Where does this mom stereotype live?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ok, guess where I live. I like to lie around on the couch eating Chipotle and watching the Real Housewives or Project Runway. I work full time and make stupid money for the pointless but enjoyable work that I do, as does my husband. Thanks double-Ivy education, for the good income and those awesome art history classes! I'm not sure I believe in God but I'm hopeful, and if I didn't have to work I'd spend my days reading (I like Edith Wharton and stuff set in Ireland and lately Alexander McCall Smith), and yapping with friends. I'd like to think I'd do good works if I won the lottery, but I'd probably mostly write checks because I secretly think I'd be fairly useless at swinging a hammer or teaching a refugee how to read -- best leave that to the professionals. I only like to watch movies that end happily ever after. I always vote Democrat even though I want to kick their sorry incompetent asses half the time. I adore my kids and like to scratch their backs and read them Harry Potter while drinking Diet Coke. I think the Diet Coke will do me in but I'm addicted. I'm a little overweight (see above re. Chipotle) and my sister says my jeans should be darker, but I do wear makeup for work, although I can't figure out how to make it stay on my face past noon. I like talking to people and someday I'd like to stand on the Great Wall of China. I secretly wish I could be on a radio talk show modeled after Charlie Rose. I love my mom to pieces. I have credit card debt that no one would suspect, but only because I helped out a deadbeat relative. My husband is kind of a geek because he plays fantasy baseball, but I don't care because he also cooks and does the laundry. My station wagon is 9 years old and filthy because I let my kids eat crap when I pick them up at the end of the day.

I would guess a little further out in the 'burbs, but not too far. Maybe Falls Church, Vienna, or Fairfax?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is so off. I live on a side street of Rockwood Pky (Spring Valley), went to a top 10 liberal arts college, drive a 10 yr old Mercedes station wagon, don't shop new money designer stores (it looks tacky when people can see your label), and even though I have a nanny I stay at home and raise my kids. I've never been to OBX, we tend to summer further up north and I'm pretty much par for the course in my social circle.

These families with leased Range Rovers and no money in the bank at the end of the month or no trust funds for their kids and thus will have to apply for financial aid or send them to a large state school are comical.

then what does the nanny do?

With kids you need all the help you can get. The nanny is a great resource, every family should have one.

[Anonymous]

Here's another one:

Mom: Grad degree, professional job, WOHM, not Ivy league but good schools.
Dad: Grad degree, top 3 university.

2 kids. Whole family bilingual, but not immigrants. Established neighborhood, no huge houses. No major displays of anything.

Clothing: Ralph Lauren/Brooks Brothers/Theory/Tahari
Cars: Volvo, Audi SUV, BMW.
Nanny.
Private school for kids. International vacations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's another one:

Mom: Grad degree, professional job, WOHM, not Ivy league but good schools.
Dad: Grad degree, top 3 university.

2 kids. Whole family bilingual, but not immigrants. Established neighborhood, no huge houses. No major displays of anything.

Clothing: Ralph Lauren/Brooks Brothers/Theory/Tahari
Cars: Volvo, Audi SUV, BMW.
Nanny.
Private school for kids. International vacations.

Showoffsville?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's another one:

Mom: Grad degree, professional job, WOHM, not Ivy league but good schools.
Dad: Grad degree, top 3 university.

2 kids. Whole family bilingual, but not immigrants. Established neighborhood, no huge houses. No major displays of anything.

Clothing: Ralph Lauren/Brooks Brothers/Theory/Tahari
Cars: Volvo, Audi SUV, BMW.
Nanny.
Private school for kids. International vacations.

Showoffsville?

Is that close to Potomac?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's another one:

Mom: Grad degree, professional job, WOHM, not Ivy league but good schools.
Dad: Grad degree, top 3 university.

2 kids. Whole family bilingual, but not immigrants. Established neighborhood, no huge houses. No major displays of anything.

Clothing: Ralph Lauren/Brooks Brothers/Theory/Tahari
Cars: Volvo, Audi SUV, BMW.
Nanny.
Private school for kids. International vacations.

Close-in Bethesda.

[Anonymous]

23:49 - My guess:
Used to live in AU Park, now lives in Bethesda.

