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Gilda · 10-12-2005, 07:13 PM

Well, I'm not a guy, but I am a white person married to an Asian woman. I do tend to be attracted to Asian women, though not to the same degree as Latinas. I'm also more attracted to tall women, and women with nice curves. I don't know exactly what it is, except that that's my physical type. It certainly isn't anything having to do with being submissive or exotic or traditional; Grace is about as far from that as I could imagine, and I wouldn't really find a woman like that attractive, no matter what she looked like.

I'm not trying to claim that physical attractiveness has nothing to do with it; that is why I first noticed her. But I fell in love with her quiet, strong, gentle soul.

Regarding the OP, and in line with what abaya was saying, I suspect that the mail order bride industry may have something to do with it. Tens of thousands of American men, mostly middle-aged white men, are marrying young women from poor Southeast Asian countries, principally the Philippines and Thailand. I have a friend who met and married a young Filipina through one of those agencies, and they both seem quite in love and happy with the relationship after several years. The Filipina isn't shy about saying that she's attracted to white Americans, and only them.

The reverse doesn't happen. There aren't middle-aged white women traveling to the Philippines looking for a young man to marry and bring home, and I suspect that it would be most fruitless for them to do so.

Why is this? An attractive girl 20 or 30 years younger is something that seems to be an attractive mate for many men, and if she's poor and innocent, that's not much of a downside, while the reverse isn't true, not even remotely, with most women.

As I type this, I'm watching Lost, and though Maggie Grace and Evangeline Lilly are both quite pretty, they don't affect me the way Yunjin Kim and Michelle Rodriquez do. I don't really know why.

Gilda

10-12-2005, 07:13 PM	#135 (permalink)
Gilda 32 flavors and then some Location: Out on a wire.	Well, I'm not a guy, but I am a white person married to an Asian woman. I do tend to be attracted to Asian women, though not to the same degree as Latinas. I'm also more attracted to tall women, and women with nice curves. I don't know exactly what it is, except that that's my physical type. It certainly isn't anything having to do with being submissive or exotic or traditional; Grace is about as far from that as I could imagine, and I wouldn't really find a woman like that attractive, no matter what she looked like. I'm not trying to claim that physical attractiveness has nothing to do with it; that is why I first noticed her. But I fell in love with her quiet, strong, gentle soul. Regarding the OP, and in line with what abaya was saying, I suspect that the mail order bride industry may have something to do with it. Tens of thousands of American men, mostly middle-aged white men, are marrying young women from poor Southeast Asian countries, principally the Philippines and Thailand. I have a friend who met and married a young Filipina through one of those agencies, and they both seem quite in love and happy with the relationship after several years. The Filipina isn't shy about saying that she's attracted to white Americans, and only them. The reverse doesn't happen. There aren't middle-aged white women traveling to the Philippines looking for a young man to marry and bring home, and I suspect that it would be most fruitless for them to do so. Why is this? An attractive girl 20 or 30 years younger is something that seems to be an attractive mate for many men, and if she's poor and innocent, that's not much of a downside, while the reverse isn't true, not even remotely, with most women. As I type this, I'm watching Lost, and though Maggie Grace and Evangeline Lilly are both quite pretty, they don't affect me the way Yunjin Kim and Michelle Rodriquez do. I don't really know why. Gilda __________________ I'm against ending blackness. I believe that everyone has a right to be black, it's a choice, and I support that. ~Steven Colbert