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Originally Posted by {aspiring_to_clarity}  Can't get a girl, is fine with buying a woman and probably wants someone who will do whatever he says. |
With the whole "mail order brides" thing no one is being bought, just their contact info. Usually they talk for a while via mail, online, or sometimes over the phone if both people speak the same language (often a translator may be used for letters/emails). The guy may visit the woman in her home country, and if they get along he'll then end up spending thousands of dollars to help her emigrate to his home country, unless they plan on staying in her country.
Why do I know about this? I like researching most everything. The guys I've come across who were looking into this didn't seem bad, they were just weary of feminism and its effects on the nuclear family, which would be a whole other thread. Most were blue collar, meaning they'd had to deal with the nearly 50% divorce rate in the US (female college grads have a divorce rate closer to 20%).
Personally I don't think this would work for me, as I prefer to be involved with a woman who is articulate in a language I understand, highly educated, self supporting (or on her way to being so if still in college), with a frame of reference at least somewhat similar to my own, and comes from a fairly happy background. Luckily I'm already with such a girl, and I didn't have to travel thousands of miles or go online to find her (we met at the orientation session for a volunteer trip we ended up both going on).