Find me a find, catch me a catch

from the Boston Globe

Janis Spindel is a modern-day Yente, charging up to $100,000 for playing matchmaker to Boston's brahmin. Oh and the focus of her business is finding attractive women for rich businessmen. Apparently other qualities don't count for much:

"I'm dealing with gorgeous men -- gorgeous! -- who have it all, from billionaires in Bel Air to humongous movers and shakers in Washington to awesome guys in Boston. The only piece missing is a woman, and that's when they come to me."

Ahh...one more possession to add to the collection! So why are these rich, attractive men coming to Spindel?

No, it's all about time, she says. These captains of industry are too busy to meet Ms. Right, so they hire her to screen candidates. Everyone outsources everything these days -- why not love?

Great, so if these men don't even have enough time to find a mate, how in the hell are they going to be able to be a partner in a relationship? I think the key is that these men do not expect to be a partner...they are looking for a patriarchal marriage in which he can take out his little wife and play with her when he wants, and then can close her up inside her dollhouse until his ready to play with her again. Just reading this article made me sick.

I especially love how Spindle stereotypes women:

Women are too high maintenance," she says. "They're needy. They're nagging."

Could she feel this way because high maintenance women are exactly what she is "gathering" for her clientele? Perhaps these women are "high maintence" because they want a partnership, not an autocracy?

Hold on to your asses though, this is by far the BEST part:

She can be hard-nosed in rejecting women who, as she puts it, "don't take care of themselves." She adds: "Fat is out. We're not in Kansas or Iowa or Nebraska. We're in major metropolitan cities where people care about looks."

So what do men want? Is it all about looks? Are they that superficial?
Yes, says Spindel, they are.

"Men want perfection," she says. "They want women who are attractive, who are well-groomed, natural looking."

And thin. "Men have an allergy to fat. I don't care if they're short and bald with a belly. Women are much more open.

However men do:

"...value intelligence, a sense of humor, and character."

BUT

For her men, intellectual stimulation has been "really heavy duty" only in the past five years.

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?