Well the beautiful and shy lady that I talked about in “Why It’s Hard for Russian Women to Show Feelings” is finally on her way to New York and Miami today.
There’s an interesting story here because of how she decided to “prepare” herself for this trip.
Aside from the excellent progress she’s made in practicing her English… She must have still thought that the US is populated with millions of beautiful models running around because she said that it was necessary for her to “look her best” before she arrived.
Now keep in mind that this lady is about 5 feet 7 inches tall with a perfectly proportioned muscular body due to the fact that she swims 2 kilometers 5 days a week. Her nearly waist length blond hair along with her jade green eyes and high cheek bones would easily get her into the finals of any beauty contest in the world..
Or into the Playboy Mansion..
Even with all of these “attributes” she still told me that she wanted to lose 3 extra kilos (6.6 lbs) so that she could comfortably walk around Miami as she says in her summer clothes (or lack there of).
So when her surprising words finally registered in my brain.. my face must have dropped off the table and bounced on the floor as I said..
Woman are you Crazy?!
You are ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS!
Why in the Hell do you want to lose any more weight?
Now besides the fact that her face turned Bright Red as her shyness started to shoot out into the upper atmosphere.. she still managed to give me a Huge Smile along with a Warm, Appreciative and Heartfelt Giggle.
And yes it was one of those Classic Moments in life that you can witness as a Man..
It actually reminded me of the first time I saw a brilliant and glowing Meteor streaking across the nighttime sky..
So over the next few weeks instead of the usual 2 km swim at 8 in the morning… She also added an additional 2 hour exercise routine at the end of her work day on top of this!
So just when I was thinking that there was NO WAY that this already beautiful lady could physically improve her appearance any further..
She strolls into our last English practice the other day and demonstrates to me that indeed…
Sometimes Life can TRULY Imitate Art..
Especially if that Art comes from the likes of a High Resolution Tomb Raider video game or out of the pages of a Special Edition X-Men comic book..
So Let me just put it to you this way..
If you ever thought that the Video Game rendered version of Laura Croft’s figure was just the figment of some teenage boy’s crazed and testosterone charged fantasy..
Think again..
Because as she walked in and sat down in front of me..
I was thinking to myself that the conservative (but snug) clothes she was wearing should actually be replaced with some skin tight black leather Super Hero costume instead..
Because given the things that I know about her I can honestly tell you that this is another side of who she really is.
But as with all interesting Comic Book Stories..
She’s still in the phase where she doesn’t even realize that she’s a Super Hero yet..
So to all of you guys in New York and Miami who are reading this blog..
Make sure you pay special attention because there is a very brilliant Meteor rapidly approaching your way..
A Meteor that comes in the form of a Woman with exceptional all-around characteristics who will be exploring your neighborhood..
Keep in mind that you will only see her in public as a beautiful, shy and mild mannered Russian Lady from Siberia…
However, if any of you guys are lucky enough to come into contact with her..
Make sure you help her to realize her True Secret Identity by saying..
“Hey Aren’t you that Meteor Girl?”
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Boy is she in for a shock when she gets here! Her first surprise will be that there are so many fat, slovenly women here; her second surprise will be that most of these women have husbands, boyfriends or fiancees!! Keep us posted on her impressions of the U, S and A.
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Who says America is free?
This is unbelievable.
American women became as bad as they are for one reason — the men of the generation before mine have allowed them to by treating them as Heaven’s gift to Earth. And here you are, telling everyone to bask in their (Russian women) presence. How many times do you have to get hit in the forehead by a rake to stop stepping on it?
Russian women have two favorite subjects to discuss among themselves — the vices (not virtues) of their boyfriends/husbands and lack of new clothes to wear (anything worn once is old). Given an opportunity, their demands grow without bounds just as is the case with their American counterparts, for practically everyone in the West was raised on fairy tales, in which a girl gets eudaimonia served to her on a silver platter without having to exercise any virtues.
Oh yeah, is she in for a shock…….and not a good one too. I think she’ll get on the plane and fly back to Russia disappointed to say the least, when it comes to people here. No doubt she’ll enjoy the pleasent weather that prevails over much of the country, but being an unwitting star in a remake of the Twilight Zone might be more than she can bear.
Taras
2 *extra* hours of excercise each day to lose just 6 pounds?! That’s dedication, my friends!
Hope “Meteor Girl” enjoys her visit to the USA!
