For Leigh

Submitted by Zella (United States), Feb 12, 2010 at 21:33

Your husband provided a classic textbook example of how insecure these men are and how they base their self worth on owning a woman. The men who use the internet as a means of meeting women in western countries are mostly from poor uneducated familes. The cycle of ignorance continues and the worst part of the whole scenario is when these men find a woman who will marry them and take them to a western country, they bring creedence to the saying, "you can take the boy out of the country but you can't take the country out of the boy". The majority of them continue to do the same thing they did in their country, NOTHING.

The issue if virginity is not based on reasoning, it's based on how they were raised. They treat their Moroccan wives just as badly as most of them treat their western wives. They have no respect for women because, again, that's how they were raised. If they had a choice between a wife and a camel, they'd take the latter if it could cook, wash clothes, etc.

They prefer marrying one of their own because they can control them. Intelligent, self supporting women expect to be treated as equals. Poor, uneducated Moroccan women are just grateful to have a husband for the sole purpose of having children. Even when the men bring their Moroccan wives to the U.S., they treat them just as badly as they treated them in Moroc. For example, the blinds are always tightly drawn because the men actually believe that if a woman looks out a window, surely she is looking for a man. Nothing can change this ignorance. They learned the behaviors from their parents who learned from their parents and the mindset has never changed. Unfortunately, I doubt that it ever will change.

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