“It’s The Economy, Girlfriend”
My favorite New York Times article–EVER.
“For Christine Cameron, the recession became real when the financial analyst she had been dating for about a year would get drunk and disappear when they were out together… Dawn Spinner Davis, 26, a beauty writer, said the trend began to make sense when the man she married on November 1st, a 28 year-old private wealth manager, stopped playing golf, once his passion.
“In addition to meeting once or twice weekly for brunch or drinks at a bar or restaurant, the group has a blog that…invites women to join ‘if your monthly Bergdorf’s allowance has been halved and bottle service has all but disappeared from your life.’”
–The New York Times, N.Y./Region; January 28th, 2009
January 28th, 2009 at 9:14 am
My favorite part of it was that their group is a place “free from judgement from feminists”…or something like that. I never quite know how to feel when I come across stuff like this. So much of it makes me so sad.
January 29th, 2009 at 5:09 am
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January 29th, 2009 at 10:44 am
Booo freaking hooo
This country has dealt with worse finical crises, from recently as the 70s-80s and going back to the 1800s. Yet, those generations did not create “daddy I want this” support groups nor did you have people committing suicide, whining of talk shows, or getting divorced.
Whatever happened to women being strong and independent? All I read about are females crying because their meal tickets have not been punched they are not getting what they want when they want. Even men whining like babies because they actually have to “work” instead of sitting at a desk and look “important.”
When the bottom falls out like 1982 or 1929-32 levels, this whole freaking country is doomed! Why because it is inhabited by a generation of soft brats!
And what about these supposed marriage vows? For better or worse my ass! What it boils down too is that these women are supposed to be taken “at their worst” and these men are just supposed to shut up and deal with them and give them what they want.
Typical …
January 29th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Poor poor lasses…
Perhaps I shall drop by their meetings. I kid. Sort of.
February 3rd, 2009 at 2:26 pm
“Professionalism” did you walk five miles to school? Barefoot? Up hill? To and fro? Through fifteen feet of snow?
Last I checked, suicides were all the rage in 1929.
I need a cookie and a shallow woman.