Hedge Fund Hotties

I had thought the point of becoming a super-rich hedge fund manager was that chicks would be into you no matter how bad you looked, so you wouldn't need to worry about dressing well. Just confused I guess. Speaking of confused, I think Chad Ford needs a remedial course in gender stereotypes:

Taking Kevin Durant is like dating a supermodel. She's hot. Everyone thinks you're cool for being next to her. For a few years everything is great. But when it's time to settle down, have kids, start a life ... she's eyeing younger guys. Partying late at night. Leaving you in the dust the next time a good thing comes along.

Taking Oden is like marrying the girl you don't want to date, but the girl you want to spend the rest of your life with. She's responsible. She looks out for you. She helps you be the best person you can be. She's not hot on the outside. But inside she makes your life worth living.

When she gets older, your trophy wife is going to dump you for a younger man? That's backwards. Ford's cliché only works if you reverse the genders and then we're in cads and dads territory. What's more, since Durant and Oden are both men, it makes more sense this way. Durant's the flashy guy you want, Oden's the solid guy you know you should want. And, yes, I'm wearing my Texas Basketball t-shirt right now. The problem is that Ford's so tangled-up in his own anxieties that he can't bear the thought of constructing an analogy that turns him into a woman (or maybe a gay man, but the stereotype really only fits if he's a woman).

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2007/06/hedge-fund-hotties/42943/