In this area, irs mire a hobby an empty nester or SAHM picks up after marriage/kids.
Most of my yoga teachers are middle aged moms. The young Pilates instructors I have have real jobs too. They instruct around them for extra $—morning shifts, lunch classes, post work and weekends. I got to know a bunch of them well—I WAH so go various times during the day and other than the full-time manager-it’s a side hustle. I’m sure in hippy areas and other parts of the country it’s a career path- but not here. |
I find that social circles are often stiflingly homogenous and I’m always happy when someone with a different job or background is at the party. |
What does being a yoga instructor have to do with “discarding people?” And actually if you help people get fit and mentally healthier that’s a contribution to society. |
My brother married a woman lacking in ambition and education who was very pretty. She is in her fifties now and it’s hard to see someone whose whole identity was being pretty struggle with aging. She doesn’t have any compelling hobbies and mostly hangs out with the mean girl moms at her kids school. No idea what she will do when they graduate. She has also gone down the plastic surgery route and is starting to look like a duck.
I do feel that if he had married someone with more education and interests there might be more for them to look forward to in retirement etc. Not quite the same because yoga seems like a pretty compelling interest and it is both intellectually and spiritually interesting. If you age, you can still travel to India etc. and most yoga people are pretty creative and always learning: |
And what do you contribute? Screeds to DCUM? |
Yoga is a bad example because everyone I know teaching yoga is a well educated former professional.
But if I see a well educated male doctor or lawyer end up with someone with no education - don’t judge her but I definitely judge him. |
It’s an overemphasis on screening for looks where so many people don’t measure up. I know you get this because this is why this discussion was started. |
No |
For what, specifically? |
What if someone is highly educated or not and fitness is their passion, should they not pursue that and only pursue poor i educated men? |
Op, it sounds like you were rejected by this man and have an axe to grind. You need to let it go. |
Found the person with an inferiority complex envious of a college dropout yoga instructor. |
Because those skanks should leave the moneybag men for me! |
So much generalization, stereotyping, prejudice, bias in your one sentence question, it’s mind blowing. |
For favoring his own domestic happiness over maximizing economic inequality. |