posted by guest

Jan 28, 2009 3:27PM

The NY Times article was fatuous. I can't believe DABA is getting any attention.

posted by silk_voile

Jan 28, 2009 3:35PM

I couldn't make it past the first paragraph of the article. What exactly will be the point of this book? I really do wish they would stop publishing books that make women look so vapid and needy.

posted by guest

Jan 28, 2009 3:36PM

Better idea, let's make a reality show out of throwing them in the streets where ACTUAL struggle exists.

posted by etoilee8

Jan 28, 2009 3:43PM

I appreciate you pointing out that they could have penned a book about their brains instead of their money leeching struggle. . . but I'm still a little grossed out. Maybe I should stop being judgemental. . .hey, they like their lives!

posted by guest

Jan 28, 2009 4:01PM

wow, i have no idea why there hasn't been a woman elected president yet. these women seem so substantial, and full of concern for others.

posted by guest

Jan 28, 2009 4:25PM

Maybe this Dawn Spinner woman is smart, maybe. But obviously shallow . . . She provides the most offensive quote in the article “One of his best friends told me that my job is now to keep him calm and keep him from dying at the age of 35,” Ms. Davis said. “It’s not what I signed up for.” Because you know, when you marry someone, you only sign up for expensive dinners, not supporting them when they are having problems.

posted by guest

Jan 28, 2009 4:35PM

I think that they deserve their i-bankers. I agree they sound like shallow gold diggers.... but I don't think that i-bankers are doing their jobs because they actually like it, they want the money, the "success", the power, and they are just as shallow for being into the girls who are just into their money aka they want a trophy wife. So why do we care?

posted by guest

Jan 28, 2009 4:42PM

Is the publishing industry retarded? All it takes is 3 days or so of obnoxious blog entries plus some free press to get a book deal? What could they possibly write about that anyone would want to pay to read? Am I missing something?

posted by old soul

Jan 28, 2009 5:15PM

When all you contribute to a relationship is a gigantic expense line item, I can see why you'd get dumped when the economy starts to suck. Geez.

posted by guest

Jan 28, 2009 5:19PM

#8, yes they are shallow gold diggers. and there are a lot of really horrible bankers. but then again, i'm a banker, i'm a woman, and i have a nice boyfriend who is not a banker, and i spend my money on nice fashion, a nice apartment, and my savings. the money is nice but i like my job (even in these tough times). i would not waste my hard-earned money on bottle service for hot men, no matter how slutty.

posted by guest

Jan 28, 2009 5:21PM

"The saddest part is, if you’re smart enough to land a job at one of the country’s top magazines, you probably could’ve penned a book on your own merit, not your boyfriend’s financial downfall."

I am not nitpicking Britt here, but it really doesn't take any intelligence to write 150 words about the newest lip gloss. It's not as if these girls are fashion eaditors or features writers or even copyeditors. They're sorostitutes biding their time until they cash in, i.e., marry bankers.

And to answer #9, yes, the publishing industry is retarded. The good news: since the book publishing industry is slashing royalties, these ladies (*cough*) will see a couple thou each, at most. And will be despised even more widely than today! What a "deal"!

posted by guest

Jan 28, 2009 5:40PM

What a dismal group of people. Let's hope that none of them reproduce.

posted by guest

Jan 28, 2009 6:07PM

I totally agree! I'm not complaining about what's fair or not.... but this is just wrong.

http://livethelifeyoulovetake2.blogspot.com/2009/01/daba.html

posted by guest

Jan 28, 2009 6:59PM

the one girl's comment about being a mistress and not getting a vacation is horrible.

posted by guest

Jan 28, 2009 8:10PM

You go Fashionista! I love this post! Amen!

posted by guest

Jan 28, 2009 8:12PM

I actually love the blog. It's entertaining and I think a form of therapy for everyone involved in these sort of relationships.

posted by guest

Jan 28, 2009 8:46PM

Please don't say you have to be smart to get a job at a top magazine. Everyone knows those bitches are undeserving Ivy Leaguers who got into college and get all their jobs through their rich daddies.

Unfortunately these women and people like them will suffer the least throughout the financial crisis. I only hope it gets bad enough that the good people of this city break into their Park Avenue apartments and torture them and their financial industry husbands (who caused this crisis)in Times Square.

posted by guest

Jan 28, 2009 11:58PM

I wish everyone well. that said, calling these situations relationships is like calling a long term arrangement with a paid escort a relationship. the women dont' know any better though. I blame their parents, particularly their mothers for training them to be nothing more than whores.

posted by guest

Jan 29, 2009 1:28AM

Uhhhh, guys..... it's called satire.

