Shortage of Russian men drives women to seduction classes
If you're anything like me, you've probably complained that there aren't any guys out there, and the good ones are taken (or gay). Well, be glad you don’t live in Russia, where there's statistical evidence to prove it: the population is made up of 43.3 percent men and 57.7 percent women, meaning men are outnumbered by 10. 5 million. And you thought the options in New York City were disappointing.
According to Yulia Varra, a Russian woman who runs a class on how to meet and marry a man:
“Finding a Russian man over forty who has money and isn’t an alcoholic is extremely hard. Such a man will probably have a car, a weekend cottage, but often also a wife or at least a mistress or two. Yet, to many Russian women this is still a better option than settling for an indebted drunk.”
Varra’s class, called "How to Marry in Three Months" (not to be confused with her other class, "How to be a Better Lover") is intended to give women a competitive edge in the marketplace of Russian dudes. Classes like this are increasingly common, and, since Russian men are apparently more likely to be alcoholics, leave the country for work, and die younger, there is no end in sight.
Part of me wants to say it’s sad that, in 2011, women still feel like their only hope at happiness and economic success is to get married, even if they need to take a flirting class to make that happen. And part of me looks at the magazine rack in the drugstore and thinks if someone taught a class like that here, it’d be just as popular.
Commentarium (13 Comments)
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Me you sex
oddly enough the Chicago Tribune reported that the proper verb for Civil Unions is to certify. So people have been "certified"....which just sounds so technical and unfeeling.
Hmmm... shortage of men in Russia, (scarier) shortage of women in India and China... I think we need to hook that up.
I don't want to sound judgemental, but how do you not know that your wife was a man?
She spent tens of thousands of dollars chaning jnto a woman her penis isnt there and she pronablt didnt look like a man at all thats how he didnt know his wide was a man
No kidding, well I figured she had had surgery, it just seems like you would be able to tell the difference between a biological vagina and one that was constructed, especially if you're married and presumably putting fingers or penises inside of it.
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It would appear that you have never heard of a book called The Ethical Slut by Dossie Easton and Catherine Liszt. The subject matter of which you speak is hardly new or even really that profound anymore, as it's been around and discussed in feminist circles of academia for well over a decade.
Stay with this guys, you're helping a lot of peolpe.
Yeah, it'll only cost $32,000 extra per year... We have problems with cuts in education and unemployment but we can afford to pay for people to get a sex change? My tax dollars will NOT support this. This is absurd. If they think they were born the wrong sex let them pay for it to be corrected from their own pockets.