darkstar105
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Now I'm gonna put on my Karl Marx hat instead of my David Brooks hat.I like your style. Stress consuming wine and cake until she is unrecognizable. Unfortunately, I think she is too vain for that, which is why it would have been the perfect disguise. But god forbid anyone see her with a muffin top, as KA or CA or anyone else…
I think this whole case revolves around her extreme vanity.
“Mirror mirror on the wall, who is fairest (in CS’ eyes) of them all?”
“You but MW is definitely on the periphery.”
“Nooooooo! I am the fairest without compare. I’m gonna get her so I can still be A number 1.”
The Evil Queen liked to disguise herself as other people, too.
Someone surmised in an earlier post that KA did not come from a great deal of money originally.
I bet my bottom bicycle that MW did.
MW had a safety net. MW had the time to devote herself to getting to the top of her sport at a young age. I know MW held a job up until she quit it to go full time and was looking for sponsors, but I still bet MW came from a higher social class originally than KA. And whether CS knew it or not, that's part of her mystique for him.
The kind of easy confidence that is reputed to be so attractive on the dating market often comes, in part, from the safety net the upper middle class enjoys from birth. They can smell strivers (edit: and strivers) can smell them. But no one talks about it because we tell ourselves class doesn't matter in the USA.
At least Travis and Jodi both had to struggle and were on the same level in that regard. I think the place they worked was dumb in every way imaginable but Travis had to work hard to get where he was. Which wasn't that much only Jodi probably didn't realize it. But some people may not remember from looking at Travis' outward appearance that he once went hungry. He cried because he couldn't figure out how to work a can opener and feed his siblings. Their mother was addicted and abusive and they sometimes didn't have anything to eat and couldn't wake her up.
Where am I going with this? Seems like MW came from the upper middle class while KA had to strive and work at getting that outward appearance of the good life. So some of MW's attraction for CS may have had to do with social class and not just youth and athletic prowess. Maybe CS wanted to be accepted (edited because of a dumb reference that didn't work) by a true Upper MIddle with all that entails and thought he had a chance to social climb and leave not just KA, but the middle class striver image behind
I could be talking out of my bicycle seat