[dgabriel]

This is old news. Celebrity males have always been able to do this, and a subset of attractive women will always go for that kind of thing (groupies, anyone?).

For most of the people in the dating game, this stuff is irrelevant.

[etherael]

One could argue that the root causes and phenomenons outlined in the parent article actually define "the dating game", thus it would be difficult to say it's really irrelevant.