Historically speaking, the "right sort" of people quietly deciding that marriage and success are for them - and not for the "wrong sort" - is an age-old phenomenon. Often, the "wrong sort" have not been allowed to marry (or to own property, or to vote, or ...).
It'd be nice if the Atlantic knew enough history to mention this behavior pattern.
OTOH, the great majority of the Atlantic's readers are probably the "right sort". So doing a competent job of calling them, on their quietly self-serving group hypocrisy, might not the in the Atlantic's own interests...
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Historically speaking, the "right sort" of people quietly deciding that marriage and success are for them - and not for the "wrong sort" - is an age-old phenomenon. Often, the "wrong sort" have not been allowed to marry (or to own property, or to vote, or ...).
It'd be nice if the Atlantic knew enough history to mention this behavior pattern.
OTOH, the great majority of the Atlantic's readers are probably the "right sort". So doing a competent job of calling them, on their quietly self-serving group hypocrisy, might not the in the Atlantic's own interests...