Washington men are only interested in possessing the women who spurned them in high school and college.
Washington is all about money and power? Why? Well, Washington is all about the revence of the nerds.
Every single a-type Washington man has a chip on his geeky, wonky, nerdy, and pedigreed shoulder: I will be with the prom queen. Dating in Washington is all messed up.
Over lunch, over conversation, yesterday, it came to me: the problems with dating in DC has a lot to do with our men. DC men are late-bloomers who never socialized like normal guys. They really never got their game until they joined K Street as an associate lawyer or the Hill as a staffer. From that day of wealth and power, all of these super-brilliant and super-ambitious men decided to exact their vengeance.
To mis-quote Tony Montana to Manny, “Inside the beltway, you gotta get the power first. Then when you get the power, you get the money. Then when you get the money, then you get the woman.”
The revenge of the nerds: either the Dulles corridor millionaire geek-nerds or the Capitol Hill staffer wonks, all of the nerdy, geeky, awkward, and generally shy student body presidents, speech and debate captains, National Merit Scholar dweebs are out to get the hot blonde who didn’t even know he existed back in the day.
That’s kind of pathetic, don’t you think?
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Pathetic, but completely understandable. Deny a kid alcohol until he turns 21 (no, really) and his GPA will plummet as his bar tabs soar. (Not to mention his ability to function as a human being.) Denying anybody ANYTHING–anything desirable, that is–only increases its value. Look at anything in limited supply–that $1,000 seems a hell of a lot more valuable to me than, say, to Bill Gates.
Because of this, I think you’re right. Once they’ve finally turned 21–or gotten the money, power, etc–they can finally get the girl. And why shouldn’t they, if they do, in fact, find her valuable? Well, in a perfect world, they wouldn’t unless they had also gained class, compassion, honesty, and a good character (or had any since they were young and ignored).
But we don’t live in a perfect world. And so the men who are just out for the trophies get the women who are just out for the power and money.
And the only people who are really happy are the ones who didn’t lust after the prom queen to begin with, to whom that ideal always rang a bit false. The ones who value other things and the nice girls who value them.
Amen, brother. Amen.
I was a Hill staffer once and that cycle of power/money/women is deadly accurate. Remember a few years back with the front desk staffer who slept with someone “because he knew Tom DeLay?” Yecccchhhh!