Letters to the Editor
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In fact, becoming like an American woman apparently means being able to dismiss potential partners according to astonishingly specific criteria
Are you suggesting that that isn't the case? I remember a discussion in Salon a few years ago where a group of women, (it was a group, not just one woman with a sock fetish) went on and on about how the proper sock/shoe/matching/selection had a big effect on their level of attraction to a man.
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Who cares
Why does Broadsheet care about this issue?
Certainly coming on the heels of an article championing women's Third-World sex tourism and holding Mary Kay Le Tourneau up as an empowering example of American womanhood, Rockwell's priggishness seems out of place.
I guess women can troll for boytoys in Third World countries, and it's perfectly okay, but men who go abroad to find spouses are somehow weird.
Salon must be starved for content - no wonder its stock is trading for pennies a share.
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What these guys need is therapy.
But unfortunately, the bit about 'becoming like American women' is going to appeal to many of them, because most of them have decided to blame women for their own misbehavior. She won't put up with him? She's obviously an elitist snob, no matter how much of an asshole he was being at the time. But now women from other countries will be pursuing him with such zeal that he'll be allowed to be an elitist snob towards them, rejecting them for any tiny little faults--the way he thinks he's been rejected. They perceive American women as being in an undeserved position of power because they can't allow for women here gaining power in relationships and the workplace without thinking they've lost it themselves.
But look at a lot of these guys. They aren't attractive, extremely wealthy men, just middle-aged middle-class too-much-around-the-middle types for the most part. They think that they ought to be dating extremely attractive women. So yes, those women do reject them in the US.
It's not the economy in the Ukraine that needs to be fixed. It's the mindset that tells American men that they deserve perfect, skinny, blonde wives with big (fake) breasts who act like porn stars in the bedroom and know how to cook. As long as they think they deserve that, then if they can't get it here, they'll try to get it someplace else. Somebody needs to have the heart to tell them that they don't 'deserve' anything. I'd recommend a licensed psychotherapist.
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I'm going to have to side with the good parson on this one.....
Yeah, I agree that the timing is extremely unfortunate. I realize that Broadsheet is not trying to say that female sex tourism = good and male sex tourism = bad, but I think that they were just looking at the positive aspects of one and the negative aspects of the other. The main thing that jumped out at me from both of these stories is just how sad it is when people of either sex feel as though they have to pay someone to pretend to care about them. Going to an exotic locale also features prominantly, as it allows people a greater feeling of freedom, as though they can reinvent themselves and project idealized versions of the opposite sex onto the locals. It's sad that many Americans, male and female, increasingly feel isolated from and at odds with Americans of the opposite sex.
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THIS ARTICLE ENCAPSULATES PRECISELY WHY I DESPISE MODERN FEMINISM
if a guy wants something, it must be wrong.
but if a woman wants the same thing, it is right and great and she should be rewarded for her thinking.
Case in point, an earlier Broadsheet posting extolled the virtues of older women going to foreign countries to have sex with younger men, yet men are mocked when they want to do the same thing and have sex with women in foreign lands.
Witness this article, if a man wants to find a wife who has not priced herself out of the market (most American women), this is bad, merely because it is a M A N wanting it.
But hallelujah! If tomorrow women decided they were going to go to Russia or some other place to marry men, well it is the greatest thing since sliced apple pie!!!
Actually a similar whacky thing does go on, with that chick author who married the black guy who turned out to be gay.
Women were falling all over themselves bragging how great it is to snag a younger foreign man as a trophy.
Women are full-of-shit hypocrites. And MARRIAGE is way down because American men have had more than enough of this crap from you women.
I do not care if anyone thinks I hate women. I love women, but I do not love American style women and all their neuroses, psychoses, demands, expectations, and nothing to offer in return but grief piled upon grief.
Life is too short. Congratulations that some men still have the balls to go for what they want regardless of what LOSER, drugged up, arrogant, too busy American women think.
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MINDSET SCMINDSET
It's the mindset that tells American men that they deserve perfect, skinny, blonde wives with big (fake) breasts who act like porn stars in the bedroom and know how to cook.
but somehow an old, over the hill, fat broad with an attitude needs sex from a 24 year old black gigolo in a third world country and Goddamn it she deserves it.
Tell me, why do you women DESPISE US MEN SO MUCH and do not want to grant to us what you entitle yourslves to?!?
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GOLLY GEE
Yeah, I agree that the timing is extremely unfortunate.
so somwhow you women's hypocritical attitudes would have been OK had the two articles been months apart?!?
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What they mean by "being treated like an American woman"
I'm going to paint with a broad (ha) brush here, but I think a lot of guys with Neanderthalic (with apologies to Neanderthals) ideas about gender roles have the impression that they treat ungrateful American women, just -- plain and simply -- incredibly well. (Or they would if they had the chance.)
What they don't see in themselves is the manipulativeness and backhanded putdowns, the scary stalkerishness, the self-indulgence, that often characterize traditional "chivalric" behavior. (Not always; sometimes it's just polite considerateness, I would like to think.)
To them, being treated like an American woman means just that: being treated WELL. As opposed to American men, who, they believe, ever since feminism, are perpetually being treated like crap by American women.