Comments on: Maintaining a Lifestyle of Conformity

By: TheLandlordBlog.com » Carnival of Real Estate Results Are In!

TheLandlordBlog.com » Carnival of Real Estate Results Are In! — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 21:25:12 +0000

[...] Nina Smith presents Maintaining a Lifestyle of Conformity posted at Queercents, comparing community and conformity with respect to master planned communities. [...]

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By: My 1st Million At 33

My 1st Million At 33 — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 15:09:10 +0000

Personal Finance Carnival #63... This is the first time that I host PF carnival at 1stMillionAt33. Thanks to Flexo at Consumerism Commentary for giving me this chance to host PF carnival #63. If you’re first time here on my site, you can take a look at my SiteMap on the right ...

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By: DivaJean

DivaJean — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:41:54 +0000

"A few things about the show don't make sense such as, "It's never clear why Nancy (played by Mary-Louis Parker) finds it necessary to stay in gated, upscale, barren Agrestic, a place where she doesn't fit or have any real friends... or why she strives to maintain a lifestyle to which she does not seem at all attached. Neither is it clear why she is so spectacularly unprepared to get a job or so confused about what's good for her kids that she risks losing them."" Not to mention why she absolutely always has to have a super jumbo sized iced coffee drink from Dunkin Donuts in her hands! Isn't the idea to stop buying expensive coffee drinks outside the home the very first thing EVERYONE recommends when its time to economize? (Yeah I know the real story is the product placement deal that the producers of the show made- but I'm just sayin'...)

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By: DivaJean

DivaJean — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 16:55:50 +0000

Nina, I swear we are separated cosmic twins. Your viewing habits mirror ours! (We are SO mad at Showtime for not renewing Huff- but not mad enough to miss out on Weeds!) Your finance philosophies mirror ours! Case in point, all my responses to your wonderful blogs. But on the subject at hand- we refer to planned neighborhoods as "poltergeist communities"- referencing the movie Poltergeist (homes were built in a "ticky tacky", planned community way-oops- unfortunately on an ancient burial site). To me, the horror is the implied or even specifically mandated sameness of these kinds of places. Beige, sameness, conformity are fightin' words for me! I love my technicolor, over the rainbow queerness- don't box me in! Many co-workers (and even some closer friends) disagree when we lunchroom chat, but my sensibilities lead me to where I know I could a) walk to work in an emergency and b) walk to just about any other resource if needed (grocery store, pharmacy, etc). Out in the 'burbs, you hop in the car and gas up for everything. Maybe its the hippie/lesbian connection, but I want to save the earth for a while longer and reduce/reuse/recycle whenever possible. I also think on some level, we queer folk find safety in numbers- ie the city and want to be somewhere that glorifies differences, not conformity.

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