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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lol. My parents paid over $100,000 for my brother's education and he couldn't even finish his BS.

They contributed exactly $0 to my education.

We are full blood siblings.

Shit happens. [/quote]

:shock: 
Can you please explain why your parents did such a shitty thing? What’s your relationship with them like now?

OP, are you a troll? [/quote]

Not the PP, but in some cultures, the male is the favored and golden child.

In my family and culture, it is frowned upon for the women to be too smart or educated.  It was not at all uncommon for my dad to say things like, "no, stop studying!" and take my books away because if my grades were too good, I would be seen as too smart.  Women who are too smart are seen as too difficult and less desirable for marriage.  Also, smarter women are seen as less beautiful for some reason.  The men are very much coddled and huge mama's boys.  When my brother turned 16, he was given a brand new BMW, any trouble he got into was just "teenage mischief", and money was thrown at his problems to make them go away like it was no big deal.  His Ivy league education was 100% paid for by my parents (and there was definitely a heavy amount of cheating going on there to get him to pass/through university because he is an idiot).  Now, he "works" for my father's business but is pretty much useless.  My father and I barely speak because I paid for college, my Masters, and PhD all on my own and am a HUGE disappointment to him.  Can you imagine?   :roll: [/quote]

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