Women competing for men  (31 Posts) exhaustedandannoyed Mon
16-Dec-13 11:57:46  I haven't posted on feminism before but I am
really bothered with what is going on in the country that I live
in and will most probably be living in for a long time/forever.
It is an Eastern European country and apparently (according to
dh who is from here) there are many more women than men in the
population. This has the effect that women are pretty much
competing with one another to find a 'mate'. This means that
they put a lot of effort into the way they look, dress in a
'sexy' way and according to him generally put up with being
treated badly by men as they are just grateful to be with one.
I find this really disturbing and it is very sad to think that
so many of these men are not been brought up to respect women
more. He also says that the reason many women are not very
friendly to me is because in their eyes I have stolen one of
their men! I tell him he is just being conceited but he says
sadly this is the reality of how t