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From: thoma@reed.UUCP (Ann Muir Thomas)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: More Yuppies
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Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 14:12:47 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  1 14:12:47 1985
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Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon
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	Well, folks, I open my big mouth and here comes a string of flames
the likes of which I have never seen before, not even after I got flamish
about San Diego, or when I posted "A Sex Problem..."  I guess my comments
about Yuppies really hit home with a lot of you folks; I have yet to be
eligible for Yuppie-dom, being a poor (but not starving) college student
who feels extremely lucky to have as much as $5,500 per year to live on.

	What I'd like to say, that I didn't in my previous posting, is that
"Yuppie" is a real media buzzword right now; the only thing I find
shocking about this made-up class of people is that they (for the most part)
came out of the "radical" college scene of the '70s and I expected a little
less focus on the material comforts of life from them...I don't condemn Yuppies;
in fact, beyond external appearances, I don't think I can characterize them,
so perhaps they are fake after all...There is a difference between
someone in a business suit and someone in baggy pants and an embroidered
shirt, but as I come into contact with more and more people of all classes
I am discovering that this difference is really just external...

	I guess the things which I mentioned as "Yuppie" really are just
stereotypes, and I was trying to be toungue-in-cheek for the most part in
my previous posting...It's just hype, to be honest, OK?

sigh....

Ann Muir Thomas
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