Oh, God bless the New York Times, our paper of record.
The newspaper that reported in a breathless narrative that the nation's most desirable zip code, 10021, is to be divided into -- no, wait for it -- two horrifying new zip codes is publishing today a six-pager in its online edition that is intensely difficult to read.
The subject?
Privileged girls an in elite suburb of Boston are slightly uncomfortable.
Seriously.
Anyway, the whole story is here.
The problem seems to be that privileged girls in the Boston suburb of Newton, Massachusetts, are having a hard time balancing the demands of their gold-plated lives. Moreover, since everyone around them is also so amazingly special, life has become more difficult than it used to be.
The average household income in Newton is $128,000 a year. The medium house price is $730,000. The town is 88% white. 2.1% of families live below the poverty level. OH, MY GOD, WHAT DEPRIVATION!!!
One problem seems to be that some of these girls feel the need to be "hot" while maintaining their perfect 2400 SAT scores.
Another problem is that everyone in Newton is too amazing and now there is too much competition to get into elite colleges!
Esther and Colby are two of the amazing girls at Newton North High School here in this affluent suburb just outside Boston. "Amazing girls" translation: Girls by the dozen who are high achieving, ambitious and confident (if not immune to the usual adolescent insecurities and meltdowns). Girls who do everything: Varsity sports. Student government. Theater. Community service. Girls who have grown up learning they can do anything a boy can do, which is anything they want to do.
But being an amazing girl often doesn’t feel like enough these days when you’re competing with all the other amazing girls around the country who are applying to the same elite colleges that you have been encouraged to aspire to practically all your life.
Is this an April Fool's Day article?
It gets hard for me to read this crap anymore.
After suffocating me day after day with gilded age lifestyle porn, now I have to sit here and read how difficult life is for the elite classes?
These girls don't have tough, troubled lives.
They are "slightly uncomfortable."
Someone get me the smelling salts ...