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Originally posted by paigowprincess
You know those movies, like Trading Places and Pretty Woman, where the spunky and funny poor person is thrust into the world of the richies and it all works out in the end bc one of the richies has risen above the superficial thing called class? They call those Fish Out Of Water movies and they are all fairy tales.
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Well,
Pretty Woman was a fairytale, that's for sure. If you drive down Sunset Blvd., you might find prostitutes that look like they were in the cast of
Pretty Woman. The problem is that the cast member is Jason Alexander.
On a serious level, while class matters in this country, gender also matters. At the turn of the century, upper class men kept their privileged status, while upper class women were dependent on catching another upper class man to maintain their status. The problem (for upper class girls) was that an upper class man could find a less demanding prole to marry, so there was a surplus of upper class women. Enter sororities at major universities. Now upper class women have a mechanism designed to pair them up with upper class men and middle class strivers.
The pattern still exists today. People are marrying later, so fraternities and sororities can focus on substance abuse, date rape, and bad reality TV. Meanwhile, after college, reality TV shows pick up the slack. It's not a coincidence that all of the men on the Bachelor look like they were fraternity social chair. It's Sociology 101.
edited for grammar 
