If any of you Gentlemen personally know a Russian or FSU Woman..
Then TODAY is the day to once again extend your deepest adoration and to make her feel like a REAL Lady.
(These women also love to pamper and make each other feel beautiful on this day too.)
So pick up that phone..
Send those emails or ecards..
Or just simply arrange a nice romantic evening together.
Oh and don’t forget the flowers and chocolates too.
They really love that. :)
March 8, 2009 at 6:57 pm
Oh my god, what a goooorgeous picture. I’d love to mooch through your photography folders. x
March 8, 2009 at 7:09 pm
GL,
What a charming image. This is the sort of ‘girl time’ that so many NA women have left in their childhood. It seems such a blessing for like minded girls to share in the joy of womanhood like sisters, bonded by their gender but more so by their feelings and aspirations.
Happy Woman’s Day, ladies, indeed.
March 8, 2009 at 7:15 pm
Happy Woman’s Day Bella!
I’d bet you’d like it even more if you were also in this photo being pampered..
March 8, 2009 at 7:26 pm
What I wouldn’t give to be included :]
March 8, 2009 at 7:28 pm
Can’t place a name to these lovely ladies but they all look familiar, particularly the one on the far right. If any of them are reading this (and to any other female readers of this blog,) Happy Women’s Day!!
March 8, 2009 at 7:38 pm
You are so right Richard..
Being able to sit back and watch these girls just naturally do their thing together goes way beyond just being special.
Keep in mind that while Masha’s hair was being braided the giggling, happy and nurturing energy in the room was just over the top.
It was such a strange and pleasant feeling as a Man to be a part of this.
They were just carrying on chit chatting about girl things as if I wasn’t in the room. And this was actually a very cool thing.
Luckily the camera was within arm’s reach and we were able to snap a great Kodak moment of this.. (or should I say a Nikon moment) and capture a pretty good glimpse of this incredible womanly vibration.
March 8, 2009 at 7:44 pm
Happy Woman’s Day Sophie!
The wonderful lady on the right is my friend Jenya.
And yes you have seen her and the other fair ladies in this photo a few times on this site
March 8, 2009 at 7:45 pm
Thank you very much!
I hope you had a wonderful day too.
Ah yes, the engineer lady! I really need to re-read some old posts.
March 8, 2009 at 9:27 pm
To Elena, Mascha, Jenya, Sophie, Bella, Snejana, Anna, Dawn, Kisha, and all you other women out there, Happy Women’s Day. I appreciate you all and want the best for you.
March 8, 2009 at 10:34 pm
Just sent some congratulations messages to my Russian girl-friends…
Happy Women’s Day to all women out there…
For those ladies from this website, thank you so much for making this website so great, positive, wonderful and truthful in spite of Western mainstream media’s negative portrayals and slants against Russian women in general. Here’s a “virtual” flower in the ASCII form for you ladies…
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March 8, 2009 at 10:39 pm
Oh no!! The server didn’t make it as what it intended to look like… It really looked like a flower when I typed it in the comment form before it got “destroyed” in the process of posting my comment on the website. Forgive me on that…
March 8, 2009 at 10:54 pm
Thank you, Sam
March 9, 2009 at 12:22 am
I do not, as of yet, have that one and only girl to pamper and please on this special day. But I send my best wishes and regards to the lovely women who frequent this site, and to the beautiful girls whose pictures make this site such a joy to visit! Happy International Women’s Day to all of you fine ladies
Kevin
March 9, 2009 at 9:32 pm
Hey Mascha,
Can we get a shot of you in potato sacks?
I know what Mascha’s going to say:
“Eta ochen ochen grupa!”
hehe
Happy Woman’s Days, ladies!!
-M
March 9, 2009 at 11:06 pm
With regards to the photos of the young ladies, WOW! It made my day to see them smiling and they fixed each other’s hair. Is that Elena and Jenya by the way? Happy women’s day ladies…….it’s a quaint holiday well worth remembering….:-)
Taras
March 10, 2009 at 1:43 am
Good idea, Manoah. Katya, Elena “The Snow Queen”, Mascha, and Jenya all in potato sacks. What does Eta ochen ochen grupa mean anyway?
March 10, 2009 at 1:44 am
I forgot Snejana. She should join in, too.
March 10, 2009 at 1:51 am
Manoah, you can tell them in advance that we are not going to wear any leggings. I couldn’t take the criticism, and that’s for darn sure.
March 10, 2009 at 2:23 am
Sam,
What does Eta ochen ochen grupa mean anyway?
It means: Its very very stupid. I was just having fun.
Now that you mentioned it. We can make a calendar and call it:
Hot Russian girls in Potato Sacks.
