Why women love rich people. What kind of wives do successful men look for, and what awaits them in such relationships? You're too bad and that's why you're alone

How much is said today that women today have become picky and selfish: they try to find a richer man, first of all they look at the wealth of their partner, and not at his human qualities, they build relationships based on material benefits in the future.

Do you have all this today? Of course have! But it seems that many are going too far in accusing our women of considerable prudence and greed. Of course, hunters for other people's money were everywhere and at all times, and with the economic development of our country and open opportunities for earning money, their number could rightly increase. But is the desire of the vast majority of today's women to have a worthy and wealthy man next to them so scary and immoral? Let's try to figure it out.

Why does a woman want to find a more secure and stable share for herself? We will not talk now about those sharks who choose their main life occupation and act in cold blood in this direction, using all known methods and means. And we will turn to completely normal and adequate girls and women who, one way or another, along with all the “ideal” qualities of the expected man, also consider his financial level.

1) At the moment, great prospects have opened up in our country for both income and good personal income. In this sense, something like healthy competition has formed among men in the workplace - whoever is smarter, more focused, more active, achieves more and climbs higher. Accordingly, from a female point of view, a logical formula can be derived: whoever earns more is more viable. This means that this one is best suited for joint future offspring.

Every mother instinctively strives to take the best possible care of her offspring, so she subconsciously looks for the best and most reliable place, food, and care for them. And in human language - housing, provision of everything necessary and more, opportunities for education and development. In the same way, subconsciously she strives to cover her rear in case something suddenly happens: she dies, gets sick - how will she live? So it provides them with insurance for the future - for decent survival and living. Naturally, a well-to-do man in this sense maximally satisfies all the needs of a woman in terms of her main mission - giving birth to a child.

From all this we can conclude that an important role in women’s “requests” is played not by cold calculation and the desire to place their bottom in a warmer place, but by echoes of the natural instinct of high-quality care for their offspring. And, of course, these things are reinforced by the obvious fact that men today are different, and given a wide choice, no one forbids wanting the best.

This is what he writes, for example: Doctor Kurpatov about this question: “The issue of a young man’s financial prospects and wealth has always been important for a woman, even in the “selfless” Soviet times. Of course, she’s giving birth to him! Of course he must be wealthy. How else? There is only one significant difference: the range of possibilities has expanded enormously. If previously the young man competed only with the “guy next door,” now his competition is with the oligarch from the penthouse. The expansion is colossal". And he continues regarding the demands of modern ladies: “...not because the girls are mercantile, but because the girls already see both”.

2) The second point is the “spirit” of the time. Today, all media: television, glossy magazines, newspapers zealously promote a rich and beautiful life. Their plots and pages are replete with stories about Cinderellas who snatched away a luxurious prince, glamorous girls going through the rich one after another, and beauties for whom all roads to a sweet and carefree life are open. And how should the consciousness of a modern girl be formed under the pressure of such propaganda? In spite of? But why? Because an initially decent and highly spiritual person filters this kind of information?

Partly, of course, true. But you and I are all modern people, we live with the times, we buy advertised services and goods, we work in private companies, we go to popular places, we try to buy new and fashionable cars. On what basis then should we completely filter this particular side of life? Of course, we pass some part of this “propaganda” through ourselves - some more, others less - but a certain part of the “spirit” of our time remains in our consciousness and begins to participate in the formation of our life attitudes. And this is normal, this is a natural process. Good or bad, he is there, he is coming, and this will happen at all times.

3) Today, women themselves have become quite independent, earn good money, and can provide for themselves. Therefore, they rightly think that a man should be better - that’s why the demands are growing. This is normal, this is natural. The historical consciousness of the “weaker sex” has not yet atrophied in women’s self-identification: a man should be a protector, a reliable shoulder, stronger and more powerful in all respects: physically, morally, financially. And if I am at some level, then my man should logically be at least at the same level plus have some other “additive” - this is women’s logic.

4) When a woman wants wealth for herself personally, then her main need in this sense becomes to be better, more beautiful, more attractive. Ask what she will get the most joy from: a car, an apartment and travel experiences, or from investing a certain amount of money in her own attractiveness and feeling like a goddess. Almost everyone will agree on the latter. Why does a woman want to be better and more beautiful? All for the same man.

