| In the case of Chinese men, it had to do with their ego, said Women, Family and Community Development Ministry parliamentary secretary Datuk Paduka Chew Mei Fun.She said they would not want to marry women who were better qualified or had higher incomes than them. Chew was replying to a question by Datuk Abdul Rashid Ngah who wanted to know why many of the men looking for brides overseas were Chinese. She said creating a mindset of gender equality was the answer to the problem. "If this cannot be... | Moscow citizens have proved to be among the world’s least courteous people, says a recent survey conducted by Readers’s Digest magazine.
The survey inspected 35 cities of the world to check how polite their citizens were. The rating was built according to results of three tests: how often strangers would help a woman pick up the papers she dropped, whether the shop assistants are polite, and how many people in public places hold the door to let the person behind them in.
Moscow qualified among... | Sex is a primal urge. Yet libido rubs a lot of people the wrong way.
Most humans have sex, sometimes with love, just as often without. In marriage, outside of marriage, as a side dish to marriage. It's not ours to judge.
But if you pay for it — or charge for it — a kind of atavistic wrath, from a disapproving society, will fall on your head.
Prostitutes are just about the last breed of people who can be publicly excoriated for what they are, in a language of loathing that would be intolera... |
