Perhaps we american women are less ‘warm’ and ‘passionate’, but then again that kind of ‘I am not an object’ mentality has gotten us much further in terms of equality, especially in the work place. You can be both sexually attractive and desired, and yet still have enough respect for yourself not to allow a man to treat you like a walking vagina and nothing more.

We are neither cold nor reserved, we just don’t put up with bullshit. You’ve just got to work a little harder, that’s all.

If these Brazo girls are unimpressed with most American men, imagine how unimpressive New York women are compared to warm passionate Brasilian women, (not to lump everybody together because I don’t think latins have a lock on sexuality, but this article does deal with stereotypes). Just as there are Safado’s, there are Safada’s, and Brasileiro(as) do have the reputation of a) infedility and b) being easy to get into bed, and c) being wilder in bed (american girls are shocked when I tell them alot of my Brasileira girlfriends love getting a little slap on the face while your doing the deed). Many American/Euro/Austrailian girls just don’t seem to want to turn loose (it’s probably a good thing, morals and all that). I’m not trying to agitate people, those just seem to be the facts on the ground. I think feminism (not equality, respect for strong women, ect. but radical, every man is a potential rapist style feminism) has American women conflicted. I could be wrong, I’m still learning alot of this, but it seems that the feminist movement has left its mark on the culture, and women feel they must state that “I AM NOT A OBJECT FOR A MAN”, but on the other hand they want to be sexually attractive and desired.

I don’t know, just my thoughts

I know it’s a hot topic. I’ve been in the same crossfire myself. Our attitude toward anyone who makes us feel we have to apologize before expressing ourselves should be, “fuck ‘em”. Really. Think about it. This posture on discourse is as preposterous and tight-assed as the attitude toward sex ridiculed in the Brazilians’ joke. The two are analogous. And there is nothing progressive* about it.

It reminds me of an old joke of Alexi Sayles’. He observed that he could tell when he was performing for a soi-disant progressive crowd when he heard a little pause between a joke and the laugh while the crowd decided whether or not they were allowed to laugh.

* I don’t want to use the term “politically-correct” because it’s so thread-worn. And it tends to be used most in rants by AM-talk-radio kind of people, alongside “tree-hugger”, “bleeding heart”, “cultural elite”, etc., etc., — and I don’t want to have anything to do with them, either.

heh.