Bad economy make young spoiled trophy wife sad, sex-deprived, vacation deprived

Cadet · Feb 25, 2009

This is like the Lincoln Park Trixies ... it wouldn't be funny if the stereotype didn't have merit.

writing irish · Feb 25, 2009

FirstDownPirates said:

The economy is making it harder for everyone to date.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/24/AR2009022403925.html?hpid=topnews

Dating in the time of the pink slip means feeling the squeeze of the drastically reduced paycheck, the sudden sting of the layoff. From investment bankers to real estate developers to construction workers, no job means no buying rounds of $15 martinis for a pretty woman and her girlfriends. No hosting parties in the bachelor loft. And often, no idea how to present one's new self on the dating market.

"It's been incredibly stressful for me," said Neil Welsh, 27, the guy in the suit, who until last year was marketing director for a booming real estate company. "I was so used to using my financial situation to leverage my dating."

For many affected by the recession, dating is the least of their worries. But the market crash has had a particular impact on young adults who developed their dating skills in fat times, the twentysomethings who spent lavishly to show that they could afford the finer things. Now, with national unemployment rates at 8.8 percent for people 25 to 34, they are looking for more creative ways to attract partners -- and reassessing what all that big spending really meant.
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Of course ...

"They're spending more time at networking events, happy hours, with their guy friends -- trying to get leads on jobs, rather than spending it on women," she said. "I feel bad for the guys who don't have jobs."

Bad enough to date them? She smiled and shook her head. "I guess I'm kind of traditional. So if a guy can't really take you out or doesn't have the money or the state of mind to take girls out, then it's not going to go anywhere."
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Some of these nouveau pauvre guys might find that their life is better without self-pimping gold-diggers, as quoted above. I almost feel sorry for the finance douchebags if those are the only women they're used to dating.

hondo · Feb 25, 2009

You gotta love the mistresses complaining. That takes a lot of freaking gall.

heyabbott · Feb 25, 2009

you only cover us when we live down to our cultural stereotype

2muchcoffeeman · Feb 25, 2009

heyabbott said:

you only cover us when we live down to our cultural stereotype and when you do you don't realize it's satire
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