So let's not blame modern women for the fact that they have all become mercantile. “Predators” have existed at all times, and even if there are more of them, this does not mean that absolutely all young ladies are now engaged exclusively in hunting, and not in building relationships and love. It’s just that the men themselves, with such an economic model of society, showed themselves at their best: they “promoted themselves,” “turned around,” “earned money.” And, of course, their best representatives potentially significantly win in the natural, but invisible competition for the attention of the fair sex.

And let all the ladies not get super-oligarchs, but what’s wrong with at least wanting a better life for yourself and your future generation? Yes, nothing - the process is natural, logical and natural not only for any normal human consciousness, but also for the biologically determined female instinct.

Why rich men prefer kept women

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Why are wealthy men increasingly dating for convenience?

Sometimes I talk to new people - and they won’t calm down - how is it, why are all these rich men looking for girls for money? Well, okay, we - one dreams of traveling and a beautiful life, another wants an apartment in the center, and someone thinks that she is not cut out for ordinary work... But why do men need this?!

Why do successful men “buy” relationships for themselves? Why don't they want to stay in the family or don't get married at all? Yes, because they are not typical people, I’ll tell you what, and they have their own problems.

Over the course of several years of working as a kept woman, I managed to communicate with many men, as well as with colleagues in the industry. And this is the conclusion I came to: there are many sponsors, but they are all quite different - like people in general. However, I found out why they enter into relationships with kept women.

They are busy

Yes, this is the main reason why rich people sponsor cute and educated girls. They have no time to go on dates, constantly call their beloved and pay attention to all these “bunnies” and “tsemkas” in personal correspondence.

I had one man. He said that he was literally disgusted by all the “ugly” behavior of his ex - okay, this is baby talk, so the girl demanded to answer all her messages, to call him often, and she could often refuse him bed. So he found me - the exact opposite - .

They don't need consequences

Often wealthy men who are looking for kept women are single people who do not set themselves the goal of starting a family and having children.

Somehow, during a sincere conversation, one of my sponsor candidates admitted that he, of course, could plant a tree and build a house, but only for his own sake. Starting a family is, he says, a challenge that can't be easily fixed.

They are bored

Yes Yes. They're just bored. They are bored of spending evenings, they are bored of spending nights alone. There are also men who consider themselves polygamous and cannot count on a single relationship with their wife. So they are looking for themselves.

They are used to paying for everything

After visiting elite restaurants, theaters and exhibitions, I realized that wealthy people think in completely different categories. For them, life is an opportunity to earn and distribute their income. For a sponsor, investing in a kept dog is a guarantee of a pleasant pastime.

After all, girls devote their time to them: they talk to them, attend corporate parties and social events, give them seemingly priceless nights... All this, in the understanding of a wealthy man, is time (read: money). Kept women provide their services to them, and in high circles it is customary to pay for services.

They are not ready to give emotions in return

In some ways, wealthy people are stingy. They are not stingy with money, of course. They are stingy with emotions. Because very often small and defenseless children are hidden inside rude and successful men.

My third, after four months of regular sex and dinner get-togethers, admitted that he was simply afraid to build a relationship according to the “pattern.” Like, his father beat his mother, he drank, his mother beat him little, and he was disgusted. Having matured, he went into business, but on a personal level... he is not ready to open up, he is afraid that there will be problems if the relationship becomes too serious.

But not all boys are so vulnerable. Many are seasoned entrepreneurs and they simply don't know how to give back in a relationship other than money

The ideal woman of a wealthy man - what is she like?

Of course, each person is individual. But rich and successful people live by different “laws”: status obliges. This also applies to choosing a life partner.

What kind of woman is she - the ideal woman for a rich man?

