Do feminists feel undermined by those women who want to be trophy wives?
I was reading a back copy if Inc. (no, I forgot and left it over at a friend’s house. You don’t get the date, vol. number, press run, etc. until I go back to pick it up, if ever. Don’t believe it, tough) and one of the articles featured a woman who created a multi-million Internet business using Facebook basically without trying hard. In the article she said she never sought or intended to be CEO of anything, her plan was just to be some powerful, influential man’s trophy wife; to support his aim, let him make the bucks, and look pretty. Those women who think in that manner do they bedevil feminists who think women should not be taking a backseat to men no matter how well they are taken care of? Can a feminists truly support a woman whose ambition is to support the efforts and goal of a man, and just be a pretty house wife and any other backseat supporting role he needs? How do feminists not feel that trophy wives gut some of their momentum?
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Feminists are all about the freedom to choose one’s own path.
^ I think some feminist missed that part of the memo.
Interesting that she says that now after being successful in her own right. Most feminists I know don’t preach to women who choose such a path, but the feminists are there to explain the error of their ways when the man tosses the trophy aside in favor of a new 30 year old.
By the way, feminist doesn’t mean woman, it means someone who wants equal rights for all.
Feminists feel undermined by everything barring their own.
This is a primary function of all isms, feminism included.
Plural of feminist is not feminist.
My ex-wife’s stepmother was a classic trophy wife. My ex-father-in-law dumped wife #1 (who I must say was a real witch) and within a couple of months was under the influence of Trophy Wife-to-be. She is/was reasonably intelligent, tall, statuesque blonde, but had never worked a day in her life. And she was clearly after ex-f-i-l’s wealth.
Interestingly, when ex-f-i-l died, this same woman mourned for a year and then married an ex-congressman.
So… I agree with @marinelife – this was a conscious choice on the part of this woman; she found her niche as a gold-digger trophy wife. But it was her choice, multiple times.
What do the feminists think of this? Who the hell cares?
@elbanditoroso You wrote: “it was her choice multiple times” And it the men’s choice,
Like algae and fungi in lichens they form a symbiotic relationship that satisfies the needs of both.
That’s why there is a fungi young woman on the arm of most powerful male celebrities.
@elbanditoroso So… I agree with @marinelife – this was a conscious choice on the part of this woman; she found her niche as a gold-digger trophy wife.
Any woman who discovers that on average she is considered to be attractive and fetching to most men, and decide to use that fact with men who want and can afford to lavish gifts and such on her, she is a gold digger?
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