So in the current edition of the US Marie Claire magazine, there’s an article entitled ‘The New Trophy Wife’.
They argue the new ‘accessory’ for the successful businessman is no longer a young, elegant blonde – but an Asian women – and they their claim up by highlighting 6-7 famous/rich Westerners who are now with women who originate from that part of the World.
Apart from the fact 6 or 7 rich/famous Westerners doesn’t represent an emerging trend – let alone a mass shift in attitudes – the whole premise of the article is both preposterous and prejudicial.
Here’s a magazine that is supposedly dedicated to the ‘empowerment of women’ and it’s acting like the sort of small minded idiot you see in a nightclub at 2am on a Saturday morning.
Worse, it’s acting like the sort of small minded idiot who has little experience/exposure to people from other cultures and bases the majority of their opinions from 1970’s ‘comedy’ television shows, porn movies or ignorant, fear-driven, jingoistic ‘journalism’ – the type of which you can read in this month’s Marie Claire.
Of course there are worse insults than being labelled a ‘trophy wife’ … but let’s be honest, it’s not something to exactly feel proud of is it?
Sure, it might indicate a woman who embodies great beauty and style … however it also implies an individual who is ‘all image and no substance’ with some even being labelled as people whose loyalty is in direct proportion to the amount and duration of money being thrown in their direction.
And here’s the thing, whilst there will be some Asian women who think/act like this – to claim ALL Asian women adopt this attitude is outrageous – as outrageous as claiming all blondes are thick, all red heads go like the clappers and all successful men like women from the East because they’re all super-slim, uber-hot and think nothing of putting their needs before themselves.
[Though to be fair, the bullshit gender roles that so many companies are so happy to promote might influence why people think this way!]
Oh but hang on, Marie Claire have spoken to ‘experts’ for ‘insightful’ points of view.
What a shame the people they’ve spoken to come out with bollocks like this …
“[If an Asian woman is] … dating a white guy, they may not know if it’s a fetish thing.”
A fetish thing?
Fucking hell, it sounds more like literature from the BNP than some international women’s magazine.
Mind you, given they started their article with the words, ‘The Woody Allen effect’ I should of know I wasn’t dealing with the high-end of journalistic insight.
Can you imagine the shit that would have gone down if Marie Claire had said ‘black women’ were the new trophy wife and implied the only reason white men would ‘date’ them was to fulfil some sort of fetish thing?
They’d be – and quite rightly too – blue bloody murder, so I’ll be very interested to see if there’s any feedback on this article.
All Asian Women look & act like this. Even when they’re 93!
The whole article feels like a massive stitch up – designed to make American women feel even more paranoid about how they look as well as make men appear even more disloyal and shallow.
To be fair to Marie Claire, I do know that in countries like Singapore, there are a growing number of local women who find Western men a more attractive proposition than someone from their own territory – and I do know that this has contributed to some ill feeling towards foreigners from the local male community – however if people looked into the reasons behind this attitude rather than simply equate it to ‘wealth potential’, they would see that not only is the Government actively trying to encourage ‘international relationships’ [because it will help the local economy] it has more to do with mutual respect and values than how many diamonds they think they will be bought.
Sure, there will be some women whose actions are more motivated by self [material] interest than ‘true love’ – but there’s people like that in every culture and that attitude is certainly not limited to just females – and the fact is, the women highlighted by Marie Claire as being the ‘trophy wives’ of the rich/famous are pretty much all well known as being talented, smart and successful individuals … so I’m sure they’ll be over-the-moon to read some 2-bit magazine has decided to undermine all their hard work and efforts and label them simply as ‘women who married well’.