I think that would be a fun project. And we can forward all proceeds to Russian Orphanages.
-M
March 10, 2009 at 2:53 am
Manoah, your ideas get better all the time. I forgot Anna, the medical student with the 500 watt smile, and certainly Sophie, and Bella would join in for such a good cause. I sent my pictures to GL, so I imagine the girls will rule my participation out pretty quickly. Richard could serve as an advisor for sure, but I don’t know about him posing. I must go to bed, but I am glad to hear about your plan.
March 10, 2009 at 3:48 am
Advisor, sure, but posing . . . . . . . well if I can crawl down inside the potato sack with somebody . . . . . . . . . . . . okay, I digress.
The calendar idea is wonderful and anything that could help the Russian Orphanages just makes it even better.
Being a photographer has been a safe way to keep images of me away from an unsuspecting world.
March 10, 2009 at 1:36 pm
I am with you there, Richard. How often could one find beauty, brains, and personality in one package(or sack), though? This site has them in spades.
Sophie, I will be back in this evening, and I look forward to your response. What country do you reside in(if you don’t mind me asking)? Seriously, though, Manoah provides much needed humor, and I hope he causes cackles around the globe.
Mascha, please don’t say “ochen grupa”. Please write us and say something very sweet as usual.
Kisha must be out buying and eating cabbage. Haven’t heard from her in a day or two.
March 10, 2009 at 1:41 pm
By the way, just let you guys know that there’s a misspelling in the Russian word, “grupa,” as seen in Manoah’s post… It’s actually “glupo”… as in the real Russian phrase as what Manoah would say…
Это очень очень глупо.
translated to Latin texts: Eto ochen ochen glupo.
I don’t want to act like a language police. I have to chime in to correct this because I didn’t find “grupa” or “група” in my Russian dictionary. I want to make sure the word is correct so those Russian folks would know what the word is.
March 11, 2009 at 5:54 pm
Thanks, BK. Despite the joking around, I am here to learn, and appreciate your input. This is an ignorant question, but exactly how do you go back and forth between cyrillic and latin letters in the same note?
March 11, 2009 at 5:56 pm
BK, Kisha mentioned that Russian people are not known for their sensitivity. Is that a fair generalization?
March 11, 2009 at 8:34 pm
Thanks Sam, I’ve been away for a while, and, yes eating a lot of борщ and щи =)
Cabbage is good.
March 12, 2009 at 11:24 am
You are welcome, Kisha. Cabbage is particularly good when made into cole slaw, and combined with a hotdog or barbecue sandwich.
It’s good to hear from you. I always enjoy your input.
March 12, 2009 at 7:04 pm
Hey guys!
I would like to thank you on behalf of all Russian Women. This day – the 8th of March- is very meaningful to us. We expect our men to be extremely nice to us on that day. This is the day when every woman feels like a real Queen.
March 12, 2009 at 9:12 pm
Snejana,
I think the men in Russia are lucky to have such wonderful women to admire and celebrate.
Clearly the beauty of Russian women goes beyond their dynamic features and overall physical beauty.
March 12, 2009 at 11:46 pm
Richard,
the problem is that the men in Russia admire their women only one day a year. I guess that is the reason why women love this day so much.
Also it is the reason why this site is so valuable: for instance, if I feel blue, I can always go to my page and reread all the good things you guys wrote to me.
I don’t want to blame on russian men, but that is how I personally see it. Maybe other girls have a different point of view.
warm regards,
Snejana.
March 13, 2009 at 1:11 am
You are welcome, Snejana. From reading your previous posts, I have learned that you are intelligent, considerate, and appreciative. Excellent qualities all. Your beauty speaks for itself.
March 13, 2009 at 2:44 am
Snejana,
Your words are as graceful and dignified as your images. It is delightful to know that you come back and reread these things we write and that it pleases you.
How sad it must be at times to think that the men around you take the girls for granted. When such a gift is put before us, men can often be so blind.
For the men in my region there is little thought ever given to celebrating women on any day of the year. Many of us have come to face the reality that any special attention we show is usually taken advantage of so it has become less painful to simply not show such attention at all.
The girls of your generation who are trying to hold on to the old ways deserve to be rewarded for your efforts. It might be the young ladies in your part of the world who will save the traditions which built our society.
Blessings,
Richard
March 13, 2009 at 4:06 am
Sam,
I didn’t want to ruin the fun of the jokes about the potato sacks… but, I felt like I need to get that Russian phrase correct of Manoah’s thought of a possible Russian-style reaction from a Russian lady…
That’s simple… I have a Russian-English keyboard where I can toggle “ctrl-shift” to command my lovely Linux Ubuntu to switch back and forth between the American English version and the standard Russian version. I can type anything I feel like either in English or Russian.
