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Having grown up in gated neighborhoods, I can tell you why my father chose to live in these places. It’s all about appearances. He wanted the exclusivity. Each time we had a visitor, it was a process just to get them in. That’s hard not to notice, and he is a person obsessed with what others think of him. He grew up poor and that probably has something to do with it. As for many of my neighbors, I typically found they wanted to live there because it’s insulated. There’s a much smaller chance for ‘bad’ people to get in, such as robbers or more violent criminals. Also, they are living among those exactly like them. It’s a way to surround yourself with what’s familiar and not have to experience the ‘real’ world. Furthermore, gated communities are private property. Even the streets are owned by the neighborhood. That means they can control the whole area: the landscaping, the speed limits, and any other nit-picky rules they want to impose on residents in an effort to create their Shangri-La.
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Name : Carolyn, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Hispanic/Latino (may be any race), Religion : Atheist, Age : 27, City : Jacksonville, State : FL, Country : United States, Occupation : Scientist, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class,I would definitely have sex, to see what it’s like to actually have an orgasm during intercourse. Or should I also add, to achieve orgasm with another person in the room as a result of someone else’s actions, not a vibrating instrument.
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Name : Carolyn, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Hispanic/Latino (may be any race), Religion : Atheist, Age : 27, City : Jacksonville, State : FL, Country : United States, Occupation : Scientist, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class,I consider myself a feminist. By that, I mean that I feel an instinctive obligation to do whatever I can to promote the equality of my gender. However, I do feel like feminism as a movement is dead. I don’t feel like other women my age are even conscious of the idea, and from what I observe from Gen Y, these younger ladies may even want all the headways made in the last 30 years to revert back to the ‘traditional’ paradigm. So many young women seem to only want to get married and have babies, they don’t want anything else out of life. Not to say that isn’t fulfilling in its own right, I just don’t understand it because to me there is so much more out there in this world to experience. To me, being a housewife/mother has already been done many, many times before me and I want to have a unique existence, not a typical one. And the way girls dress now, I just don’t get it. You can be sexy and pretty without looking like a $10 hooker. I am ashamed of the sudden prevalence of truly self-deprecating behavior like I see on ‘Girls Gone Wild’ commercials. Furthermore, it seems like society blames feminism for a lot of our current problems. Maybe they’re right. I don’t believe women can ‘have it all,’ i.e. have a career and children. I think you have to make a choice. It’s just the way it is, unfortunately. Someone has to raise all these kids people are having; we can’t leave it up to television and the school system.
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Name : Carolyn, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Hispanic/Latino (may be any race), Religion : Atheist, Age : 27, City : Jacksonville, State : FL, Country : United States, Occupation : Scientist, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class,Stephanie, you must be short! I am too…five feet even. My only explanation for the treatment I often receive due to my size is that by simply being small people must assume you are younger than you really are. So you don’t get as much respect. I am 27, and I get carded all the time, for alcohol and (when I used to smoke)cigarettes. Most of the time it’s people younger than me that are doing the carding! I don’t mind being carded, I understand it’s the law, but don’t give me an attitude about it as if you don’t really believe I’m of age, or make a scene that, oh look, here’s a little girl trying to buy beer, how dare she. The other thing I often experience is tall people simply don’t see me, they look right over my head, and walk into me. It happens all the time, especially in crowds. I actually hate being in large crowds for that reason. I’ve been trampled too many times to count! My only advice is to make up for your small stature with a big personality. It’s taken me a lot of years, but I’ve developed enough confidence to stick up for myself.
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Name : Carolyn, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Hispanic/Latino (may be any race), Religion : Atheist, Age : 27, City : Jacksonville, State : FL, Country : United States, Occupation : Scientist, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class,Back in the 80s Reagan in his conservative agenda, among other things, put pressure on the states to raise the drinking age, in exchange for federal highway funding. It’s true, look it up. Before then, the drinking age was 18.
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Name : Carolyn, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Hispanic/Latino (may be any race), Religion : Atheist, Age : 27, City : Jacksonville, State : FL, Country : United States, Occupation : Scientist, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class,I grew up in Central Florida, too (Longwood to be precise). I travel a lot and the reaction I typically get when I tell people I am from Florida is something like this: Oh, wow! You must go to Disney/the beach all the time! It amazes me. Hello! We have to work for a living just like everyone else. We’re not on a permanent vacation down here. If anything the tourists make our lives more difficult. But that’s another post!
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Name : Carolyn, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Hispanic/Latino (may be any race), Religion : Atheist, Age : 27, City : Jacksonville, State : FL, Country : United States, Occupation : Scientist, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class,
