I find it implausible that it was ever true that men could marry down but women did not, because that would result in a lot of unmarried lower class men, and unmarried upper class women. I could believe the latter, although I don’t know of any society that was ever like that, and the former has happened but results in widespread violence because lower class, frustrated, young men have a marked tendency that way. I think they just didn’t talk about the cases where the woman married down, because it didn’t fit the social ideal.

Someday we will kidnap you and hold you hostage in our house for a few months so that all of the bathrooms will get awesome renovations. Just kidding.

We burned our Lucy candle some during snowpocalypse, when we were without power for days on end. It was comforting.

i ***heart*** you both. that is just fabulous. and, can be used in my current industry as well!