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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Serious question, why do some of you see posts like this and feel the need to respond like “How gauche! Why, my old money grandmama would never allow this! I’d much rather be in the country with the dogs!”

No one cares. You don’t get an award because your version of aspirational is different from someone else’s.[/quote]
Agree - the point is to have a little fun, and these people are so threatened! And like, if you have to say it….[/quote]

I think the country horse/dog/old money people are being facetious? I hope? Like just playing with the DCUM trope of everyone wanting to look like they've been rich forever and feeling terrified of being caught not having generational wealth.[/quote]

Maybe.

More likely defensive. Because they don't look remotely like MM, and aren't traveling to resorts in Thailand -- because they [i]beyond basic.[/i] [/quote]
That’s actually a really good way of putting it, I’ve never thought of it like that. Like “basic” is actually pretty democratic, in that it’s accessible to anyone w enough money, and visually accessible to everyone, unthreatening, and maybe that’s the whole point. But the people going on about their “old money grandmother,” (which is such an admission in and of itself that they are “no money”) are trying so hard to align themselves w the social group who historically have been the meanest and the most exclusive. It’s a cope for downward mobility bc they know they don’t even have the funds to be basic, so they’re pretending they’re rejecting it in favor of the other thing, which in reality is even less attainable.

As for castle/dogs lady, she’s interested enough in this bubblegum-pop discussion to condescend to submitting a response here so I’m not sure how genuinely “countryside” her life is, but sure. Sounds nice.

I’ve always been low-key obsessed with how gorgeous both LB and MM are. Didn’t think I’d tune in for S3 but maybe I will now! Always thought LB has been really typecast, but I’ve loved her look in all of those roles (Popular, GCB, American Wife…anyone remember those!?)[/quote]

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