Well, it’s hard to generalize because every person is different and unique with his/her own personality and flairs. Russians are no exception. But, as for your question about sensitivity, I can say that many Russians tend to be pretty blunt and direct. They speak what’s truly in their mind. Sometimes, they could go too far with their bluntness where it would offend others.
March 13, 2009 at 4:02 pm
lovely photo and a great reminder!
March 13, 2009 at 8:54 pm
Hi Masha,
My is Dima. Im russian living in Canada and I wish you happy women’s day for what kind of person you are. I would like to write you a letter and how can I make sure you can get it.
Thank you Masha
March 18, 2009 at 4:38 am
Happy (belated) Woman’s Day to all the ladies who frequent this site.
Personally, I don’t need a calendar to tell me when to celebrate those we should cherish every day, but I do understand that most women need that calendar-reminder for their unappreciative men to show some sign of appreciation toward the special woman in his life. I find that quite a sad state in modern relationships.
The woman in my life is always aware of my appreciation of her presence in my life and heart and mind as I constantly show her and tell her this fact, even in the smallest gestures, on any given day. (though I have been single for some time now)
To all the women out there:
Thank you for making all our lives that much more beautiful, magical, loving, romantic and special.
April 14, 2009 at 6:49 am
I want to suggest a topic for GL. Why is it that Filipino women (Filipina/Pinay) are becoming more feminist but not the same for Russian women?
I think it is because Filipinos want to be westernized and that includes feminism. It is not just Filipinos who want to be like America. Many countries are like that.
Filipinos had NOT been exposed to Communism and Feminism like the Russians. The Russians had learnt from their experience but the Philippines did not had that experience. For a growing number of Pinays, feminism is one of the western values that must be embraced if one wants to be successful.
April 20, 2009 at 2:30 am
Oh, where are you, my Darling? Do you remember me? GL, have you eloped or something?
April 20, 2009 at 8:31 am
to richard:
that’s because these are girls, how old do they think they are?
to everyone else, especially the author:
“these girls love pampering”- who doesn’t? you are confusing the femininst movement’s effects and its followers…women born in north america (or even europe as some of you argue) have more obligations forced upon them, if i expected guys to pay for everything, the guy himself would call me a “gold digger”. we are constantly compared against successful people with careers as well as successful mothers, do you think that is a choice? believe me, it is so much easier to play with our hair and spend all day looking pretty.
and as for this fascination with the “supporter”, do you think that you have a preference for a supportive partner, or a young naive girl, who knows nothing but to support? i personally dont think that this doey eyed “supporter” position these girls don is sustainable. As women grow older AND have children, as they start to lose their girlish looks that captured you all in the first place and are no longer able to hold your attention, they will wish they had other pillars in their lives to support them other than men. things that are enduring and last.
as a under 20 daughter of FSU parents raised in the states, and studying in western europe, i find a lot of what you are all saying really sad. unlike this feminazi stuff youre talking about, i have my goals set, i hope to meet someone as a partner who i could walk “with” in life, not in front of or behind. i would like to hear from a guy who is married for 10+ years with one of these girls they meet and hear if there is a difference in attitudes and behaiviour.
youth is international, we are all naive and hopeful. wanting to be loved and adored is also international, it seems like you all just want someone to worship you…
this isnt an attack but i just wanted to raise some questions.
-kalinka
April 20, 2009 at 9:04 am
Kalinka,
“As women grow older AND have children, as they start to lose their girlish looks that captured you all in the first place and are no longer able to hold your attention, they will wish they had other pillars in their lives to support them other than men. things that are enduring and last.”
You are under 20 and are already firmly indoctrinated in the “Don’t trust men” and “You can’t rely on a man” mentality.
I’d like to suggest that your situation is truly the sad one. Because with your feminist belief system in place you are already setting yourself up for failure as far as a long term relationship is concerned.
You are essentially saying.. I don’t trust men but I want to be in a relationship with one.
You keep that mentality and I’m afraid to say that you are guaranteed to fail because your suspicions and doubts will dominate your future relationships and this will manifest itself into the reality you were afraid of all along.
I don’t think you realize how indoctrinated you are Kalinka. When you say something like the following..
“it seems like you all just want someone to worship you”
First off I’d like to challenge you to find anything in this blog that suggests that any of the men here or myself wants a woman who “worships” us.
Second I’d like to suggest that the this language you are using will immediately put you on the defensive anytime you have feelings for a man because you are afraid that you might be seen as “worshiping him”.
Feminism at it’s core is schizo.. It’s designed to make you afraid of your own natural feelings of love, tenderness and attraction you have for a man.
