Posted on 07/09/2013 10:23:41 PM PDT by cunning_fish
On a blazing summer afternoon in Moscow, Stefania, an Italian professional in her early 30s, manages to look picture-perfect. In a belted tangerine dress, with an impeccable manicure and glossy hair, she fits right in to a local culture that celebrates ultra-feminine style. “You have to dress bright, like a traffic light – high heels, short skirts, hair, nails – to attract men’s attention,” she explained. “Dating in Moscow is a war, and your looks are your only weapons.”
Yet even as she turns heads in the street, Stefania admits that her love life is a struggle.
“Dating Russian men never works out,” she sighed, shaking her head. “I think I will be single until I leave Russia.”
Stefania is just one of many beautiful and successful foreign women who’ve resigned themselves to spinsterhood for as long as they live in Moscow. There were 1,781 foreign men who married Russian women in the capital last year, compared to only 228 foreign women who married Russian men, according to statistics from the Moscow ZAGS (marriage registration offices). That’s a ratio of nearly 8 to 1.
If expat men are successful in finding Russian spouses, why do expat women have problems?
It’s not that marriage-age Russian men aren’t around. Though 10.7 million more women than men were counted in the 2010 census, this staggering gender gap exists mainly with the over-50 demographic.
When the count is confined to 25- to 49-year-olds, it turns out that there are just 1 million more women than men in Russia. In 2010, the number of unmarried men and women aged 25 to 49 in Moscow were about equal, according to numbers provided to The Moscow News by the State Statistics Service.
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The bottom line is a man likes to be treated well. And as soon as he gets outside of “western” culture the women treat him like a king. Why would any thinking man relegate himself in submission to a “liberated” western woman when he knows there is a better way of life?
>>Tourist agents tell them that most Thai prostitutes are crossdressers. Russians are homophobic and try to stick with their own.
Nonsense.
You don’t know how happy you are!
>>>Nonsense.<<<
Probably. It is that I heard from them. I also know a few Russians who like Thai ladies, too.
Not 88% total men...just 88% born during a certain year, 1922. But it is estimated 27-30 million Russians died during the war, the great majority male. That left a lot missing fathers for the next generation.
I don’t care if it isn’t real, I still want one!
Alternate answer:
Russia lost 88% of the fathers in The Great Patriotic War.
America lost 88% of the fathers in The War On Poverty.
Actually, that’s pretty close for the black American nuclear family, figures I’ve seen from pre- war on poverty indicate that their whole family percentages were at or over 80% before it, and today they are, IIRC, below 20%.
White Americans have fallen to around, or possibly below, 50% I think, in the last few years.
How long will we pay the price for losing a cohort that spans generations?
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