Sorry, I couldn’t let this one go and I’m interested in getting the opinions of others on this. Let’s just say that my eyes were rolling a tiny wee bit as I read this article over at msn titled Why the Donald gets all the girls?

Why do beautiful women keep marrying Donald Trump?

Most people — at least most people who aren’t billionaires or supermodels — will answer that question with an insult directed at the latest Mrs. Trump. It’s an insult that probably can’t be printed on this Web site, but it rhymes with “because she’s a bore.”

We know why rich men marry beautiful women: for the sex, naturally enough, maybe even the love, as well as the companionship and perhaps the social status that marriage confers on a companion. (Grown men, particularly wealthy ones, can have mistresses, but there’s something childish about a billionaire with a girlfriend.)

No one cuts women who marry rich men the same slack. We refuse to believe they honestly find these men attractive — after all, the men they’re marrying are usually decades older, and long past their looks-good-naked-in-the-daylight expiration date. Models and actresses who marry obscenely wealthy men, everyone agrees, must be interested in the money alone, and the power and the status it brings. They get through the sex by gritting their teeth or thinking of other, more pleasant things. (Like, say, their new credit limits.)

Maybe I’m filled with the milk of human kindness, or perhaps I have a soft spot for supermodels — I’m a gay man, so I have at least one soft spot for supermodels — but I actually believe that it’s possible for a beautiful, young woman to fall in love with an obscenely wealthy older man.

Hmmmm, I guess the way I feel about it is that if she really does love Donald for who he is, I would have less respect for her than if she was just after the money…