The irrational standards women have toward men

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Angry radioactive Vibes incoming!!

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@Hale_bopp: You need to define what the hell you mean by class, because you're being vague, and you honestly sound like someone who just read a celeb gossip magasine..

The best predictor of success(income and education) is IQ, not social class.

So much love in the air.

There's lots of social mobility everywhere. People are born "working class" all the time, yet, through education, rise into the "professional" classes.

My mother was born in a poverty/working class environment. She is now a psychoanalyst, and squarely in the professional classes.

This is the same thing as the concept of genetics being but the framework of the building, and environment/life experiences making the building complete and possibly beautiful. Peoples' lives are like the ongoing construction of a cathedral. We are not stuck in our steel or wood frameworks.

There is the notion of the "nouveau riche"-- wherein a person might recently have become rich, yet still appears to people with "older money" to be somebody who is crude and lacks "class."

The "nouveau riche" person is not "admitted" into the upper classes unless that person exhibits behavior which transcends all the "crudeness" of the "lower classes."

Trump is seen as being of that type: rich, but crude.

I gave a concrete example: my mother. She decided that she had to dispense with what she sees as the "crudity" of the "lower classes." So she decided to change her image, both socially and outwardly(i.e., what she wears). She wanted to adopt the behavior and looks of the "professional classes," and purge everything "lower class" from her being.

In many respects, she "overdid it." She denied the virtues of the working classes, and thus seems to me somewhat of an "incomplete" person, who can't see the forest for the trees.

There is virtue in enduring hardship, and "true class" often comes out even in a superficially "working class" person. And there are many people of the "professional" and "upper" social classes who lack "class" inwardly, yet appear to superficially possess it.

Enduring hardship provides some people with extreme incentive and ambition. Some of these folks have a one-track mind, and exclude all things which detract from their goals.

Many rise out of squalor. A few even become millionaires and billionaires. Some, unfortunately, fall victim to drugs and alcohol.

Many of the kids of these "strivers" who become successful are not strivers themselves. They didn't have to endure the hardship their parents had to endure. They adopt a life-policy of complacency.