The women in China.

[SteveSS]

I thought I could share some of my observations of how things are different between the sexes in China.

1. Every sweatshop type factory I was in I noticed the entire work force was young women. Mostly between the ages of 20-30. The women come from their provincial villages to work, sending most of the money back home. They live in factory dormitories and eat food prepared by their company. The Chinese food is very similar to Chinese food here with some exceptions like Chicken feet and the Schezwan dishes are hotter.

2. The young women are very subservient and are treated badly by men. They are rude to waitresses and hostesses. The older women are mean as snakes. I guess they get tired of it after awhile.

3. There are massage places everywhere. Not massages like here or fronts for prostitution but they believe in what we call Reflexology. The concentrate on the soles of your feet. They make a big deal of the ceremony making and serving hot tea. i felt bad for the girls after seeing the huge calluses built up on their hands.

4. The fancy night club was the biggest shock. Upon being dropped at the curb by our chauffer we walked up a red carpet about 100 yards to the club. There were beautiful girls lined up on both sides of the walkway greeting us. Inside it was very fancy with nightclub singers and performers. I noticed the walls were lined with girls. Soon they started bringing the girls in groups of 10 for us to select one for each of us. I was embarrassed by this process but they kept bringing them until I felt bad for them and finally chose one. The men love to gamble so there was a gambling game going on at our booth. Then all the men said the girl was available as a prostitute for the night and they would gladly pay. I could foresee numerous disadvantages to this plan and declined.

5. I'm average height, 5' -10.5". but walking around in public I frightened the women and children. After being there for a while there's only about 4 different facial types of the women. I asked the men what they thought of American women and they thought their faces were too big.

I was glad to get home and see some open places were grass could grow. It was also nice to see a blonde woman.

 

[Don selleck]

figured I'd get it over with.

 

[dadsbee]

Try walking down the side streets of Budapest and see how many "oriental" girls rub shops there are. They don't even care that you're walking with your Wife and invite you in for a happy ending...

 

[Coelacanth]

Just an observation: Why does it seem like every Chinese woman over the age of 35 cuts her hair in a bob like a boy? Did you notice that there too?

Speaking about height, I'm only a slightly-above-North-American-average 5' 10" and when I was in Mexico City, especially noticeable on public transit, I was one of the tallest dudes. It's quite a different experience than at a resort city like Puerto Vallarta, where they are used to seeing whities. In D.F., you get a lot of looks, especially from the ladies. Not gonna lie, it's not horrible. Sure beats feeling all but invisible in Canada/USA.

I've been to Bangkok, Thailand in my mid-20's as well, way back in 1992. Obviously there, I'm practically a giant. What was blatantly obvious there was the number of creepy old 60-plus-something men with beautiful 20-something girls.

 

[Rishi]

I concur with your observations. Especially the "mean as snakes" with older Asian women. The whole exploitive atmosphere can be very... off-putting. Consensual intimacy, like that of the late 1960s in the US, seems a distant dream. It's not just China, other poorer Asian nations are similar, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand. Not so much in Japan.

What seems clear to me, and this occurs in the US, as well, how poorly those with power and affluence seem to perceive and treat those without. It's pretty stinky.

 

[Richard Davis]

Interesting observation. I was there a lot in the 80's. They were just beginning to embrace the free market back then. I met two young ladies that worked for the "railroad". Not "on" the railroad but as computer techs. We assumed it was a cover for their intelligence service. They seemed arrogant and aloof. A big night for us was going bowling at the Ledo.

 

[DynaBro]

Hell the cultural differences between regions in this country still catch me off guard. My first visit to Portland I ended up smacking some guy within about 45 min of deplaning. I was holding the door open for the girl I was meting to some cafe and this twink in a scarf talking on his phone physically pushed us aside to rush past. Didn’t even acknowledge us. I grabbed him by the pants and tossed him back onto the sidewalk. His reaction was just as surprising. Nothing. He did nothing. Got up, dusted himself off, and walked on. Didn’t call me a name or anything. She asked me if I always reacted like that. To some guy shoving me? Yes. I do. “You’re not going to like it here,” she says. Similarly, MN was weird to me at first as well, having come from extended Chicagoland. They’ll say insulting things to you and when you escalate the situation act as if you’re the bad guy. MN nice is a euphemism for passive aggressive. It’s easy to hate these people if that’s not a game you want to play and prefer to be transparent. Conversely, I grew up with the understanding that if you don’t start nothing there won’t be nothing. MN isn’t like that. They think they can start something and there won’t be nothing. It’s baffling. The guy who wins the fight is the bad guy in MN, regardless of who starts it.

 

[Sam69sat]

Portland .................. this twink in a scarf

Yep... that's Portland to T.