Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The poster who always recommends traditional Indian meals to "What should I cook for X occasion?" posters. I'm Indian-American, and I appreciate the idea of normalizing Indian food. But her suggestions are always fairly traditional dishes that would be easy to whip up in an Indian home with a fully stocked Indian spice rack but would be unfamiliar and not something to be made with ingredients on hand by anyone else.

Indian foods are normalized now. Have you seen the offerings in Costco? It ranges from Noga Dahi, Chakki Atta, Basmati rice, sukhi's premade meals. madras lentils. nanak paneer, rasmalai, rotis and samosas.

Lots of people eat at Indian restaurants and will increasingly buy prepared foods. Most non-Indians cannot cook Indian food from scratch...which is usually the implication of the threads I'm talking about.

Anonymous wrote:The "wipe, fold, wipe, check" poster who easily toilet trained her kids.

But if other people would just DO that, then they too could easily toilet train their kids too!

The "wipe, fold, wipe, check" poster who easily toilet trained her kids.

Anonymous wrote:The poster who allows her DD to curse & drink soda once a year on her birthday.

::raises hand:: Present!

The mom of 5 isn't the biological mom to all 5. I think it's 2 who are her husband's kids, and she came into their lives when they were elementary school age, if I recall correctly.

I point this out because she uses the mom of 5 title as a bit of a cudgel and definitely as a measuring stick, but she is really a mom of 3 who married a dad of 2, and together they have 5.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The poster who has five kids ranging in age from late teens to late 20s.

She has 3 sons & 2 daughters (birth order: DS1, DS2, DD1, DD2, DS3), one of her daughters was a National Merit Scholar who turned down Brown for one of the state universities in Florida (I can't remember which one), her oldest son is married & a father, she is around 50 & stopped working outside the home when she had her oldest when she was in her early 20s, she & her kids are all thin despite not eating DCUM-approved diets, she obviously thinks most parents today are too soft, she lives in VA....I could go on & on due to how extremely often she seemed to post for a while, often repeating the same personal details she shared in previous posts.

I like her! I’m 37 with one kid, I’m a wohm, so not much in common, but I like her posts a lot!

She does sometimes give good advice & has made some valid points about many DCUM posters coddling their kids.

Her advice often comes with a huge side of arrogance, however, so I was always kind of the fence about her. Then she made it clear in one of her posts that she looks down on working mothers by stating that they " let strangers raise their kids for them" (or something to that effect). Even though I happen to be a SAHM myself, her comment was so nasty that from that point on, I started seeing her & her posts as being much more cringeworthy & obnoxious than helpful.

I am one of a big family, who grew up in a community with lots of big families, and I discount nearly everything she says.

Anonymous wrote:The poster who always recommends traditional Indian meals to "What should I cook for X occasion?" posters. I'm Indian-American, and I appreciate the idea of normalizing Indian food. But her suggestions are always fairly traditional dishes that would be easy to whip up in an Indian home with a fully stocked Indian spice rack but would be unfamiliar and not something to be made with ingredients on hand by anyone else.

Indian foods are normalized now. Have you seen the offerings in Costco? It ranges from Noga Dahi, Chakki Atta, Basmati rice, sukhi's premade meals. madras lentils. nanak paneer, rasmalai, rotis and samosas.

The poster who thinks that vendetta waging teachers frequently punish kids who did nothing wrong then lie about it & that allowing your kids teachers to implement negative consequences for misbehavior is just setting your kids up to be sexually abused in the future.

These are the ones I remember:

- The mom of five is one I always notice, because I grew up in a large family. Also because she is so specific and I know so much about her.

- Georgia step-mom

- The 'easy peasy' poster who uses that for stuff that is never actually easy-peasy.


Also the trust fund moms:

- The SAHM who gets $XX,000/year off her trust fund. What always sticks out to me is that she gives the exact amount. I can't remember the specific amount, but I think it is around $30,000. (I only refer to her as 'the SAHM' because she identifies herself that way when talking about her trust fund annual income.)

- The Arlington mom with a trust fund who is violently opposed to redshirting.

- The trust fund mom who works on the board of her family foundation.

The poster who allows her DD to curse & drink soda once a year on her birthday.

Love this thread! The sad part is that I recognize almost all of these posters.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The poster who has five kids ranging in age from late teens to late 20s.

She has 3 sons & 2 daughters (birth order: DS1, DS2, DD1, DD2, DS3), one of her daughters was a National Merit Scholar who turned down Brown for one of the state universities in Florida (I can't remember which one), her oldest son is married & a father, she is around 50 & stopped working outside the home when she had her oldest when she was in her early 20s, she & her kids are all thin despite not eating DCUM-approved diets, she obviously thinks most parents today are too soft, she lives in VA....I could go on & on due to how extremely often she seemed to post for a while, often repeating the same personal details she shared in previous posts.

I like her! I’m 37 with one kid, I’m a wohm, so not much in common, but I like her posts a lot!

She does sometimes give good advice & has made some valid points about many DCUM posters coddling their kids.

Her advice often comes with a huge side of arrogance, however, so I was always kind of the fence about her. Then she made it clear in one of her posts that she looks down on working mothers by stating that they " let strangers raise their kids for them" (or something to that effect). Even though I happen to be a SAHM myself, her comment was so nasty that from that point on, I started seeing her & her posts as being much more cringeworthy & obnoxious than helpful.

The poster who always recommends traditional Indian meals to "What should I cook for X occasion?" posters. I'm Indian-American, and I appreciate the idea of normalizing Indian food. But her suggestions are always fairly traditional dishes that would be easy to whip up in an Indian home with a fully stocked Indian spice rack but would be unfamiliar and not something to be made with ingredients on hand by anyone else.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The "what did you say in your vows?" poster on the relationships forum.

"OP: Last night i caught my DH in the middle of having sex with another man. He was so furious i caught him, that he beat the sh*t out of me and thew our cat across the room. I'm thinking about leaving him, but i'm scared" Response: "What did you say in your vows?"

YES!! I want to punch that guy.
There's also the one that promotes some Christian counseling thing that I can't remember the name.

Focus on the family?

The woman who was miserable her entire childhood because she was an only child, and chimes in on every thread about onlies. She resents her parents because they moved away from her (out of state).

Also, there are a couple people with distinctive "voices" who really have it in for Mantua.