The Draft

[DanaC]

When I read your response RADAR I really really wanted you to dispel the myth....I always think people jump to readily into the trap of defining all Asian women as culturally submissive and Vietnamese or Philipino (sp) women in particular as mail order brides chosen by Men whose own chauvinism has reached such a level that they are out of step with modern western values like gender equality.

I have a friend who is distance dating a Philipino woman he met through his work as techsupport for Servers serving Asia. ..Now I will admit I took the right royal piss out of him when he told me he was flying out to the philipines to meet up with his new lady. ....But I really was just teasing because my friend is a lovely guy who hasnt got a chauvinist bone in his body ( well....except for one but I think thats all guys.. ..) He's already been married once and has a delightful daughter His Phillipino girlfriend is also a divorcee with children. I have seen the photos of her and him together on holiday and they make a good couple. She doesnt look like the submissive type and knowing my friend as I do I dont think he'd have been drawn to her if she was.....

So...I was really hoping to see this stereotype debunked ....but then every damn paragraph of RADAR's post just read like my idea of the stereotypically chauvinist male drawn to Asian women because they "know how to look after their men properly".....Damn