what she looks like. After all, Mom, trained by her mother to be a
prostitute as well, has always been fond of te lling her, "It's just as easy to marry a rich
man as a poor one". She believes that a man should provide her with everything she
wants without expecting any sort of reciprocal payment. When she dates, she will
passively wait to be asked out, thinking that onl y a "desperate woman" or a "slut" chases
men; she will not pick up a check, or even ma ke the offer. If for some reason she should
feel pressure to make such a gesture, it will only be perfunctory-if her date takes her up
on the suggestion, she will never see him again. As before, he has tacitly implied that her
body isn't worth paying for. She will judge all prospective lovers explicitly by how much
they are willing to spend on her.
Still, she fancies herself a feminist. At work, she bitches about how unfair it is that men
are earning more than she is, even though she hasn't bothered to train herself adequately
for a better position. She hates her job, and re sents having to work at all, since she
actually has to perform labor and doesn't ha ve enough time to flirt with the unmarried up-
and-coming executives, which is why she chos e to work for this company in the first
place. She explains to her friends that sh e doesn't care how much money a man makes,
because "money isn't important", yet she won't even acknowledge the delivery man or the
technician who try to catch her eye. At ni ght, she leafs through her women's magazines,
poring over articles about where to find rich men, while she fills out relationship surveys
with responses that she wants a guy with a sense of humor who will be considerate of her
feelings. She has become an expert at lying to herself; she has learned to internalize her
hypocrisy.
MARRIAGE
If she's good-looking enough, and displays her body to tantalize the male eye, she will
position herself to seduce a man with a large income. She will fall in "love". Such
heartfelt emotion, however, has nothing to do with it-for her, marriage is a business
arrangement, an impersonal profit center. Em otion she saves for kitty cats and babies,
who have no money she can exploit. Still, she'll act out her female masquerade,
convincing herself that her feelings are genuine, and her eyes will sparkle with
excitement as she shows off her huge diamond to her envious girlfriends, and whiles
away the hours (she's already quit her j ob) flipping through brides' magazines and
furniture catalogues. If only her husband-to be could just for a moment glimpse the cold,
hard thoughts running through her head!
But her marriage is not grounded in true love, trust, or friendship, and so it is doomed.
Since sex has always been a bargaining chip to get what she wants from a man, she will
cut it off almost immediately after the we dding. She has achieved her goals and no longer
needs to lure the fish-she has hooked him a nd now it's time for dinner. Still, despite her
coldness, she will continue to exac t monetary tribute from her husband.
Eventually he will tire of her frigidity and he r consumption of his money and he will seek
the company of other women who are still plying the tools of their trade. With his large
income he will encounter no problems with at tracting lovers-they've been practically
hurling themselves at him all along, heedless of his marital vows. On her part, she can't
comprehend the reason she's lost her attractiven ess to her husband. Isn't she still the same
sweet girl he married? Her outrage begins to flame-she calls him a "jerk" and a "bastard".
She is furious because her gold-plated vagina seems to have lost its controlling power. It
doesn't occur to her that she has used her sexuality to attract a rich man, and that he
rightfully expects to get what he paid for. She has acted like a whore-albeit a dishonest
one-and now is shocked when she's treated like one.
Even if her looks are a bit more ordinary, ne vertheless she still believes that her body is
worth a high price, and she will hold out for a surgeon or a stockbroker for as long as her
biological clock permits, having failed to notice that the men with the level of salary she
desires will pass her by in fa vor of a woman with superb looks or youth. But she is
encouraged by an
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