I strongly suggest you re-evaluate your attitude because you cannot and will not have real love without vulnerability.
Good luck to you..
GL
April 20, 2009 at 12:08 pm
….”things that are enduring and last.” Kalinka, please don’t be fooled. Be assured by history, love is probably the only thing that endures in this hard world. If you can find the love of a good man, and a few good friends, you have found the pot at the end of the rainbow. Once your basic needs are met, more money brings less and less satisfaction, and only fools idolize other humans, so if those are potential pillars, beware. A satisfying career is a wonderful thing, but the pursuit of one doesn’t mean you have to swear off love.
Obviously, GL is not looking for subservience. If so, he wouldn’t promote the company of such intelligent, highly educated women, not girls.
I can introduce you to countless men who have been married to women of substance for decades. Their partnerships endure, and, in fact, grow stronger with time. These relationships are built on more than the physical beauty of the woman, Kalinka. Real beauty endures. Look around, its presence may surprise you.
April 20, 2009 at 12:40 pm
“Once your basic needs are met, more money brings less and less satisfaction”
Actually, more money often brings less and less money as the richest people are those who tend to run up the largest debts as well.
Speaking of money, has anybody else read Vanity Fair and thinks it’s fabulous?
April 20, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Kalinka,
I don’t think that anyone here is questioning the youth of these ladies and I also doubt that any intelligent or mature person would deny that youth brings a sense of idealism. However as a young NA woman you are clearly already singing the victim song which is so common among girls here. Unlike you and the majority of your peers in this country, the girls your age in most other parts of the world still hold family values above the corporate victories you are seeking at such a youthful point in your life. While you have been sold the bill of goods that you can “have it all”, no one has apparently explained to you yet that you can NOT have it all at the same time. Being committed to family and equally committed to a career is like mixing your salad dressing prior to the meal. The oil and the vinegar will soon separate again, as they were originally and only one will sit on top. You must choose the one you want more or you will always be shaking the bottle and never having the chance to enjoy either of them for very long. The human mind can not hold and concentrate on more than one thought at one exact time. Likewise, in life, you must either commit to one thing to focus your creative energy on at any one time or something else will have to get less attention. It is like assuming that you can add hours to the day. There are 24 of them for everybody. You may be more or less effective with that time than someone else but you are still living within physical limitations.
Open your mind to reality and stop believing that it will somehow be “different for you”. It has never been different throughout the history of mankind. Try facing the fact that you are a young woman and what you offer the world is unique to your gender. Ignoring that certainty makes you look foolish and immature to most of the rest of the world. The entire feminist movement has only diminished women, not elevated them. The handful who disagree are feminists and I doubt their objectivity.
April 20, 2009 at 4:50 pm
Kalinka, you’re sound like one confused young lady who hasn’t a clue how confused and bamboozled you really are. Men are not looking for someone to worship them, they are looking for a life partner instead of a competitor. There is no way, at least in one lifetime anyways to “have it all.” Life is about compromises and trade offs, and at some point you have to choose which is more important to you. If a career matters more to you than love and family, then be prepared to be alone when you’re old. Money counts for nothing in the overall big picture. While it does provide for physical needs, it does not bring happiness. Many people I know who have lots of money are some of the most unhappy people you’ll ever meet. Want proof? My maternal grandmother cared for the son of the current president of a major brewery company here in the U.S. She told me that all of them despite their wealth were very unhappy, depressed and became alcoholics. You really do not want to live your life with a huge emptiness in your soul, which leads to addiction, suicide and other self-destructive behaviors. Look at how many women are acting out these days and think about why a century ago this was almost unheard of. My own father is living proof that money and material possessions do not make you a happy person. Feminism has sold you a false bill of lies that is really intended to demean your womanhood and cause a global population crash by making you unfit for marriage and incapable love. It’s a soul blighter from the very hand of Satan himself.
Taras
April 20, 2009 at 5:37 pm
Feminism doesn’t say you can have it all. It’s saying that women are entitled to choose which option they want more.
April 20, 2009 at 6:39 pm
Hazel,
I’m not trying to attack you personally here, but . . .
Actually most outspoken feminists DO say you can have it all. However, that isn’t the bigger issue. It is the women who have been duped into believing it, then found out they had to make a choice, and are now crying “foul” that is the real problem.
You are absolutely right about it being a choice and since most NA women refuse to take one over the other because of the feminazi b.s. they were told, now they are crying about which option they are left with, as if neither is good enough.
If women would try being women first, they might be more fulfilled in the long run. And I don’t mean they all HAVE to be wives and mothers.
