Talk:Trophy wife

message: 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)
thread_title: Fred Thompson

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

message: 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)
replies: text: 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.
The definition repeatedly suggests that the man's purpose is to enhance his status.  A wealthly successful man does not marry a young model to enhance his status, but to enhance his sex life!  The woman gets money and security in return.  Rather like a prostitute really.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.197.15.138 (talk) 22:03, 20 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Only Western Culture?

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)
replies: text: ThanksMwinog2777 06:02, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Age 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Removed "examples" 

message: Some sources claim the term was coined earlier (for example the Online Etymology Dictionary cites 1984 [4]) but that seems incorrect.
This part in bold is informal/non-neutral.  Can we remove it?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nate1208 (talk • contribs) 16:15, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "... but that seems incorrect." 

message: if the original definition included 'accomplished in her own right', that part of the meaning has certainly been lost, unless you want to include the effort, etc involved at the gym, surgeon's office and so on.Toyokuni3 (talk) 14:43, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Accomplished?

message: How reliable is the Safire reference (note 1)? It says the term was coined in 1989... I'd swear it was around a lot longer than that, even if I haven't the foggiest idea of where I could find confirmation. Anybody know better? --Svartalf (talk) 10:08, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, there's certainly internal conflict here, as American Graffiti suggests the term was known in the sixties.  --Renaissongsman (talk) 17:21, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Coined in 1989?

message: The references to pre-1989 usages need proper cites, or they're worthless. -- The Anome (talk) 10:54, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations, please 

message: I removed the section stating that Asian women = trophy wives. While provocative, this is not how the term "trophy wife" is used by the mainstream or any discernible minority group. An encyclopedic entry should not include one author's recontextualization of the term for shock value. Perhaps the cited article would find a good place in the "interracial marriage" entry. However, a critique of race relations does nothing to explain what the term "trophy wife" means and, for those truly unsure of what the term means, will probably end up confusing them.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.104.102.56 (talk) 20:39, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Asian women = trophy wives 

message: I havent found any reliable sources as yet but it seems likely that the the phenomina of powerful business men having young pretty secretaries seems related to trophy wives as narcissistic supply to a narcissist. --Penbat (talk) 13:02, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trophy secretaries 

message: I honestly don't think this image accurately represents the content of the article. Why? Well, if she is supposed to portray the "trophy wife" in this painting, then I gotta say that she isn't really that physically attractive. Are there any other images of the same theme available somewhere? Comments? OscarLake (talk) 13:48, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Lucas Cranach picture 

message: This should be an entry in UrbanDictionary.com, something like that. Stupid trash like this debases Wikipedia. The mere presence of this "article" constitutes vandalism IMNSFHO. --CousinJohn (talk) 04:27, 18 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  This should be a mere entry in a slang dictionary, not a Wikipedia article! 

message: Here's a better link to t Elizabeth McClintock's survey study, where she uses a "nationally representative sample of young couples" to disprove that old guys have young trophy wives.  o_O  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.223.123.242 (talk) 13:05, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed my NPR citation 

message: I propose this absurd line be removed. Not only is it inaccurate (the "survey" is barely cited only in passing within the NPR source), but the assertion is itself incorrect. Whoever says that "1 in 1,000 couples" will be a hot young wife with a rich old guy has obviously never been to a major metropolitan area in the United States (Los Angeles, Miami, and New York come to mind) and likely most cities in the world (Rome, Paris, Shanghai, Moscow anybody?). I welcome any valid dissent.192.231.86.253 (talk) 18:08, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  "According to one survey, this phenomenon is very rare." 

message: I made one edit to remove the suggestion that "trophy wife" was equivalent to "sugar daddy" (after the she and he are unscrambled).
But reading the rest of the first section, I'm struck by the censorious slant of the prose. Indeed, the term may say something about the character of both parties...or it may not. It may be used by a third party who is jealous of one or both of the couple, or it may be applied as a tagline when the circumstances of the marriage are unknown or clearly not those where the term is accurate. 121.163.188.1 (talk) 12:14, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPV? 

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