Age. First of all, the girl should be much younger. So that it would not be embarrassing to bring her out into the world and show her to friends, so that she would be healthy enough to give birth to his heirs. That is, the younger, the better (as life shows, even a difference of 50 years does not bother anyone anymore).
Economic skills and talents. This criterion is usually not even considered. For a rich man, the household affairs are managed by a servant, so such abilities of the chosen one as baking pies, cleaning the house, bleaching shirts, etc., do not matter. If he doesn’t know how, that’s fine.
Education. Again, an insignificant criterion. A woman can look into her neckline, into her pedigree, and even into her mouth (are her teeth good?), but no one will look at her diploma.
IQ level. “A complete fool” is good for fun on the side. No one will marry a stupid woman. But a wife who is too smart is a blow to a man’s pride, so a wise woman always looks a little stupider than her husband.
Appearance. Well, of course, a woman should be breathtakingly beautiful, well-groomed, stylish and smelling delicious. Even if she just crawled out of bed or, conversely, just crawled into it after a hard business day at work. A beautiful wife is like a “business card” for a successful man.
Children. Not every successful man is ready for children. Although, it is worth noting that the majority still strive to expand their family. An heir is one of the moments of self-affirmation, a profitable investment of money and another facet of status. True, governesses usually take care of children - dad simply has no time, and mom is not entitled to it due to her status.
Job. Of course, in most cases, successful men choose women who will obediently and patiently wait for them at home with warm hugs, tenderness and forgiveness in their eyes (an advance for the future, if that). The wife must blow away the specks of dust from him, always be in a good mood, understand everything and agree with everything. He said that he was at a meeting until 3 am, which means he was. He said that there were no women in the sauna at the meeting with partners, which means there weren’t any. Work is an unaffordable luxury. But it is worth noting that the wives of many successful famous men not only work, but have their own business - and quite successful one. So it all depends on the character and wishes of the man - there is no single requirement here. It is clear that a man would rather pay attention to a successful, accomplished and “dear” woman than to a stupid, even pretty, girl who is nothing. Another question is whether he will then leave this successful woman the opportunity to work or put her at home with the children.
Nobody likes a spender. Especially men who know how to count money. A passion for branded items and meaningless purchases will not find a response in the heart of a successful man.
Social status. Cinderella stories are still relevant today. But this is the exception rather than the rule. Of course, status no longer matters as much as it used to, and even the word “misalliance” is forgotten as a relic of the past, but still, a successful man is unlikely to look for a wife in the bakery around the corner. That is, a woman of a wealthy man should also have a certain status.
Other people's children. This exception is even rarer than misalliance. Successful men avoid women with children, with divorce stamps, with a bunch of skeletons in the closet, etc. Rest assured, by the time the relationship “starts” he will already know everything about his chosen one.

Examples of happy relationships - so what kind of women do successful men like?

The well-known former “owner” of Chukotka met his new life partner at a football club party. There was no need to bring the girl into the world - “Cinderella” turned out to be the daughter of an oil magnate and a completely successful businesswoman.

In 2009, the couple had a son, Aaron, and in 2013, a daughter, Leah. However, Mendelssohn's march never sounded. Why - history is silent.

Despite the lack of stamps about marriage, the couple is quite strong and happy. There is no self-interest in the relationship - both are self-sufficient, rich and famous.

This union was whispered all over the world: the 27-year-old Miss Ukraine and the aging (note: 36 years older) business partner of Donald Trump.

It is not for us to judge what exactly connected this couple, but they live quite happily to this day and raise children. The billionaire (220th on the list of the richest grooms in the United States) noticed Sasha at a business dinner and proposed.

Today the girl hosts the Miss Ukraine competition and also helps her husband in his business. Phil himself speaks flatteringly about both Sasha herself and her business acumen.

Yes, yes, everyone knows Dr. House. It is impossible to compare his wife with his on-screen sweetheart Dr. Cuddy. Outwardly, Jo (a former theater administrator) is rude and unfeminine. That, however, does not prevent Hugh Laurie from loving her for many years for her “logical thinking,” her intelligence, the tests she has passed and the accumulated experience of family life, which even the actor’s affair could not prevent.

The couple has three children. Jo did not become his wife right away - the “young” were friends for a long time before realizing that they were connected by a much stronger feeling.

Today, Joe helps her husband in his career, supports him in all his endeavors and, of course, provides a reliable home base.

She is a (well-known) rhythmic gymnastics coach. He is one of those who are called oligarchs.

They met in their youth, but fate was adamant - Irina got married, and Alisher went to study in Moscow. It was in the capital that they met again. Irina, who had already gone through a divorce, was in no hurry to go to the registry office, but gave in to Alisher’s pressure.

The cloudless life together was interrupted by the “Cotton Case” and the arrest of Usmanov. Irina did not give up and did not complain - she visited, waited, and worked. While still behind bars, Alisher proposed to her.

After 6 years of waiting they are back together. In 2000, Usmanov was rehabilitated, and the criminal case was declared fabricated. A marriage that can be set as an example for all young couples - an honest, trusting and strong relationship, absolute respect, mutual understanding and trust in each other.

