Why women want sugar daddies

Why women want sugar daddies(unherd.com)

13 points by bloke_zero 4 years ago

Emma_Goldman 4 years ago |

The phenomenon is interesting, but the logical through line of this article is utterly tendentious:

(1) Some women hire themselves out to rich 'sugar daddies'

(2) Some of those women are professed feminists

(3) Women become 'sugar babies' because of feminism

Blaming this trend on MeToo is just bizarre. I note that (2) is a simple assertion.

drcongo 4 years ago | |

She's a columnist for The Torygraph where everything must be blamed on feminism. Also, the submission history for UnHerd tells one a lot about the site too - https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=unherd.com

whalesalad 4 years ago |

This is a refreshingly honest take, love it.

black_13 4 years ago |

Purile

nkurz 4 years ago | |

Could you go beyond a one word dismissal? Who is being puerile? The author, the reader, the women selling themselves, or the men buying them? Is it better or worse than straight forward prostitution?

(I vouched for the article to bring it back from the dead, because I thought it was a well-written article about a contentious modern phenomenon. I don't much like it as a direction for society, but I think it's worth discussing rather than ignoring.)