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Men: Would You Marry an American Woman?[W:771]

Men: Would you marry an American Woman?


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Re: Men: Would You Marry an American Woman?

You should probably catch up on what's been going on in this thread.

Nawwhhh...I've been on vacation for the past few weeks and I missed messin with ya... ;)
 
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Nawwhhh...I've been on vacation for the past few weeks and I missed messin with ya... ;)

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Ahhhhhh, thanks Mr. Thomas. A hug is always welcomed....if you aren't really a lizard or a dragon. :)

But it might good to share that I've been to the end of the world....and walked amongst the Antarctica beast. Yes...among thousands of adorable little penguins and seal lions...and watch the whales frolic in the frigid waters.
 
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Ahhhhhh, thanks Mr. Thomas. A hug is always welcomed....if you aren't really a lizard or a dragon. :)

But it might good to share that I've been to the end of the world....and walked amongst the Antarctica beast. Yes...among thousands of adorable little penguins and seal lions...and watch the whales frolic in the frigid waters.

Nice. Work, I assume?
 
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No...really...vacation.

Sounds interesting. You should post pictures in the Tavern, if you took any.

I've never been anywhere colder than Maine or Germany, myself. The Antarctic would be quite an experience. :lol:
 
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Sounds interesting. You should post pictures in the Tavern, if you took any.

I've never been anywhere colder than Maine or Germany, myself. The Antarctic would be quite an experience. :lol:

I might do that. I have a few hundred. But it may surprise you that it is summertime there...and it was a bit warm. I was actually in Ushuaia, Argentina, which is known as the City At The End of the World. We were just a hop-skip-and jump from the Antarctica. Actually we were on islands just north of the Antarctica that were home to all these great creatures.

During the winter in Ushuaia...it can get subzero temps. And yes, we had to wear warm clothing. But not for extreme cold.

Sadly, it hadn't snowed in that region we were at for the past couple of years. It's getting warmer and warmer. When the cold spell hit the northeast a month back, it was colder there than in the Antarctica.
 
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Hey, it worked for Trump and his ever-loving consort. :lol:

Well, we don't really know how "happy" either of them really are. I'm sure the money helps to make the both of them happier with their situations. ;) Besides, I think she KNEW who Donald Trump was, and I never heard that she was a mail order bride. :lol:
 
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For those who posted to pour scorn on men as "whining" about the way men are being treated in American society, you're just proving my point, are you not?

To be clear, the OP was not a call to order a bride from Russia or turn to other foreign women. The main point was the way men are being treated and regarded in American society. If you claim not to know what I'm referring to then you are being willfully blind and disenginious. The discussion started with marriage because marriage is the locus of many of the legal and societal sanctions against men, and American women are particularly inclined to take full advantage of the lack of fairness, even regarding it as their birthright. Which is why so many men are voting with their feet and avoiding the roles of husband, father, and provider.

It goes far, far beyond male dissatisfaction over the loss of traditional male roles and into the realm of unreasonable hatred and bigotry being directed toward men for no more than being men. Legal sanctions against men and disrespect of men are also strong on college campuses, and so we have seen a drop in male enrollment.

But it starts even earlier than that, with boys being shunted to alternative schools and drugged for acting like boys instead of like girls, which is what teachers, which are almost all women, prefer. It isn't any wonder that by they time they leave high school many young men have had their fill of academe.

Maybe you can't find a good woman because you need to work on yourself? I agree about the school situation though. I do think that, because of the way school is set up, that it makes it much more difficult for boys. I think that boys are more "hands-on" when it comes to learning and, of course, they are normally more "physical" when it comes to how they interact, but I think this has very little to do with your issues with women.
 
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Maybe you can't find a good woman because you need to work on yourself? I agree about the school situation though. I do think that, because of the way school is set up, that it makes it much more difficult for boys. I think that boys are more "hands-on" when it comes to learning and, of course, they are normally more "physical" when it comes to how they interact, but I think this has very little to do with your issues with women.

Other than perhaps shop classes - when has school ever been a hands-on type of environment?

100 years ago was math, english, writing, reading, a hands-on learning process?

Some science stuff is obviously, but generally speaking in the early 1900's was school hands-on and interactive?
 
If given the chance to re-marry would you marry (another) American woman?

Increasingly the answer is "no".

Men are increasingly disrespected by American women. They face extreme economic and social disadvantages in family law that makes it possible for a wife to divorce them and take most of what they have including their children for any reason or no reason. They are constantly told that they are worthless and stupid. Disrespect for men has become standard practice. Men are disrespected by their wives – they’re disrespected publicly, they’re disrespected privately, they’re disrespected and then told that they have no right to be upset about it because they aren’t worthy of respect in the first place.

