How To Marry A Billionaire, A Hunky One
How to marry a billionaire paraphrases the title of an old movie with Lauren Bacall and Marilyn Monroe. They wanted to marry millionaires, but with inflation, men have to make a lot more money to get a Bacall or Monroe to want to marry them. That’s just the way it is; fifty years before that movie, all you needed to get a famous beauty to marry you was a few thousand bucks and a Model T.
My Kindle has recently shown ads for books with a new kind of romance hero. This hero is a billionaire, and even though he must spend most of his time in front of a computer or in business meetings, he’s super buff and hunky and no older than 30. I wouldn’t doubt this combination of rich AND hunky AND young if it only happened once or twice instead of every day.
The odds of finding one of these hunky young billionaires for your very own appears astronomical, but only in real life. Judging by the few billionaires I’ve seen, most of them are already taken, usually by someone they worked with, but from whom they will be divorced in ten to twenty years, at which time they are no longer 30 and hunky. Bill Gates and Warren Buffet aren’t exactly George Clooney clones, either. George Clooney isn’t even a billionaire, is he? So what good are his looks if he can’t be a billionaire?
But hang on–these billionaires can be yours eventually, after their divorces. Maybe. If not, you can always find a rich, hunky, lonely young billionaire with the turn of a virtual page.
These books are best selling romance books, and presumably written for women. Max Monroe, the author of the book above, is actually two women named Max and Monroe. Pretty slick. I thought a man was jumping on this romantic gravy train. I usually get ads for books about murder and mayhem, crimes which only a spice shop owner who knits blankets for newborns can solve. The billionaire bit is new to me, but is worth priceless minutes of entertainment.
How many men do any of us know with abs and a package like the guy above? How obvious can you get, anyway? No need to put it all in the shop window, dude.
Making money, unless you inherit it, takes time, just like building hunky muscles does. Spend that much time doing both of those things, and how much time is there left over for little ol’ broke and sad female reader? The woman he wants is not spending all day at the gym, nor is she flipping burgers. The woman who runs a company that makes a billion dollars is the one who’s gonna attract this amazing billionaire.
The billionaire cover above is so touching. Her heart in his hunky hands and him enclosed in her toned and perfect arms, and that’s all she’ll ever need. Turns out, he’s a billionaire, too, so we know she has serious need of shoes at any given time. Maybe pairs of shoes on the scale of Imelda Marcos. This billionaire is even touted as having a very large appendage in the book description. My, my. This guy literally has everything. Why on earth would he want to get married?
One series of billionaire romance books features brothers, one of whom owns an NFL team. His opening thought in the book as he slides into the leather seat of his Porsche is: “I know owning an NFL team is a lifelong dream, but dang, it’s a lot of work.”
Poor baby. First, because he has to work really hard at his NFL–which stands for Not For Losers–and second, who is he talking to in this thought of his?
The description of the main female character–the one who will rope in this hard working billionaire–as she thinks about this poor schmo with a Porsche, goes thus: “The last thing on earth I need right now is a casual fling with a hot billionaire. With a four-year old daughter and a classroom full of eighth graders, there’s only one kind of relationship I’m looking for…a lifelong partner.”
Hahahaha! “The last thing” she needs as a single mom who’s a public school teacher is a billionaire? A hunky, YOUNG billionaire? Snort. Just for her, and for all the readers of this book, I found a photo album of all the NFL team owners. These “hunky” billionaires would make excellent “lifelong” partners, seeing as they are at least in their 70s and occasionally a woman.
Another series of these romances features black women and white men. The men are the billionaires, ‘natch, because these are still women’s books. If the women were the billionaires, they’d kick the sorry butt of any man who tried to move into the mansion with them.
One of the books is about “mature” love, as in a 65 year old woman whose son is in jail. She is in great demand as a house cleaner, so she comes to the billionaire’s attention, who naturally hires the household help himself. She needs the rich white man’s help to get her no good son out of prison. She offers to work for him in return for his help, because let’s face it, he needs the savings. He’s even been known to clip coupons for orange juice and toilet paper.
“Feelings” develop between them, probably while she was bent over making the bed and cleaning the bathroom floor in one of the innumerable bedrooms, and this mature white billionaire falls for the mature gray haired black lady who wears a velvet smock. He’s got a nice, mature six pack, though. Good for him. Walking around the manse with his shirt and jacket all undone, trying to diddle the maid.
We’re talking BIG time fantasy here.
The featured image at the very top of this post tells us a virgin is in the story. Seems some billionaires decided they wanted something special, too, and that something is a virgin. In These Here Troubled Times, virginity is as rare as a hunky young billionaire, and all his billions won’t buy it back once it’s gone.
May we wish him all good luck with that. Especially since his rap sounds like a 1940s film noir crook, doll.
How does one become certified in … you know what?
What is the minimum number of you know whats?
Are exams given on site or remotely?
Are they timed?
