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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The thing with trying to drag other aunties into it is it just drives us further away. When I hear "your aunt said (fill in the blank with something negative and judgmental) about you and your family not attending a holiday or whatever)" I just don't want to deal with Aunt Judgy ever. Then, I recall the way Aunt Judgy gossips about her own adult children and how nasty she is about any women who marry in (never the men) and I just think life is too stressful to force myself to deal with Aunt Judgy's negativity.

OH, I don't know why this made me laugh, but mom used to insist as kids we wear our pearls to all family events. We are not wealthy wasps, but she thought this is what wealthy wasps do, so me must too. Of course if we ever dared marry out of our ethnic group she would be livid, yet she [b]had a fascination with pretending to be wealthy wasps[/b].[/quote]

Queen Larla's grandchild here. Same. Not pearls, but weight. It was not ok to be even a normal BMI in our household. You had to be skinny. My grandmother and mother desperately wanted to be wealthy WASPs. To be fair, a lot of people still do. From the perspective of a poor immigrant, the WASP lifestyle seems pretty luxurious.

Mostly I find it really sad, but there were definitely some funny moments. [/quote]

I forgot to mention that too..pearls and be skinny, "but not so skinny people thing you have cancer." My immigrant grandma once cried because she thought I looked too thin and my mother just glared at her. One topic of gossip is who gained weight and who is fat. The sad thing is the people most likely to judge those who are overweight are now overweight themselves and they still gossip about who is fat, they just don't include themselves. This includes royal sibling and a royal cousin (once bone thin who is now obese and has always been harshly critical of those with weight issues?!)[/quote]

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