When the Average Looking Girl In High School Gets to be in the "Cool" Crowd

[Anonymous]

I am that unicorn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This happens a lot in my neighborhood. I see a lot of moms at my daughter's school, who by looks alone, were probably not anyone's first pick when it came to dates, proms, whatever when they were probably younger, ie. high school. However, I guess in college, they luck up and hook up with some nerdy guy who has decent money (because the cool jocks and/or guys with personalities were never interested), they get a little blow out, the right make up, some riding boots and a quilted vest, and now you can't tell them anything. Have also noticed for these ladies, making their own daughters popular is very important to them and in an effort to live vicariously through their daughters, they sometimes exhibit the same mean girl behavior to other moms that they were probably subjected to, all in an effort to ensure their daughters are at the top of the pecking order.

In high school, I was that unicorn who was both beautiful and smart in high school and college so I was lucky enough to be cool with the nerds and still date in high school, college and beyond. But I can spot these chicks a mile a way - still average in every way and but desperately trying to fit in.

I would mock the OP but sadly, I am familiar with this kind of mom as we have a couple among my DD's group of middle school friends. I actually know the moms were not popular girls in high school because they told me and one even admitted that she is very happy her DD is one of the popular girls and really hopes her DD remains so.

I myself was not popular in high school but was just "normal" - not popular or unpopular, had a nice group of friends, didn't get bullied in any way. I hope for the same for my DD.

[Anonymous]

The whole situation sounds pretty pathetic. On all sides.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The whole situation sounds pretty pathetic. On all sides.

Agreed.

[Anonymous]

women are really f'cked up

[Anonymous]

Oh my sisters. Six pages of you tearing each other down, egged on by trolls who want to divide and conquer us. We can do better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh my sisters. Six pages of you tearing each other down, egged on by trolls who want to divide and conquer us. We can do better.

Ok Maya Angelou.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most of the girls in my high school class were both beautiful and smart (I went to boarding school). Did you go to some podunk high school where you felt like a big fish in a small pond? We get it, OP - you're not like a regular mom; you're a cool mom.

The fact that you offered up the fact that you went to boarding school as "proof" that most of the girls at your school were beautiful is hysterical. Do boarding schools accept based on their looks or does having parents wealthy enough to pay for boarding school somehow make a girl more likely to be beautiful?

[Anonymous]

I would be SHOCKED if OP wasn’t actually a guy. This smells like MRAer bullshit.

OP, if you’re a troll, well played. If you’re an actual mom and really believe this, then you are an actual literal troll on the inside.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who still thinks or cares about ( or frankly even remembers) high school?? High school is so completely irrelevant to my life at 40 years old. I seriously never think about it. Too much life has happened since then...

Yup. If that is your high point, you’re doing it wrong.

[Anonymous]

I have a distant cousin who likes to go on mad rants like this. Are you sure you're not her? We just ignore her and go on with our lives, and leave her stuck in high school.

[Anonymous]

You have described 90 percent of the women in n Arlington. Very rare to find an actually attractive woman. Not sure about the quilted vests, though. Haven’t seen one of those in over a year. The riding boots die hard, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would be SHOCKED if OP wasn’t actually a guy. This smells like MRAer bullshit.

OP, if you’re a troll, well played. If you’re an actual mom and really believe this, then you are an actual literal troll on the inside.

Or are you projecting misogyny onto someone else?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh my sisters. Six pages of you tearing each other down, egged on by trolls who want to divide and conquer us. We can do better.

Oh enough of this crap. You know how we can do better? By calling out the assholes and their bullshit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You have described 90 percent of the women in n Arlington. Very rare to find an actually attractive woman. Not sure about the quilted vests, though. Haven’t seen one of those in over a year. The riding boots die hard, though.

Yep.