IMBRA -feminist.org

Found this little beauty on their web site discussion board. It is truly frightening and I can't help but empathize with my American brothers. You have to read this ditty about a rant by a feminist on two states non acceptance of IMBRA:

The International Marriage Broker Regulation Act is being upheld by restraining orders in two states. We really need to rally behind Layli Miller-Muro (layli@tahirih.org) and show support. All could be lost if an injunction is achieved. Its actually shameful that a battle in the gender war has reached federal court. The real irony is that the fight is over how American men are allowed to communicate with "non-feminist" foreign women.

I work with a guy who has a Filipina wife. Just interacting with him on the job, I see he has some anal, control freak ways and before I even met his wife, I figured she was Asian (honestly, I've been batting 1000 in picking out the creepy white dudes I work with whom I know are too ugly or wierd to attract a modern American wife). Upon seeing her, everything in me just screamed "pedophile!" She may be older than she looks but she carries herself and talks like a little girl. Obviously without much else to do besides cater to him, she is constantly in the office sitting in our breakroom reading magazines or writing letters like she is in after school care - waiting for him to get off work. She tried to engage a group of us in conversation once and he yelled at her over something inane. I walked out in disgust. As a black female, I have no doubt in my mind that 200 years ago, he would have been slinking out to the slave quarters to rape slave women. Today these same creeps just have to go trolling third world countries. What is really gross is that my short, fat, rude and ignorant manager just returned from a vacation in the Philippines. Given some of the tasteless comments he's made in the past, I can only imagine what he did most of the time he was there ... It's so common out here that I try not to even look when I see some of those couples. It almost frightens me. YUCK!

The kind of man who uses these services may be a bit sketchy (understatement), but the woman involved presumably has few choices, all of which are sufficiently bad that marrying a stranger in a foreign country seems attractive. I'm guessing that the women who sign up for these services have poor marriage prospects at home, so that their options are to marry a third world asshole or a developed world guy who may or may not be an asshole. I know men who have married through this process, and they treat their wives poorly by American standards (in terms of expecting them to be 1950s style homemakers), but very well indeed by the standards expected of a wife in the woman's home country.

All of the above is 100% true. Usually these women (if they survive), stay just long enough to acquire citizenship and then leave, so there is a bit of usage on either side ... think I'd rather die in abject poverty ... more power to them.

There was an interesting article in my local "alternative" weekly about a tour set for american (mostly middle aged) men to find Thai wives. I thought it should be renamed the misogyny tour. Pretty much everything these men said was misogynistic and a lot of it was pretty racist as well.
http://www.westword.com/Issues/2006-03-02/.../feature_1.html

I mean, seriously, we're talking about people buying people - this isn't about the pool of men in economically exploited countries, this is about money and the fact that, while people are starving, other people can exploit them to no end.

Keep your daydreaming. Women will get more power and be stronger, that is what is happening and will be the future as well. If you cannot put up with the reality, just kill yourself - it is not loss of the world anyways.

Well first, you register to vote. Go to feminist.org to register online. That's 'feminist.org'. Then forward the link to all of your girlfriends and be sure to vote November 2nd. Remember, women are 51% of the population. So when we vote, we have the power to change the world.


are ya scared yet???

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