Talk:Trophy wife

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Contents 1 Fred Thompson 2 Effect of economic considerations 3 Women's motivations 4 Examples 5 Only Western Culture? 6 Age 7 Removed "examples"

[edit] Fred Thompson

Given that the guy is running for president, it seems kinda in bad taste to put him up as an example of a guy with a trophy wife, joking or not. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.99.228.80 (talk) 03:01, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Effect of economic considerations

On reflection I am not sure the references to "wrongdoing" or first marriages are entirely relevant. If the women gets what she wants, the man gets what he wants, and no one is harmed - hard to see "wrongdoing" (except as a cultural/economic bias?). If a rich older male acquires an unusually attractive younger first wife, is she not a "trophy wife?

Seems the distinction that earns this label is simply a rich older man married to an attractive younger woman - an unusual combination without his wealth.

This should tie into an article the effective marketplace in courtship - if such an article existed.

[edit] Women's motivations

I'm not so sure about the paragraph on women's motivations. It would be nice to have some indication of how many women are motivated this way, and how many are in fact unaware that they're trophy wives. I'm not going to change it without definite information, though. -- Ortonmc 22:16, 25 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Motivation? Probably $$$$$

JesseG 02:16, July 15, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Examples

Surely there are some famous examples of trophy wives that could be cited. -- Ortonmc 22:16, 25 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Vulgar Reference

A trophy wife is not a display of success, the reference is more vulgar. A trophy is a deer(dear), with large antlers(a big rack), you hang(mount) in the den.

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With the "vulgar reference" - women who are trophy wives are not treated too much better than the deer hanged in the den.

JesseG 03:45, Oct 19, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Only Western Culture?

Why the assumption this is only a pattern of behavior in "Western" cultures? Seems likely that older successful men acquiring younger more attractive wives is not driven by culture. Surely there are equivalent patterns in other cultures. To be more meaningful we need examples of equivalents patterns in other cultures. --pbannister 21:56, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Political correctness most likely. I have seen/heard of the trophy wife phenomenon also in Hong Kong. In fact the whole Western Culture label is of limited use outside politically correct exercises, as say Finnish and Italian cultures differ enormously.

[edit] Age

An age limit is given in the article. But, there is no reference or data to back it up. Age isn't the only feature of a trophy wife, and I don't think we should limit the age. See reference #2 in the article.Mwinog2777 05:41, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

I removed the silly math formula for determining the age below which one is a trophy wife. Unless there is a very well known person who popularized this formula it doesn't belong in the article. Rhobite 03:36, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

ThanksMwinog2777 06:02, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Removed "examples"

I have removed the examples section, which was entirely drawn from pop culture. The section constituted original research. Chick Bowen 22:14, 17 July 2007 (UTC)