It's Hard Out There for a Golddigger
If the economic crash helped usher in a new political era, it has also, no less importantly, caused a quiet revolution in Manhattan dating rituals, at least within the particular group of Wall Street men and golddigger women accustomed to viewing romance as top-rung prostitution. Joshua David Stein of Page Six Magazine goes out into the field ("Meatpacking District hot spot Bistro Bagatelle"), where his anthropological eye identifies as "fake" both the handbags (Louis Vuitton clutches) and the hair (blonde) of three Eastern Euro chicks.
Once upon a time, such young women would have had their pick of men to pay for real handbags and expensive hair colorists, but now, despairs one: "It's getting harder and harder to find a good man. Everyone is looking for handsome, rich and charming men but there are less and less of them to go around."
You might think that the men who, due to their reduced earning power, are now rejected as eligible suitors would be equally the losers in this scenario, but apparently not: By some skewed application of the laws of supply and demand, we find that it's the women who are "desperate," and being forced to lower their standards if they want even a non-astronomical dinner paid for. Ted Morgan—who wrote a book titled How to Marry a Multi-Millionaire: The Ultimate Guide to High Net Worth Dating (his parents must be so proud!)—reports that: "You used to hear women say, 'I'd never date anyone who makes less than $1 million.' You don't hear that anymore. The number is getting lower and lower and lower." Well, we've all had to adapt to new realities!
