Not just ignorance

Flagrant denial and stupidity are on display here.  Excuse the naiveté, but I've been trying, recently, to blame at least part of Americans' galactic economic mess on poor education and general ignorance about money.  This guy's actions cannot be blamed on either of those reasons.  Edmund Andrews was an economics reporter for the NY Times, and he warned others about many of the wheelin'-dealin' money schemes he fell into himself because he wanted to live comfortably and well beyond his means and he wanted to "pamper" his new woman. 

Even more interesting to me, however, were the comments following another writer's dissection of Andrews's situation.  This writer, Megan McArdle of the Atlantic, nearly gives Andrews's behavior a free pass, preferring to use him as an object lesson.  The comments left are brutal, though, and, in my opinion frequently misogynistic (see pic at right, which one commenter references as the real explanation for Andrews's problems).  Ironic, given that the writer of the piece is a woman.

J. saw this image and laughed, and I took frank exception.  Of the two of us, I'm far more frugal.  His finances were much worse off before he met me, although that can partially be blamed on his still-in-grad-school status.  Still, there seems to be this idea floating around out there in the male consciousness that marriage = financial doom because a woman will spend you into poverty and then leave you there.  

Am I alone in thinking that men can be equally stupid and disastrous with money, without a woman's help?