[Anonymous]

10:54 Burke if they are American military. Arlington, Falls Church, McLean south of Rt. 123 if they are State Dept, AID or Peace Corps

If they are European or South American at World Bank, Inter American Dev Bank, Embassy (esp. Military Attache offices): Arlington, McLean, close in Great Falls, Bethesda, Chevy Chase

If they are Middle Eastern, East Asian, African: Great Falls, Oakton, Vienna, McLean, Alexandria, Annandale, Fairfax (near GMU one spouse can be an adjunct prof.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ok, guess where I live. I like to lie around on the couch eating Chipotle and watching the Real Housewives or Project Runway. I work full time and make stupid money for the pointless but enjoyable work that I do, as does my husband. Thanks double-Ivy education, for the good income and those awesome art history classes! I'm not sure I believe in God but I'm hopeful, and if I didn't have to work I'd spend my days reading (I like Edith Wharton and stuff set in Ireland and lately Alexander McCall Smith), and yapping with friends. I'd like to think I'd do good works if I won the lottery, but I'd probably mostly write checks because I secretly think I'd be fairly useless at swinging a hammer or teaching a refugee how to read -- best leave that to the professionals. I only like to watch movies that end happily ever after. I always vote Democrat even though I want to kick their sorry incompetent asses half the time. I adore my kids and like to scratch their backs and read them Harry Potter while drinking Diet Coke. I think the Diet Coke will do me in but I'm addicted. I'm a little overweight (see above re. Chipotle) and my sister says my jeans should be darker, but I do wear makeup for work, although I can't figure out how to make it stay on my face past noon. I like talking to people and someday I'd like to stand on the Great Wall of China. I secretly wish I could be on a radio talk show modeled after Charlie Rose. I love my mom to pieces. I have credit card debt that no one would suspect, but only because I helped out a deadbeat relative. My husband is kind of a geek because he plays fantasy baseball, but I don't care because he also cooks and does the laundry. My station wagon is 9 years old and filthy because I let my kids eat crap when I pick them up at the end of the day.

I would guess a little further out in the 'burbs, but not too far. Maybe Falls Church, Vienna, or Fairfax?

I would guess somewhere south of Fairfax. Or north of Rockville.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ok, guess where I live. I like to lie around on the couch eating Chipotle and watching the Real Housewives or Project Runway. I work full time and make stupid money for the pointless but enjoyable work that I do, as does my husband. Thanks double-Ivy education, for the good income and those awesome art history classes! I'm not sure I believe in God but I'm hopeful, and if I didn't have to work I'd spend my days reading (I like Edith Wharton and stuff set in Ireland and lately Alexander McCall Smith), and yapping with friends. I'd like to think I'd do good works if I won the lottery, but I'd probably mostly write checks because I secretly think I'd be fairly useless at swinging a hammer or teaching a refugee how to read -- best leave that to the professionals. I only like to watch movies that end happily ever after. I always vote Democrat even though I want to kick their sorry incompetent asses half the time. I adore my kids and like to scratch their backs and read them Harry Potter while drinking Diet Coke. I think the Diet Coke will do me in but I'm addicted. I'm a little overweight (see above re. Chipotle) and my sister says my jeans should be darker, but I do wear makeup for work, although I can't figure out how to make it stay on my face past noon. I like talking to people and someday I'd like to stand on the Great Wall of China. I secretly wish I could be on a radio talk show modeled after Charlie Rose. I love my mom to pieces. I have credit card debt that no one would suspect, but only because I helped out a deadbeat relative. My husband is kind of a geek because he plays fantasy baseball, but I don't care because he also cooks and does the laundry. My station wagon is 9 years old and filthy because I let my kids eat crap when I pick them up at the end of the day.

I would guess a little further out in the 'burbs, but not too far. Maybe Falls Church, Vienna, or Fairfax?

A semi-detached or row home in DC perhaps Burleith ...

I would guess somewhere south of Fairfax. Or north of Rockville.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:straightened hair; Range Rover; slightly too much make-up at times; rock and republic jeans; long sleeve tshirts; puffer coat or vest; Gucci bag; nails done; nanny but also a SAHM. Did not attend a top university, unlikely graduate degree. Husband in commerical real estate or some such work. Fairly catty, not particularly well educated in the world around her. Guesses? Other stereotypes (and they are just that, of course not all residents are the same) to add to the mix?

