quiddities and agonies of the ruling class - a rolling new york times thread

As for a man’s cheating, “that’s a thing that girls let slide, because you have to,” said Emily Kennard, a junior at North Carolina. “If you don’t let it slide, you don’t have a boyfriend.”

haven't read the article, but this stands out for me cuz: recent conversations with a younger friend of mine (who's now crashing at my house due to ~lady troubles~) would anecdotally suggest that casual infidelity is, like, a thing. at least in some social circles? he doesn't condone it (nor is it why he's on my couch), but he's like "yeah, loads of my friends have drunkenly cheated on their SOs but, aside from a few blowouts, most of them are still together"

i'm no prude, and if ppl are into polyamory or w/e that's cool, but i'm genuinely sorta surprised at this? btw the cheating was 50/50, w/r/t the gender of the cheater.

Gay ppl do not exist outside of stories exclusively about gay ppl, get with the program.

xp

interviewing college kids about relationships always makes for a+++++++++ hilarious articles

lol @ a "fashion merchandising major" complaining abt not meeting a lot of guys @ college

he doesn't condone it (nor is it why he's on my couch), but he's like "yeah, loads of my friends have drunkenly cheated on their SOs but, aside from a few blowouts, most of them are still together"

this is roughly true of my social circle i think? at least the idea that one-off cheating isnt enuff to break-up a relationship

I like how not one girl they photographed matches their lead - "they slip on tight-fitting tops, hair sculpted, makeup just so."

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/images/photo/2010/02/07/CAMPUS0207/33149833.JPG

"allll mine"

Jayne Dallas, a senior studying advertising who was seated across the table, grumbled that the population of male undergraduates was even smaller when you looked at it as a dating pool. “Out of that 40 percent, there are maybe 20 percent that we would consider, and out of those 20, 10 have girlfriends, so all the girls are fighting over that other 10 percent,” she said.

Perhaps the girls should lower their standards or try dating someone who's not a student?

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/images/photo/2010/02/07/CAMPUS0207/33091918.JPG

why can't these girls find dates????

it's esp awkward cuz at least one of these known (and repeat offender) cheats routinely gets a little too frisky w/me at parties, but her boyfriend just kinda keeps his distance, looking glum. siren.gif

(btw frisky here just means like obv drunk and flirty, no funny business)

If any of these girls is considering spending more time with Mr. Expos Cap & Kerchief here, they deserve everything they get.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/02/07/fashion/07campusspan-1/07campusspan-1-articleLarge.jpg

college dudes only dating chicks w/ real majors

xp - It's nice that Vice Magazine finally made it to North Carolina.

He's asking them if they've ever seen this hilarious thing called Dos and Don'ts.

would anecdotally suggest that casual infidelity is, like, a thing. at least in some social circles?

I don't think this is "a thing" as in a trend that might, say, make it's way to the fashion and style section of the NYT so much as just how some people act sometimes.

Gay ppl do not exist outside of stories exclusively about gay ppl, get with the program.

We'd better take this discussion to the gay thread.

i meant more like a thing that's OK and common practice with some ppl

dunno where else to put this so here's as good a place as any ... gail collins sons david brooks in a Congressional gridlock beef (see first three paragraphs)

gail collins playfully tosses cashews at david brooks as rome burns

hater

hater

lol didnt mean to post that twice

BUT IM GLAD IT DID

Femivores

AAUUUUUUUUGGGHHHHh

E's response was "Who are they trying to kid? they are just trying to strap politics to being a pre-60s housewife"

how quaint

Seriously

Conventional feminist wisdom held that two incomes were necessary to provide a family’s basic needs

Never mind inflation, stagnating wages and rising house prices

It's all just a matter of philosophy, you see

She has a couple of friends (or friends of friends) who have decided to keep a couple of chickens - so she interviews a female farmer - deliberately equates the two - is this 600 words yet?

As I rustled up a quick dinner of whole-wheat quesadillas and frozen organic peas, I found my thoughts drifting back to our conversation, to the questions she raised about the nature of success, satisfaction, sustenance (continues)

where are the "stay-at-home dads" to make this slightly more convincing

"femivore"? what the hell

a person who eats women duh

read it as fernivore at first, though that might be taking Nutrition Nazism a bit far

http://www.firebaugh.com/FDA/Courses/CS.120/Week.13/Lect25.www/FernGully1.JPG

SIGH

At least it's not in the fashion and style section.

lol at "(continues)"

"All of these gals — these chicks with chicks"

*arglefargmurderstabstabstab*

Yes - yes she went there

Here's a good companion piece:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/fashion/14moms.html?ref=style

Is there any chance that moms will ever get overthemselves and stfu?

^^^^^ILXmoms excluded from this because I mean I don't see sunny or nath acting like a bunch of mommybloggers.

Awesome - that even includes a classic self-promotion-masquerading-as-disclosure statement -- A+

Could only tolerate first 1/2 of femivore(??) article. Hey, my mom canned peaches (and tomatoes, and grape jam, and strawberry jam, and applesauce, and spaghetti sauce, and...) because we were POOR, OKAY? Also she grew corn and sunflowers and all our other vegetables for a while there.

She never went for chickens, personally, tho I know I've said before that we knew people who had ACTUAL FARMS who kept chix. God, people.

Whoa-oa here she comes
Watchout girls she'll chew you up
Whoa-oa here she comes
She's a femivore

With No Jobs, Plenty of Time for Tea Party
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/us/politics/28teaparty.html

“The founding fathers pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor,” he said. “They believed in it so much that they would sacrifice. That’s the kind of loyalty to this country that we stand for.”

He blames the government for his unemployment. “Government is absolutely responsible, not because of what they did recently with the car companies, but what they’ve done since the 1980s,” he said. “The government has allowed free trade and never set up any rules.”

i instantly slapped my own forehead

those ppl aren't ruling class, they just identify with them

buncha joes the plumber

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/magazine/28fasttrack-t.html?ref=garden&pagewanted=all