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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are psycho. All I was doing was sharing my story of where we fit into this, as others were doing.... Fact is we are already G, my friend. We're already hanging out with you. We're fitting in. No one thinks his life was sad....... huh? He wasn't Underclass.....

What you're saying is no one can truly move between L and G. That's false. Read the article lady, there is a lot of movement between L and G. Get used to it.

Not backing down here because you're the type of person who should be ashamed of themselves. Imagine saying what you're saying publicly. Snot.[/quote]

There's movement between it, sure.  But the people who were born into G look down on it.  Obviously that bothers you- too bad.  The truth is the truth. [/quote]

Np here. You are quite literally insulting someone you don't know. I think this is an important 'fight' here, whether or not anyone cares about this particular husband, it's an interesting case study.

Pp thinks because she is 'old money G' (meaning she has 2-3 generations of G grandparents), she can lord over the 'new money G' (the other person's dh). She's saying there's old and new, and that old pities and never truly accepts new money G.

I'm not sure what to say, except I don't think old money G really exists. As mentioned above, it just means your grandparents and parents are G too. Sounds like the DH is all G, just doesn't have parents in G. I think day to day, since you don't walk around with your parents, your lineage doesn't matter much. It would for an E, where inheritance / family connections are important. But I don't quite see it for G.

I'm going to side against pp because she does seem to want to keep the DH down. Really. Someone claims he's a G, and you say in summary, 'he can never truly be a G.' There's something about that middle class that doesn't want to let in any economic competition. And that perceives themselves to be the gatekeeper, almost an E trait, but without any grace.[/quote]

She doesn't understand old money.[/quote]

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