What I find hilarious are the endless mullings of what Melania Trump can possibly feel. It’s as if people thought she is an actual wife and not an object of consumption. She’s not a wife in the sense I am a wife or you are a wife. She’s more like what my phone is to me: it’s convenient but it doesn’t have opinions of its own and I’ll trade it for a new model whenever I feel like it.
I’m sure she experiences a vague sense of relief at the idea that Trump is groping somebody else because that means she’ll get groped less. But that’s about it.
There is a whole industry of these Eastern European prostitutes. There are manuals, websites, magazines, blogs, etc that teach them how to empty themselves of all content and become perfect objects of consumption. They have meditation routines where they learn to care about nothing but shopping and looking a certain way.
This is a parody of womanhood, of the idea of a woman as a gaping, bottomless hole that devours objects, that receives, receives, receives in complete silence and immobility.
Eastern European women were forced to break with the traditional womanhood in a radical and painful way, and now many are compensating for the trauma.
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So that’s your way of saying she’s divorced herself from “normal” human feelings about partnership many years ago? I mean, we
suspectedknew this marriage was a business deal for her, but yecch.She’s more like what my phone is to me: it’s convenient but it doesn’t have opinions of its own and I’ll trade it for a new model whenever I feel like it. …There are manuals, websites, magazines, blogs, etc that teach them how to empty themselves of all content and become perfect objects of consumption. They have meditation routines where they learn to care about nothing but shopping and looking a certain way.
This is a parody of womanhood, of the idea of a woman as a gaping, bottomless hole that devours objects, that receives, receives, receives in complete silence and immobility.
This summarizes why so many MRAs thirst so much for their idea of Eastern European women.
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“So that’s your way of saying she’s divorced herself from “normal” human feelings about partnership many years ago?”
“This summarizes why so many MRAs thirst so much for their idea of Eastern European women.”
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“There is a whole industry of these Eastern European prostitutes.”
I know what your’e saying and in some parts of Eastern Europe such things did and do exist.
But Slovenia is only marginally Eastern Europe. It was the richest part of a country that was never a USSR satellite. It’s closer to Italy or Austria in culture. and living standards are more like Portugal than the former USSR. It has a nominal per capita GDP of over 20,000 US dollars (as opposed to just under 5000 for Belarus and just over 2000 for Ukraine).
I’d say Melania isn’t that much different from a first world young woman from the wrong side of the tracks who realizes that her looks are more impressive than her intellect and decides to capitalize on that rather than work to improve her mind which won’t bring as much return.
I’m assuming the romance/sex part of their marriage is over and they’re just waiting for their son to be old enough to divorce so he can hunt for wife number 4 and she can go shopping or whatever it is that expired trophy wives do…
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“It has a nominal per capita GDP of over 20,000 US dollars (as opposed to just under 5000 for Belarus and just over 2000 for Ukraine).”
“I’m assuming the romance/sex part of their marriage is over”
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“There are manuals, websites, magazines, blogs, etc that teach them how to empty themselves of all content and become perfect objects of consumption.”
I remember a documentary on German television that followed a number of German bachelors on a trip to Ukraine to meet with women they’d been corresponding with to decide whether to invite them to Germany for matrimonial purposes. Gruesome stuff…..
The thing with the men is that they had no redeeming features and seemed to be oblivious to the fact.
I can understand being lonely and wanting to find a partner bur they were completely unrealistic. Rather than look for a woman close to their own age and educational level they seemed to think that being a lower middle class 50 year old German should be enough to attract a university educated 21 year old.
The saddest was one young woman who hadn’t learned how to cover up the visceral disgust that she seemed to be feeling about the 60-ish guy who’d come to visit her…. brrrrrrr
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“Rather than look for a woman close to their own age and educational level they seemed to think that being a lower middle class 50 year old German should be enough to attract a university educated 21 year old.”
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Unrelated question: do you like “Nada” by Carmen Laforet? I acquired it today after reading on the back cover that it was a (supposedly) famous Spanish novel and decided to ask an expert. 🙂
You have written about modern female Bildungsromane depicting female self-infantilization, is it one of those novels?
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I had a chapter on it but had to throw it out because it was boring. But the novel is very good, I definitely recommend.
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Thanks. I’ll definitely give “Nada” a try.
Just read of the German train wreck regarding the ISIS terrorist Jaber Al-Bakr and was impressed by so many failures on all levels:
http://www.germanjoys.eu/2016/10/us-refugees-go-through-seven-background-checks.html
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It’s possible to prevent me, you, and any good person who wants to work and live peacefully from entering. But it is not possible to prevent an ISIS terrorist from entering. Because even if you seal a country off like a rubber room, terrorists will enter through the Internet.
You can’t fight against a musket with a stone club.
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\But it is not possible to prevent an ISIS terrorist from entering.
But look what happened after he entered, Including what happened after he was jailed.
The last commenter mentions news sources implying that the German secret services knew about the terrorist long before the German police was informed, and speculates that one of the reasons of putting off his arrest was the celebrations on Okt. 3rd, “the day of celebrating the German Unity”.
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“The last commenter mentions news sources implying that the German secret services knew about the terrorist long before the German police was informed, and speculates that one of the reasons of putting off his arrest was the celebrations on Okt. 3rd, “the day of celebrating the German Unity”.”
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““Nada” by Carmen Laforet”
That was the first book in Spanish I ever read! (damned if I’ll count “Noche oscura en Lima) http://www.dadoque.com/noche-oscura-en-lima-chapter-1/
I’d found a very used copy in a second hand book store (I love old book stores) it was very tough going but I got through it.
It also fell apart as I read it and I acquired a new copy some years later through great difficulty from a Latin American grocery store that carried some printed materials, mostly fotonovelas, Mexican comics and Impacto. http://impacto.mx/seccion-revista
It was lost a second time during the move to Europe but I’m sure a copy will show up again somehow…..
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I never even heard of this “Noche oscura en Lima” thing.
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Noche oscura en Lima was another second hand find*. IIRC it was kind of a crime/adventure novel set in Peru (probably in the 40’s or 50’s) with restricted language for learners and asterixes for vocabulary and idioms.
I enjoyed it a lot to tell the truth, but it doesn’t really count as a real book since it was for learners and not native speakers.
I just typed in the name to see if there were any trace of it and was surprised to see the whole thing on line, I almost want to go back and read it again….
*about 90 % of my favorite books ever are things I found in second hand book stores or thrift stores, I think finding them that way aided my enjoyment… It’s almost painful for me to walk by an old book store without going in and snooping around (even if I can’t read the language most of the books are in).
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Hey, a politician’s wife goes on television to lie about her husband’s abusive transgressions with other women — tell me what’s new about that?
Hillary did EXACTLY the same thing back in 1998, when she went on national television to claim that all the accusations against her husband were a “vast right-wing-conspiracy.”
I remember watching that farcical interview live, and Hillary’s nose grew at least as long as Milania’s.
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Trump is no politician and Melania is not a wife. Which is the whole point of my post.
Dreidel, doesn’t this “they are exactly the same” thing get boring after a while? You’ve tried to make this point over a hundred times for sure.
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Well, you have to be repetitive to get the truth out on a website that’s 99% “Saint Hillary” propaganda. 🙂
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Let’s agree that you got it out. It’s so out that maybe it’s time to put it back in.
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Nah, leave it out. It’ll keep until its expiration date, exactly three weeks from today, when all the surrealistic imagery of this nightmare election finally fades to black.
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