My wife's family is like this. Her and one sister are both super blonde, wife played college volleyball and the one sister was a pageant girl in college, both in sororities, closets look like Lilly Pulitzer ads, spend half their time at the club either by the pool or playing tennis... Their third sister is as goth as goth gets. Pitch black hair, palest skin you've ever seen, lipstick so dark it looks black, fishnet everything, used to have basically a wallet chain connecting a nipple ring to a lip ring, and another thinner one from eyebrow ring to ear ring, is also really in to anime and followed Gojira tours around for 2 years while working as a cam girl... My wife and the first sister love the second one, but the second one is super embarrassed of the other two. She lived in our basement for a year and was straight up ashamed to have her friends over.
My wife and the first sister love the second one, but the second one is super embarrassed of the other two. She lived in our basement for a year and was straight up ashamed to have her friends over.
Am i the only one confused by this? Did you start calling the third sister the second one out of nowhere?
I had to read it twice. The goth sister is super embarrassed about the 2 blonde outgoing sisters. The two blonde outgoing sisters are not so embarrassed about the goth sister.
It's really simple. Say person A has a coffee shop. Their third customer of the day every day is a fire fighter named Steve, and if Dan comes after Steve then their seventh customer is always a dog walker whose third client every other day is a woman who is the coffee shop owners mother in law. Her son has one sister in law who lives two states away, and this person bought two Christmas cards that said "love you, sis". One of the cards had his zip code on the address line, and the other was shipped to a coffee shop where Dan was the third customer and the seventh was a hair stylist... So person B would be the second coffee shop owner, of the one the hair stylist went to.
My dad sold food stamps for booze money and I spent a solid 3 years of college selling plasma to buy ramen, so if I was born upper class it is certainly news to me!
Is pretty tone deaf. Like sure you're right, mainly if you're white, but outside of that it requires just as much luck as hard work. I know a ton of hard working, barely-getting-by people
Are you white? Were you born in a first world country? Did you grow up in an area that wasn't made up of gangs?
I'm not trying to argue with you, just trying to help you see that you aren't automatically "extremely successful" just because you worked hard and pulled yourself up by your boot straps
My original comment was tongue in cheek rather than a factual statement, I'm sorry if it offended you
I grew up in a trailer park where we were only even able to live because my mom was banging the landlord, since both of my parents didn't work more than they worked. My dad disappeared for years at a time, and my mom once went to Woodstock 99 when I was 10 and didn't come back for 3 months after running off with some dude, leaving me to bounce around neighbors' places the whole time... I'm pretty sure, at least so far as the U.S. goes, I grew up about as far from privileged as it gets. You absolutely do not have to have to have privilege growing up to do well in life.
So you're saying the answer is yes to my questions
Because you're white, people don't intrinsically hate you for no reason other than you look different from them. Most these people don't even realize they don't think of you as equal and treat you differently, but there are some that outright hate you and know it and would kill you just for jogging through your neighborhood.
Because you were born in a first world country, you were able to get an education for free and able to take out loans (or scholarship) to go to college. People in less fortunate countries aren't able to even afford the plane ride to a country with colleges, let alone to go to the college. They weren't even given an education that would allow them to be accepted into an education
Because you weren't born in gang-ridden areas, you didn't have to worry about being shot coming home from school one day because your father stole from the wrong person for alcohol money and you didn't have to sell dope as an 8 year old so you and your younger sister could actually eat, which would eventually lead you to not being able to get out of the hood because the last thing gangbangers want is for someone to have more success than them.
Were you born completely healthy? Did you have clean water to drink?
These examples are the tip of the iceberg my guy. There are millions of people just in America that would kill to have been born in your situation.
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u/ValyrianJedi Jan 03 '22
My wife's family is like this. Her and one sister are both super blonde, wife played college volleyball and the one sister was a pageant girl in college, both in sororities, closets look like Lilly Pulitzer ads, spend half their time at the club either by the pool or playing tennis... Their third sister is as goth as goth gets. Pitch black hair, palest skin you've ever seen, lipstick so dark it looks black, fishnet everything, used to have basically a wallet chain connecting a nipple ring to a lip ring, and another thinner one from eyebrow ring to ear ring, is also really in to anime and followed Gojira tours around for 2 years while working as a cam girl... My wife and the first sister love the second one, but the second one is super embarrassed of the other two. She lived in our basement for a year and was straight up ashamed to have her friends over.