Pity the poor put upon young, fashionable, upwardly mobile women who have landed rich — or those they thought would soon be rich — Wall Streeters as boyfriends or husbands, only to find that their meal tickets were now on budgets and maybe even unemployed. There's a new place for them to bitch, whine and compare notes — Dating A Banker Anonymous. Members of DABA actually meet (see the above picture from the Times), and there's also a blog where they dish. The NY Times did a piece on some of the women:
They shared their sad stories the other night at an informal gathering of Dating a Banker Anonymous, a support group founded in November to help women cope with the inevitable relationship fallout from, say, the collapse of Lehman Brothers or the Dow’s shedding 777 points in a single day, as it did on Sept. 29.
In addition to meeting once or twice weekly for brunch or drinks at a bar or restaurant, the group has a blog, billed as “free from the scrutiny of feminists,” that invites women to join “if your monthly Bergdorf’s allowance has been halved and bottle service has all but disappeared from your life.”…
“Next time you are stressing over some finance guy, remember that he is just a math-club nerd,” one woman wrote after recounting a breakup. “This recession just bought everyone an extra two years of the single life.”
Another, though, seemed chagrined, after her boyfriend told her to “grow up” and stop “complaining about vacations and dinner” since he had to “fire 20 people by the end of the week.”
Gawker naturally has joined in and naturally isn't nearly as kind as the Times:
Oh, look, someone started "Dating a Banker Anonymous," where vapid women meet to whine about the empty lives they chose and the broke, impotent men they are now stuck with.
These women, some of the worst specimens on the face of the planet, get together for brunch or drinks, where they give quotes like these to the New York Times…
Dating A Banker Anonymous Blog
It’s the Economy, Girlfriend – NY Times
Gold-Digging Shrews Whine About Banker Mates – Gawker
Tags: Banking Culture, Credit Crunch, Dating, Eye Candy