Ald Sannes has a good point. The personalities of some very nice and down-to-earth foreign women do a complete 180 when they come here and are exposed to this weird cult of woman worship in the USA. GL, I hope all the attention she gets doesn’t go to her head.
I understand the opportunities of our country may seem boundless to others not aware of practical everyday life, but with all the bad press the USA gets in Europe, is there a reason so many don’t buy in to that crap?
Canajun
To Ald Sannes in comment 3.
You have the right point of view on this.
Stop pandering to women it is their power base to keep manipulating men.
A woman is a woman no matter where you go.
They have a lot more to learn than men do in a spiritual and sense of justice.
Given an opportunity, their(RW) demands grow without bounds just as is the case with their American counterparts, for practically everyone in the West was raised on fairy tales/spoiled, in which a girl gets eudaimonia/selfish served to her on a silver platter without having to exercise any virtues, humbleness or boundaries.
Women need to want to understand men and not the other way around, because women have far more to learn from men than otherwise.
Sincerely, From C.
Cute logic in the last lines. GL, do you hear? Half your blog about understanding Russian women is useless.
Well, the icon Russian poet Pushkin said, rerhyming some of his Nanny’s many tales: “Tale is lie, but tip is there, lesson to the fellows brave”.
Since prehistoric times, folk tales (fairy tales, myths, legends) have been the prime groundwork and tool for people’s upbringing and communication in the, literally, “Common” “Sense”. Emerging through revelations no less mysterious than those that have brought us “Star Wars” and “Dune”
, tales convey codes that embrace the sum of things, the people’s philosophy, spiritual outlook, psychological archetypes, laws of relations, national mentalities, as well as daily ways.
Russian culture is one essentially Tales Based. Before Ald Sannes and C have sent all Russian brides running away, let me tell something about the Core Russian Tales.
Plot #1, in a heap of variations, is about a lazy goofman lucky to have got a magic animal who serves him (!) anything on the silver platter, the king’s daughter inclusive. Most people interpret the underlying “zen”, the “holiness of the Irrational” etc. as validation of their laze and goofiness.
Plot #2, also vagrant, is about a charmed princess fulfilling impossible tasks for her salvator husband, and resisting the leers of his royal rival-tasksetter. Practiced by Russian women faithfully.
Plot #3, the Pillow Tale of Russian Women, their backbone hope, and their seduction recipe…
The Winter Holidays Season is time for favorite films, celebrities’ amateur musicals, TV catering for people’s innermost childlike desires. And guess what plot abounds all movies, shows, cartoon films, remakes and allusions these days.
A literary tale written by a Frenchman, that became Russian dearest folklore.
CINDERELLA. Charles Perraud.
You know these two cultures have experienced a long history of blood relations. But there’s something special about “Cinderella”.
To Russian women, it touches most intimate strings, archetypes, laws and tricks, far beyond the shallow “silver plate”. Their explication would be too vast for stealing GL’s bandwidth, – takes me a special post.
Be it noted also, that Beautiful Russian Women ARE ALREADY GETTING their deal of worship, sometimes to extents unheard of in the West.
The point is that this worship is never for granted. And the summits of knightly attitude are neighboring with dirty abysses.
So, we haven’t got the “vaccination of entitlement” just after birth. On the other hand, we are whipped and lured into Hollywood / gloss press standards. For this reason, whatever immunity-to-male-attention acquired, we still react charming red to your compliments, pampering et al.:
- We take personal things personally, and appreciate them.
- We are ashamed to hear what we consider male naivity or shallow flattery. (“Hey, how can you call this “gorgeous”, which is my survival minimum! You haven’t seen me in full glory!”)
- If consciousness present, we are embarrassed with responsibility for your budding feelings we aren’t yet ready, willing or able to undertake.
Western women worship culture is the KEY factor that counterbalances the many critical aggravations of international relationships to us (organizational, cultural, psychological, even physical).
Abuse of rights? The safety-stop for us is another Russian tale, about the Gold Fish who gradually made a greedy old woman an Empress, but sent her back to the square one when she wanted to become the Ruler of the Sea so that to slight the Fish itself.
As for Slimming Down…
Only your decorous company has kept me from hanging myself on the measure tape after the New Year feast )).
It’s all about the local pandemic Slim Freak Fever, suffered by my fellow countrywomen of ALL shapes and lifestyles, EVEN girls taken for movie stars by regular Western men (like yours-truly was on her biz trip to Australia
.
