What parts of your life/lifestyle are unapproved by DCUM standards?

[Anonymous]

All the women on DCUM claim to look at least 15 years younger and get mistaken for college freshmen by frat boys all the time.

I think I look exactly my age. I'm fit and well-maintained, but I look like a fit, well-maintained 40 year old.

[Anonymous]

When my kids were young, they got spanked for outright defiance and lying.

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Anonymous wrote:^diamond studs. Not the ear piercing ones.

I was not aware that this is taboo or unusual…I wear very small diamond studs ( my DH got me from Brilliant Earth for our Anniversary 10 yrs ago). I was born in India so I grew up around women above 40 wearing large multi diamond studs all day, all year long.

What do people in DMV area think about women wearing a small diamond stud daily?

Thank you.

I posted upthread. It's generational. My family has been in northern VA since the 1700s. My grandmothers have day stud earrings and night ones. Day ones are like pearl, gold knots, jade, coral. Night ones are diamonds and rubies.

Fascinating! Jewelry said so much more in previous generations than now. I haven't heard this one though.

I'm the PP and my grandma who is 92 has two dishes for her earrings--one holds the day ones and one holds the dressy ones.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I drive with the windows down

Me, too.

Because I’m smoking.

Thank you, this made me laugh!

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Anonymous wrote:If there is one person in the world who exemplifies all that DCUM holds dear, it is Katie Ledecky. Multiple gold medals, National Merit Scholar, Stone Ridge and Stanford, etc. Kind, classy, not flashy. Father is a Harvard/Yale educated biglaw attorney.

So true!

Also brother is a Harvard MBA

Plus the whole family is very tall. DCUM women love "tall genes" and are all afraid they'll have short kids.

Aren't most DCUM women about 5'2" and [b]min 180 lbs.??[/b]

Fixed that for you.

DCUM is a thin crowd. It is why they are so angry about Wegovy.

[Anonymous]

I'm currently 140 pounds, mostly a pooch from drinking, and I could've married a guy who was in big law but I didn't.

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Anonymous wrote:I drive with the windows down

Me, too.

Because I’m smoking.

Thank you, this made me laugh!

My windows are down because I went to the drive through this morning for a breakfast diet coke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When my kids were young, they got spanked for outright defiance and lying.

My kids got soap in the mouth for cursing.

[Anonymous]

I like to apply makeup every day and love to dress in feminine clothes: skirts, dresses, etc. I also take pride in my appearance and enjoy looking polished and put together.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm currently 140 pounds, mostly a pooch from drinking, and I could've married a guy who was in big law but I didn't.

But DCUM taught me that when you accept a job in biglaw, you sign a document saying your wife must be a size 2. Size 0 if it's Vault 20.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I got married when I was 23, and it was the best decision I ever made. To DCUM’s utter disbelief, we’re still happy 20 years later, we have three kids (who will all be launched before we turn 50), graduate degrees, and a $5M investment portfolio.

This is exactly, 100% me, down to the age and 20 years later. Only I don't have a 5M investment portfolio.

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Anonymous wrote:If there is one person in the world who exemplifies all that DCUM holds dear, it is Katie Ledecky. Multiple gold medals, National Merit Scholar, Stone Ridge and Stanford, etc. Kind, classy, not flashy. Father is a Harvard/Yale educated biglaw attorney.

So true!

Also brother is a Harvard MBA

This is not a knock against Katie, but her appearance is just everything I imagine DCUM's to approve of. Not overweight, very fit (obviously). Simple haircut. Clean look. Her style seems to be preppy, modest (but not weird), muted, classic, simple. Makeup, but very natural look. No visible logos. Straight teeth. Simple jewelry.

Family lives in Bethesda. House is spacious, but not gaudy. Brick colonial. (My parents live a few blocks away, don't judge.) I'm sure it is very classy and clean on the inside.

Even her and her brother's names exemplify the DCUM dream: Katie and Michael. Simple. "Classic."

She's an ug-o

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Anonymous wrote:If there is one person in the world who exemplifies all that DCUM holds dear, it is Katie Ledecky. Multiple gold medals, National Merit Scholar, Stone Ridge and Stanford, etc. Kind, classy, not flashy. Father is a Harvard/Yale educated biglaw attorney.

So true!

Also brother is a Harvard MBA

This is not a knock against Katie, but her appearance is just everything I imagine DCUM's to approve of. Not overweight, very fit (obviously). Simple haircut. Clean look. Her style seems to be preppy, modest (but not weird), muted, classic, simple. Makeup, but very natural look. No visible logos. Straight teeth. Simple jewelry.

Family lives in Bethesda. House is spacious, but not gaudy. Brick colonial. (My parents live a few blocks away, don't judge.) I'm sure it is very classy and clean on the inside.

Even her and her brother's names exemplify the DCUM dream: Katie and Michael. Simple. "Classic."

She's an ug-o

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No, she isn’t. Not having a bunch of tattoos and piercings doesn’t mean someone is ugly.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm currently 140 pounds, mostly a pooch from drinking, and I could've married a guy who was in big law but I didn't.

But DCUM taught me that when you accept a job in biglaw, you sign a document saying your wife must be a size 2. Size 0 if it's Vault 20.

Oh, I was a size 0 or 2 when I dated him! He was 5'4", balding (we were in our late 20s), and none of my friends thought he was handsome but he was making $300k at 29 and I thought he was sexy as hell, because he was really smart and funny. Sadly, he was also kind of an ahole so we parted ways after six months.

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Anonymous wrote:If there is one person in the world who exemplifies all that DCUM holds dear, it is Katie Ledecky. Multiple gold medals, National Merit Scholar, Stone Ridge and Stanford, etc. Kind, classy, not flashy. Father is a Harvard/Yale educated biglaw attorney.

So true!

Also brother is a Harvard MBA

This is not a knock against Katie, but her appearance is just everything I imagine DCUM's to approve of. Not overweight, very fit (obviously). Simple haircut. Clean look. Her style seems to be preppy, modest (but not weird), muted, classic, simple. Makeup, but very natural look. No visible logos. Straight teeth. Simple jewelry.

Family lives in Bethesda. House is spacious, but not gaudy. Brick colonial. (My parents live a few blocks away, don't judge.) I'm sure it is very classy and clean on the inside.

Even her and her brother's names exemplify the DCUM dream: Katie and Michael. Simple. "Classic."

She's an ug-o

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How many Olympic medals do you have?