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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: PFKEY
Tell her she is beautiful or smart or funny or charming. Tell her why it is you decided you just had to come over and talk to her.

Your advice is just about 100% wrong. Men who do what you say are going to be seen as boring at best, creepy stalkers at worst.

Remember that just like men, women are attracted to what they can't easily obtain. Walking up to her like the Wuss of the Year and gushing about how wonderful she is is guaranteed to lead to disastrous failure. "Nice guys" always do this stuff, though...and that's why they always lose. ;)

901 posted on 12/07/2004 5:25:11 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves
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To: MississippiMasterpiece

OK, why is this thread 900 posts long? Did someone mention cheese-eating stuned møøse-biting beebers, or what?


902 posted on 12/07/2004 5:25:23 AM PST by Constantine XIII
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To: RosieCotton

It's a good thing there are holidays year 'round, or I might have to actually deal with it.


903 posted on 12/07/2004 5:32:58 AM PST by dmz
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This thread's still going?!

Wow!


904 posted on 12/07/2004 5:35:13 AM PST by RandallFlagg (FReepers, Do NOT let the voter fraud stories die!!!! (Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name))
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To: Constantine XIII

Something like that.

Also there were the moonpies and beer somewhere around the 600 mark...


905 posted on 12/07/2004 5:35:52 AM PST by RosieCotton (He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. - GKC)
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To: RosieCotton

Oh, man, I'd kill for a moonpie right about now. ^^

*misses Tennessee*


906 posted on 12/07/2004 5:38:26 AM PST by Constantine XIII
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To: RosieCotton

Morning, Rosie!


907 posted on 12/07/2004 5:39:35 AM PST by Sam Cree (Democrats are herd animals)
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To: All

God lord!

Do you people ever sleep!?!


908 posted on 12/07/2004 5:39:45 AM PST by najida (Aunt to Miss Emily Ann- Cutest Baby in the World.)
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To: Constantine XIII
OK, why is this thread 900 posts long?

Post-election, people are tired of talking about politics, and would rather construct this do-it-yourself soap opera, instead. ;)

909 posted on 12/07/2004 5:43:35 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves
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To: najida

Hello, again.


910 posted on 12/07/2004 5:44:05 AM PST by RandallFlagg (FReepers, Do NOT let the voter fraud stories die!!!! (Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name))
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To: najida

never! LOL


911 posted on 12/07/2004 5:52:11 AM PST by cyborg ( Hy verkwik my siel; Hy lei my in die spore van geregtigheid, om sy Naam ontwil.)
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To: Constantine XIII

You must be able to get lots of other good things, though! You're in Norway, your profile says?

I lived in Germany for four years, and though it's good to be back...sometimes I'd kill for some good German food! It just ain't available in rural Vermont!


912 posted on 12/07/2004 6:07:04 AM PST by RosieCotton (He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. - GKC)
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To: cyborg; najida

Sleep is highly overrated.


913 posted on 12/07/2004 6:43:53 AM PST by RosieCotton (He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. - GKC)
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To: chasio649

I just got back from the Philippines last month. I got my Filipina. I am just waiting on the visa to be approved, so she can come to Calfornia. I told her to always remember she is a Filipina, which it why I chose her. The typhoons and earthquakes all came after I left. My long range plan, is to live in the Philippines. The dollar goes a long way, plus she is slowly teaching me to speak Tagalog. It is not easy, but I am making progress.


914 posted on 12/07/2004 7:15:52 AM PST by Mark17
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To: najida

900 some-odd replies, I'd say this is an issue for most people.

What I see as having happened in the past 30 years or so is the growth of mutual selfishness among men and women.

Gender and culture once gave rule and direction to the participants.

When the feminazis came along and made believe that this 'rule' was on-sided they created an imbalance that causes most of the trouble today.

The fact is that 50 yrs ago, when a girl turned up pregnant TWO people were "in trouble" .

50 yrs ago a man, to BE a'Man', had to conduct himself with respect to women in certain ways that LIMITED (ruled)his nature directed impulses. A man OWED a woman something.

If a lot of men are creeps (and something damn near a majority of them are)thanks to the feminazis they owe NO ONE any thing.

Where as today as well as 50 yrs ago a woman had to be damn careful in who she chose, men today are running into woman who have read the magizine articles, seen Oprah, internalized their rubbish and present it to a man on dates and such as aspects of their personalities or.

I met a nice woman , 30, sweet and attractive who had made a chump of herself with her previous long term moron and she had in the intrim between he and me decided she would draw lines (the violation of which she apparently decide had gotten her into 'trouble' with the idiot).

What I saw was flashes of the real her alternating with a bitch. She was never nasty and I doubt that she was aware that I was aware of what was going on, but understanding didn't mitigate my dislike of someone I went to trouble to see and spend time with treating me, at times, the way an entire stranger might.

I stopped calling her.

Her problem was that SHE DIDN'T CUT THE JACK-ASS LOOSE WHEN SHE SHOULD HAVE.

The correct thing to do, for anyone, is to be yourself and take your chances. Girls are vulnerable in certain ways as are boys. These ways differ and aren't 'fair' but no amount of 'creating the new me' is going to iron that out.

I honestly think 'relations' between the sexes has found it's mean level.

Everyone is covered in scabs and determined not to get anymore. Why they don't just stay home and read a book is beyond me.

Want to have their cake and eat it too, I suppose.


915 posted on 12/07/2004 7:16:22 AM PST by TalBlack
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To: Just another Joe
We were married in the Philippines while I was in the Navy.

My honey is from Southern Batangas, where is yours from? They survived the latest round of typhoons.

916 posted on 12/07/2004 7:29:52 AM PST by Mark17
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To: Mark17
She's originally from Romblon but we're putting down roots on Palawan.
Just bought some property there.
917 posted on 12/07/2004 7:33:26 AM PST by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: Just another Joe
She's originally from Romblon but we're putting down roots on Palawan. Just bought some property there.

Yes, I am intimately familiar with the geography ans I know where Roblon and Palawan are. My honey wants to live in her province of Batangas, as long as it is not close to her relatives. I said that is fine with me. How are your language skills coming? It is a hard language, but I learn a little at a time. I have her on instant messaging, as we speak.

918 posted on 12/07/2004 7:57:35 AM PST by Mark17
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To: Mark17
I lived there for 5 1/2 years so I can hold my own in a conversation for about 15 minutes anymore. It's been almost 18 years since I've been there.
Before I left I could converse, in Tagalog, on just about any subject but it's been too long.
919 posted on 12/07/2004 8:04:43 AM PST by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: Just another Joe

That is good, you were able to learn Tagalog. I guess if you can do it, I can do it too. Did you pick up a lot by watching TV, or simply by being exposed to it all the time? When you go to Palawan, you will be exposed to it again, unless they speak something other than Tagalog there.


920 posted on 12/07/2004 8:27:09 AM PST by Mark17
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