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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. They are just very "bro-y" and insular, it's hard to explain. They say extremely un-PC stuff and think it's genuinely funny. But they're not BAD guys, just bizarre and clueless.

I guess I want to know what their lives are like a little bit more, so that I get some context to understand their behavior? Like do they just come from a world where they don't socialize with minorities or anyone who doesn't own a yacht/belong to a country club, and they aren't used to women who think career is more important than getting married?

I'm not trying to be accusatory at all btw, I'm genuinely curious to know what their upbringings are like - at home, at church, at school, among their friends, etc.[/quote]

It's a bunch of guys who have never HAD to step outside their comfort zone. They grow up in private schools and maybe churches seeing the same folks day in and day out; all their bros are from their high school sports teams and look exactly like them and have the same upbringing. Outside of that they socialize at their parents' country clubs -- again lots of the same guys from high school and their parents to go yachting with or play tennis with. And no -- generally the women raised this way are more worried about their debutante ball and how soon after age 22 they'll marry than about careers or going to another part of the country for college. Then they hit college and their network grows but only due to the frat they join -- again only picking the frat reflecting the world they're comfortable in. When it's time for an internship or a job, they can typically turn back to their fathers' network at the country club and parents of their frat friends to land them that job at a finance company or law firm where they're automatically partner track as they are socializing with the named partner's family. At the end of the day, they are so privileged that they don't have to interact with anyone else. They're raised so conservative that they don't WANT to interact with anyone at all different -- so at UVa they could totally befriend kids in class/dorms, but they largely ignore everyone but their bros. Then they marry someone exactly of the same upbringing and try to raise their kids the same way.

Are you really seeing a lot of this in DC? I saw a LOT when I lived in Richmond but less so in DC though maybe it's because I'm not around those groups.[/quote]

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