What do you the most judgemental about?

[Anonymous]

Can a job be hard without having to lose your spouse?

The grass is always browner on the other side too, there is always a reason to view your life as a blessing rather than a curse, but for some people, perspective is simply not enough. For them, it is the hardest job in the world, even when people are running around, losing spouses, dying, etc etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To all the posters who think they have friends that went to top schools and aren't arrogant about it, you're kidding yourselves. We might not be openly arrogant (I am certainly not openly arrogant in my every day life, contrary to the amusing indignation expressed here), but you can be sure we all know we went to good schools and are pretty darn aware of others that did/ did not. And even your nicest, kindest "top school" friends fit this bill.

I used to work with a woman like you and she had to leave the company because everyone hated her so much. Including her partners. They didn't like the way she treated the support staff and didn't like that she assumed they were all the same as her.

You seem to have no warmth towards people who aren't as smart as you. There's something wrong with that. High intelligence isn't the only trait worth having.

[Anonymous]

Nevertheless, to those posters who think it's (a) insecurity or (b) equivalent to buying a nice car to "show off" -- there must be an awful lot of insecure people out there because the acceptance rates to the schools I went to are pretty darn low, which means tons of people want the same insecurity I have; oh, and that education secured me a pretty nice car, so that makes me doubly insecure (but in a very nice ride).

No one thinks (nor did anyone suggest) that someone goes to a good school out of insecurity. Of course not. It's the school snobbery part that's insecure.

There are plenty -- PLENTY -- of very smart, very well-educated people who went to great, exclusive schools and are still good, kind people with perspective and sensitivity and self-awareness. Not everyone who went to a great school is a school snob... not even close.

[Anonymous]

Can a job be hard without having to lose your spouse?

Yes, of course a job can be hard if you don't lose your spouse. It can be hard because children require a ton of energy (SAHM), because it's dangerous (firefighter), because it requires you to be away from your family (armed services-- and also dangerous), because it requires skill and is high-stakes (surgeon), because you have little support in it (single parent), etc. etc. etc. They can be important for a number of reasons too-- making your children's lives better, saving other lives, protecting our country, educating people, being a voice for those in need, etc.

Most lives in this modern world are hard. But SAHM is NOT the hardest. And I can't imagine anyone with any other job-- brain surgeon or otherwise-- coming on here and saying theirs is the hardest without getting slammed.

Many jobs are important. But if someone got on here and said "my job as a ___ is the most important," and ____ is not SAHM, there would be a chorus of condemnation.

SAHM is hard and important. Yep. We get it.

So are a lot of other things. It's not a freaking contest.

[Anonymous]

Anyway...


I judge people who wear crocs. Except if you are under 14. They are ugly, uncomfortable, unsanitary and they just look stupid. Please don't wear crocs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I judge people who don't recycle.

Me too!!! Even more than formula feeders.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We might not be openly arrogant (I am certainly not openly arrogant in my every day life, contrary to the amusing indignation expressed here), but you can be sure we all know we went to good schools and are pretty darn aware of others that did/ did not.

Please don't speak for me.

Amen. I have an Ivy League law degree and try not to mention it to anyone, ever, because I don't want people to think I feel anything resembling the things the school snob poster has said here. I have met many interesting, intelligent people who went to every US News tier school, and I couldn't stand most of my law school classmates because of this kind of arrogance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyway...


I judge people who wear crocs. Except if you are under 14. They are ugly, uncomfortable, unsanitary and they just look stupid. Please don't wear crocs.

What she/he said. I don't know about unsanitary, but they are ugly as sin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyway...


I judge people who wear crocs. Except if you are under 14. They are ugly, uncomfortable, unsanitary and they just look stupid. Please don't wear crocs.

I think they are ugly, but unsanitary??? It seems to me that they would be easy to clean with spray bleach and a quick spray of the garden hose.

But they are hideous.

[Anonymous]

Dubya also went to an Ivy League school. Poster boy for intelligence?

[Anonymous]

My kid's feet are super dirty after they wear crocs. Even more than when they wear flip flops. Maybe that's what the PP meant when she called them unsanitary.

[Anonymous]

Could you Ivy Leaguers go somewhere else to fight?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid's feet are super dirty after they wear crocs. Even more than when they wear flip flops. Maybe that's what the PP meant when she called them unsanitary.

Yah, that and the fact that, to me, that foamy-like material is just what bacteria and mold want, and humidity, that come from sweaty feet. They are gross.




PP who first made acomment about crocs

[Anonymous]

a comment, sorry

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is an easy one for me...

Parents who use the pacifier after 9 months or so....when teeth are coming in, rotting growing all askew. Don't even get me going on toddlers who walk around and ask for it.

Bottles after 1 year - same reason.

UGH.

Why, this is so tame in comparison to some of the others! I have no problem with you judging these things, but I do want to point out that pacifier use doesn't necessarily make teeth come in all crazy. If you looked at my 2 kids, you would never guess that the 5 year old with the perfectly straight (and not at all rotting) teeth was addicted to the pacifier until she was 4 1/2. (bad parenting on my part, probably, so feel free to judge) You might also suspect that my 2 year old with teeth going every which way is massively addicted to the pacifier, which isn't true. The way teeth come in has a lot to do with genetics (older child has my DH's teeth, younger child has mine, and will need years of orthodontics to correct it).

Still, judge away, I don't blame you, I judged myself plenty of times.