Time For a Rant

July 21, 2007 |

Back home in Norway, you now that land of the midnight sun, trolls, whalers, vikings, reindeer and fjords…many many fjords. Some local politician from the scared of everything foreign party…uh…sorry, the so called Progress Party, have voiced up and told the nation that Norwegian men would be better off finding themselves a wife from Asia.

The dude is of course married with a Southeast Asian lady, and thus feel competent to voice his opinion, and since it’s summer, and not much going on to report about, it was picked up and given the front page in one of Norway’s largest tabloids.

While it is nice to have politicians care about mixed couples, the reactions from Norwegian women where not so nice. As we all now, men like myself are second or 3rd rate, losers whose only interest in these poor, exploited and culturally downtrodden Asian women, is to bring home a sex-slave and servant, who we can tie on a rope between the kitchen and the bed.

Come on girls and boys. How is she going to manage to bring me a beer while I watch the sports if I tie her up in the kitchen?

What really upset people was that this politician had the audacity to say in public that Asian women where better housewives, and took better care of their children, than their Norwegian sisters. That the result of bringing more of them to Norway, would bring up the birth rate, and we would see less fat children, as Asian mothers would have the time to feed the children proper food etc.

While the remarks he made, even to me sound a bit over the top, to put it mildly… the reactions in public Internet fora and other places where totally insane. And generalisations about the worthiness of Norwegian men, like the ones above, where flying free. Of course at the same time as these people where slagging off everyone who had an Asian wife, they where hailing the virtues of the Norwegian woman.

You see, she is educated, has a career, contribute to the family economy, and is of course at the same time a fantastic mother to her children, and an even better lover to her husband. And unlike Asian women, she knows how to cook, she knows how to clean the floors (Asian women only have dirt floors, and thus don’t know how to keep a house tidy, those poor exploited souls).

I may risk being branded for being a bit shallow for even mentioning this next bit. But I only do because I found it amusing. So bear with me:

One post on a Norwegian internet forum, branded Norwegian men as shallow, and she was tired of being rejected because we only looked for outer beuty. We wanted tall, blonde, blue eyed, big breasted women, and rejected someone who had some minor faults like brown hair, or where short or had a tad more fat on their bodies. I got news for you. Tall blonde lasses with blue eyes and big boobs are very hard to find in Asia, so that may not be the reason why men with Asian wives did not fall in love with you.

Luckily there was another article yesterday in a more serious newspaper, about Asian women who where working in Norway. Turns out that among female immigrants to Norway, Filipino women are working as much as Norwegian women, and Thai and Chinese women are working almost as much as them.

I think that was a nice shot in the bow, towards those that want to portray Asian women as mice, who because of cultural conditioning, are forced to stay at home as some sort of maid to their Norwegian husbands.

Anyway, I won’t come with any conclusions or solutions. Other than that people can be real moronic sometimes. bah!

Note: If you by any way feel offended by what has been said here, I can assure you that in no way, shape or form, will I tie my lovely wife up in the kitchen or force her to bring me beer wile I watch the sports. There is no activity in the world that will ever bore me more than watching the sports on TV. There are far more funnier and sanuk things I prefer to do in the company of my wife. Also I have the utmost respect for women in general, Asian as well as Norwegian. It’s morons of both sexes I have a beef with. Who I deem to be a moron is of course entirely up to me.

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