If your husband is not a millionaire,

Women love wealthy, successful men - but are they ready to be with them?

Life with a rich man is not only about expensive cars, dinners at restaurants, jewelry and parties. First of all, family life is everyday life. Which, by the way, for rich people is very different from the life of “mere mortals.”

What can await the chosen one of a wealthy man? What should you be prepared for?

Age difference. It just seems - where there are 10 years, there are 20, or even 30. “In our time, who cares!” But no. Not all the same. At first, the age difference is covered by the “benefits received.” But over time, not only disagreements (quite logical) enter family life, but also a gradual physical distance from each other. A young beautiful woman begins to look at her husband’s younger, wealthy friends, and it is extremely rare that a marriage lasts “until the grave.” Usually it ends in a loud scandal and division of property.
Jealousy. Of course, the husband will be jealous of his young, beautiful wife for every “pillar”. And jealousy will be completely justified.
It's rare that an oligarch's wife feels happy. The thrill of love is from a different opera. And it’s good if there is simply no romance and this very “awe”. It's worse when a woman is treated like furniture. Which can not only be moved to another room if not needed, but also kicked in a fit of anger.
Risks. Wealth and success always go hand in hand with crime. Moreover, the risk here is double-edged: a wife (child) can be kidnapped for ransom, a husband can be removed as a competitor, or even put behind bars if his wealth is by no means “honestly acquired.”
Bankruptcy. No one is immune from these risks. There are many cases where millionaires were suddenly left with nothing.
Free movement of the spouse is something out of science fiction. The oligarch's wife is not only under the gun of the ubiquitous paparazzi, but also under the constant control of her husband.
Feeling lonely. There's no escape from it. A dear spouse, even if he is truly loved and desired, spends most of his time at work, or even in another country. Out of hopelessness and melancholy, many wives of rich men find an outlet on the side (which later, of course, comes up) or in a bottle (which also does not end well).
Even if the wife raises the children without the help of a nanny, the husband still does not take part in this process. Because there is no time. The wife’s task is to raise them, his task is to be proud of them (or to get them out of troubles that the “golden youth” often get into).
Equality is an empty phrase. If a woman cannot boast of her own business, acumen, or fortune, then she can only play the role of a “kept woman,” which sooner or later will become boring and humiliating. Dependency does not provide the opportunity to “dictate terms.”
Losing friends. No, of course, they will be - only new ones. Who will become “equals” in social status. Friendships with friends from a past “poor” life will end as soon as they feel the difference in status. This will happen automatically and cannot be changed.
A woman's interests and hobbies will be filtered and eliminated , according to the opinion of the spouse. Most often, the wives of oligarchs have to receive pleasure only within the limits of what is permitted.
Jealousy. And there’s no escape from it either. His husband’s young fans will hover around him almost around the clock. And the wife will either have to accept everything as it is and close her eyes to everything, or constantly drink valerian until her nervous system completely fails.

Of course, everything is relative. And there are successful wealthy men who carry their “Cinderellas” in their arms, and “the whole world” is thrown at their feet. But these are rather exceptions.

There are many spoiled people in modern society classic daddy's girls who sincerely do not see any other option for a happy married life than to move from the reliable hands of their father into the hands of a rich man. These beautiful girls know and can do a lot, because their parents taught them a lot throughout their lives: they speak a foreign language, work on a computer, study, or have already received some kind of diploma, but they basically don’t want to work.

“This is not why I, such a berry, was raised. I deserve more than to work for a meager salary, wear cheap clothes and cook food,” they think. Such girls grow up in families where parents did all the housework themselves and did not instill responsibility in their children. A girl who grew up in such a family wants to do nothing except manically take care of her appearance. Since childhood, she has learned only one thing: “A girl must be beautiful and slender, and then there will definitely be a prince who will provide her with a luxurious and happy life.”

All day long girls leaf through glossy magazines and read articles on the Internet about the lives of famous stars and businessmen who live in beautiful cottages, drive luxury cars, have their own yachts and private jets. Looking at the photographs of the girls accompanying such men, they sigh and squint at the glaring ideality of their lives, envy them and dream: I wish I were so lucky!

The parents themselves don’t see nothing wrong with that that their adult daughter does not wash the dishes, does not make her bed, does not help her mother clean up the house and does not know where the food in the refrigerator comes from. “Youth is irrepressible, and the world is material. Our daughter is beautiful and smart, so she will definitely find the man who will make her happy,” they think.

