On Tuesday, some dude named Christian Goliin wrote a column for the New York Post that became the internet outraged du jour. The column titled, Why I Won't Date Hot Women Anymore, made the case that outrageously beautiful women are shallow and vapid, and that the same is true for men, and also implied that non-supermodels who are merely beautiful are a better pick. The column begins with a story of Dan Rochkind, a private equity douchequette. He says, quote, when it came to dating in New York is a 30-something executive in private equity.

Dan Rochkind, a private equity douchebag. He says, quote, When I came to dating in New York as a 30-something executive in private equity,

Dan Rochkin had no problem snagging the city's most beautiful women. I could have had anyone I wanted, says Rochkin, now 40 in an Upper West Cider with a muscular build and a full head of hair. By the way, dude's kind of weird-looking. I met some really nice people, but realistically, I went for the hottest girl you could find.

He spent the better part of his 30s going on up to three days a week.

According 20... the way, dude's kind of weird-looking. I met some really nice people, but realistically, I went for the hottest girl you could find. He spent the better part of his 30s going on up to three days a week, quoting 20-something blonde models, but eventually realized that dating the prettiest young things had its drawbacks. He found them flighty, selfish, and vapid. Beautiful women who get a fair amount of attention get full of themselves, he says. Eventually, I was dreading getting dinner with them because they couldn't carry a conversation. So, how did Rochkins, who clearly prioritized physical beauty over intelligence, kindness, and decency solve this little problem? He stopped dating supermodels. Quote, looking to avoid such a fate, Rochkin started dating a woman who isn't a bikini model, Carly Spindle in January 2015. The two are now happily engaged. The two met after Spindel's

mother matchmaker Janice Spindle scouted Rochkin at a gym. I gave him my card and I said, I have the perfect girl for him, recalls Janice, founder of serious matchmaking based in Midtown. Successful men who are in shape have the pickings when it comes to dating, but eventually they want a woman of substance. There are a few problems here.

First off, Spindle is extremely good looking.

Perhaps the problem here isn't level of beauty, but the fact that women who eventually they want a woman of substance. There are a few problems here. First off, Spindle is

extremely good looking. Perhaps the problem here isn't level of beauty, but the fact that women

who generally go into bikini modeling may not, on average, have the same intellectual

aspirations as women who become doctors. In other words, the supposed brain's beauty disconnect

may not actually be a brain's beauty disconnect at all, but rather a bikini model brains disconnect.

People who spend their entire lives getting ready to get mostly naked on a beach somewhere

may not be people who are concerned with reading up on the latest economic development in the

Wall Street Journal. But according to Goliin, nobody should date beautiful people at all if they

want a stable relationship. Quote, according to new research, Rochkin's idea about sexy bikini babes are correct. A multi-part study from Harvard University, University of Laverne, and Santa Clara University researchers found that beautiful people are more likely to be involved in unstable relationships. In one part, the researchers looked at the top 20 actresses on IMDB and found that they tend to have rocky marriages. In another, women were asked to judge

the attractiveness of 238 men based on their high school yearbook photos from 30 years ago. The men who were judged to be the best-looking had higher rates of divorce. This is ridiculous. Both of these studies are flawed. Maybe the problem with actresses isn't that they're beautiful, it's that they are actresses. And maybe the good-looking guys in high school were treated like gods and just turned into Rochkind. The answer to shallowness isn't more shallowness, actually. The reaction to bad dating experiences with beautiful people isn't dating non-beautiful people necessarily. It's to hold physical beauty as one portion of the dating calculus, but not the whole equation. My wife is gorgeous, but she's particularly gorgeous to me because she's a beautiful person, not just because she has a beautiful body.

She has terrific values, a great sense of humor, ambition, and drive. She is brilliant and fun, a terrific mother, and a profoundly good human being. I was looking specifically for all of those things when I was dating. We've been married for nearly a decade, and when we're both old and wrinkly, I'll still be in love with her. she'll still be beautiful to me even when our youth fades.

Now, to be fair, Rochkin seems to have discovered that.

He now recognizes that, yes, and when we're both old and wrinkly, I'll still be in love with her. She'll still be beautiful to me even when our youth fades.

Now, to be fair, Rochkin seems to have discovered that. He now recognizes that, yes, beauty has a large physical component, but there's beauty and personality, brains and values. That's why people stay married even after they get old and wrinkly, rather than upgrading for the newer model. Here's Rochkin, quote, she is a softer beauty, someone you can take home and cuddle with, and she's very elegant, Rochkin says, and she's five foot two, so she can't be a runway model.

But I think she's really beautiful and it's prettier than anyone I've dated. Sadly, Rochkin's duchiness isn't going away anytime soon. He says, there's something to be said about sewing your wild oats and getting them out of your system, says Rochkin, who will marry Carly in June at a Tuscan romantic ceremony at the Wolf for estate vineyard in the Hamptons, but he doesn't regret his past. You don't want to be the first to leave the party, but you don't want to leave the party too late either. He says, Carly came at exactly the right time. In other words, use beautiful but shallow women, then dump them by the side of the road later when you're getting older and ready to settle down. In both the looks and character department, Rochkkind is obviously no catch. I'm Ben Shapiro.

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