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What Japanese Women Want: A Western Husband
The Christian Science Monitor ^ | December 6, 2004 | Bennett Richardson

Posted on 12/06/2004 9:12:18 AM PST by MississippiMasterpiece

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To: dubyaismypresident

You seem to have hit the problem. The problem may not be the men but the women who see marriage as an accessory rather than something higher.

Japan may be better off with these women not marrying and reproducing.


141 posted on 12/06/2004 10:21:30 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: Fatalis
American men have far more options in marrying a foreign spouse than American women do.

You're right, there isn't a huge movement of women looking for foreign men with MORE domineering attitudes than they could find closer to home. Me, I found a good man right here on Free Republic. You bash American women on the very forum where many good single conservative Christian women are. Women who want to feel loved and valued, just as you do. If you don't want to hear them out, I would suggest you just get a Golden Retriever and forget about women.

There is higher foreign demand for American men than women. Why?

For a green card in a freer country. Consider this; They want what American women have, not necessarily what American men have.

142 posted on 12/06/2004 10:21:34 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: marajade; StoneColdGOP

A compliant doormat is better than a troublemaker who is a pain to control.


143 posted on 12/06/2004 10:21:45 AM PST by Age of Reason
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To: MississippiMasterpiece
A western husband...?


144 posted on 12/06/2004 10:22:00 AM PST by wallcrawlr
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To: Fatalis

Because foreign women who want desperately to come to the US to escape the repression in their country know "gay marriage" isn't legal yet, so they still have to marry men to get their green cards.


145 posted on 12/06/2004 10:22:43 AM PST by JenB (I will not turn into a snake. It doesn't help.)
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To: Fatalis
That's all I'm saying, but some don't want to hear it.

We are hearing it, but you ain't a woman, and you have no idea just how bad the American Male can treat a female sweetie!;)

Been there, done that....won't do it again.

146 posted on 12/06/2004 10:22:48 AM PST by najida (Aunt to Miss Emily Ann- Cutest Baby in the World.)
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To: TruthNtegrity
JenB got it right when she said, "and getting a Green Card couldn't have anything to do with it" or words to that effect. Of course it is. That Green Card and the house in America is everything.

How is that different from the tendency of American women not to marry below them economically or educationally? Women want material security, there's nothing wrong with that, it's part of their natures, good for kids, and the responsibility of their men to provide it for them.

What we're talking about is a difference in the appreciation of foreign women for what American men provide, vs. the appreciation (and frequent lack of it) for the same thing by American women.

However, if this was only about green cards, American women would have as high a foreign demand as American men. They don't.

147 posted on 12/06/2004 10:23:21 AM PST by Fatalis
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To: HairOfTheDog

I hit the exacta -

Got me a woman who can stand up for herself AND a golden retriever. Is this a great country or what?


148 posted on 12/06/2004 10:23:51 AM PST by dmz
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To: Age of Reason

Control? Sounds to me like you have an issue.


149 posted on 12/06/2004 10:23:58 AM PST by marajade
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To: najida
both genders have their own fair share of flaws and foibles

Or to be even more general, EVERYBODY's a pain, one way or another :-).

The Japanese situation is sad, though. Their culture is dying because it's not supportive of families. The problem isn't really "traditional gender roles," because many women are eager to be wives, homemakers, and mothers. However, that requires men to be husbands and fathers, not just legally, but in reality.

A culture with its center in the office and not in the home will die, eventually.

150 posted on 12/06/2004 10:24:16 AM PST by Tax-chick (Poison ivy berries are a favorite food of the Downy Woodpecker.)
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To: Hi Heels
It gets WORSE???!!?!? Stop the planet, please. I'd like to get off.....

Hence my point about the ingratitude of American women for American men.

151 posted on 12/06/2004 10:24:43 AM PST by Fatalis
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To: HairOfTheDog
You bash American women on the very forum where many good single conservative Christian women are. Women who want to feel loved and valued, just as you do. If you don't want to hear them out, I would suggest you just get a Golden Retriever and forget about women.

Good idea, and maybe a sheep.

SO9

152 posted on 12/06/2004 10:24:54 AM PST by Servant of the 9 (Trust Me)
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To: HairOfTheDog
Consider this; They want what American women have, not necessarily what American men have.

Dang! You are one smart girl! ;)

153 posted on 12/06/2004 10:25:19 AM PST by najida (Aunt to Miss Emily Ann- Cutest Baby in the World.)
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To: dmz
Thank you. Your wife is a very lucky woman to have found you.

My hubby knew what he was getting nearly 33 years ago when we were married, he loved me for it.

After all these years, our kids still get disgusted at us for being...'playful' with each other.

Parents aren't supposed to do stuff like that, at least, according to them.

I tell them, get back to me when you've been married as long as we have. That usually shuts them up.

154 posted on 12/06/2004 10:25:38 AM PST by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: Age of Reason; StoneColdGOP
who is a pain to control.

Some husbands do not want to control their wives.

155 posted on 12/06/2004 10:25:41 AM PST by Bella_Bru (You're about as funny as a case sensitive search engine.)
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To: Hi Heels
It gets WORSE???!!?!? Stop the planet, please. I'd like to get off.....

Oh, much worse.

In Asia and russia, expect to have to tolerate a mistress if he is successful.

In Russia, expect most of the men to drink a LOT. Some don't at all of course. Also expect to cook, clean, raise the kiddies AND work. Also, domestic violence over there is routinely ignored by the militia (cops)

In the Middle East, expect much much worse. Like tolerating physical abuse.

For the brides over there, american men that accept them as equals in the decisions of the household (or at least LISTEN to them) are wonderful. We do housework, some cook, and we work and don't drink so much.

All in all, it is the best of both worlds for both parties in the marriage. We get women that LOVE being women, they get decent men (sometimes outstanding compared to their homelands).

156 posted on 12/06/2004 10:25:50 AM PST by Centurion2000 (Truth, Justice and the Texan Way)
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To: MississippiMasterpiece

A call to all good conservative males in the US to offer auditions at no cost! We have to do our part in the global community.


157 posted on 12/06/2004 10:26:02 AM PST by IamConservative (People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.)
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To: najida; Centurion2000
We are hearing it, but you ain't a woman, and you have no idea just how bad the American Male can treat a female sweetie!;)

Do you read? There was a qualifier: "Of course there are exceptions."

158 posted on 12/06/2004 10:26:18 AM PST by Fatalis
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To: Hi Heels

Sorry, but one is always the result of the other.


159 posted on 12/06/2004 10:26:48 AM PST by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: dmz
Is this a great country or what?

It Suuuure is! :~D

160 posted on 12/06/2004 10:27:14 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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