Keep On Rockin In the Idiot World

Mo’ Dowd writes today about the phenomenon of powerful men marrying service-industry women. Here are some excerpts:

“I'd been noticing a trend along these lines, as famous and powerful men took up with the young women whose job it was to tend to them and care for them in some way: their secretaries, assistants, nannies, caterers, flight attendants, researchers and fact-checkers.
Men think that women with important jobs are more likely to cheat on them.

“Women, by contrast, did not show a marked difference in their attraction to men who might work above or below them. And men did not show a preference when it came to one-night stands.

“The study found that a high I.Q. hampers a woman's chance to get married, while it is a plus for men. The prospect for marriage increased by 35 percent for guys for each 16-point increase in I.Q.; for women, there is a 40 percent drop for each 16-point rise.”


This makes me feel all agog. Which only goes to show how frighteningly naïve I can be. Then again, with the divorce rate what it is, maybe that proves how terrifyingly stupid these matches are. “Prospect for marriage”? Like, who cares anymore anyway?