Yeah this is fairly old news.

What woman in her right mind would stay behind slaving away with their brothers, fathers and cousins in the fields? There's the whole world out there, and by golly they'll go get it, bid their male counterparts goodbye.

It's amazing that the men don't get the hint and do likewise, but then again they may be bound to the land by any number of factors. And thus we have the sheer shortage of women. The best the fellows can hope for it maybe a one night stand, but that's still better than nothing.

It'll be many months - it not years - before they get to see any hint of another female, so might as well make the most of it while they can.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,180487,00.html

FOXNews.com - 'Mail-Order Bride' Law Brands All American Men Abusers

So when a very small number of American men that cannot find women in America seek to correspond with women outside of America that are interested in these men, how do American feminists respond?

By trying to criminalize the activity. By mocking the men, and not by calling the practice sweet. By mocking the women as well as by making gross racial and sexist assumptions about the women.

American Feminists, the great mommy statists.

We trod this path yesterday in reference to the funky mismatch in east coast/west coast gender demographics.

I think we're seeing a related trend here in the US. A lot of jobs require a decent network connection but not proximity. This opens up the hinterlands to a female reconquista. Couple that with the fact that many women are tired of metrosexuals.

Can we bus some of those New York women to San Diego?

Amazing, people who grow food are fools huh? Only those stupid men are willing to do hard work for very little money to keep people from starving and allowing vegetarians, to uh, be vegetarians. Man those dumb ass men why can't they smarten up like those women?

Excuse the sarcasm but I detest people who look down on farm life like it's slave labor and only the dumbest do it. I say thank god for farmers and the men who love working for themselves, working for the good of many and expecting little in return. It's unimaginable that working with the land could be actually enjoyable.

Anyway, I hope some of these ladies find nice men to marry and find happiness in the slower pace of farm life and the rewards of knowing that what they are doing is the most necessary job on the planet and are part of the reason people can be those hoity toity city people who brag about their local farmers market purchases and their vegan lifestyle.

It's what men have always done, find ways to make women notice them so I see no problem and I don't assume that farm life = barefoot and pregnant for the women.

Oh and anon, that law is total crap. I for once agree with something on FOX news. I figure anytime you enter a relationship of any kind it's not up to the government to interfere, just help you if that person you picked turns out to be a monster because violence is a crime. It's just more bubble wrapping the world nonsense. Sometimes monsters look nice and charming on the outside and the laws set to protect american women should suffice for immigrant women. I do think that providing women from other countries literature about the rights they have in the US is okay, but to ask men to basically undergo a criminal background check and turn it over to some foreign agency, too much! Shall we start saying all dating can't commence until the men and women have proved they aren't stark raving mad lunatics?

Sometimes those woman just go to damn far and they are the reason feminism gets a bad rap.

Not until we demand that from our elected officials. Doesn't Dick Cheney have like 5 DUI convictions? The guy wouldn't (as I understand it) be eligible to marry a foreign woman, but he is eligible to be Vice President of the United States.

Makes sense to me.....

Umm, why wait for a bus of NYC women to reach san diego. According to Crusty the Clown, you live so very close to the happiest place on earth: Tijuana.

I believe that might be the stupidest thing I have ever read in the Salon comments. And believe me. That's saying something.

Reminds me of the 70's sitcom: "Here Come the Brides."

This sounds like a potential Peter Mayle-ripoff rom-com premise. Though it would be interesting to see how many lasting marriages come from this.

>What woman in her right mind would stay behind slaving away with their brothers, fathers and cousins in the fields? There's the whole world out there, and by golly they'll go get it, bid their male counterparts goodbye.<

Makes sense to me. Given how male-centered Spanish society is, you can bet these farms are family-owned and get passed down to the men, not the women. The best a woman could probably hope for is to marry a farmer. Why stick around and waste your life fighting centuries of tradition when you can make your fortune and freedom in the city?

Please bear with me folks, I have no idea where to post this but I think many of you who read broadsheet regularly may care about this issue. I have great respect for this website, which is why I was extremely disappointed to see the daypass add I saw this evening.

The following is a letter I sent to salon.com:

I am writing to protest your choice of sponsor in the California Healthy Marriages Coalition. This organization emphasizes the importance of marriage in a state where same-sex couples are constitutionally barred from the institution. The website features images only of opposite-sex couples. It also features only images of "race-matched" couples, choosing not to represent inter-racial marriages.

When organizations use marriage as a fundamental part of the definition of a healthy family, then explicitly or implicitly exclude interracial and same-sex couples from that definition, they help to further the notion in our society that interracial and same-sex families (and homosexual and bi-sexual people) are flawed and unworthy.

Though bearing tacit witness to such a narrow idea of family is bad enough, I believe it likely that this organization's purpose is to do more than just ignore us. It is comprised of a number of faith-based coalitions that incorporate a conservative Christian theology with their counseling services. And despite the fact that there is substantial psychological literature on marriage and family counseling published in peer-reviewed, scientific journals, in its mission statement CHMC includes multiple references to Heritage Foundation studies (and an external link to their website). The Heritage Foundation is: "a research and educational institute - a think tank - whose mission is to formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense." It is an antiabortion, so-called "family values" think-tank.

What kind of advertising is not okay for Salon.com? Where do you draw the line?