Are they graded on a curve?
Any research or thesis required?
Continuing education and periodic competency review?
Who is on the board (this could be important)?
Hahahahahaha! You know, I wondered a little myself, but my curiosity only went so far as to want to see his “diploma.” But I should have known you would be more thorough. You always watch out for us ladies, David. And how would exams be given remotely????? That Zoom. No wonder it’s so in demand.
Mom always said it was just as easy to love a rich man as a poor one. She neglected to mention where to find the rich one.
Wonder if I’m too old to be a maid to a billionaire? Hummm
Yeah, my mom didn’t tell me, either. Probably because they were raised during the Depression, so they had no clue! You are never too old to be diddled in one of the spare bedrooms by an aging billionaire, Mary. Haul out that little ruffled apron!
This is what we have needed, standardization of expectations and procedures.
Of course. Like any degree or certification. I mean, for cripe’s sake, we test people before they get behind the wheel of a car! We test them on their surgical skills! And those things aren’t even important!!!
This could make the bar scene a lot simpler. No cheezy pick up lines, no stupid outfits. Just flip that little card down on the bar.
Okay, let me get this straight: I’m a woman–presumably–sitting at a bar minding my own drink and checking out the scenery. Along comes a hunky billionaire, or so he asserts, but it isn’t that relevant to this sitch anyway, and he smacks down a card on the bar in front of me that says, “Certified Master of the FO.” And this isn’t going to come off (you’ll excuse the pun), as cheezy? I think you should go down to Kinko’s, get one made, and test out your theory. Let me know how it goes!
I do see the downside. I just said it would make it simpler. Have to admit, that is simple.
This would become an entirely new thing at which men could fail. One girl is talking to another about her blind date the previous night:
“So, did he flip out the card at the beginning of the date, or the end?”
“The beginning! The arrogant twit! Like that’s going to make him all that.”
“I know it, girlfriend. Its a jungle out there.”
Meanwhile, the poor guy is thinking, “Hey, wait a minute, I thought that’s what “The Institute For FO” is for! It was started by women, is paid for by women, is run by women. A guy can’t win anymore.”
Did a guy ever win? I mean, c’mon. Remember Tootsie? Dustin Hoffman got it straight from the horse’s mouth and she still threw her drink in his face. I worked with a young guy who said he saw a beautiful girl once and was smitten. She went into the ladies room and he followed her. She was taken with him and he was all proud of his taking the bit, to keep up the equestrian metaphors. They got married, sometime AFTER the bathroom visit I’m sure, and all was well. However, had she not liked his looks, it would have ended very differently.
Come to think of it, a girl can’t win much, either. If she’s not needy enough, he doesn’t want her. If she’s too needy, she’s toast. If she’s independent, she doesn’t need him and he hates that. If she’s tall it’s great, but he ends up with the little one anyway. If she cooks and cleans, he gets used to it. If she doesn’t cook and clean, she’d better hire a maid to do it. Etc, etc, etc. Sigh.
The Institute for FO. Staffed by men? Or women? Who get paid less than the men? Haha!
I see no possible way 7 billion people got conceived. It’s just too complicated.
I just saw this, Williams! How’d you sneak it by me? Okay, what are we talking about? The fact that most people are NOT hunky and are NOT billionaires and yet they still get together and make babies? It amazes me, too.
No, the reply was regarding your reply that neither men nor women can win. On one hand, being ‘certified’ would create more of the dissatisfaction it would allegedly alleviate – the moment one displays the card becomes the wrong moment, the clinical version of “If I have to tell you, I’m not going to” – and on the other hand semi sane tall girls stand no chance at all. The world population should by now look like George Costanza and Doris Day had 7 billions babys. The rest of us are like whichever male shared a barn with Secretariat: it ain’t happening in our stall, not ever.
Pshaw. It’s happened in your stall plenty, you can’t fool me. Making hay while the fun shines.
Imagine having to live up to that certificate, though. Semi sane tall girls would always be expecting the holder of such to prove they graduated and didn’t just make that certificate at Kinko’s.
That’s exactly right. We would finally admit to what a ‘performance based relationship’ actually is.
I’ve never heard of a performance based relationship. I guess we’re all in one in one way or another, huh? We try to find someone like, or unlike, one or the other parent. And they blow the whistle and you’re off to the rest of your life trying to make that work out. Hopeful about the past, nostalgic for the future.
That was a riot!
I didn’t even know “hunky” was a word.
Thanks, Ted! You never heard hunky? I remember saying it back in the 70s. So there ya go! Old school!
Can us poor non-billionaire men ever hope to find a gorgeous, voluptuous woman in her 20s, who just happens to be a billionaire, and is eagerly looking for a wise elder gentleman like us?
Hey, Mike! You know, I think it is FAR more possible to find that woman, than it is the other way round. Seems it takes a few years to make billions. But she might have married it and divorced young. One never knows!