Sadly, there are some real dicks out there who are named
Richard. Tragic (and poetically just) but true. Here are a couple of these
douchebags.
Rich Ricci: one of the main bankers involved in the LIBOR
scandal. I’m no economist, but the scandal had something to do with banks in
London artificially manipulating the interest they charged other banks. In a
nutshell, it was shady dealing.
I could find surprisingly little about Mr. Ricci online
(not that I looked super hard), so I’m not 100 percent sure his name is
Richard. But it probably is: Rich is a pretty common nickname for Richard. What
I do know about Ricci just amounts to a resume; he started working at Barclay’s
in 1994 and resumed his current position (screwing us all over) in June 2012.
Do you think his parents knew he was destined to be a financier when they named
him?
Side note: a man named Richard Ricci was a person of
interest in the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping. Ricci refused to confess (since he
didn’t do it) and died in jail (other charges) from a brain hemorrhage a few
weeks later. Poor guy. If he were alive, I bet he would be mad that Mr. LIBOR
up there is tainting his name.
Dick Masterson: a true piece of work. He is a hard-core
chauvinist and runs the website menarebetterthanwomen.com. I saw a clip of this
guy on the Dr. Phil show and he
spouted such gems as “men created everything” (no word on how babies are made
without women’s contributions), “if you see a woman in a nice car it means she’s
owned,” and “all women are basically prostitutes.” Naturally, I am offended by
what this guy says, but a part of me thinks (and hopes) he’s just pretending.
That he’s saying all of these crazy things for attention, a la Lady Gaga and
her weird fashion. It’s still completely offensive (and dangerous because it
gives added to fuel to other woman-haters), but I really hope Masterson doesn’t
actually believe this crap.
It also turns out that (thankfully) Dick isn’t his real
name. According to the remnants of Masterson’s deleted Wikipedia page (yes, he
was deleted from Wikipedia!), his real name is Dax Herrera. Seriously – Dax?! I’m just thankfully he isn’t truly a
Richard, but I’m annoyed he’s taking the name and using it for evil. Of course,
maybe he’s calling himself Dick as a signal to us all that he is truly being a
dick and is just faking his virulent misogyny.
Anyway, these
guys make me sad. They are ruining a perfectly good name. Alas.