"People think that just because you're married to a baseball player, that you're dumb, that you're a gold digger, that you're an ex-stripper. That's not the way it is. I still haven't met that one girl."
-- Laura Posada, law school graduate, author and wife of Jorge and star of tonight's "E: True Hollywood Story: Baseball Wives", on breaking the stereotypes.
I agree that's ridiculous, and that "one girl" doesn't exist. To the contrary, there are hundreds of baseball wives. Many of the ex-strippers are very smart, many of the dumb ones are in it for love, not money, and many of the gold diggers are very prim and proper. To paint them with such a broad brush is simply unfair.
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Ouch. That stings.
Props to Laura Posada for going to law school and becoming an intellectually capable person (props to any woman doing the same, for that matter). That said, I agree with the implication that if she can't find "that one girl", she probably isn't looking hard enough - I've seen her in my own life.
Stereotypes are wrong for their tendency to include every member of a group in its conclusion. But stereotypes are often rooted in a truism. Mrs. Posada, I'm glad you are, apparently, an exception to the stereotype, but the good-looking money-grubbing bimbo you deride is a staple amongst athletes in general, and men with money in particular. The two deserve each other.
How can she be married to Posada and not have met Johnny Damon's wife? Ships in the night, I guess.