Speaking (or not speaking) those kilos, we may expose our high personal standards (usually two-way), or fish for reassertion when feeling self-critical. Or conceal our body kitchen from the guys, leaving it the third yet first girls-party topic, Ald Sannes. (The second topic is “If He Loves Me and How Can I Make Him Do”.)
Sorry for expatiating (tried honestly to cut it!)
Sincerely,
Comrade Natalia
Be it noted also, that Beautiful Russian Women ARE ALREADY GETTING their deal of worship, sometimes to extents unheard of in the West.
The point is that this worship is never for granted. And the summits of knightly attitude are neighboring with dirty abysses.
So, we haven’t got the “vaccination of entitlement” just after birth. On the other hand, we are whipped and lured into Hollywood / gloss press standards. For this reason, whatever immunity-to-male-attention acquired, we still react charming red to your compliments, pampering et al.:
- We take personal things personally, and appreciate them.
- We are ashamed to hear what we consider male naivity or shallow flattery. (“Hey, how can you call this “gorgeous”, which is my survival minimum! You haven’t seen me in full glory!”)
- If consciousness present, we are embarrassed with responsibility for your budding feelings we aren’t yet ready, willing or able to undertake.
Western women worship culture is the KEY factor that counterbalances the many critical aggravations of international relationships to us (organizational, cultural, psychological, even physical).
Abuse of rights? The safety-stop for us is another Russian tale, about the Gold Fish who gradually made a greedy old woman an Empress, but sent her back to the square one when she wanted to become the Ruler of the Sea so that to slight the Fish itself.
Ok I have to get this off my chest, even though I am sure to get a lot of flak for it, and I am skating on thin ice on this blog already.
There have been so many mixed messages between rw_man and Natalia that I don’t know who or what to believe. rw_man is saying TO have a knightly attitude, and act like a knight in shining armor. Natalia is saying TO NOT act like a knight in shining armor because it has “bad abysses” near it. In another post, she said that it was a “bad mistake”. Rw_man said that Russian women were underappreciated. Now Natalia is saying that beautiful Russian women are appreciated to such a great extent that is unknown in the West. I mean, Natalia may say that the worship is not taken for granted, but that statement already deviates too much from a previous point developed by rw_man. Won’t this eventually make them spoiled, like has happened to the Western women? There needs to be some sort of clarification between these mixed messages, because they have gone unresolved, and they are tying knots in my stomach. Here’s another mixed message that I have heard: rw_man said that there was not a “battlefield program” in Russia as far as dating, but Natalia said that “mind and morals correlations” and “hurt least calculations” played a huge role in Russian dating. This sounds an awful lot like a “Battlefield program” to me. Is there or is there not a battlefield program?? Maybe Russia and Ukraine are different. Maybe Ukraine is starting tg be more like the West. I’m sorry, but I know no other way to explain these discrepancies. And right now we are at war with these feminists, so we need a way to explain these mixed messages. I am a little bit haphazard right now because of these stupid hotel lobby people, and I know that I am already skating on thin ice on this website. But I think if people get mad at me for this then this should only be strike two against me, not strike three. –Luke Skywalker
Natalia, how dare you call half of Galactic Love’s blog useless. It is your blog of which half is useless. Your blog says all sorts of wrong things. It says a lot of right things, but a lot of it is wrong. Galactic Love has written the most useful blog that I have ever read in my entire life. There are only a couple things on Galactic Love’s blog that I would change. If these hotel people werent getting really mad at me and telling me to get off the computer in 5 minutes I’d give you an earful.
Ald Sannes is right. We cannot worship RW otherwise they will get spoiled just like the AW. I would not be using those two abbreviations were it not for these hotel people because those abbreviations look stupid, and the only reason im using them now is because the hotel people that are walking around and acting stupid don’t know what they mean.
Natalia, your blog and a lot of your comments are wrong because your blog/comments paint a picture of RW as a group of women who are quite frankly on the virge of becoming AW. If your blog and comments were right, there would be no reason for me or anyone else to even bother considering marrying a RW. And if you say all women are like this, then there would be no reason for any of us to consider marrying at all. Even Rosana (at the core of her message, if you read in between the lines) painted a brighter picture of RW than you do at times, even though she was very angry at American men at the time. Nobody has challenged your stance before, but since you insulted Galactic Love’s blog, I am going to have to draw the line here.
And don’t expect Galactic Love to get mad at me for this comment, even though its a little harsh, because he won’t, because I am speaking in defense of him and his blog.
And the next time you insult Galactic Love or his blog, you can expect me to retort in defense of him again.
