“I liked the item you ran in the Dish about Joe Millionaire, of which I have seen all extant segments. I think, though, that you and Michelle Cottle may be missing the key subtext that has made this show what it is, i.e. a reality show straight “regular” men watch.
It isn’t just that the women vying for Evan’s hand are shallow and money grubbing. Women like that are so commonplace that they are unnewsworthy. What brings the smile to our hetero-testerone laden lips is the double-standard coming from that half of the human race that whines incessantly about double-standards they’re subjected to. After all, men didn’t invent the fatuous term “inner beauty”, but everyone from Dr. Laura to Rosie O’Donnell to Oprah to Naomi Wolf expect men to see that and only that. These same folks would doubtless sneer if you told a woman to seek the “inner multi-millionaire” in the pet-store employee who, despite being nice, stable and relatively unnarcissistic would be undatable because of his income and status…” More on the Letters page.
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