Make a choice and live with it for God’s sake. But then stop blaming and condemning men in the process, and if you choose marriage and family, leave the freakin’ competition at the door. No real man is looking for a competitor at home.
April 20, 2009 at 8:15 pm
thank you for your responses, while i (probably stereotypically) agree with hazel, that it is about the opportunity to choose, i dont put off the option of leaving a career for a family, i also dont put off being with my family for a few years and then going back to work. its not an abandonment of our unique gender gifts, we want to have a stimulating and interesting life that is fulfilled in different quarters. career is just one way. if i could have my family and for example, travel the world with them or pursue a recreational PhD at the same time, i think that it perfectly acceptable. i dont think that many mothers feel comfortable to admit this, but parenting is hard work…its not all “baby’s first step” and “infant learns to read”. its most of the intermediate steps which can be very lonely and even unpleasant (i challenge any of you to describe being whizzed in the face by a baby boy a joy). it is a labour of love that is worth the labor because of the amazing results, a human being that will later partly carry on the ideas, values, etc that you have embedded in them. you can either change the world for the better or for worse.
for my part i do want to have a family, but i want to explore my youth and wait before settling down. this could be career, studies, whatever. i do have a goal of being a mom one day, but i think it is disingenious to look for a man for the sole purpose of fathering a baby. i want to be in love, because you need two in the equation to have a good childhood for the kids.
well anyway you all should come to western europe, you will find intellectually stimulating, beautiful, stylish (and slim, which, lets face it, the us is lacking) women who are polite and cultured. i also think that my opinions are not TOO biased, i mean i do come from a FSU background, have pretty conservative values, study in western europe, but apparently have the bad luck to have been born and raised in the us.
even if im married and have kids and don’t work i will still be independantly minded, challenge myself intellectually, and have other things going on other than my family. let’s face it, even in the FSU, men leave, men are alcoholics. its not anti men, in fact i pity them because they are missing out on a fulfilled life, but it is a fact. i would be interested to hear from some of the women in these relationships about the male culture back in the FSU and what they think about it. (did i mention im minoring in sociology
)
ok thanks for the comments, good night!
kalinka
April 20, 2009 at 8:46 pm
From what I gather the Russian women posted are educated, care about education, and seem to be able to take care of themselves. I would not want these Russian women to meet bad men. And shame on any man who falsely lie and devote a long period of time with them. These women don’t deserve it. I looked at kalinka’s post and do not think she hates men or wants to boss them around. She understands that a wife will have to focus on the baby and husband and neglet the workforce.
Sure her “As women grow older AND have children, as they start to lose their girlish looks that captured you all in the first place and are no longer able to hold your attention, they will wish they had other pillars in their lives to support them other than men. things that are enduring and last.” may sound negative to men but I think women and even Russian women would understand what she is saying. That said there are good men. Re;ationships require trust and being paraniod will set you up for failure.
April 21, 2009 at 2:23 am
Hello Kalinka,
Thanks for your polite response, though I think you still misunderstand or haven’t taken the time to review the ladies GL has introduced to us on this site. They are an impressive group by anyone’s standards. They include women studying to be physicians, engineers, journalists, dancers, one accomplished, world-renowned aerobatic pilot, etc. I don’t know them personally, so I can’t say how they live or plan to live their lives, but since they have independent minds, challenge themselves intellectually, and have full lives now, I don’t imagine that will change in the future. Why would men lucky enough to marry such high caliber women desire to see them regress intellectually, socially, physically, and emotionally? Is that really what you think most men have in mind for their wives? The men I know support their wives’ varied interests. Together they work out schedules that allow for physical activity, intellectual pursuits, relaxation, and, yes, family matters. Two good minds will trump one anytime, and I have seen couples work together to accomplish great things together. I don’t know whom you have been observing, but I know several professional women who would find your ideas more than a little insulting. Their husbands and children generally come first, but the very idea that they don’t have anything going on outside family is rather amusing.
As you and others have said, the choice is yours. America is a marvelous country; I can’t speak for others. Truly, you are limited only by your ability and desire here in the States. Be what you want to be— a movie star, president, governor, a social worker or what have you, but don’t think a husband will hinder you or that men in general are part of the problem. Men and women have died for your freedom, your rights, and your ability to choose your own path. I support you completely.
April 23, 2009 at 2:24 am
Richard said: “If women would try being women first, they might be more fulfilled in the long run. And I don’t mean they all HAVE to be wives and mothers.”
How does one be a woman first? In the west we seem to have forgotten, whereas ladies in Russia (and other non-western cultures too) have never let go …
April 23, 2009 at 6:29 pm
Sophie,
First off, I totally agree with you that western women have “forgotten” what it is to be a woman, first and foremost.
