I’m a little late to The Game, but last week I read Neil Strauss’s exposé of the pick-up artist (PUA) community. Feminists might find offense in these dudes’ approach to women, but the book isn’t about women at all. It’s about men. The Game is a Fight Club-esque dudes-on-dudes tour of the search for self […]
March 9, 2011 by Nicole W.C. Yeatman
Romantic partnerships are, in many ways, like business partnerships: partners make risk assessments; they merge their assets; they invest time and money; and they balance costs and benefits. But should the courts treat romantic promises between partners as legally binding? The Chicago Tribune reports: Lauren Serafin’s wedding was set — dress purchased, Ritz-Carlton reserved, honeymoon […]
February 24, 2011 by Nicole W.C. Yeatman
The last couple of weeks have been a boon for junkies of dating-psychology trend-pieces. Even the estimable Wall Street Journal has joined the ongoing national conversation about the economics of dating, marriage, and divorce. In last weekend’s edition of the Journal, Manhattan Institute Scholar Kay S. Hymowitz asks the question generations of women have asked […]
January 17, 2011 by Nicole W.C. Yeatman
When Beverly Willett’s husband told her he was leaving her for another woman, she told him she wouldn’t agree to a divorce. It was in 2002, and at that time, New York State didn’t allow no-fault divorces. Willett’s husband couldn’t prove that she’d broken her marital contract, and he couldn’t convince her to let him […]
January 15, 2011 by Nicole W.C. Yeatman
73-year-old Joseph Weiner says that the economic crisis hasn’t hurt his mail-order bride business. The former I-banker now has 30 offices and is steadily delivering beautiful young women from Eastern Europe to the doorsteps of rich and lonely men around the world. The company, called Hand-in-Hand, says it is “designed for single men looking for […]
April 4, 2011 by Kat
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