Letters to the Editor
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so? and/or, and your point is?
I predict a precipitous drop in testosterone levels.
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Sad
Sad that the Chinese can only attempt gender parity by promoting more, but different, inequality.
But the Porn for Women book is very funny. Because that's what it's suppose to be - a joke.
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The Mosuo
"Among the Mosuo people on the Tibetan plateau tradition dictates that women not only head their households and hold the purse strings but choose their sexual partners rather than marrying."
Yes, well I can speak from personal experience: I spent a week among the Mosuo some years ago.
The division of labor among the "matriarchal" Mosuo (who the author of this entry clearly admire) is roughly what you'd expect to find in a 1950s household, with women doing cooking and child-rearing and things inside the house with men doing hunting, construction and things outside the house. It is precisely this division of labor (according to my Women's Studies textbook) which forms the basis of how women are oppressed... yet it precisely what Mosuo women seem to prefer.
What's more, if you tried to convince them that American women are treated like second-class citizens, they'd laugh their heads off.
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This is just more inequality
Suggesting that if women were the boss, they would make their husbands go shopping with them...? Lame.
This is like those people who say that, "well, maybe women aren't treated equally in the public sphere, but they're the boss of the household." or when my international project finance professor said recently, "I make the money and my wife spends it, ha ha."
Sad but true.
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Two weeks.
That's all I ask. Two weeks in a place where women are not questioned, and men are punished for disobedience. I am, as the young people say, so _there_.
I'm saying it. But admit it--you're thinking it.
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KM
So you'd like to see Anne Coulter as an unquestioned dictator?
Nice, real nice.
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You people aren't seeing this as you could be
Hmm let's see.
A area dominated by women who call the shots and carry the purse-strings.
Sounds like an incredible business opportunity for all sorts of things. I can already see huge advertising signs everywhere where any of these women could possibly go.
Seriously if you were a business person in China, it would be insane of you to pass up this opportunity. An area where it is a given that you *will* profit? It sounds incredible.
Think from that perspective and no matter how chauvinistic or sexist you men might be, deep down - You will just as quickly put these feelings aside, cater to the captive customers, and start making some $$$.
To echo an earlier poster? I'm so there.
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the reason they are building it in china and not here
is that here the whole country is already like this.
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How 'Bout a Hottie Town?
My idea of "porn for women" is a video of Orlando Bloom and Kyle Schmid kissing and groping each other on a soft satin bed. Anyone got an Amazon link for that?
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yuck
I love me a "girls' night" now & then, but "woman town" sounds unbearably depressing.
I hope the Chinese gals enjoy it.
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Old sayings aside, China's doing pretty well
Here in Korea, Chinese men have quite the positive reputation as husbands. Because the lack of women (one child policy - selective abortion) is already being felt among marriageable-age men, they're doing their best to market themselves as good cooks, not afraid to pick up a broom, etc.
Of course, everyone is different, I'm just going by recommendations and reports of Korean women married to Chinese men. Korean men (and from what I know, Japanese as well) still tend to exhibit that blinking cluelessness when it comes to operating a home, diapering a child, or cooking anything more intricate than frying an egg.
As well, the one-child policy also means that considering being "a mom" as a job is pretty much laughed at. With four grandparents retired and doting on the critter, you have no lack of daycare, and with the new love of luxury goods and other ways to show off your wealth, mommy's gotta go to work to help pay for it all. Arguably, among China's middle and upper class, they're coming close to (or even passed) us in the west.
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This reeks of male fantasy
To me. . .sub fantasies, specifically.
Contrary to popular belief, I do not know of a single woman who gets off on watching men do the dishes.