In
a piece for
n+1, Emily Gould shows us what you get when you take
Millionaire Matchmaker as an exemplar of our culture's attitudes toward love and marriage. The results: kind of depressing.
The easiest thing to dismiss about the matchmaker herself, 47-year-old and notably unmarried
Patti Stanger, is her emphasis on a purely mercenary view of coupling. In addition to her show, she's written a book called
Be Your Own Matchmaker, "aimed at