Disrespect of men is a joke to Americans now.

The result has been that men are increasingly dropping out of society. They don't marry, they don't go to college because they see no reason to break their humps to get ready to provide for a family -- they aren't going to be having a family.

Lots has been written about this phenomena, most of it in the strain of "why is it that men are so childish now." But men are not dropping out because of arrested development. They are acting rationally in response to myriad laws, attitudes and hostility against them for the crime of happening to be male in the twenty-first century.

Men on Strike: Why Men Are Boycotting Marriage, Fatherhood, and the American Dream - and Why It Matters: Helen Smith: 9781594036750: Amazon.com: Books

As a non-American, I'd just like to throw in my two cents (eurocents from Berlin, that is):

I too found that here in the rather "liberal" city of Berlin (where it's really hard to find a genuine conservative who's not at least *somewhat* liberalized), it was very difficult for me to find people who share my values (and I don't even think I'm conservative, I just value trust, commitment and mutual loyalty when it comes to both friendship and relationship), and it wasn't easy to find the right girlfriend/wife here, but I did (and no, she's not a Muslim immigrant, lol).

It seems to me that the atheist-liberal mainstream culture here, although I'm probably part of it too to some extent (I share many liberal ideas), has created a culture of superficiality. People in their late twens who still behave like in their late teens, going to clubs several nights per week, only care about what's "cool" and what's not, judging people by looks and talking bad even about their "friends" the moment they leave the room -- and often only interested in superficial fun, but incapable of starting a serious relationship, even when they want.

However, I don't have the impression that's limited to one gender, and the connection to political leaning is weak at best. It's both guys and girls who behave like that. And many "conservative" people are actually hypocrites and do secretly the same thing.
 
So...as of now, less then 20% of voters are willing to summarily judge over 150 million women solely on the basis of their present nationality.

Good.
 
(and I don't even think I'm conservative, I just value trust, commitment and mutual loyalty when it comes to both friendship and relationship)

that's a maturity thing, nothing to do with political leanings. I value the same things in relationships and I have a completely different political lean.

I would venture to guess, most of the respected members here from the our fascists, to our libertarians, to our liberal types, to our conservative types, to those who aren't so easily labeled all value things like trust, commitment, and loyalty within a personal relationship. Those respected members tend to be grown ups.
 
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Maybe you can't find a good woman because you need to work on yourself? I agree about the school situation though. I do think that, because of the way school is set up, that it makes it much more difficult for boys. I think that boys are more "hands-on" when it comes to learning and, of course, they are normally more "physical" when it comes to how they interact, but I think this has very little to do with your issues with women.

Amusing. Did I say that I can't find a good woman?

No matter how many different ways you say it it still comes down to blaming men for everything. Disrespecting men has become second nature.
 
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Other than perhaps shop classes - when has school ever been a hands-on type of environment?

100 years ago was math, english, writing, reading, a hands-on learning process?

Some science stuff is obviously, but generally speaking in the early 1900's was school hands-on and interactive?

I never said it was. I just said I think that is how a lot of boys learn. Here's an interesting article. Now, I don't necessarily agree with everything in the article, and I don't think female teachers CONSCIOUSLY discriminate against boys. However, I think that, because a lot of times the nature of boys is more aggressive, that boys sometimes might get "labelled" by female teachers as being out of control or not willing to learn because they don't understand boys and expect them to behave in the same manner as female students. Boys are the ones who go to the doctors to be medicated on the advice of teachers a lot of times, as being labelled "hyperactive."

Elementary School Bias Against Boys Sets Them Up For Failure: Study

Academics from the University of Georgia and Columbia University think they have more insight into why girls earn higher grades on report cards than boys do, despite the fact that girls do not necessarily outperform boys on achievement or IQ tests.

Christopher Cornwell, head of economics at the University of Georgia's Terry College of Business, UGA's David Mustard and Columbia's Jessica Van Parys have published a study that they say shows "gender disparities in teacher grades start early and uniformly favor girls."

The researchers analyzed data from 5,800 elementary school students and found that boys performed better on standardized exams in math, reading and science than their course grades reflected. The authors suggest that girls are truly only outperforming boys in "non-cognitive approaches to learning" -- defined as attentiveness, task persistence, eagerness to learn, learning independence, flexibility and organization -- leading to better grades from teachers. The study is published in the latest issue of The Journal of Human Resources.
 
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Amusing. Did I say that I can't find a good woman?

No matter how many different ways you say it it still comes down to blaming men for everything. Disrespecting men has become second nature.

I thought it was Obama we were supposed to be blaming!
 
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Amusing. Did I say that I can't find a good woman?

No matter how many different ways you say it it still comes down to blaming men for everything. Disrespecting men has become second nature.

