MrPepper11 wrote:
> Wall Street Journal
> January 27, 2005
>
> The Latest Dating Headache: Women With High Salaries Wary of Gold
> Diggers
> By SUE SHELLENBARGER

Just when I think women have bashed men in every conceivable way, they
come up with something new.  It's a shame that such creative energy is
put to so little use.

> It wasn't until her engagement party that Genine Drozd realized her
> fiance was a little too interested in her paycheck.
>
> "I'm going to quit my job next year and just hang out," Ms. Drozd
says
> she overheard her fiance, then 24, an accountant, boasting to
friends.
> Ms. Drozd, who at 21 already had a successful career as a
> public-relations manager, says the notion nauseated her. "At that
exact
> moment I felt like I was going to throw up.

Welcome to the party, lady.  Men face the same thing all the time,
often after they've already married.  Most don't get nauseated.

> I looked at him and thought, 'Who are you?'"

Oh, he's the man whom you thought you could remake into your perfect
husband.  It must have been shocking when you realized he wouldn't say
"yes dear" on cue.

> She soon broke off the  engagement.

Good for him.  Now he can "hang out" without anyone nagging him.

> Now that women are snaring a majority of both college degrees and
> professional jobs,

Funny how few mention that except in the context of bashing men.  When
men were getting most degrees, women cried "discrimination!!" from the
rooftops.

> they're getting a taste of something else that used
> to be a male-only province: gold-digging dates. Many women are
> surprised to find their earning power has become a magnet for the
> opposite sex.

Heh.  You wanted equality, and you got it, good and hard.

> And based on my e-mails some high-earning women worry
> that their slacker dates will always be just that: slackers who want
to
> be supported. It's a growing concern for people in their 20s and 30s,
> not just because young women are earning more, but because young men
> feel less compelled to fit the mold of the traditional solo
> breadwinner.

Oh and that's just such a tragedy, isn't it?  Men are relaxing.  We're
taking a load off.  We know you expect us to be big earners, and fewer
of us care.  Ain't it awful?  Don't you feel oppressed?

Well you shamed and bashed us for eschewing marriage.  It shouldn't
come as any surprise that you shame and bash us for eschewing
workaholism.  The good news is that we can ignore you faster than you
can bash.

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