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Men and Extravagance, or How I Learned to Hate Diamond


We are all sure to have at least one acquaintance who is stingy and we complain to all our friends about what a loser this miser is. Our complaints are justified, too, given the psychology of this affliction: the person who is retentive with money is likely to be equally stingy with love and attention. Since everyone desires a balanced give-and-take relationship, the flinty-souled miser is high on the list of undesirables.


But when we encounter the opposite—a spendthrift (挥霍无度的) in all his glory—where are the complaints? Where is the Freudian diagnosis? We hear few downgrading remarks because we all love to see a fool and his money part, especially if some of that money comes our way. This is particularly true when it comes to male-female relationships. Many women, for instance, are pleased to be in the company of a man who always grabs the tab (待付帐单), who drives suavely into a ten-dollar parking garage without complaint instead of cruising around, cursing and perspiring, before finding a dollar parking lot a mile away. How much a man spends on a woman must have something to do with how much he loves her, and besides, how can that wonderful feeling of being pampered be wrong?


I think it is time that we stop encouraging this distorted idea of masculinity (a woman who goes wild with money is hardly admired!) and give more credit to a man of average income who is trying to behave sensibly. I am referring to the man who picks up the tab most times but not always, who takes some troubles to buy gas from self-service stations and sometimes shops at a discount men’s wear store. We are so forthright in considering a stingy man a loser; isn’t it time to consider his opposite—as at least equally undesirable?


Just look at how our society teaches males that extravagance is a positive characteristic. Scrooge, the main character of Dickens’s

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