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!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!reed!thoma From: thoma@reed.UUCP (Ann Muir Thomas) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: More Yuppies Message-ID: <2088@reed.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 14:12:47 EST Article-I.D.: reed.2088 Posted: Fri Nov 1 14:12:47 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 05:54:11 EST Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon Lines: 28 *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH A BMW *** 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 (ihnp4 OR allegra OR decvax OR uw-beaver)!tektronix!reed!thoma