–Luke Skywalker
Luke,
You are comparing apples to oranges.. not apples to apples.. I appreciate Natalia’s efforts here but let me ask you a straight question.. When has any woman every told you the truth when it comes to what she really want in relationships and dating?
How many women have told you.. “I just want a NICE man”
and then turn around and dumped you?
You starting to get the picture?
They think in terms of emotions and idealisms.. we thing in terms of action.. starting to understand the difference? No wonder your confused.. you are trying to develop a game plan based on a woman’s “feelings”.. which is an exercise in futility.
Don’t go there.. just stick to what i’m saying Luke.. there’s no way any woman can honestly tell you how to court a woman in any realistic way.
Also you are confusing to different terminologies and thinking they are the same when they are not.. “battlefield programs” is one of them.. read over that post again carefully and you will know what i’m talking about..
And for god’s sake Luke stop over analyzing and relax.. it’s the only way you can access the light side of the force.
GL
LW says:
There have been so many mixed messages between rw_man and Natalia that I don’t know who or what to believe.
Well, for starters look for things that different parties agree, or at least do not argue, upon. For example, I have claimed that Russian Women have certain subjects they like to discuss, and nobody objected. Ergo, this is something you can trust.
Better yet, forget Deontology. Start thinking in terms of cause-and-effect.
For example, if a person claims that a certain action is a “bad mistake” and at the same time is very vague in describing of what that mistake will bring, then this is probably not something one should believe.
Thanks for feedback, Gentlemen. I admit that layered metaphors and irony are risky ‘cause they can provoke interpretations quite different from what was actually meant. (Especially when different backgrounds may put different images into same wordings.) Sorry for that. But it’s just been my habitual manner of speach. L Have to blame Mark Twain and some other authors (particularly Russian) I was bred on. Now I’ll try to bring clarifications.
First of all, I heartfully praise this excellent blog as one most useful to understand Russian women and act accordingly. Only if somebody claims that “men shall not attempt to understand women”, then this claim undermines the whole idea of GL’s noble effort, and in defense of the latter, it is this claim (by C) that I’ve pinpricked.
Second, I vote with all my limbs FOR the idea of knightly behavior, even afraid that maybe too intensively over my blog and here. BUT I also want to convey these underlying messages:
1. THERE IS a lot of knighthood and women-worship in Russian culture and among Russian men. And there is much more personal attitude than “granted” social standard in every individual case. On the other hand, there exist OTHER cultural stereotypes and other men here, to underestimate, humiliate, exploit, destroy women (and it certainly leaves a trace of shyness = fear and disbelief, on all our womenkind).
On top of that, chivalry and degradation may indeed even co-exist. Poor people’s variant: romantic husband bringing flowers everyday to his wife’s hospital ward whereto she got life-sentenced for having worked in chemically hazardous conditions. Rich people’s variant: lavishing jewellery, cars and property all over a girlfriend, and a girlfriend, and a girlfriend, and a girlfriend (wives packed too, if any).
2. Given these alternatives, Russian women strive to be worth worship as well as to escape and avoid the abhorred “dirty abysses” as far as possible. Please read “Is there feminism in Russia”, “Down-to-earth goddesses: a Real Russian Woman Secret Oath” and “Cinderella code” to know our limits.
3. Russian women bear a strong, however overtaxed, backbone of choiceful confidence inside, and keep low profile outside. Which explains why they smile all along and then walk away for good, “just remain friends”, or break up painfully. (Explained in “Russian Women’s Keep-the-Face Mentality”).
4. Here about calculating. Our minds work continuously calculating How To Preserve Ourselves AND Not To Hurt Others By an Ounce (or rather Not To Hurt, To Please, AND to preserve our own interests.) “I disapprove you but I won’t show it.” “Don’t fall in love with me unless / until I can accept it.” “How can I make you let me go when you are happy and I’m not?” Where this strategy is lacking or misused, scandals and even murders happen. Seriously.
“Mind and morals” is not my copyright, it’s Kant and Erich Fromm who’ve pointed out that higher intelligence is more susceptive and prone to ethics.
5. With this regard, the mistake is just to expect that “coming over as her only shining rescue” would make you a winner. You’ll have to be way better than best possible local candidates and prove you are a real knight, not a fake one.
6. And, why should we struggle through all those barriers and distance in communication, mentality, bureaucracy, accommodation, daily ways, society’s attitudes, genetic “strangeness” etc.etc., only to hear the same ad-nauseam “why pamper with women”? 80% of international marriages fail because our people are too different and at the same time too alike.