For people my age, there are clear memories of ‘real’ women and ‘real’ men who entered into marriage and family life with their eyes wide open and who had no fairy tale illusions of what the future had in store for them. The couples of the post war generation were acutely aware that life was not an easy proposition and that making it with a family would require the best that each of them had to offer, working together toward a common goal. What’s more, as their children grew, they too were expected to be a productive part of the family. That mindset is extremely rare in our culture today.
Enter the feminist movement and the destructive nature of what it stood for. Women were told to want more, expect more and demand more. They were hammered with the idea that they were indentured servants who reaped nothing for their efforts beyond mediocrity as they pandered to their husbands and children. The leaders of the feminist movement were terribly disrespectful to the women who found marriage and family to be a completely acceptable way of life, calling those housewives idiots and fools. (And I was initially viewing the ‘women’s rights movement’ as an idea long overlooked and much needed back in the 60s, until I attended a rally for their cause.) Feminists like Steinem and Fonda were hard core socialists who’s agenda was much further reaching than to extract ‘poor, misguided housewives’ from their oppressive kitchen and laundry room ‘duties’.
And I must add here that modern NA men share in this ‘new world view’ of more reward for less effort. Unfortunately for all concerned the male perspective seems to be more of a reactionary response to the loss of women with any sense of character. I think many of my peers have failed miserably with regards to how they have responded to the feminist agenda.
So, how does a woman ‘be a woman’ first? Or for that matter, how does a man be a man? Let’s look at a few points that haven been mentioned by others. First of all we are, biologically speaking, pretty much the same. Thankfully we all have our idiosyncrasies but people are people. We all mature at similar rates and we are all driven by a combination of our hormones and our learned behavior. The so called ‘biological clock’ is more than some obscure wives’ tale and men have a similar reaction which affects them. When we follow our natural behavior, we reach puberty and begin searching for a mate. We are basically a higher life form seeking strong breeding stock. That’s just biology.
But the learned behavior changes constantly with our family values, our social environment and our overall cultural experiences. If, for example, a girl is raised with steady exposure to dancing from her earliest possible opportunity, chances are she will enjoy dancing and likely be a pretty good dancer. And, if she is raised on a constant diet of feminist beliefs and doctrines, she will likely be strongly motivated to adopt the same behavior as a post pubescent teen and young adult. So in the latter example, during her most formidable ‘date and mate’ years, she will be view by males around her as, stuck up, cold, bitchy, self serving and dozens of other derogatory terms. Also, these young men, having now devalued her as a potential mate, will see her as a short term ‘friend with benefits’ at best, or in a worse case scenario as a ‘pump and dump’ slut. Is it ‘right’ to view the girls this way? In a word, no. But it IS what’s happening.
Does this all start to sound a bit like what’s going on in today’s world? Men don’t show these women any respect as ‘women first’ because the women aren’t acting in a way that can be respected outside of the boardroom. These women have become motivated by professional competition and a desire to validate their upbringing. They hold on to the same philosophy in their personal life and the cycle continues in a downward spiral, until we wake up and it’s 2009 and millions of singles are frustrated at not being able to find meaningful relationships.
And again, I do NOT hold men blameless in all of this. At some point, if only as a default mechanism we all ‘settle for’ whoever offends us the least and we call it love. We skip the search for ‘miss or mister right’ and take home ‘miss or mister right now’. We (men and women alike) are now just trying to find someone we can put up with for about ten years or until someone better comes along. The whole time we seem to be ‘still looking’. What a wonderful legacy to pass to our children, don’t you think?
If I deny my male instinct and still expect to be seen as a real man, I have set myself up for a lifetime of disappointment. Any woman who hits her stride as a competitor in the career world first is doing exactly the same thing.
While we may choose any path we like, we will all have to make sacrifices to achieve our goals. That’s life. Women who choose to forego ‘wife and mother’ to be a success in the corporate world need to stop looking for who they can blame for the sacrifices they made. What’s more, they should really get over the idea that any of this was forced on them. We make a choice and live with it. If we think we’ve made a bad choice, change.
I applaud your desire to seek other points of view. When we seek knowledge and engage others, we grow. Life is about growing or dying. There is nothing in between.
Continue to grow and be blessed in all of your honest efforts and endeavors.
April 25, 2009 at 3:55 pm
Special to Mascha via rwman:
Is there any chance we can see a new photo of you with your lovely little daughter? Motherhood becomes (flatters) you !!
May 5, 2009 at 7:35 pm
Fritz Says:
April 25, 2009 at 3:55 pm
Special to Mascha via rwman:
Is there any chance we can see a new photo of you with your lovely little daughter? Motherhood becomes (flatters) you !!
When did Mascha have a baby?? Did I miss a post??
April 25, 2009 at 10:42 pm
I agree with Richard here. Moreover, many men have enough bad experiences with women to give them reason to avoid all of them. That is why there is a marriage strike underway in the west, and why it’s gathering strength like a monstrous hurricane over very warm water. Moreover, with the risk of losing their livelihoods or reputations on the line for perfectly innocent behavior, men have good reason to be wary of any sort of interaction with women. Add to that the fact that many western women are like a bad tempered porcupine on the best of days, what man in his right mind wants to be jabbed with her barbs?
Taras
May 5, 2009 at 6:14 am
The marriage strike is but a foreshadowing of the overall Gender War happening in the West. With Obama in power organizations such as NOW see an opportunity to try and force their radical feminist agenda on the rest of the world using economical/political and sometimes military might.
All you have to do is listen to their position statements on Afghanistan, it’s not a war to free people from oppression and terrorism, according to NOW it’s a war for promote women’s rights and this is just the beginning.
What should frighten and concern men and women in all countries outside of the West are the objectives of NOW and the radical fems.
The destruction of the family and of “traditional” relationships between men and women, the institution of “women’s empowerment” and the whole system of female entitlement now so prevalent in NA.
As for the Marriage Strike in the West I can see it causing a reaction on the part of the feminists such that they will try and get legislation on selective taxation by gender and martial status enacted. ie if you’re single and male you automatically fall in the 50% or higher tax bracket. It’s a way for these feminazis for impose a form of indentured servitude in the name of “equality”, after all many single mothers will be requiring social welfare and men MUST be forced to pay their share, married or not.
I don’t think this is a fanciful scenario either considering the amount of access NOW has to the political machinery of the US. What is slowing them down is the economic problems in the US which lacks the funds for any of their grandiose objectives.
I suggest people go and read NOW’s manifesto and plans for the rest of the world. Traditional Russian women would be an extinct species in their world replaced by the “superior” (and very much overweight) American model.
I for one will never marry in the West, I haven’t dated an AW/WW in 23 years and will never risk going near one from the results I’ve seen on my male friends. Better to be single for the rest of my life then approach these western medusae.
May 5, 2009 at 7:26 am
GRY,
Great post. I think you’ve seen ‘it’ for what it is. The NOW crowd has an agenda which goes so far beyond equal pay for equal work. You are not at all over stating the potential of these people with the Single Male Tax theory. We are a stones throw from that, and more. When men are being milked like salmon so the feminazis can keep making children without us there will be a call for reform. Unfortunately it will be a bit too late for anything so practical.
At times I’d like to think that some of us are just overly paranoid but the truth is we are seeing this sort of insanity playing out all around us every, single day. We need to remember, too, that this is only one piece of the massive puzzle which is the end of our culture as we know it.
The Judeo-Christian values that established our continent are almost extinct. We are a decade or less from reaching the point where our cultural loss will be irreversible. There is a term in the study of archeology which identifies a people as growing or dying and it has to do with reproductive sustainability. In the US today the Anglo-American is not reproducing fast enough to last. Marriage has fallen, duration of marriages has fallen and number of children being produced within this demographic is below sustainable levels for the first time in our history and continuing the downward trend.
In the 50s an average NA family had 3 or more children. In the 70s it was around 2 children per family. Now we are reproducing at less than 2 per family which (mathematically speaking) means there will not be enough young adults entering the work force, helping to ease retirement issues for their parents and so on. Again, I am talking about Anglo-American couples with traditional values.
Does that mean the NA population stagnant or in decline? Absolutely not. Virtually uncontrolled and often illegal immigration now outpaces domestic birth rates. Once more, mathematically speaking, this can not work. Something must be done away with and that something is all signs of the culture which settled and established the NA continent. In other words, you and me. So, is the ultimate ‘sure thing’ to escape to another part of the world? If only that were true. Our rate of domestic decline is among the lowest on the planet. Europe and European culture is all but gone. It has been steadily diluted by the same sort of ultra liberal immigration policies as we are using here.
Start adding these things together. The feminist movement, unchecked immigration from third world countries, volunteer militaries, the pending collapse of the American dollar, and all of the other seemingly unrelated crap we see daily on the news.
Finding a caring partner who shares all, or even most, of your core values is becoming almost impossible. Where and how you find that person and where you will live once you have, is almost irrelevant. There will soon be a serious absence of places to hide from the socio-political thunderstorm which is now building on the horizon.
This is all spiritual, and cultural, and political, and we are the minority by every estimate and yardstick.
