Mobo wrote: ↑August 23rd, 2023, 4:04 pm
Sounds more like bruised ego and hard coping.
You are a lost-fantasist, the conversations of men and women are nothing alike,
Women speak in terms of looks, boundaries and experiences.
Their conversations may sound innocent for a
Manul like you, but it really sounds discriminative and malevolent.
Women judge in terms of :
1. Looks
2. Age
In that group, there were 2 Filipina and they were more vocal about lookism, much worse than their western counterparts. The Filipinas looked very ugly which was kind of ridiculous and hilarious at the same time.
You mentioned earlier that your Filipina wife is 20 years younger than you.
But then this hits home, how does it feel knowing that women practice age-discrimination and have no for respect guys like you, that they downright hate you ?
It's even worse if you are a successful man and that you are disrespected by 3rd grade non-western women in a third-world country.
But what kills you is that you know I am right, because you will have to admit to yourself, when you walk down the streets of Manila, that these types of relationships are a complete sham from the beginning and that 3rd grade women have nothing but contempt for old expats.
Men like you are part of the problem, you are an apologist and a wishful thinker.
Women break the rules for hot-felons like jeremy meeks, and make iron-fist rules for guys like you.
I knew someone had to make this personal. I am just saying, you overheard a poolside or locker rooms conversation among women. However brutal and nasty their comments might sound, remember that these things have to be taken in context.
Women judge in terms of the LMS Look, Money, Status triptych, understood. Men also engage in light-hearted conversations about women and, often, they also make comments about their looks, or the state of specific body parts. Men are also capable of deeper conversations about women, their relationships with them (whether they're married or just dating)...but so are women.
Yes, so typical...it's the uglier women who have the most insecurities about men and dial up the nasty wheel to feel more (self-)respected. Nothing new about this. Social psychology 101. Outside that circle, those women will probably be miserable loners.
My wife is 19 years younger than me but, sometimes, I get the impression that she is more mature than me. She is definitely more mature and strong-minded than her age (28). She never once let me even think that "she practices age discrimination". Again, I don't discount that, among her BFFs, a few times, years ago, she might have indulged in conversations that sounded age-ist, or look-ist, or money-ist. But so what? I committed that sin too, countless times. 90% of the conversations I still have, offline, with a specific member of this forum, whom I shall not mention, are about how this or that Filipina looks ugly or out of shape, or has a bland personality.
Going back to my wife, I never felt disrespected, and neither do all of the adult men I have spoken to, including some expats here in Manila. You just learn to judge people from what they do to you, on a daily basis, not what they might have said during a girls night out or sleepover 6 years ago. Finally, just FYI, you shouldn't stereotype Filipinas as "3rd world" trash. My wife hails from an upper class family, is a graduate of one of the country's best private universities, and works for the Asian Development Bank as an Analyst/Researcher. ADB is virtually the only world-class financial institution that is headquartered in the Philippines.
You may well say that many women who end up with us older men, retiring or working in the Philippines, are of the uneducated, shallow and judgmental types. And you may be right. Going from zero to hero, from sex-starved to well-f***ed once a day, is enough to cloud the most rational man's mind, so they start thinking with their ballsacks and they are committed to the first woman who gives them that, before they know it.
Some other men, like me (and we are a minority) moved to the Philippines for other reasons, opening a business in my case. They know full well that they will be living in the Philippines continously for a long time and they can take their sweet time to cherry pick the best possible woman their personalities, socio-economic conditions and, well, LMS will afford them. It took me a rather frustrating 2.5 years before meeting C, my wife. In the meantime, I would have sex with 3 different girls every week, knowing that I would not want to end up in a committed relationship with any of them.
So, "the problem" is with men like you who won't discern tones of grey in the male/female dynamics. It's not all black and white: women, bed, men, good. Filipinas, bad, mature expats, good.
P.S. What does "manul" mean? A small wild cat?