Shallow Men With Too Much Money and Not Enough Brains

Want to pick up hot chicks in bars? Capitalism to the rescue:

Ms. Frenkel was not on a date with Mr. Blumberg...; she was on the clock. A 29-year-old graduate student, she is one of a dozen women who work for a New York-based Web site called Wingwomen.com, earning up to $30 an hour to accompany single men to bars and help them chat up other women. The Web site's founder, Shane Forbes, a computer programmer, started it in December after realizing he had more success with women when he went to clubs with female friends. "Every time I was with them, I would meet women," he said. ...

An hour later, as his evening with Ms. Frenkel was ending, he had spoken with a handful of other prospects and had been invited by a leggy Ukrainian model to join her gaggle of friends for drinks at Spice Market (which he regretfully declined in the interest of continuing his research). He was a convert. "There is emphatically no way I would have met so many women so quickly without Allie," he said.

Ms. Frenkel's success seemed due to factors beyond her gregariousness. Mr. Forbes said women like to compete and are "more attracted to men who have other women surrounding them because they want what they can't have."

Unspoken is the requirement that, for the service to work for you, you must be a 20-something asshole professional (advertising, banking, law) who is interested in dating someone solely because they look like a "leggy Ukrainian model". But I have to say, it's heartwarming to see women making money from assholes by misleading other women into thinking the guy is not an asshole. For an extra $100, maybe she'll roofie her for you, too.

(Via Unfogged.)

Comments

[Gib]

Let me see if I follow this - you want to get laid. So you hire a woman to help you get laid, but you do not sleep with the woman you hire. Instead, she goes out looking for other women, pretending to be a friend of yours, in the hope that her implied seal of approval will result in your getting laid by one of these other women at some indeterminate point in the future.

Did I get that right? I hope so, because my head hurts.

[bitchphd]

LOL Gib, my thoughts exactly.

The thing that offends me most is the stupid social biology bullshit explanation. As opposed, say, to the idea that maybe women find a guy who's with a woman less threatening. But hey, it's so great to believe that women compete for the valuable and rare privilege of your own personal dick, rather than believing they think you're, well, a dick.

[Hal]

putting on my horns to play devil's advocate (or imp. I don't think I'm worthy of the title of full "devil")

I do find it amusing that people seem to believe that humans popped up on the planet with no evolutionary baggage carried from the previous 5 billion years they've been slogging around in the filth.

Take a look at a baboon colony if you want to see where we came from. And just look at our own recorded and semi-recorded history. Filled with male dominance and harems.

It's part of our reality and if we don't even see it or acknowledge it, we're never - ever - going to change it.

Evolution isn't pretty - it's practical.

Having said that, I think it's the mark of our modern species that we are no longer bound to our evolutionary past in the same way animals are. It's the mark of the progression of civilization to normalize the roles in our sexually dimorphic primate species.

But it doesn't disappear over night.