Experiences with attaining Peak Frau

Dun = fun

[quote]Incase

[quote]super hero's

Oh dear oh dear.

[quote]Dun (meaning Fun) vacation pics

Oh dear (for capitalizing it, silly)

I Am a Survivor.

A woman I know on fb who is losing weight after her third or fourth weight loss surgery posted "I got into such a strange shape by trying to fit in".

No, it's because you love pie you daft cow.

oh Bootsy

Peak Frau meme

[quote]Oh dear (for capitalizing it, silly)

I didn’t capitalize it. My phone decided to when I hit the D rather than the F.

It was the time my co-worker (this is not her, but it's the same quilt pattern) proudly showed me a photo of the hockey-themed quilt she'd sewn for her son-in-law's "man cave."

sharing quotes misattributed to Marilyn Monroe in order to justify being crazy cunts

At least Marilyn looked like Marilyn. WTF is YOUR best, frau?

Peak Frau literature

Storms can come suddenly, unexpectedly, and catastrophically. We are never the same after suffering the shock and after-shocks of such earth-shattering experiences. And it is during these times that we need the assurance that only our faith in God provides.

When All Hail Breaks Loose offers practical, proven life strategies for not only surviving, but also thriving,

Hockey player attempting to escape the giant vagina of death!

Because I don’t want to just survive — I want to thrive.

Would it be too cliche to remind everyone to live, laugh, love?

More than a decade ago with the "Claymates" fans.

.....

Wtf R15?! Why do hags insist on posting pics of themselves online

You know what though? I have sat back and thought about this and y'all just jealous. You hate us cuz you ain't us. You wish you could sell a Scentsy candle and have a cool Scentsy sticker decal next to your stick figure kids on the back of your SUV.

YOU WISH you and your man looked as good as us having a rancher backdrop from the photo place at the mall. You wish you could show your cleavage and have the men want to pound your hound. We get them so, so easily. What you don't know is that you have a much better life than a tied down Frau. You're kicking them when they're down. A Frau has never been President. Frau are not well represented. The only power they have is in asking for a manager. You need to feel sorry for the Frau. If you knew their true lives you would never want to be one and leave them well enough alone.

I'm not sure their lives are so bad.

Hmmm. That's peak something, all right, but is it really Peak Frau? I think PF's are married, not single parents, and, while they may be prone to cliché and common grammatical errors, they're not generally borderline illiterate, as OP's example seems to be. They went to college (not that that proves much these days).

R9 is a common identifier

R18, their lives aren't bad at all - at least not the ones I think of as "fraus". They live in nice houses in comfortable, middle-class suburbs, which they periodically upgrade into their latest HGTV-driven fantasy. They drive new crossovers and SUVs. They have husbands who support the family (even if they work, the husband is almost always the principal breadwinner). They have kids who, while they're a pain in the ass sometimes, give their lives meaning and ensure continuity with the future and someone to look after them in their old age. Typically, they also get along with their families.

These "fraus" DL loves to mock are actually living the life most single straight women and lots of gay men wish they were leading.

They have cushy lives.

It's no so easy for us Gay Men to get knocked up and suddenly have a go-to ATM for the rest of our lives.

^^^Self-directed oh, dear. They upgrade their houses, not their suburbs, although they certainly have plenty of ideas on how to do the latter!

R19, that woman wasn’t a single mother, she was virtue signaling.

And I think you’ll find many college-educated SUV fraus to be high-functioning illiterates who make precisely the sort of grammatical and spelling errors indicated in my OP.

Sure it is R22, but most gay men won't give up their whoring ways enough to attract a man that will support them. #1 rule of straight marriage is constant fidelity to the man in the relationship

[quote]It's no so easy for us Gay Men to get knocked up and suddenly have a go-to ATM for the rest of our lives.

Dont I know it.

R21= frau

I need frau advice. If your pussy stinks so bad people cans smell is across the room, do you need to be concerned?

More Claymates.

I hate when people say "y'all" online.

Cradling my mug as we speak

Anyone who tells you life is not about weathering the storm but learning how to dance in the rain. The Himalayas of frau-dom.

OP, you type bitter.

When a peak frau gets DEEP she'll post a random Oprah/Chopra "quote"... which was actually said 50 years ago by someone less avaricious, or famous.

[quote]Single parents are really just super hero's in disguise.

Are a superhero's what in disguise?

Subscription to O magazine and posts regularly on the Dr Phil online forums

Are Peek Freans the official cookies of Peak Frau?

Being a woman is r33’s SUPERPOWER — what’s yours?

Being a man.

Celebrity blog for fraus and the frau adjacent—DListed

[quote]Are Peek Freans the official cookies of Peak Frau?

Naah, Peek Freans are a very serious cookie. Fraus just wat to have fun. Kinda like when they are living their best life, dancing like nobody is watching, cradling their Live!Laugh!Love! mug.

Proudly wearing their "It's Wine O'Clock" t-shirt!

They go line dancing every Friday night with a bunch of other fraus.

Peak frau, UK edition: HEN PARTIES

Which they alternate with their "I'm a fibro warrior" T-shirts. {"It's not for the weak!")

They are experts at virtue signaling on social media

Anyone who calls themselves a "mama bear" deserves a kick in the cuntbone.

They are a pain in the ass when ordering food in a restaurant.. They usually need a side of ranch—and they are allergic to gluten (but not at home).

[quote]—and they are allergic to gluten (but not at home).

And they must ask at least half a dozen times whether what they ordered contains any MSG.

"Are you SURE??"

In all my days, I’ve never found a better example of peak frau than Kristin from Wisconsin.

You know you love my jewelry bitches.

You ain't a frau if you ain't got booze.

I don't think it's difficult to achieve peak frau. Personally, the second one owns something emblazoned with "live laugh love," they've reached frau nirvana, IMO.

[R50] who watches that and why?

R54, she’s been YTing for years. She even has a (wait for it)...beauty channel.

I think her subscribers are one part fellow frauen, one part train wreck seekers. I hate watched her for a few months, but can’t handle it since Trump; I need more beauty in my life. She’s pure banal consumption in busy, joyless frau form. Too dark.

[R55] Very strange. She unintentionally makes life seem quit grim and pointless.

Unless you're Benjamin Stone, R53.

Personally, I think anyone who owns anything emblazoned with any message is deeply suspect, unless the message is seditious. I was charmed by Alice Roosevelt painstakingly embroidering cushions with "If you don't have anything nice to say about anybody, come here and sit by me." She was the Anti-Frau.

How do guys manage to live with women who have uplifting sentiments written all over the walls, and 500 scatter cushions (or worse, soft toys) all over the bed?

Same way women manage to live with men who have sports memorobilia and anime posters on the wall (or skidmarked underwear on the floor) R57. Quiet resentment.

Multiple throw pillows with pithy sayings

Coming to DL and trying to control the conversation by criticizing how and what we talk about. They forget we aren’t their browbeaten husbands left to hold their purse while they shop.

This Greg Giraldo segment sums up the reality of being married to a frau perfectly.

Nuff said.

That Peach Bellini bitch is peak frau. She owns this thread.

The pausing to control the rage is the best part R62, it's golden.

Overuse of the word AMAZING.

I know this is a niche, but I can't stand the lazy cunts on the Aldi reddit who declare the jarred "Indian" food "AMAZING", fake Cheezits AMAZING, Everything D-minus and above is AMAZING.

You have to be very "special" to be so easily AMAZED.

"I've been busy taking care of bitches all fucking day."

Best line ever, R62!!

The first time I encountered Jeanne Bice and Quacker Factory.

[quote]"I've been busy taking care of bitches all fucking day."

Followed by the dramatic, I'm-TRYING-to-keep-control exhale!

During whole vlog thing, Angelas imagines she’s talking to millions of frau clones across the universe so THEY TOTALLY GET THIS. Who wouldn’t lose their shit over CANDLES????!!!

*During the

Oh lord, r66! I’d forgotten about the Quacker Factory!

R43, you leave Carlene Carter out of this!

[quote]Would it be too cliche to remind everyone to live, laugh, love?

The adjective is “cliched.”

Writing a blog about your dedication to housewifery by Mrs White, a retired homeschool teacher.

Complaining to everyone that this year’s Super Bowl halftime show was pornographic and made your toddler hump the couch

r74 wins. Thread closed.

I recently heard a woman proclaim “I watch movies on the Hallmark Channel all day every day!” I don’t see how anyone could possibly get more basic.

You own The Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood on DVD and it’s your favorite movie.

I collect fraus on Youtube and watch their videos when I'm feeling anxious. Something about fraudeos is so mundane and calming, almost as effective as Xanax. R55 I see your Youtube frau and raise you Living With Cambriea (not a typo), 28 yr old SAHM and army wife. Particularly her holiday home decor themed videos. This recent gem in particular has kept me from the howling existential void more than once:

This gem:

"Be the woman who fixes another woman's crown, without telling the world it was crooked."

AMAZEEN

[quote]Living With Cambriea

Is that an ailment?

In for a finger, in for a fist.

NOTHINGBURGER.

Ask yourself why denigrating ams stalking people different than you is your only comfort in life.

