"Consumer Husbands" - IMBRA Phase 2 ??

[Admin]

An interesting article that won a recent award from Chicago-Kent College of Law.

On the face of it, the author challenges the underpinnings of the IMBRA legislation - which could be a good thing. However, note her use of derogatory terms such as "consumer husbands" and other pejorative language in the text of the article.

She also seems to have taken some with our parody at GoodWife.com , evidence the following:

Mail-order brides are often viewed as products that cater to “consumer husbands.”⁵⁰ The “typical consumer husband” seeks a woman who is subservient and not career oriented.⁵¹ In essence, the consumer husband often seeks a woman who is more akin to a possession than a partner. Women are often advertised like products on an internet shopping site according to what part of the world they come from, much like a brand.⁵² The women are generalized according to that “brand.”⁵³ A survey of mail-order bride sites provides further detail. www.goodwife.com provides a guide to many popular mail-order bride sites.⁵⁴ The homepage shows several pictures of women that are reminiscent of the  1950’s.⁵⁵ Some of the women are donning high heels and tights while tasking household chores.⁵⁶ Others are scantily clad and posing with adoring expressions on their face.⁵⁷ The site prompts readers to ask themselves what constitutes a good wife.⁵⁸ The site explains the challenges of finding a “good wife” in the west “with many women taking on the ‘me first’ feminist agenda and the man continuing to take the back seat to her desire for power and control.”⁵⁹

The part of her paper that ought to raise some serious questions are two-fold:

She persists in the use of pejorative language to disparage men involved in cross-cultural marriage - AND - she draws a nexus to domestic dating.

Full article attached for your reading pleasure.

- Dan

[TwoBitBandit]

I read this thing in its entirety.  It was painful how little meaningful content was there.

My question is this: how do seemingly educated people use so many words to say so little?

[diverboy70]

That must be on of the most stupid things I have read in a VERY long time. Yes the set-up of some agencies may look like "mail order". But there really is not a such thing as MOB!!

I think it is stupid and an insult to all of us that are actually looking for real love, just in a different part of the world!!

[steviej]

Do not underestimate the determination of the feminist intelligentsia. They have a manic obesssion of viewing everything through a lens of "gender" and attacking and denigration men through it. I happen to be quite an amateur Russian historian, including the Soviet period, and feminists use all the old Bolshevik techniques to great effect. Remember, the Bolsheviks only represented about 3% of the population. Can such a small, highly intelligent, highly ideological, highly determined group get control of a country's "mind speak?" Yep.