Flashermac Posted January 12, 2011 Report Share Posted January 12, 2011 Thai women run the household, don't ever doubt it. But they usually do so in a non-belligerant way. Where a western woman may confront you with demands and aggression, a SE Asian woman will get you to do it in a fashion that makes you seem like it was your idea all along. (Exclude Chinese women - North Asian women tend to be dragons, except for Japanese.) Years ago I used to say to Thai women who complained about Thai men, "Who raised them to be that way? Their fathers didn't. It was their mothers or gandmothers." That always got them thinking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gobbledonk Posted January 12, 2011 Report Share Posted January 12, 2011 Good point Flash, and I have to ask if some of that negative view of younger women doesnt actually come from the 'old wives club' themselves. It happens in Farangland - why wouldnt it happen in Thailand ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh_Hoy Posted January 12, 2011 Report Share Posted January 12, 2011 Years ago I used to say to Thai women who complained about Thai men, "Who raised them to be that way? Their fathers didn't. It was their mothers or gandmothers." That always got them thinking. Okay...you finally nailed it. The sadness of Thai bargirls falls on the shoulders of Thai men and their mothers/grandmothers HH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckwoww Posted January 12, 2011 Report Share Posted January 12, 2011 Nobody was blaming you Hugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh_Hoy Posted January 12, 2011 Report Share Posted January 12, 2011 Thanks for the absolution. I was concerned that I might be accused of blood sadness. HH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave32 Posted January 12, 2011 Report Share Posted January 12, 2011 It's the fucking liberals man. The fucking liberals. And Obama. Everyone knows he's actually a Thai citizen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckwoww Posted January 12, 2011 Report Share Posted January 12, 2011 You're thinking of Tiger Woods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panadolsandwich Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 I think I've always seen it - right from the very start, that desperate sense of need on both sides (don't neglect your own unsavoury desires in this); and to be honest I deal with it by getting drunk - sometimes very drunk. It puts perspective on things as if I'm floating high up above my actual body - as if I can see around corners before I actually encounter them. I'ts not that I'm actually immune or ignorant to it, just that I can see it for what it is from an almost clinical sense of cold detachment. Most people will never know just how hard it is to earn money in a developing country when you are born poor. There's some glitch/static in the Karmic system when you see a typical Westerner's office work earn ten times more then a farmer in Isaan whom works infinitely harder. Spend a few weeks for instance tilling taro in the fields of Isaan dodging snakes and the elements for no money because you are repatriating the earlier work that your cousins did at your nearly worthless farm, and perhaps you may become more understanding of why things are the way they are... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panadolsandwich Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 Some might even say (reason for double post to refresh beer supply) that your patronage is almost noble. Around Isaan there are some very nice houses built on the (strike out the wrong words) generousity / kindness / stupidity / vapidity / ignorance of the elderly patron. It always strikes me that these house designs are not more priapic or even phallic in nature - why no sky needles piercing the very sky, jettisoning water from the top like a baht fountain, or perhaps for the more pragmatically/charitably minded viagra tainted tinctures for the stray guys to lap up? Often these houses allow you look into the very psyche of the sponsor, or at least the finances. Palatial homes to rudimentary shacks, the crude injection of money via the pussy is certainly a fascinating phenonemen to watch - and I've taken the trouble to get a ringside seat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted January 17, 2011 Report Share Posted January 17, 2011 The foreign nightlife sector pumps (no pun intended) millions of baht into rural areas every year. Its importance to Isaan in particular is not even acknowledged by the government (no matter what party is in power). Only a small percent of the Isaan young women enter the money-for-honey trade. It is a credit to Issan morality that the majority of its women don't take the easy road to riches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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