It was a tongue in cheek site that was good enough for the NY Times to fall for it, and clearly most of you too.

posted by guest

Jan 29, 2009 1:44AM

And before someone cites the NY Times as never being taken in by a fake before, read Jayson Blair's stuff.

posted by guest

Jan 29, 2009 1:55AM

i hadn't yet seen that blog, so i clicked the link and....lo and behold, following the anti-feminist banter, there is a picture of former boss (a former editor at a magazine i used to intern at). apparently she's one of the blog founders and somehow i'm not surprised. for working in the fashion dept (which is notoriously time consuming), she wasn't working all that often.

posted by guest

Jan 29, 2009 3:26AM

I'm desperately hoping their deal is for a novel. Heck, the blog is funny if it's satire, I'd read some (more) of their fiction.

BTW, Blair stole his articles from someone else. These girls made it up completely. They have him beat by miles thanks to their originality.

posted by guest

Jan 29, 2009 8:57AM

VAPID and utterly ridiculous - these girls need to get a life. They are a disgrace to the hard working single women of NY who have jobs, work hard and have formed strong identities. The fact that they have formed a group to discuss the lack of finances from their boyfriends/husbands is so utterly pathetic. GO HELP A CHARITY

posted by guest

Jan 29, 2009 10:17AM

What about the men outthere that are now suffering because their girlfriend works/worked on Wall St and she can no longer support him. He has feelings too. Let his voice be heard.

posted by guest

Jan 29, 2009 11:05AM

can anyone have a sense of humor? THIS BLOG IS HILARIOUS. lighten up, take it for what it is... true insight into the girls we hate. i probably will read this book in secret and so will a million other women- so who's dumb, now? its just good business.

posted by guest

Jan 29, 2009 11:08AM

I just read the link and it's total satire.
I think it takes a good poke at those living in these worlds who DO take themselves too seriously (and they're out there, walking among us).

I know that times are tough and we're all a little on edge but it's not meant to be serious.

posted by guest

Jan 29, 2009 1:29PM

Oh Dawn....I've seen you, sweetie. I've seen you in those short skirts and fitted tops and trust me, after just one child you are going to BALLOON up like the cankle, thick hipped, ugly-on-the-inside cow that you are (it happens, trust me). I doubt you're husband will think he signed up for that, darling.

Here's a bit of advice from an old crone, loose the attitude, gain a soul.

posted by guest

Jan 29, 2009 2:23PM

This is 3 days in a row I hear about the DABA chic's it's enough, so superficial and pointless. Im so disappointed that Fashionista is posting this.

-Downtown Girl

posted by guest

Jan 29, 2009 2:24PM

This is 3 days in a row I hear about the DABA chic's it's enough, so superficial and pointless. Im so disappointed that Fashionista is posting this.

-Downtown Girl

posted by guest

Jan 29, 2009 3:54PM

I...guess...it's satire, but it's not over-the-top enough to be really funny. The story about the mistress who was annoyed because her boyfriend yelled at her for being 24 while he has to fire 20 people made me sad and a bit sick inside.

And I had avoided this story for the first three days of buzz because I knew it would make me sick.

posted by guest

Jan 30, 2009 12:43AM

Is it the decline of the American female or Darwin's theory of evolution taken to it's logical human conclusion? Alpha males and alpha males at the peak of our species' civilization; to think this is the best we could do.

posted by guest

Jan 31, 2009 6:33PM

What is really sad is how unfortunate looking the girls in the picture are.

posted by RjFo

Feb 03, 2009 8:06AM

I find these women deplorable. (and yes, I know what deplorable means.) Read more at:
http://www.ivorytowerz.com/2009/02/no-pity-for-wall-street-leeches.html

posted by guest

Feb 03, 2009 12:06PM

Yeah OK so the picture is indeed bad, the blog is horrible and I'm astonished now that I come to realize how normal my life was living with a MOTHER who is a banker. It makes me ashamed as a woman to think that these women are serious so I'm just going to hope this is satire...

posted by guest

Jul 06, 2009 6:14PM

DABA is entertaining, but it total Bull Crap. Like any of these girls (and there's only two of them btw) has ever dated an actual banker. Sorry... but a one-night-stand hit and run doesn't count honey. Maybe one of them has dated an i-banker analyst (aka, cube monkey doing mindless work all day long). Give me a break. What has our world come to???