7. Thus, I am revealing the hidden side of the Russian Women’s planet, and its population who appear on the international arena or are visible to you where you arrive (yet who also see the “morlok” life surrounding and sometimes hurting them). Our attitudes and values are right in the middle between East and West, and quite comfortably balanced. And we are offended at the idea why “better” women must be deprived of what “worse” women have for granted.
For the reason that I constantly strive to defend Russian Women against the eager misuse of their sweet side, I definitely look a “devil’s advocate”, but the “light side” is depicted by GL so clearly that one can barely add a thing to it.
A popular booklet postcard on the Russian “International Women’s Day” March 8 when all men congratulate all women (after February 23 traditional “Protector’s Day” when women do)… On its first page you read “Woman Know Your Place” and an eyes-down woman seen behind a window cut out in the page. Inside, you see her full-height, on a pedestal, with a bunch of flowers. Unfortunately also there are a joke “Shut up, your day is March 8” and a toast for “gentlemen who are gentlemen beyond March 8”.
And another toast: Eve was made not of Adam’s foot to be downtrodden, not of his head to dominate him, but of his rib to stand by his side and near his heart.
Sincerely,
Comrade Natalia
It’s a pity I can’t edit my comments.
(4) above shall be read: “Not To Hurt and To Please OTHERS, AND to preserve our own interests” – which interests we MOST OFTEN sacrifice, hopeful of reciprocal generosity and non-abuse of this sacrifice, but instead, TOO OFTEN find ourselves ruthlessly “ridden on”.
Speaking(6), there’s as well honest concern about Men who bear even more organizational effort, expense, and injury in their expectations, when they face the living difference with the advertised crude colured woodcut “Russian Patriarchal Traditionalism”.
(There have been women Ministers and Deputies in Russia and Ukraine, and yes we’ve had Julia Timoshenko who is still an icon for a big part of population, but NO Ukrainian woman would ever fancy being in HER shoes.)
Again, I don’t claim world’s wisdom. The more I strive to knowledge, the more ignorant I recognize myself (and it feels awful exciting). But the things I know for sure, I must share to whoever would listen. These things are often contradictory. “The Land of Paradox” in the World of Paradox (one more post).
“Because there are two sides in every medal – and thousands of hues in the spectrum. (Even painted black and white, life still has shades of gray to keep in mind).”
Yesterday a friend told me a Jewish joke. Two men came to the Rabi to resolve their dispute. He heard one and said: “You are right”. Then he heard the other: “And you are right”. A young observer exclaimed: “How can it be – the first is right and so the second!” – “And you are right as well”, – the Rabi said.
Sinc., N.
You’ll have to be way better than best possible local candidates and prove you are a real knight, not a fake one.
I have to comment that this “you must jump through hoops” attitude is not as common in a province. Which perhaps explains the blog author’s fondness of Russian Women. So if you must bring your Russian Wife to the States, do not choose one in a capital.
Well, I wouldn’t call it caprice for the art’s sake. Anywhere, if a girl is attractive by your measures, she is likely to attract some other men (however scarce and bad they may be!), and there’s some competition around her (it’s just that we find it bad taste to let an interesting man know about his rivals, and those who stand no rivals to him are not counted at all). And anywhere, a sound girl gives her heart to the Really Interested, Strong, Caring and Secure One.
And one more factor to be aware of, picking a location. (Speaking no detriment to all “Red Book Innocent Girls” who survived in our extremal environment, and to non-capital cities!). The harshest the initial conditions, the more desperately she wants to get out: “beggars are not choosers”. So, the more wilderness man seeks, the more likely he finds a “bear pet” who may grow into a walking disaster.
Sincerely, N.
Natalya wrote:
The harshest the initial conditions, the more desperately she wants to get out: “beggars are not choosers”. So, the more wilderness man seeks, the more likely he finds a “bear pet” who may grow into a walking disaster.
How to put it politely… The quoted statement contradicts empirical evidence and is therefore nothing but wishful thinking.
Around the globe, there is a general trend, an inverse relation between material wealth and happiness (amount of people that answer that they are happy when asked in polls). The smallest percentage is in Japan and USA, which are, coincidentally, the richest countries on Earth. The latter by GDP, the former by GDP-per-person. The highest percentage is in some banana republic in the Caribbean.
Second, (unfortunately, this is based on personal observations) it takes some three years (variance 4) of living in the States for a Russian Woman to get “americanized”, and eight for an Asian. Which come from poorer background.
