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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Effectively you are saying "all women are whores".
Journalism is clearly the most whorish profession around.
Question: "When is gold digging prostitution?"
Answer: Right after the words "gold" and "digging".
...she could actually grow up and learn to resist temptation to buy while working in retail to put herself through school.
...she could get a roommate and drive a beater/take the bus like every other college kid and cut expenses that way.
...she could develop the actual skills needed to get a job in broadcast journalism.
Trust me, "Melissa," none of the other students are going to be jealous of your fancy shoes once they learn how you got them.
(Like AKA and Canuckistan Bob, I smell a rat in this story. No rich guy gives his tax forms to a sugar-daddy website unless he's also retarded.)
I would say I have been friends with half a dozen women who are in situations like this in the last 3-4 years.
Of the 6 I can name off the top of my head, 5 were in 'sugar-daddy' relationships with married men. Half those marriages ended in what could only be described as "bad situations".
Of all the women who I know who go this route, all show signs of being incapable of having a normal relationship afterwards.
Yes...I know. I run with an odd crowd.
At the end of the day; both parties get what they want. Is it emotionally or psychologically healthy.... probably not. But then again people do a lot of unhealthy things all the time.
The other thing I will add is that this kind of situation is great for the richer party. They get all the benefits and when they are tired of their play-thing, they simply cancel the credit cards and the car service and move on.
One would hope that said girl has been saving most of her cash, and making the most use of the networking opportunities she has been afforded.
...tend to be between 5'6" and 5'9" in real life. I confess I'm confused as to how someone as smashing as Brightstar claims to have been ended up so bitter.
Now, if I may, I'd like to address his earlier "argument," which as far as I could parse it was that because things "must be AWESOME" for beautiful young women, women have it easier than men overall.
Yes, women like wealthy men, men like beautiful women. This is grammar school level social science. But please consider the following:
1. It is easier for a poor but intelligent man to become wealthy, than for an ugly but intelligent woman to become beautiful.
2. Even if you were to argue that ugly women can always get plastic surgery, going from ugly to beautiful via the knife would cost great gobs of money. Ergo, a woman not born beautiful has to be wealthy to become beautiful. A man not born wealthy does NOT have to be handsome to become wealthy.
3. The acquisition of wealth has other benefits besides attracting women--it can also get you power, freedom, travel, cars, houses, and yes shoes. The acquisition of beauty has attracting men as pretty much its sole benefit.
4. Wealth has a tendency (the current recession notwithstanding) to increase over time, while beauty, no matter how great, is guaranteed to decrease with age.
So let's not have any more whinging about how easy/awesome/etc. things are for (beautiful young) women. Please remember that the percentage of women who are both young AND beautiful is very small. A homely and/or >40 year old woman is far worse off (when it comes to attracting a mate on these shallow criteria) than virtually any man, because she has NO chance to become a hot young thing, whereas he has at least a minuscule chance to become financially successful.
Oh, and Melissa Beech is a prostitute, Louboutins are shoes, a Bentley is a car, etc. Whether or not it's moral or should be legal to do as she's doing are two other discussions, but we can at least call it what it is. Of course, her designer wardrobe + eBay is probably a more secure retirement plan than most of you have in the States...
What is the obsession with women and sex? This whole controversy is still backhanded sexism. I never read anything worrying about men and their sexual shenanigans. Dammit, let the woman do what she wants. It's none of my friggin' business.
"If a person thinks that women are selling their very souls when they sell sex, they are really saying that a woman’s sense of self is no deeper than her vaginal canal."
-- Alpha Female
You should visit her blog. It's called.... "Vaginal Discharge".
Enough with the vaginas, ladies.
That after all is why the young lady wrote the article, and Clark-Flory's response is merely trying to tar her with that pejorative term.
Given that in our society women can still grow up with the impression that they are valued chiefly for their "wiles and charms", far be it from me to blame anyone for making the most of what she feels she has to offer.
That said, the following quote from her story pretty much says it all about this particular individual:
"I tried working, but in retail, surrounded by temptation all day, I spent more than I made. Waiting tables was exhausting."
It appears that the blue blood upbringing that imbued her with all those charms, expensive tastes and "class" left her ill-equipped to reproduce that life style any other way.
Way at the beginning of this thread, you queried TCF: "...as an antidote to this article, can you find us a heroic and admirable woman to write about?"
I refer you to the preceding article "She Was an Icon of the Great Depression." If THAT woman cannot be described as heroic and admirable, NOBODY can.
It appears that the blue blood upbringing that imbued her with all those charms, expensive tastes and "class" left her ill-equipped to reproduce that life style any other way.
Very good point, and one I wanted to make myself but missed.
And in continuing the way she is, or most women continuing down this "easy" path, it will leave them ill-equiped to deal with future life-decisions, careers, etc, once the money isn't coming in with so little effort.
...A self-continuing cycle.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