And their daughter I want everything at once. They don’t give anything for free, and she doesn’t even want to think about going out and making money herself. This requires time, effort and it is not a fact that you will be able to become rich. And rich men, even older than her dad, who want to have sex with young and beautiful girls, have always been and will always be. They are accustomed to viewing such girls as a commodity, and the girls themselves have sex with them in order to receive expensive gifts from them - apartments, cars, fur coats, diamonds...

About quality of sex with a rich man It is not customary to speak of a respectable age. Because even the most unpleasant sex lasts only a few minutes, but apartments, cars and diamonds stay with you forever. Rarely do such relationships end in marriage, even if the man is divorced or single. The heroines of such stories, as a rule, talk with tears about the humiliation and beatings of a man who first “showed her the whole world, gave her a car and an apartment,” and then “kicked her, broke her ribs” and disappeared.

In our domestic business, great success is achieved, as a rule, by those men who are characterized by demonstrative behavior. They love themselves most of all, but do not know how to love and respect others. They usually lack feelings such as conscience and empathy, which are characteristic of any normal person. When they have sex with a young girl, they think that they are using her in exchange for material values that they give her. They perceive any refusal or attempt to betray him as a betrayal and act with the one who betrayed him as cruelly as with an opponent who prevents him from achieving success in business.

So it turns out that sex with a rich man- this is just a pass to the desired world, and not an opportunity to become happy. In essence, this is domestic prostitution. The young girl is ashamed to stand on the street, but wants to live beautifully and richly. But is quick material well-being worth sacrificing your body? After all, you have only one youth and it is better to spend it next to the person you love and who loves you.

In short: because they do not have the obligation to be rich, unlike men, and because of gender inequality. Plus, because such an alliance is perhaps the easiest social lift for a woman, if she herself is not the daughter of a deputy, tycoon, high-ranking official or general.

So far, even in the Western world, where feminism seems to have won long ago and achieved its main goals, there are very few countries where feminism really won - having made a revolution in the consciousness of women, allowing them to be proud of their own rights and freedoms, their self-sufficiency and independence, encouraging their scientific, political or economic self-realization.

In other words, for a woman to not want to marry a rich man, she must have either an alternative or fear.

And it must be said that Western feminism is slowly giving women both options, not limiting women to searching for a moneybag and showing that it is not at all healthy to be in the position of an initially weak and vulnerable element against the background of such a man.

However, even in the West, different versions of the conservative story about Cinderella are filmed - both “Pretty Woman” and the modern “50 Shades...”.

If you cross out feminism and remember the classical works of culture of centuries up to the 19th-20th, it turns out that the main capital of a woman was fertility (the ability to bear children), her reproductive function, there was usually no talk of any wealth, especially since property and money was often inherited through the male line. It is also worth mentioning that women did not have the right to vote until the last century - the political (representative) function was performed by men who supposedly expressed the “opinion of the family.”

In Russia, feminism never happened, but there was an unsuccessful Soviet experience of equality (when men were actually excluded from family life, but society jealously watched women play the roles of mother and housewife), coupled with the 20th century, which was destructive for the male gene pool ( The First World War, then the civil war, dispossession, the first wave of Stalinist repressions, the Gulag, the Great Patriotic War, the second wave of repressions, the artificial creation of a homophobic environment in the criminal world, Afghanistan, perestroika, the 90s with bandits, Chechnya, “shock therapy” and chaotic market economy...).

Already in the 1970s, Soviet women began to “ask” back, into the kitchen, abandoning political and other ambitions outside the family. In popular works of those years, attitudes towards female happiness were broadcast (“Office Romance”, “Moscow Doesn’t Believe in Tears”).

At the same time, around the same time, the first phenomenon emerged in Soviet society - same-sex families consisting of mothers and grandmothers, along with single mothers who were forced to combine both gender roles due to the absence of a spouse and father. And the second phenomenon is a manless atmosphere, multiplied by the fact that the social role of men was in many ways even more archaic against the background of equal rights for Soviet women. And male beauty and grooming not only did not cost a penny, but was aggravated by worker-peasant homophobia and the humiliating label “like a woman” (sweet, cute, pomaded).

There was no adequate attitude towards male household work; it was not considered prestigious for men to cook food, wash dishes, take care of children, do laundry, and so on - but they were popular folk wisdom like “the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.”

