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Malthus

Quote from: garbon on February 18, 2014, 02:52:44 PM
Quote from: Malthus on February 18, 2014, 02:43:39 PM
Quote from: garbon on February 18, 2014, 02:28:30 PM
Quote from: Malthus on February 18, 2014, 12:36:43 PM
The impression I get is that it simply isn't culturally considered low class or humiliating for a women in that part of the world to openly announce it her ambition to land a wealthy man, and to milk him of his cash as best she can

Hold up. How is this low class or humiliating?

To openly announce that your wish is to "milk" someone for cash through a sexual relationship goes against at least two cultural norms here - that such a relationship should be based (at least in part) on romantic love, and that a woman should be able and willing to make their own way financially.

People in the West these days are expected to pay at least lip service to these norms, whatever their real motives, and are looked down upon if they don't.

Well I guess now I know what you think of me. <_<

Oh, I don't look down on you because of that.  ;)
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

garbon

Quote from: Malthus on February 18, 2014, 02:54:39 PM
Quote from: garbon on February 18, 2014, 02:52:44 PM
Quote from: Malthus on February 18, 2014, 02:43:39 PM
Quote from: garbon on February 18, 2014, 02:28:30 PM
Quote from: Malthus on February 18, 2014, 12:36:43 PM
The impression I get is that it simply isn't culturally considered low class or humiliating for a women in that part of the world to openly announce it her ambition to land a wealthy man, and to milk him of his cash as best she can

Hold up. How is this low class or humiliating?

To openly announce that your wish is to "milk" someone for cash through a sexual relationship goes against at least two cultural norms here - that such a relationship should be based (at least in part) on romantic love, and that a woman should be able and willing to make their own way financially.

People in the West these days are expected to pay at least lip service to these norms, whatever their real motives, and are looked down upon if they don't.

Well I guess now I know what you think of me. <_<

Oh, I don't look down on you because of that.  ;)

Well it isn't because I'm down on my knees.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Ed Anger

Gay fox, just don't get one of those ultra cheap tablets you can buy in drug stores.

Trust me.  :blush:

Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

derspiess

Quote from: Ed Anger on February 18, 2014, 05:55:31 PM
Gay fox, just don't get one of those ultra cheap tablets you can buy in drug stores.

Trust me.  :blush:

Resistive touchscreen & 400mhz processor FTL.
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Ed Anger

Quote from: derspiess on February 18, 2014, 05:58:52 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on February 18, 2014, 05:55:31 PM
Gay fox, just don't get one of those ultra cheap tablets you can buy in drug stores.

Trust me.  :blush:

Resistive touchscreen & 400mhz processor FTL.

maylong m-150, you sucked donkey dick.
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

CountDeMoney

Quote from: MadImmortalMan on February 18, 2014, 01:17:43 PM
If you want some practice with soulless, gorgeous, mercenary types, you can check out Scottsdale without leaving the USA.

Only in Scottsdale can owning a Land Rover not be enough, as pussy apparently can only enter orbit around a Range Rover.

Ideologue

I own a 2000 Camry with a smashed ass.
Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

Ed Anger

Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

sbr

Quote from: Ideologue on February 18, 2014, 08:08:51 PM
I own a 2000 Camry with a smashed ass.

My 2000 minivan laughs at you.

Ideologue

Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

Eddie Teach

Counting chickens are we?  :P
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Ideologue

I don't know if you're calling me a chickenhawk or what.  If the former, technically it complies with the Yi Rule.  31/2 + 7 = 22.5.  HA!*

*One, of course, hopes.
Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

MadImmortalMan

He's saying don't count that chick until she hatches.  :P
"Stability is destabilizing." --Hyman Minsky

"Complacency can be a self-denying prophecy."
"We have nothing to fear but lack of fear itself." --Larry Summers

Ideologue

I'll count my coup instead.
Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

Ed Anger

Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive