We All Lose Our Charm in the End

In an effort to answer why so many "lady lawyers, doctors, and MBAs" at their class reunions "were still slaving after forty," authors Elizabeth Ford and Daniela Drake (a lady doctor, herself) have explored "why do bimbos fare better than the smart chicks" in their new sociological study from Perseus publishing: Smart Girls Marry Money. Sadly, the pink-covered book is not a comic novel by Anita Loos but a "hard hitting indictment on society" doubling as a how-to manual for enterprising gold diggers. While the book is intended for the audience of "young supple beauties squandering their hotness," there is good news for single women whose "sell date is long overdue": Women over 40 "may still avoid working until you drop dead."

Perseus' calculating assessment of its bimbo market (the publisher's titles include the madly successful Skinny Bitch—"a tart-tongued, no-holds-barred wakeup call to all women who want to be thin"—which spawned at least three sequels) suggests that sure bets are cute terms (fluffer wife, feminasties, and fugly are well-used in the text), dire warnings ("if you marry a man with potential, when he finally achieves, he often leaves"), and tips for trollops ("If all else fails, you can always go for the short guy. He's funny and sweet and if he earns, he's worth a second look").

Here's a tip of my own: Nothing against diamonds, but except in one of my favorite old songs (T-Bone Burnett version here), they do not make true friends.

Tags: daniela drake, elizabeth ford, marrying money, perseus, skinny bitch, smart girls marry money

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By: ninanina | Tue, 08/25/2009 - 21:38

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Every few years a new book–or

By: cityrat | Mon, 05/25/2009 - 22:36

Every few years a new book–or study unearthed by a spotlight-hungry journalist–pokes its mole-like nose to the surface, squeaking in extremes, stereotypes, backlash rhetoric and emotional scare tactics, inviting the prerequisite (and probably planted) bitter trolls (emasculated men! ruined women! feminazinasties!) to cut-and-paste their familiar screeds and forcing decent reviewers who would rather be writing about something else to weigh in with something intelligent. As advertising, this stuff would at least have a purpose, but dressed as self-help or–heaven forbid–something like science, these trite infestations waste everyone's time. Best to give them a smart whack on the head and move on.

I think it's pretty funny

By: jack7frost | Mon, 05/25/2009 - 14:16

I think it's pretty funny that the truth is finally being told through the mouths of women. And we all know women and truth are like oil and water, so this is quite a big accomplishment.

But of course, there's also a lot of failure going on here. Women are not bright enough to understand that "antiquated notions" of femininity are actually "functional gender roles". Sure some delusional women would like to think that females not being able to lift 500 lbs. is an "antiquated notion", but in reality, it's a gender role limitation. Limitations are necessary so that each gender doesn't neglect their function. The more women are sold on the lie that they have an unlimited number of choices in life, the more they suffer as a gender. This causes women to neglect their functional roles as females. This in turn causes men to neglect their own roles. As a result, we have a bunch of pussified (emasculated) men and cunts (dysfunctional women) running around neglecting their functional gender roles. They are absurdly trying to fit into the other gender's shoes when such was never the design. Men cannot have babies. Women cannot protect society. Simple gender limitations. Nothing to do with "antiquated notions".

Feminism has cheated women out of the truth. Hence, real women are belittled and ridiculed for wanting to care for their homes, raise their children and submit to their husbands care and protection.

Manhood101.com explains this in their "exposing feminism" section.

And I think you're a douche (get it?)

By: nagatuki | Tue, 05/26/2009 - 10:32

I'm going to guess you have issues with women, yes? I suppose your mother's a c#$% as well?

That's nice. We can have a debate about gender roles, but when you refer to any woman who doesn't want to wait on you hand and foot while you "protect" her (give me a break; that's what cops do, not you) as a c---, well, there's not much to debate, is there?

Because you've already made your conclusions about the entire female sex, and even have a handy website telling you how great you are, right?

Well, good luck with that; the only women who'll be interested in a guy like you are those that you describe - submissive (read: no self-esteem), and not much of a conversation.

How disgusting.

By: Medusas_Laugh | Mon, 05/25/2009 - 11:03

I find it distressing that more than thirty years after the second wave of feminism people are still publishing books about how to land a rich man so you don't have to work. Whatever happened to things like marrying for love? Becoming educated so you can support yourself? Or working at a job because you find it fulfilling and meaningful?

This book does nothing more than endorse the antiquated notion that women should stay at home and not work because it's a man's job to support us. And that's bullshit. Furthermore, what do we call a person (not always a woman) who has sex in exchange for capital gain, food, shelter, or some other thing that meets our physical needs? A prostitute. I don't see how marrying for the soul purpose of being supported is any different. If a person does this, then they're a prostitute with a piece of paper.

One final note: I dated a man who was short. Shorter than I am. He was five foot five. And while he was funny, relatively sweet, and he did earn a nice living, I would not marry him. Why the authors ask? Why throw away this opportunity to be supported and not have to work? A.) Because he wouldn't have married a woman who didn't want to work. And B.) He was an alcoholic. I still have more respect for him than any stupid bitch who reads and takes this book and its advice seriously.

why should anyone work until they drop dead?

By: doovinator | Sun, 05/24/2009 - 00:34

Sooner or later everyone drops dead; women who work too hard don't enjoy life any more than men who work too hard. If a woman wants a "sugar daddy" and a man who works too hard gets enjoyment out of having a "cute little bimbo" fulfilling his desires, what's the harm? Is that really so horrible? What's the virtue in some hard-charging lady lawyer crying herself to sleep because she's 40 and doesn't have kids or even an average, run-of-the-mill hubby to come home to (since her standards are way too stratospheric to accept an average guy with an average job into her high-powered, hard charging life)? I fail to see anything wrong in traditional sexual roles, if that's what the parties involved wish to have. Misery is misery, pleasure is pleasure, sex roles are sex roles, everybody dies. The world goes on--

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