"FBF: Finance guy Boyfriend (the G is silent), a DABA Girl’s significant other. Their work spans the gamut from investment bankers at Goldman Sachs, to private equity analysts at Morgan Stanly [sic], to hedge fund guys any company that sounds like a high school school mascot [huh??], to traders on the floor or upstairs, and to commercial real estate men. He is ambitious, well-dressed, over caffeinated, may or may not have a social conscious [sic] (but will always show up at charity balls regardless), exudes confidence even when touting a trade he’s only 50% sure of, and had serious throw-down in the bedroom BR."
"There were some tears, I pouted. I decided I was dating a total a-hole completely undeserving of a glamazon such as myself. Fortunately that’s when my petite-azon bestie, Megan called to talk me off the ledge. It took two hours of psycho-analysis and brunch at Market Table for us to come to the realization that our FBFs’ recent bad behavior and sudden lack of basic manners had nothing to do with us, it was the recession."
The latter apparently showing that any word is better when you add "azon" to it, e.g. gluttazon, sociopathazon, etc.
--- On Fri, 1/30/09, B. <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: B. <docile_body at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] two related enterprises?
> To: "LBO Talk" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
> Date: Friday, January 30, 2009, 1:31 PM
> http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE50T55420090130
>
> Blog charts woes of dating Wall Street bankers
>
> By Jill Serjeant
> Fri Jan 30, 12:15 pm ET
>
> LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) – Their clothing allowance
> has been halved, they've had to fire their personal
> trainers and their sex lives have tanked.
>
> They're the once-pampered -- now highly disgruntled --
> women partners of U.S. bankers and they're speaking out
> about how the financial meltdown has changed their lives and
> their relationships.
>
> Dating A Banker Anonymous (http://dabagirls.wordpress.com),
> a blog started by two New Yorkers, has made waves on the
> blogosphere this week with its tales of woe.
>
> The venture has sparked a feminist backlash, suspicions of
> a marketing stunt, and hilarity over accounts of weekends in
> Europe and opera tickets being traded for gloomy nights at
> home with anxious bankers who are fixated by TV financial
> news.
>
> "The sitter's hours are cut, both the family and
> my private credit card are cut in half, and I'm
> switching from having my facials and massages in my earthy,
> yoga-and-wine serving downtown spa to a midtown
> been-in-business-forever place with ladies in cubbies
> wearing pink jackets and lots of make-up giving facials
> only," says one entry from Cathy, who wrote about life
> in Manhattan with a banker husband whose income was cut in
> January by 75 percent.
>
> The blog is described as a "a safe place where women
> can come together -- free from the scrutiny of feminists --
> and share their tearful tales of how the mortgage meltdown
> has affected their relationships."
>
> 'SPOILED HARPIES'?
>
> Comments on the blog in recent days ranged from sympathy,
> accusations of heartless gold digging, scorn from feminists
> and laughter at what some presume is satire in a era when
> Wall Street's excesses are facing plenty of mockery.
>
> In a blog on the National Public Radio website, Linda
> Holmes suspected the venture was a publicity stunt aimed at
> getting its creators a TV show or book deal.
>
> "My guess is that the women are setting themselves up
> for a kind of reality-show 'Confessions Of A
> Shopaholic' book, real-but-not-real, and ... whatever,
> they're not hurting anyone," Hunt wrote on
> Thursday.
>
> Ryan Tate, writing on Gawker.com, called the women "an
> imploding caste of spoiled harpies" whose boyfriends
> and ex-lovers "spent their economic plunder as
> carelessly as they hoarded it."
>
> Best friends Laney Crowell, a beauty editor, and lawyer
> Megan Petrus of New York, say they started the site when
> they realized their FBF's (finance guy boyfriends) had
> become emotional trainwrecks due to the collapse of
> venerable financial institutions.
>
> "We felt our relationships were being victimized by
> the economy ... Not knowing what else to do, we did what
> enraged yet articulate people have done since the beginning
> of time. We started a blog," they wrote on their blog.
>
> Crowell and Petrus spoke to the New York Times this week
> but could not immediately be contacted by Reuters on
> Thursday.
>
> (Editing by Bob Tourtellotte and Frances Kerry)
>
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