Pretty much.
 
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Pretty much.

I found a good woman pretty quickly after my divorce, may its not women in general that are the problem. I have never had trouble finding good women, even if the relationship didn't always work out ...

Look at the case of tigger, think about who he is versus how long it took him to find someone he considered suitable ...

Perhaps one should examine their own unrealistic standards ...
 
As a non-American, I'd just like to throw in my two cents (eurocents from Berlin, that is):

I too found that here in the rather "liberal" city of Berlin (where it's really hard to find a genuine conservative who's not at least *somewhat* liberalized), it was very difficult for me to find people who share my values (and I don't even think I'm conservative, I just value trust, commitment and mutual loyalty when it comes to both friendship and relationship), and it wasn't easy to find the right girlfriend/wife here, but I did (and no, she's not a Muslim immigrant, lol).

It seems to me that the atheist-liberal mainstream culture here, although I'm probably part of it too to some extent (I share many liberal ideas), has created a culture of superficiality. People in their late twens who still behave like in their late teens, going to clubs several nights per week, only care about what's "cool" and what's not, judging people by looks and talking bad even about their "friends" the moment they leave the room -- and often only interested in superficial fun, but incapable of starting a serious relationship, even when they want.

However, I don't have the impression that's limited to one gender, and the connection to political leaning is weak at best. It's both guys and girls who behave like that. And many "conservative" people are actually hypocrites and do secretly the same thing.

This is an aspect of the culture I'm not very familiar with. I never joined in for that sort of thing, going straight from university to professional school and by then married. And I didn't live in an area where this kind of thing was very active, or at least it was my impression.

Of the people who do this sort of thing how many form lasting relationships?
 
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I never said it was. I just said I think that is how a lot of boys learn. Here's an interesting article. Now, I don't necessarily agree with everything in the article, and I don't think female teachers CONSCIOUSLY discriminate against boys. However, I think that, because a lot of times the nature of boys is more aggressive, that boys sometimes might get "labelled" by female teachers as being out of control or not willing to learn because they don't understand boys and expect them to behave in the same manner as female students. Boys are the ones who go to the doctors to be medicated on the advice of teachers a lot of times, as being labelled "hyperactive."

Elementary School Bias Against Boys Sets Them Up For Failure: Study


So would it be "ideal" then to segregate children into boys only classes, and girls only classes, and have the boys taught by men, and the gitrls taught by women?

Not being sarcastic here..... but I think you'll find that there are probably more men teaching kids now than there was 60 years ago. At least in the primary school age range.

I'm just not buying into the idea that there's a massive male-discrimination thing happening.

Men/boys are not victims.
 
This is an aspect of the culture I'm not very familiar with. I never joined in for that sort of thing, going straight from university to professional school and by then married. And I didn't live in an area where this kind of thing was very active, or at least it was my impression.

Of the people who do this sort of thing how many form lasting relationships?

I know plenty who have
 
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So would it be "ideal" then to segregate children into boys only classes, and girls only classes, and have the boys taught by men, and the gitrls taught by women?

Not being sarcastic here..... but I think you'll find that there are probably more men teaching kids now than there was 60 years ago. At least in the primary school age range.

I'm just not buying into the idea that there's a massive male-discrimination thing happening.

Men/boys are not victims.

No one said they were "victims." Just that the school system, the way it is set up, is not ideal for boys to excel in.
 
Of the people who do this sort of thing how many form lasting relationships?

The particular people I have in mind I somewhat know, a clique of about half a dozen, around 30 years old, have not had a relationship that lasted longer than 2 years so far, if they had any at all. Of course that's anecdotical evidence, but I don't think they untypical for the Berlin club scene. I've superficially met others who are 40 already and still consider it the main purpose of their lives to go clubbing and drinking whenever they have a free moment, desperately trying to hide their age.
 
The particular people I have in mind I somewhat know, a clique of about half a dozen, around 30 years old, have not had a relationship that lasted longer than 2 years so far, if they had any at all. Of course that's anecdotical evidence, but I don't think they untypical for the Berlin club scene. I've superficially met others who are 40 already and still consider it the main purpose of their lives to go clubbing and drinking whenever they have a free moment, desperately trying to hide their age.

Meh, we have the same people here. I think there are probably lonely people in their 20s, 30s and 40s and older everywhere in the world.
 
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No one said they were "victims." Just that the school system, the way it is set up, is not ideal for boys to excel in.

But the school system is pretty much an unchanged dinosaur. So you're saying it worked fine in the 50's for boys, but now it doesn't?

I'm not saying there isn't a lot wrong with the educational system in the USofA - I just don't see that it's slanted more heavily against boys than girls.
 
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