"Always love having lunch with this one."

No, r83, "nothingburger" is not peak frau. It's peak Trumpkin.

^^^ r84

[R78] Fraudeos is a perfect word! It’s funny how one man’s calm is another’s high anxiety, though. To me these make me feel worse. I like the calm click click click of brushes on make up tutorials by British women like Lisa Eldridge.

Holy shit r66, this photo IS terrifying. It's the reason Trump exists!

R47 Mama Shark is encroaching on the territory

Hanging out in pink curlers.

"Stay with whoever looks at you the same way ___________ looks at ___________"

The way Chrissy Metz looks at a sandwich, R92?

Related to [92] are : he makes me laugh, you had me at hello, and getting my needs met. The frau ideal is passivity.

"the kiddos"

"momma to two fur babies"

R78, at least Cambriea seems to get a lot of frau shit actually done. Kristin just waddles through the house turning lights on and off. Wheezing all the way, I might add.

Frau Pussy-Whipped Males in captivity

For the "denigrating" commenter, I don't really feel that's correct. There's is some gentle piss taking going on in my mind when watching Cambriea, but she is in many ways far more put together in a general life sense than I am. Still in her 20s with 2 kids, a comfortable home, stable marriage etc. I don't wish anything bad on her at all. My not liking her taste in home decor is neither here nor there, really, and I am sure she would not like my taste in home decor, either lol.

R96 Yes she does get shit done. So much shit that she often posts videos of her cleaning OTHER PEOPLE'S houses just as a favour to them. And yes, I watch those fraudeos too.

R88 I watch Lisa Eldridge, too. Although she recently had Victoria Beckham on and despite everyone in the comments loving it it just honestly made me dislike like VB. She came across very insincere, in my opinion. Lisa can do no wrong, though.

To be calming a fraudeo has to be only the most mundane tasks and talks. Before Youtube I would watch commercials to calm myself. Also I am self aware that my anxiety makes me a bit of a frau myself.

[R98] I hated that Victoria Beckham video too. I actually tried to start a thread about it here, but no one was interested. She seemed very cold and calculating and her makeup wasn’t anything special. It made me like VB less, not more, but the commenters felt the opposite.

You refer to everything you really like as “frickin’ awesome”

Gender reveal parties

Snap filters make a frau feel young

Cubefraus with a side hustle - at my job there are a bunch of fraus who set out their essential oils, craft projects, etc. for sale. It's supposed to be an office, not a flea market.

[quote]Gender reveal parties

Which have proved to be not only tacky, but deadly.

R103, do they organize office potlucks for the pushing of their goods?

Dump cake recipes on the office fridge on Cathy memo cards. I used to burn the edges of them with a lighter and put them back, it used to 'deeply disturb' Pam in accounting. I upped my game by drawing pentagrams on the corners of all the uplifting quotes left on the bulletin board. I'm so glad I left that fucking job, I hate forced comraderie.

I can't find the Frau Words thread that is happening simultaneously, and since this thread is sort of the same, i would like to add "FLEA-MARKET FINDS."

And don’t forget, making the umpteemth version of another cheesy chicken pasta bake.

I still have scented pine cone scars from the Frau mob I encountered several years ago when I had to buy last-minute Xmas gifts during one of Michaels’ door-buster sales. Last year, it was a ghost town, though! Maybe it’s because of Amazon’s expansion and 1-day shipping. Bye-bye, Michaels. :-(

Political edition:

Amy Klobuchar’s Tater Tot Hot Dish.

And this...

As a woman, the thing that turns me off about Fraus is the central assumption that cosiness (which lives perilously close to smugness) is the world's highest good. It's why it's great to have a Facebook feed that only picks out news you already wanted to hear, why your secret recipes are so highly valued (by you), why you only talk to other Fraus about your hubby and kiddos, why you all like the same books and romcoms, etc. It's also why if you don't have a nuclear family of your own you are deeply suspect, and if you are trying to achieve anything out in the world, you're going to be regarded as the enemy until proved otherwise. That woman who discovered on video the other day that Mayor Pete is gay, was a striking example of a Frau whose cosiness had been pierced.

I get that the other side of it is fear, but that just means nobody ever made them grow up.

R17 nails it.I'm down here in Georgia and I've long known about swinger culture. But a friend clued me instead of just two people in a marriage./relationship there's now the Throuple. Uh huh, 3 people. That would make the heads of the religious right explode.

[quote]I watch Lisa Eldridge, too.

Oh, do you, r98?

I have no idea who that is, but suspect I should be insulted? R113?

I have an otherwise normal friend who believes that every time she finds a seagull feather it is a signal from her late father. Ye gods.