Bankers and their Clueless Girls

A recent NY Times article showed a glimpse into the sad deteriorating world of young girls dating bankers and/or other guys in the finance industry down on their luck because of the current global recession. The article interviews members of a group with their own blog experiencing similar relationship issues with their respective partners. The saddest facet of this article was the utter cluelessness of those girlfriends. Totally oblivious to the escalating global financial turmoil affecting millions of people worldwide, these females were whining and group hugging each other about the petty lapses and cutbacks they had to suffer because their partners cannot afford to pamper them anymore. Talk about setting the female movement backwards!! The article points out that some of these females do have careers themselves, so why is it that they must congregate to share how they feel disoriented with their partners' tenuous grip on their careers. Are these females defined by the affluence and success of their partners? How come these females cannot instead converge to strategize on plans to aid their partners financially in case they get laid off (a plausible certainty as the dire recession cycle continues)? It is deeply disturbing to still read about females who are consciously identifying themselves with their male partners' careers? The ladies further stated that they are attracted to the "alpha males", the upwardly mobile males who will undoubtedly reap tremendous fruits from their perseverance. How about those female trying to be upwardly mobile themselves in their respective fields so that they don't have to worry themselves to death about their partners less than stellar future?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/nyregion/28daba.html?em