Just a few years ago I was feeling a little judgmental of a friend. This woman's son was dating a girl that she didn't like. Actually, it wasn't so much that she didn't like the girl -- it was more that she didn't think that this girl was right for her son. It didn't matter that her son really liked his girlfriend, my friend didn't like her.
I can remember feeling that my friend was being way too hard on this girl, especially with the extremely critical and mean-spirited comments that she made about her lack of fashion sense and refusal to wear cosmetics. Although she would never admit it, I think it really bothered her that this young woman was very much the academic equal of her son, and perhaps was even more intelligent than him.
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