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Last week, everyone got all faux-horrified about the "Natural Selection Speed Date," an event co-sponsored by Urban Hostess and New York mag that grabbed Radar's attention with its grossout pitch: ""Society has taught us to not publicly acknowledge the obvious. Women want money in a man, men want beauty in a woman—this is a factual force of nature...This genetic cleansing is how the wealthy stays [sic] beautiful." But this "event" is just the latest Pocket Change publicity stunt, so we're going to go through the motions now of asking you to join us in ignoring it, in the hopes that this will make it go away. Who is "Nouveau?" Why does this exist? Well, here's the answer to the former. The latter still has us scratching our heads and fantasizing about moving to an organic commune on the outskirts of Portland.

Breaking: Rich Losers, Hot Morons To Mate In Manahttan [Radar]

Earlier: Join Us In Quashing the Latest "Richard Nouveau" Publicity Stunt