Grimreaper

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Let's say there is a 28-year-old woman with a 6-figure job dating a 22-year-old in college who may have a part-time job while in school and still lives with their parents. How would you feel about this relationship? Would you wonder what the woman sees in the guy?

I feel like my family is super hypocritical when it comes to this. My mom, aunt, and cousin tell me things like:

“You need to bring something to the table in a relationship.”

“You both need to pour into each other.”

“You need a job to date.”

Etc., etc.

Okay — so today we were talking about wealthy people and what we’d do if we had hundreds of millions or even a billion dollars. I said I’d probably send my kids to an elite private school. They asked, “Why?”

I said, “My son wouldn’t date a Starbucks barista, and my daughter wouldn’t date the pizza guy.”

These same family members immediately said that was classist and wrong, and that money shouldn’t be a determining factor in a relationship.

…Umm, what?!

These were the same people who said: “You need to bring something to the table.” “You both need to pour into each other.”

Okay — then why wouldn’t the same logic apply to me in this scenario? What would some pizza delivery guy bring to the table for a billionaire heiress? Same with my son. If anything, shouldn’t he be dating someone who also comes from a wealthy or noble family?

I changed the scenario again and asked them: “If I were a lawyer or had some other high-paying job, and I chose not to date a poor woman — is that wrong?”

They said it was wrong and dumb.

Do you see the glaring hypocrisy?

Edit: What would you think about a 28 year old wealthy woman dating a 22 year old college student? Do you think the 22 year old could not bring anything to their relationship?

If you were extremely wealthy (hundreds of millions or over a billion), you wouldn't be famous; you would just be a very wealthy person (lottery, business, investing, high-income job, whatever). Would your extended family know you are wealthy, or would you be very vague around them and not flash your wealth?

I mean, I would have to assume so, right? Because, like, just because Jeffrey Dahmer ate Black guys exclusively and then went and ate a white guy doesn’t mean he’s still not a cannibal.

My uncle is hosting Thanksgiving; there are 18 people going, including my parents, and I truly do not want to go.

Football fans who don’t have a ‘favorite’ NFL team — why is this?

Clark and Lois are always on Jon's ass and never leave him alone. Everyone bugs him: Clark, Lois, Jordan, and Candice. It's like Jon couldn't be blessed with a family that would leave him alone.

Batman doesn't have to deal with this bullshit, and I think Batman would pity Jon.

Clark and Lois are not as attentive to Jon's needs as they are to Jordan's, but their reaction (or lack thereof) to Jon breaking his arm was particularly egregious. One line that stood out to me was when Lois said, "It could have been worse," in response to Jon being upset about getting hurt and possibly not being able to play football again. It came across as incredibly dismissive and callous. This is compounded by the fact that neither of them bothered to check on Jon when he stormed off. (In fact, he is not seen again for the remainder of the episode.) In short, Jordan seems to get all the attention and support, while Jon is basically expected to take everything on the chin while also being a "good brother".

Don't get me started on the XK. Jon doing drugs is not wrong, especially in comparison to all the lies Clark and Lois told them. Jonathan has no powers, and Jordan does. Clarke spends more time with Jordan. He doesn’t realise that he’s doing real harm by spending most of his time with Jordan. That’s why he took the drug in the first place, but of course Clark doesn't care about this.

Honestly, Clark was a terrible father. Logan Roy from Succession is objectively and factually the better father because at least his kids get nice clothes, nice cars, jets, luxury, etc.; their lives are 100% better than Jonathan's.

If your girlfriend makes a lot more than you, and she pays for your dates, trips, etc., do you feel bad about it or no?

Yes, I said it — Evangelical Christians are worse than spoiled rich kids. And here’s why.

When I was 13, I was forced to attend an Evangelical church. The other teens there — ages 13 to 16 — were unbearable. They were self-righteous, hypocritical, and honestly, just plain ignorant. They acted like they were morally superior while being some of the most judgmental, nosy, and close-minded people I’d ever met.

They were openly homophobic, transphobic, and rabidly “pro-life.” Yet somehow, they loved to rant about wealth inequality, racism, and classism. Now, those are real issues — but coming from them, it was infuriating. If they actually cared about equality and justice, I could respect that. But they didn’t. They despised anyone who wasn’t Christian. One kid even said, “Gay people deserve to be attacked.”

And these same kids wanted to speak out against oppression? That’s like a neo-Nazi preaching about peace and tolerance. The hypocrisy was nauseating.

This is exactly what I can’t stand about so many Evangelical Christians — that self-righteous double standard. In my church, they constantly condemned wealthy people for being greedy or “out of touch.” I’m not defending the rich, but let’s be real — when bigots start preaching about moral purity and justice, it’s hard to take seriously.

If you’re hateful toward entire groups of people, yet feel entitled to lecture others about fairness, I can’t help but look at you sideways. Those church kids loved calling out “sin” when it suited them, but when the tables turned — when they faced judgment or exclusion — they suddenly wanted sympathy. Nah. You don’t get to cry “injustice” when you dish it out every Sunday.

At least spoiled rich kids know who they are. They’re snobby, elitist, and classist — and they don’t pretend otherwise but they live in their own insulated upper class elite bubble and, for the most part, leave everyone else alone.

Evangelicals? They can’t do that. They can’t keep to themselves. They feel the constant need to shove their beliefs down everyone’s throat. If a billionaire’s kid walked into that church and went on a classist rant, those same teens would be outraged — demanding repentance and tears — while still holding their own hateful, bigoted views.

Sorry, but I don’t feel sympathy for hypocrites.

You know you are sophisticated when you even make smoking a cigarette look fancy.