you telling me 40 something moms in Minneapolis are impossibly thin? Tell me more.

Eh, different flavor of the same shit. I do look around sometimes and think, tourists from the midwest or south would die right now if they saw how skinny and muscular this group of 40 something women are.

I would think there are places like that in NorCal, but I hadn’t thought Monterey would be one of them. Is it? I would have guessed Marin or one of those towns. Now, in SoCal it should 100% be set where I live.

Mostly, yes, but my suburb is all impossibly thin white people driving SUVs to Target. And it’s a Nordstrom card. Can confirm on the school quality.

Didn’t Trump babble something to them about water, something to the effect that the drought was fake?

My SIL’s home life didn’t seem very egalitarian. For that brief period, it was all about being the happy homemaker. She once said, in response to a question about whether she had made dinner,“what, you think I feed my husband soap!?” I was like, I don’t know what 1950s lady you’re channeling, but this is legit…

I agree with this, although I’m sure Trump has made his share of anti-semitic jokes in his time (like the racist jokes we know he’s made). The real issue here is this weird reaction he and all the Trumpers have. They’re pissed anyone is talking about racism or anti-semitism at all, because that’s “divisive.” In the…

Is that the same as “modern orthodox?” My SIL was married to a guy who called himself that, and their level of observance shifted a bit from time to time.

OMG Doterra. I know two people who sell it. One is an ultra conservative fundamentalist from Alabama who infiltrated my SoCal neighborhood, and the other is a very damaged woman I know from high school who posts inspirational and self-motivational memes every five minutes on Facebook. I’m gonna stay away from that…

Silly, he would be fine with that. He would raise her to get good grades and go to BYU but get married by age 20. She would then start a lifestyle blog.

Or marry several needy single women. Just sayin.

The syntax does my head in, yes. But mostly I want to grab the couple of people I know who voted for him, all graduate school educated, show it to them, and go, WHAT IN THE FUCK ARE YOU THINKING??!!??? Do you admit he’s insane and senile? Do you want lower taxes this badly?

Yea I saw that. Could be. I wonder if it’s something more innocuous, like someone along the line just convinced Trump that Russian oil is really great and will be the answer to everything— energy, ISIS, white nationalism, whatever. And that folded into his weird, paranoid worldview.

Right? Last I checked, their favorite movie was Red Dawn. And now they’re like, if the KGB will get rid of the Mexicans, it’s all good.

What I don’t get is why they don’t ask themselves, why is Trump so hell bent on helping Russia? We’re supposed to believe he just really wants a “good relationship” with them? That makes no sense and is belied by virtually everything Trump has ever said or done.

I paused my speed skimming at that one, too. I *think* he might mean that there are protesters, but they’re either illegal immigrants or paid by Soros. Or maybe just Democrats, although I don’t know how that helps. It’s hard to translate senile narcissist.