Good discussion. Funny, as usual, to see a general cluelessness from those who think that the booming demand for overseas women are coming from men who simply MUST be misogynist, or whose thinking is just so 19th-Century.
I think it's just funny that men usually contribute over 2/3 of household income, but women expect to be equal partners in determining the way every dollar is spent. I think it's funny that women (and some men, nowadays) believe that housework is such drudgery that it is really a full-time job, when in fact housework is easier today than any time in human history, and can be knocked out in a total of about 4 or 5 hours a week. I think it's funny when I'm at the country club and hear women constantly running down their husbands, whose careers make it possible for the aging bitches to play golf all morning and eat a $29 lunch with their friends every day and drive brand-new Infiniti SUV's and for his trouble have his be criticized, belittled, and attacked, even when he isn't there. I think it's funny that demand for Filipino, Latina, East European, and Chinese women is booming, and so it must be because men are such creeps--can't have anything to do with the idea that these women offer a superior value. I think it's funny that Crassus actually cut-and-pasted his first link worth reading, when he found that the vast majority of American marriages ended in divorce, whereas the vast majority of American man-foreign women marriages remained intact forever. And I think it's funny that, confronted with that statistic, women and some men reflexively say it's because these foreign women aren't sufficiently liberated to demand ever more concessions--and eventually divorce--from their American husbands.
In fact, why aren't these same Latina, Filipina, and Russian wives rushing to the altar with, say, Japanese men? Or Saudi? When you go on their websites, why aren't they saying, Hey!! I want to find a French husband!! Or a Chinese man!! Duh. It's because, on average, marrying an American man is considered a great deal by everyone except American women. We work harder than anyone else, make more money, and are more gentle and kind than our male counterparts all over the world.
American women are usually unmarried because they want to be. In the end, they would rather have these fleeting feelings of so-called independence and freedom, and they bring absolutely nothing to a relationship we can't go out and find younger, more attractive, and better made overseas. American women don't mind driving luxury cars made in Japan and Germany; they give nary a thought to the fact that we have outsourced much of our manufacturing. Men are wising up and doing the same to their relationships.
Most American men are married. Most American women are not. And as it becomes easier and less expensive to find a beautiful, kind woman without the staggering sense of entitlement, and bring her here for nothing more than a couple of thousand dollars in plane tickets and visa fees--this trend will accelerate.
And that's good.
