Introduction and Request

[smsmsmsm]

Hi

I just joined this site, and I would like to introduce myself and request permission from people here for my presence. I am currently a researcher at the university. I am researching the issue of mail order brides. I am particularly interested in the perspectives of men who have communicated with and are interested in foreign women. I am also looking to interview people. This is totally legitimate research. I decided to take a chance with this site to see if you are open to this.

I don't want to be intrusive, so I would like to request members' permission for me to join the forum and communicate with you. If you need more information about me, I would be happy to disclose more, including the university, the research, and limited personal information. My research really needs your assistance, and I hope you can consider this request. Thanks!

Ada

[william3rd]

You are welcome to talk to me any time. You may want to go look on the Russian women discussion site-a sister site to this one. You may also want to read my book located on my website.

[smsmsmsm]

Thanks for the suggestion. I will check it out. How do I find the link to your website?

Ada

[william3rd]

look at my profile on Russianwomendiscussion.

[doombug]

Welcome, Ada, and thanks for at least asking before conducting your research. 

We currently have one other researcher here, but she's a third-wave feminist who prefers to do her work surreptitiously in lurker mode.

Heck, you might even run across her in your studies. 

Felicity Schaeffer-Grabiel, and her most recent work:



"Planet-Love.com: Cyberbrides in the Americas and the Transnational Routes of U.S. Masculinity"

Here's hoping you keep an unbiased eye as you filter through this stuff.

Ciao!

[smsmsmsm]

Hi Doombug,

Thanks for the message. I really appreciate it. I would definitely check out your book. Is there a way I can contact you, so I can talk to you in a deeper level?

Ada

[Ray]

Welcome aboard Ada!

For what it's worth, you have my permission to be here... 

Ray

[Jeff S]

Hi Ada and welcome. PM sent.

- Jeff

[doombug]

I would definitely check out your book.

Just to clarify: the "book" is actually a discourse on "mail-order brides" and those of us who "shop" for them. It is the work of Felicity Schaeffer-Grabiel, an Assistant Professor of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

[Jeff S]

Did you actually read that paper, Doom? Great entertainment! Had me rolling on the floor.

[flipflop]

You mean theres an entire book of that incoherent gobeldeygook. That bytch is off her funkin rocker, I hope the tax payers arent funding that trash.

My mother was a strong woman, 35 years as an ER nurse, raised 5 boys on her own. My wife, a beautiful Filipina has given me the greatest gift of my life with two beautiful children. She is one semester away from a bachelors in Accounting in whcih shes aced every class 4.0 gpa

Both of these women sneer at the feminist movement for the incomprehensible load of crap it is. That paper is a good example