I would SO much rather fit this stereotype than the description I would write of you just reading this post. I am not from Potomac, but I work near there and am in Potomac Village often. I have NEVER written a list of traits to make a nasty stereotype of women in the area. I don't know why you care this much what car someone drives or if they wear designer jeans. Also, I find wriing "catty" in this post to describe another person is just hilarious when the post itself is just so. To be fair, you never said you weren't catty.

Also, those of you who are calling people who didn't go to "top tier" schools "uneducated" are elitist jerks. The worst of you are the ones who are saying "Their husbands are more interesting. I never saw the draw." That sounds to me like you're pining over some other woman's husband wondering what he sees in her. I don't know, maybe he likes a woman who's well-groomed and not looking at other people's husbands? If you find this type of woman so unsavory, clearly a man like that wouldn't be interested in you either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In the pick up lane at Landon.

Bingo! I've seen 'em at sports events .. . they are scary ladies! Lots of talk about "mother-son" teas and dinners . .. gag.

I wrote this post and now I feel bad about it b/c I've since remembered that I know at least 3 Landon moms who so don't fit that stereotype. (Though I do think the stereotype exists and the part about the husband in commercial real estate is spot on.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ok, jumping into this thread because it doesn't seem to be going anywhere...

If you want to get all semi-scientific about neighborhood types, see if you recognize yourself by zip code:

http://www.claritas.com/MyBestSegments/Default.jsp?ID=20&id1=1027&id3=20009

Ha this is where I live:

02 Blue Blood Estates
03 Movers & Shakers
14 New Empty Nests
01 Upper Crust
06 Winner's Circle

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:10:54 Burke if they are American military. Arlington, Falls Church, McLean south of Rt. 123 if they are State Dept, AID or Peace Corps

If they are European or South American at World Bank, Inter American Dev Bank, Embassy (esp. Military Attache offices): Arlington, McLean, close in Great Falls, Bethesda, Chevy Chase

If they are Middle Eastern, East Asian, African: Great Falls, Oakton, Vienna, McLean, Alexandria, Annandale, Fairfax (near GMU one spouse can be an adjunct prof.)

American military doesn't fit the 10:54 profile, since we're talking stereoptypes. But for the rest..wow...
Peace Corp? Can they afford 2 kids in private and 3 luxury cars?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ok, guess where I live. I like to lie around on the couch eating Chipotle and watching the Real Housewives or Project Runway. I work full time and make stupid money for the pointless but enjoyable work that I do, as does my husband. Thanks double-Ivy education, for the good income and those awesome art history classes! I'm not sure I believe in God but I'm hopeful, and if I didn't have to work I'd spend my days reading (I like Edith Wharton and stuff set in Ireland and lately Alexander McCall Smith), and yapping with friends. I'd like to think I'd do good works if I won the lottery, but I'd probably mostly write checks because I secretly think I'd be fairly useless at swinging a hammer or teaching a refugee how to read -- best leave that to the professionals. I only like to watch movies that end happily ever after. I always vote Democrat even though I want to kick their sorry incompetent asses half the time. I adore my kids and like to scratch their backs and read them Harry Potter while drinking Diet Coke. I think the Diet Coke will do me in but I'm addicted. I'm a little overweight (see above re. Chipotle) and my sister says my jeans should be darker, but I do wear makeup for work, although I can't figure out how to make it stay on my face past noon. I like talking to people and someday I'd like to stand on the Great Wall of China. I secretly wish I could be on a radio talk show modeled after Charlie Rose. I love my mom to pieces. I have credit card debt that no one would suspect, but only because I helped out a deadbeat relative. My husband is kind of a geek because he plays fantasy baseball, but I don't care because he also cooks and does the laundry. My station wagon is 9 years old and filthy because I let my kids eat crap when I pick them up at the end of the day.

I would guess a little further out in the 'burbs, but not too far. Maybe Falls Church, Vienna, or Fairfax?

I would guess somewhere south of Fairfax. Or north of Rockville

No one has gotten it so far. I'm also multi-culti, and the last time I got really choked up was coming around a corner in the Pompidou Center smack dab into an amazing Picasso. I come from a large, loud family. We have a shelter cat. I've read most of those books on that other post. I am happy Nelly's career is back on track and I kinda dig that Bruon Mars even despite the cocaine bust. I think stereotypes are stupid and dangerous.