Precious Metal Digging: Ridiculous or Respectable?
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009 | by Parlour Fam
Women using men for money is as old as men using women for sex. Yet anytime the topic of women tying to get over comes up, people attack the idea with vigor. The only other topic that generates a similar outrage is men on the DL. And this is why whenever any media outlet needs to generate ratings/sales, they bring up girls who are only about getting the green (or men humping men while claiming their straight.)
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Anyway, I wasn’t home to see it for myself, but so I’m told Monday’s Dr. Phil was called “Gold-Digging Secrets Revealed.” Black History Month is over, so I guess the producers had no qualms about putting two Black women on the panel to talk about being all about the Benjamins, bay-bee. I don’t have a DVR (I rarely watch TV) so had to go to the Dr. Phil website to get the low-down and view a couple clips. What I found, frankly, was fascinating.
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The lead gold-digger is Baje, a strikingly beautiful 25 (ahem)-year-old self-proclaimed gold-digger. She’s also a “video model”/actress (reality show contestant, Paris Hilton’s My New BFF)/talent agency owner. And it seems whatever Baje wants, Baje gets. A goal-oriented gold-digger, she keeps a Wish List of items-divided into short-term and long-term– that she would like to obtain. “Every time I meet someone, it’s my goal to have them get something off that list for me,” adds Baje. She’s already accumulated enough money from her suitor(s) to purchase a home, but day-to-day, she looks for men to provide other needs. On the night Dr. Phil’s cameras trailed her to the club, her goal was “a dress, a camera or a BlackBerry.” (more…)


I was reading on 
Here’s my series on Black Men by Black Men. I’m not sure what details to give on this one. I don’t know if he wants it all out there. So I’ll hold off until I get the go ahead. In the meantime: His essay (it was really long, so I broke it into parts so we could discuss by subject.) Enjoy!



