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Criticizing the wrong thing
Yes, the story featured a glut of "desperate houswives." But frankly, the bored, materialistic housewife with the rich husband is a stereotype precisely because these people do actually exist. And in some communities, like parts of Manhattan, Bevery Hills and the East End of Long Island, they exist in pretty large numbers. And frankly, the Times loves them!!
I think the real Times prejudice at work here is not that it thinks all women are pampered and neglected, but that the only people the reporter talked to were high-end contractors working for rich princesses and their hubbies. The upper and upper-upper demographics are the only ones the Times give a damn about, or even seems to realize exist.