When my wife left nearly 8 years ago I was concerned about my future and the prospect of starting over. With only one child I feel that I have failed my ancestors and to some degree, myself. But I am not looking for another NA woman to ‘replace’ the last one. I would much rather be alone, raise my daughter on the hard reality of the world around her and hopefully see her mature into a woman who will be highly sought after for her depth of character.
I think we need to keep spreading the word about FSU women and any other regions where values are still alive. It is our responsibility to do all we can to fight the mainstream thinking that has brought us to this point in history.
Best of luck to you.
May 5, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Thanks Richard,
I have been called paranoid and insane for voicing my observations, especially by mangina supporters of the feminazis.
I seriously think we are on the edge of the precipice and that not only a Gender War but intercultural wars are on the horizon.
The first tactic of the ultra liberal West is to manufacture an enemy to fight or a victim to rescue. In the case of the FSU, the former enemy (USSR) doesn’t exist anymore so it’s now time to manufacture a “victim” to rescue (FSU).
What the feminists and liberals in the West can’t comprehend and don’t understand is the long history of struggle and independence of spirit in Russia and Russian influenced countries. It’s this spirit which has saved Russia many times from disaster and cultural assimilation by neighboring powers.
The radical fems truly think Russian women are oppressed which is far, far from the truth, they think if Russian women don’t adopt American style feminism they’re weak. This is a huge miscalculation and a severe tactical error which is keeping feminism out of Russia. Ask any Russian woman what she thinks of American feminist arrogance and you’ll an answer right between the eyes.
But the plans of NOW and their compatriots have won’t be so easily thwarted, I wouldn’t be surprised to see economic pressure applied to the FSU to “allow” for more “reforms” along the guidelines NOW envisions for women and backed up by economic and political force.
What I do see happening is a major backlash in countries outside of the West against Western style ultra liberalism and feminist ideology. It’s been happening for the past 30 years in the Middle Eastern Islamic countries and I think this backlash will spread to the South East Asian countries as well. The FSU and parts of Eastern Europe and in Central Asia they are beginning to reject the American model and develop their own.
The Achilles’s heal of feminism is it’s inability to adapt to other cultures and situations. The FSU had their own version of gender equality under the law during Soviet times, they had their own “flavor” which isn’t recognizable by western standards but which nevertheless worked in general for the people. In Maoist China much the same thing occurred, this is the main reason why western feminism hasn’t successfully spread outside of westernized countries.
And now these cultures are seeing the results and the general cultural decay of the West and frankly they don’t want anything to do with our “modern” ideas. I don’t blame them one bit.
Are there places for men to escape to? Yes, if you’re willing to adapt to the local culture, accept the people the way they are and not insult them with “superior” western ideas, you may find a new home.
The West is lost, it’s a matter of time before a general societal collapse ensues. Feminists here think they’ll come out on top, that female supremacy will finally occur and they’ll finally be calling the shots (this is the objective of many of the radicals fems).
What will actually happen and has happened in the past is that feminism will be the first ideal against the wall(ie it’s execution), liberal ideas will be next. Ultra conservatism will be reestablished(ie bring back the good old days and ways) and equality for women will be pushed back 150 years.
And IMO it will be well deserved.
May 5, 2009 at 7:36 pm
Fritz Says:
April 25, 2009 at 3:55 pm
Special to Mascha via rwman:
Is there any chance we can see a new photo of you with your lovely little daughter? Motherhood becomes (flatters) you !!
When did Mascha have a baby?? How could I have missed this big news??
May 7, 2009 at 3:23 am
I would laugh until my sides hurt at the sight of Russian women telling radical feminists what to do with themselves. Helpless is definitely one brush that should never be laid on Russian women, unless one wants to find out first hand that they’re anything but helpless and do not need feminism’s poisonous influence in their lives. And congratulations to your RW_Man and Mascha on the birth of your daughter…..:-) I’m sure her family was overjoyed at the news.
Taras
May 7, 2009 at 3:37 am
rw_man and Mascha have had a daughter? Wonderful news! Congratulations, and I wish you all the best for the future
May 7, 2009 at 4:31 pm
Masha and I had a daughter????
Sorry to spoil the delightful rumor.. but it just ain’t true
- GL
May 7, 2009 at 4:47 pm
That’s the impression I got from Taras’s comment :s Still brilliant news that she’s had a child, hope mum and baby are doing well! ^^
May 7, 2009 at 6:20 pm
I don’t see GL here saying she’s had a daughter at all.
May 7, 2009 at 7:07 pm
No, I can see that, I just got the wrong idea from Taras’s comment. Sorry!!
May 8, 2009 at 4:50 am
Whoops, my mistake RW_Man…….and my apologies.
Taras