Ergo, obsession with material wealth, unsatisfiability and desire for a free ride are another traits that are more common to a large city.
Having said that, let me ask you, Natalia — do you apply the scientific method to any of your theories? Verifiability, Occam’s razor, clear and precise, well-defined terms?
>>Around the globe, there is a general trend, an inverse relation between material wealth and happiness
That is sure correct. In 1983, I took my first trip to Mexico. My brother-in-law took us into the mountains near Cordoba, Ver, and we saw some women washing their clothes in a river, like you see in NG magazine. They were smiling and chatting happily. I imagine no one was dying at the moment, and they expected the kids to have food for the next meal.
When I returned to the States, I saw a woman in a new Cadillac, and obviously with some real plastic, headed into a local shopping mall, with a look of pure unhappiness on her face.
That is when I became a militant anti-feminst activist.
Some years later, I was returning to Chicago with my then young son. We got off the plane, went through customs, and started walking to the domestic flights (that was before the new shuttles, etc). I started laughing. He asked me why I was laughing. I told him, “Look!”
He did, and started laughing, too. I asked him, to make sure, if it was the p****d-off look on the women’s faces. He agreed. After the happy, smiling women in Mexico, they looked like the ugly troll under the Alpine bridge in my childhood fairy tales.
You’ve put up very important, pithy and interesting issues, Ald Sannes.
One can’t establish money-and-happiness correlation, and razor off other factors, such as culture (in all its meanings, including artistic sources, folklore, patterns and manners of human relations, self-discipline, and spiritual ideals).
Russian culture and people have ALWAYS been, and remain, LESS materialistic, than Western.
This makes me repeat what seems overlooked by several RW’s Guests so far: it’s not money / power that we seek, it’s Care & Respect. Without it, money sux.
I plan to cross all t’s and dot all i’s about the core differences in East-West mentalities. It’s SO FAR AWAY and ASIDE from “how much a Russian wife would cost me?” (One of the points yet is that Givers can’t stand Grudge – BOTH in EMOTIONAL/ETHICAL and MATERIAL plans.)
I regret so much the lack of time to systematize, translate, retell all information I have. I dig into serious articles in social sciences, press, statistics (some I’ve quoted on my blog), Web observations, even literature and satire, and rely on conclusions from the practice of professional local personal & marriage counselors (psychologists, attorneys). Several posts hang unfinished, and volumes of notes untyped.
I could assume a scholarly image, shed scientisms and quote long dull surveys, but who’d bear it any long?
Some ready highlights about Happy Nations and reasons for their happiness, based on polls as well, that I wrote in response to your questions, took 2 pages in Word.
Could post them in this comment but afraid to overtax the Respected Host’s floor.
Sincerely, N.
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Didn’t mention real life encounters not to be called subjective again…
Former Soviet people have long been recognized for sullen, “taken-over-with-problems” expressions. There were historical reasons: Nordic temper, discomfortable life, and for many years – a fear of being told on, for a neighbor’s envious suspicion.
The harder life (and farther North), the more serious is our people’s “default expression”… and the more they like to joke, laugh and celebrate, to rescue themselves, and to deride harships!
With all that, they smile heartfully… at whom they feel like smiling.
Also, one ordinary Kiev morning this Autumn, I saw 5 people, men and women, passing by the same street light, and they all were smiling to themselves!
With women, you can often guess their social status by the degree of pain or nonchalance on their faces, and in their postures. But…
so many “glam chicks” cry and visit counselors. “He gave me that BMV, but curses fowl and hurls plates (with the dinner I’ve deliciously made) into my face…”
Real-life impressions and street encounters also there.
Hi Anonymous,
You’ve brought up some very important relationships between material wealth and general happiness in a society that I see on a daily basis over here.
Love your insight.. Please keep them going..
GL
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Oh come on people. Of course you have to play a bit of a game with Russian women. Sure they’re from the East, they were raised ‘right,’ and they’re not used to being put on a pedestal, but they’re still women and they’re still people.
You still have to keep them interested. You can’t just announce that they’re the most beautiful thing you’ve ever seen. What woman wants a man who bows to her. It’s human nature to want something that you can’t have. What men have to do is simply behave as if they believe that they’re the good catch. That is to say, a woman has to admire a man to be attracted to him. She has to almost view him on a pedestal, and forget how much of a catch she is herself.
And this starts with a man’s attitude. So of course what Ald Sannes said is true. It is for women, and for people in general.