Sunday’s Times had yet another piece o’ crap trend article about women who make a pile of money and have trouble dating men who make less money. It was so clearly a piece o’ crap, but I had to read the whole thing on Sunday, because I’m a shallow being who reads the Style Section before the Week in Review.

I would love to know how many women the reporter had to interview before finding a couple of idiots who complained that their dates couldn’t afford the fine wine and pate.

I was disturbed by the article, because the underlying theme of this article was that successful women are materialistic bitches.

Becks at Unfogged linked to Megan McArdle who also hated the article. Megan wrote that the real problem was income disparity between the genders in the minority community and tut-tutted the liberal Times for overlooking this fact. It’s not really a surprise that the Style section is written by apolitical, bottom feeders for shallow creatures like myself.

The discussion thread on Unfogged took an interesting tangent. Does Megan get undue criticism in the blogosphere? Do many of the negative comments have an uncomfortable, sexist edge to them? Ann Althouse has complained that her critics too often make crass comments about her appearance, which never happens to the male bloggers. Of course, Althouse has made crass comments about the appearance of other women bloggers.

I have mixed feelings about that tangent. On the one hand, it’s the blogosphere. If you don’t develop a hard crusty shell quickly, you’re dead meat. On the other hand, I worry that successful women piss people off.