Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site reed.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!reed!thoma From: thoma@reed.UUCP (Ann Muir Thomas) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: yuppies Message-ID: <2079@reed.UUCP> Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 19:55:39 EST Article-I.D.: reed.2079 Posted: Wed Oct 30 19:55:39 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 04:26:39 EST Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon Lines: 19 "Yuppies" to me (a member of the "puppie" generation) are...hmmm... alot of things. Definitely upwardly mobile, usually in banking, business, law, medicine... Seemingly carefree, but actually insecure. Sometimes gay ("guppies"). Well-educated. White. Male or Female. Afraid of committed relationships, especially when under 30. Into health clubs, gourmet food, foreign cars (BMWs, "sporty" Toyotas, Volvos...), condos, plants, cats, VCRs, vacations in other countries, cocaine, wine coolers, , Kate Bush, tailored clothes in conservative colors (greys, navy blue, heather, cream...)...Not exactly socially concious. Sometimes born-again Christians. Sometimes non-practicing Jews. often agnostic. Republican or Democratic. stuck-up... Needless to say, the above are all stereotypes. I tend to get a little resentful of yuppies because they have the external appearance of thinking that they own the world. (To a certain extent they do). But the one thing that defines a yuppie is that he or she will always deny being one. Ann Muir Thomas (ihnp4 OR decvax OR uw-beaver OR allegra)!tektronix!reed!thoma