Southeast prep/WASP culture

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is not how they dress that bothers me. (I like preppy clothes sometimes) It doesn't bother me what colleges they went to. (Good academics are a good thing). It doesn't bother me how much money they have. ( we would all like to live comfortable lives). What bothers me is the pervasive attitude that is stick together, treat others like crap (especially women), get drunk, delay grownup responsibility for as long as possible(except for the fat paycheck for themselves), and everyone else is just a private joke to be ridiculed behind their backs. It is rich boy frat bro syndrome.

Yes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I grew up with these types (went to a small Southern prep school), but because I'm Black, I never got too close emotionally. None of the guys showed any interest in me, even though I was voted to homecoming court and best looking my senior year. It didn't matter how attractive they thought I was, since I was Black I wasn't fit for dating.

Bro-y, entitled, conservative, and insular pretty much sums them up.

They often pulled strange, homoerotic stunts. Stuff like rubbing bengay on their balls, or changing into matching sweats and wrestling on the yard during lunch.

They are genteel, and very, very sweet and polite to women that they consider their equals. At my school, the boys were always respectful and protective of us. They treated public school girls horribly - drunken date rapes.

Ugh, can't stand douchebags like that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As an international student at Georgetown, I'm horrified that an upper class exists in this country where they are "proud of never owning a passport" and being really American instead of aspiring to being a global citizen. In my country that would be considered really backwards!

That's because no one aspires to be like the people of your country.

Looks like the insular Southern "bros" have discovered this thread!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Welp it's clear none of you have actually spent real time with any of these "bros".

Have cousins that fall into this group. I have been forced to spend time with them. I would never be friends with them. Would never speak to them if they weren't family. They are beneath me. It is too hard to dumb things down for them.

[Anonymous]

They have nicknames for everyone. In fact they nickname entire colleges of women because they think that women are just toys for their pleasure to use when they are drunk. Simmons College is" Simmons Mattress", Pine Manor is" Pine Mattress", Scripps - "Scrippers", and don't forget Wellesley women going out for the night on the "_uck truck". Yes these highly educated wealthy good old boys, North or South love to demean others.

[Anonymous]

oh god, I work with a guy who is EXACTLY like this. White privilege coming out his ears and completely ignorant about any non-European culture, and happy about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seriously, OP, watch your back. This type -- male or female -- may be provincial, but they're not stupid. They realize that times have changed and they no longer have a golden ticket provided at birth. They may very well see you as a threat. I know this sounds a little over the top, but I've seen this first-hand. Underneath the retro, country-club exterior, they're back-stabbers par excellence.

+1


You got that right!

[Anonymous]

you' e just described much of the commercial real estate broker community in DC, and the Chevy Chase Club! they may not be from the Deep South, but DC has a strong contingent of the seersucker suit with no socks wearing insular culture. They all left DC for college for about 2 minutes and now are back to claim their parents' lives.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Welp it's clear none of you have actually spent real time with any of these "bros".

Have cousins that fall into this group. I have been forced to spend time with them. I would never be friends with them. Would never speak to them if they weren't family. They are beneath me It is too hard to dumb things down for them.

Yes. They are clearly the snobs. Lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As an international student at Georgetown, I'm horrified that an upper class exists in this country where they are "proud of never owning a passport" and being really American instead of aspiring to being a global citizen. In my country that would be considered really backwards!

That's because no one aspires to be like the people of your country.

Looks like the insular Southern "bros" have discovered this thread!

Eh. I think judging someone for not traveling outside the country - yes, even with financial means to do so - is pretty shitty as well.

[Anonymous]

I've lived in DC for three years and I never meet people like this...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They have nicknames for everyone. In fact they nickname entire colleges of women because they think that women are just toys for their pleasure to use when they are drunk. Simmons College is" Simmons Mattress", Pine Manor is" Pine Mattress", Scripps - "Scrippers", and don't forget Wellesley women going out for the night on the "_uck truck". Yes these highly educated wealthy good old boys, North or South love to demean others.

Oh yeah I knew a group like this in college. They were called the Manhattanites.

[Anonymous]

Haven't read all the posts, but I disagree with the person who said Southern preps and Northern preps are the same.


Southern Preps:

*Conservative politics
*Ladies want their MRS ASAP
*Live in a white person bubble
*Duke, Vanderbuilt, UVA

Northern Preps:

*Liberal politics
*Ladies want their MD, MA, MS, MBA or Ph.D
*Value diversity
*Harvard, Princeton, Dartmouth, Amherst, etc

[Anonymous]

Agree with 16:06, but someone made that point a couple pages earlier. Everyone's been saying that northeast preps and southeast preps are very different.

[Anonymous]

We call it "southern charm" around here. Applicable to both men and women from the south.