You know the phrase "not all women are like that?" Well, it's mocked over at Rollo Tomassi's and other places. But as with most cliches, I think it's true.
So, my take here is that this "case study" did prove women are gold diggers...the ones that took the bait. But it didn't count the ones who
didn't.
Who would those be? Those would be women like the modest bookworms/church girls I knew in college who practically ran screaming away from any guy who was "flashy" in their eyes.
It would also include the hippie chicks I knew who went on tour with the Grateful Dead and avoided material possessions and shacked up with broke hippie guys. (True story: I used to casually date one in college they called "the braless wonder" who was crazy about my broke ass and laughed in the face of a frat boy who tried to impress her.)
Later on in life, I met female editors (some of whom were absolutely gorgeous) and they tended to prefer brainiacs or "men with a passion" over anyone else. They often rejected much, much better prospects for "thinkers" or oddballs.
Thanks to Facebook, Linkedin, and the passing years, I'm now able to see how the bookworms, hippies, and editors turned out.
They didn't change. They didn't marry wealth. Two examples: The cute/sexy bookworm I hooked up with at Freshmen Orientation works as a pharmacist and married a guitar teacher who apparently teaches kids lessons for very little money. And the super-hot 6'0" tall editor who could have been a model married a part-time professor.
Money is nice for attracting a certain breed of woman. But women are strange and it won't lure them all. I think the "not all women are like that" crowd are overly simplifying a very complicated topic and need to listen to Joe Jackson's
"Is She Really Going Out With Him?" for a reality check.