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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 10:50 PM
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96. Maybe it's a generational thing
I think that younger men are more likely to have egalitarian views, but that baby boomer men are more likely to half in and half out of the old paradigm. They know that they should say that they want intelligent women, and maybe they even have themselves convinced that they do, but deep down, they want the kind of relationship that their parents had, where Mom stayed home and ran the house and never "bothered her purdy little head" about "important matters."

Who is it who's fueling the Asian picture bride and Russian picture bride industries? Middle-aged men, mostly, and the reason they typically give is that "American women have forgotten how to be feminine," as if they have a right to define what "feminine" is. I suspect that "feminine" here really means "deferential."
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