The Seeking Millionaire website is nothing new. It’s one of those websites where they match up beautiful girls and guys with rich men and women. In this case, the definition of rich is a little loose. If you make 100K a year, you can qualify. In some parts of the US, like New York or Silicon Valley, 100K isn’t all that unusual. You also can have a million dollar net worth to qualify. I think that might be a little more difficult, but there are a lot of people who owned a home in the 90’s that could probably claim to be millionaires. It’s a fun site to look at attractive people at least.

I commend the company for understanding the value of the corporate blog. I would have never found their business without it. Now, I’m not going to take advantage of their service, but if I found it, there’s a chance that others will as well. The blog isn’t overly exciting, but it gets the job done.

There’s also a generous child support included in this – around $70,000 per year. I haven’t raised a child, but I hope it doesn’t cost $70,000 a year. Oh and this does not include nanny and school fees which are in addition to the $70,000. I’m not looking for Ms. Mills and their son to be poor, but I don’t know if they should be given what is extreme wealth. She’ll get 4 times the amount necessary that this article says is wealthy.

I wanted to highlight a two minute clip available here. The rich bachelor ended up proposing. She gave a pretty mediocre “maybe”, which was justified considering that they only knew each other for 24 hours. Then she goes on for about two minutes explaining the maybe decision approximately 743 different ways. The beauty is the last 25 seconds or so. I’ll transcribe her words for you:

I told him that “If you’re serious, I’d need some kind of verification, some time of ring… symbol of an engagement” and he obviously didn’t have one cause I assume he wasn’t expecting to do this. So he gave me… I think this is his fraternity ring. But obviously this won’t do unless its 4 to 5 carats… I’d expect an upgrade.

Well that certainly clears things up doesn’t it?

The show is pretty open with it’s controversy. Matchmaker Patti Stanger says:

I have to diagnose their illness and find out why they’re still single with all their money and looks

That’s some “illness” there. I’d say that they are probably a little shy and maybe might not have the time to meet single women while they are earning all that money.

Here’s another interesting quote from the article:

There’s one important rule Stanger has for women. “You are not allowed to gold dig,” she says. “We will screen for that. I can spot them from 5 miles away, going, ‘How many cars does he have? How many homes does he have?’”

So let’s back the truck up. Women can sign to join this service where men are certified millionaires, but they aren’t allowed to ask about the money. It seems like that’s the one question that’s already answered for them.

I really don’t see what’s in it for the guys here. They have the money and the looks according to Stanger’s earlier quote. So the women are just bringing looks to the table. It looks to me like gender equality just took a big step backwards.