# Is she really going out with him? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 25, 2007, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-she-really-going-out-with-him/413065 "2007-07-25T11:18:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-she-really-going-out-with-him/413065/21 "2007-07-26T15:50:23Z")
Actually it is, a little. There are good and valid reasons to want and need money. Money is MADE of useful. Whatchya gonna do with a bunch of pretty? What is it’s practical application? Just sayin’. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-she-really-going-out-with-him/413065/22 "2007-07-26T15:54:54Z")
[QUOTE=Fiver] [This is John Mellencamp’s wife](http://www.elainemellencamp.com/). Yes, poor thing. John is a real humanitarian for saving her from spinsterhood. [/QUOTE] Damn, where does someone come from that “ordinary-looking” women look like that? Planet of the Babes? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-she-really-going-out-with-him/413065/23 "2007-07-26T15:58:03Z")
[QUOTE=spoke-] Yeah, because going for money is so much less shallow. [/QUOTE] Eh. Maybe when dating a prince or an heir, but being a businessman hints at some sort of a shade of personality - ambition, drive, intelligence to some degree - that I just don’t get from going to the gym/getting implants. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-she-really-going-out-with-him/413065/24 "2007-07-26T16:04:58Z")
These relationships are a two-way street. He uses her for looks/sex; she uses him for money/power. I see two shallow people using each other to get what they want. Neither person in such a coupling is admirable in my book. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-she-really-going-out-with-him/413065/25 "2007-07-26T16:15:34Z")
I have read that models seldom date other models. It’s something about needing to be the only spectacular person in the room. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Potato\_Pancakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Potato\_Pancakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Potato_Pancakes)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-she-really-going-out-with-him/413065/26 "2007-07-26T16:24:41Z")
Good. Yesterday I was worried that Joe Pesci didn’t have enough money. Now I know everything is going to be okay. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-she-really-going-out-with-him/413065/27 "2007-07-26T16:39:22Z")
[QUOTE=Krokodil] John Mellencamp and Randy Travis are both married to rather ordinary-looking women (assistant and manager, respectively). And make what you will of the Tori Spelling/Dean McDermott pairing. [/QUOTE] As mentioned, John Mellencamp is married to Elaine Irwin, super model (“Married an LA doll and brought her to this small town”). ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-she-really-going-out-with-him/413065/28 "2007-07-26T17:38:28Z")
[QUOTE=DianaG] Whatchya gonna do with a bunch of pretty? What is it’s practical application? Just sayin’. 😉 [/QUOTE] I can think of a few things to with a bunch of pretty 😛 I am kinda shallow that way. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-she-really-going-out-with-him/413065.md?page=1)