In the 80s and perestroika, the Iron Curtain fell - and women began to dream even more often about a bourgeois family, supposedly of a Western model, in which both spouses work, but the man has more income, gives the woman flowers, takes her in a car, and what kind of car! - after all, even Zhiguli cars were in short supply in the USSR - and opens doors for her and kisses hands.

The Italian macho Adriano Celentano, who seduced and tamed the obstinate beauty Ornella Muti on the silver screen, becomes a truly People's Artist of the entire Union.

Plus, don’t forget about the growing economic stratification: the USSR is approaching the end of its existence with a fully emerging class of proto-bourgeoisie from among cooperative businessmen: not only was glasnost declared in the country, but the famous law on cooperation was also adopted.

In popular culture and everyday life, the collapse of Soviet equality is actually affirmed. In favor of a retreat to conservative values, when masculine attributes (power, money, strength, fame and influence) are rigidly assigned to men, and feminine qualities (beauty; family and raising children; tenderness, emotions and empathy) are no less rigidly attached to women.

Moreover, the Soviet Union was a militaristic state with a conscript army as an institution of discrimination against men, on the one hand, but at the same time as a powerful social elevator for natives of rural areas, and the country was either preparing for a big war, or healing wounds after one of them, or participating in local military conflicts in Asia and Africa.

Then the 90s happened as an era of hypermasculinity in the person of the bros, nomenklatura “red jackets” and a few real businessmen who joined the market stream. The 90s finally condemned the Soviet model of sexual equality. People who were not ready for a capitalist economy (although together with the country as a whole) blocked railways, received funerals from Chechnya, and took factories for scrap. Plus the phenomenon of same-sex families and the fear of manlessness. After all, a husband, father or brother is either imprisoned, killed, or drinking out of grief.

The liberals have ruined this country, you bastards! Fuck your freedom of speech when there is nothing to feed the children!

Then we got a young and assertive leader of the nation, criminal structures were legalized, and oil prices soared, flooding the country with money. The proto-bourgeoisie of the 80s took shape into businessmen and an oligarchy.

Society, which so yearned for a “strong hand,” finally found a legitimate bearer of hegemonic masculinity.

Naturally, women have virtually no socially approved alternative to a successful marriage.

Be a “woman with balls”- energetic, strong-willed and decisive - suddenly, but predictably, I felt ashamed, because this means that such a woman, it seems, simply does not have a normal man who would solve political and economic issues.

TV series and the same popular culture depict a happy woman as a housewife in a wealthy man's boarding house. Rublyovka - the center of Moscow - Maldives.

And less and less - as an independent and emancipated mistress of her destiny. As, after all, a professional or an intellectual. As an athlete or a winner.

“I'll be alone again. A strong woman is crying at the window,” Alla Pugacheva sings to us in 1995. “Remember, you promised me a fairy tale? And carry flowers in your arms,” continues the “Brilliant” group in 2002. “I love my husband,” says a certain Veronika Andreeva from 2017.

It is clear that, choosing between
- “I’m behind him like behind a stone wall, he’s a reliable and generous man,”
- “I got involved with a loser who has everyone around him to blame for his worthlessness”,
- “so what if he cooks himself, it would be better if he found a second job for himself, a new iPhone will be coming out soon”
and an erroneous idea of feminism and female independence (“doing it all on your own,” “like a man”), a woman is more likely to choose the first, opportunistic option in the person of that same rich man.

It is also clear that thanks to feminism, women begin to value completely different traits and qualities in men, and not just the level of income. After all, the number of ladies who need self-realization outside the family, who believe in their strengths and who believe that partnership and equality, when the opinions of a man and a woman weigh plus or minus the same, is still increasing, is a more honest scheme than female manipulations based on women's tricks and mythical “weaknesses”.

The States and Europe went through the stage of accumulating initial capital and assimilating women's emancipation in the second half of the 20th century; we can say that now, in the 21st century, a protracted final phase is underway. The result of which will be a generation of free and self-sufficient women who have a real alternative to “loving a rich man without love.”

In this sense, Russia is somewhere between the stages of bargaining and depression, if not in the earlier stage of anger. (Yes, Western women once also considered feminists crazy, giggled at caricatures of suffragettes and were satisfied with the traditional female role in society.) Today's Russian women (and Russians) are just beginning to realize why feminism is still a good thing.