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Smithington
Joined: 14 Dec 2011
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 Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 4:59 pm Post subject: Why are rural women here so ugly? |
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I live in a small town in the country. I like the countryside, but I can't get over how unattractive the women are. Good looking women are a rarity. I ride my bicycle in the evenings and pass hundreds of people, and rarely do I see a good looking woman. Same on the bus, or at the supermarket.
Yet tonight when I head to Itaewon the streets will be packed with lovely creatures. Sitting outside on a patio behind Hamilton hotel is a real treat. I'll witness hundreds of attractive, well dressed women parading by.
Then it's back to my small town and probably the least attractive women on the planet. What gives? Is plastic surgery really that widespread? Whatever the explanation, the difference is striking. |
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ghostrider
Joined: 27 Jun 2011
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 5:39 pm Post subject: Re: Why are rural women here so ugly? |
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| Smithington wrote: |
I live in a small town in the country. I like the countryside, but I can't get over how unattractive the women are. Good looking women are a rarity. I ride my bicycle in the evenings and pass hundreds of people, and rarely do I see a good looking woman. Same on the bus, or at the supermarket.
Yet tonight when I head to Itaewon the streets will be packed with lovely creatures. Sitting outside on a patio behind Hamilton hotel is a real treat. I'll witness hundreds of attractive, well dressed women parading by.
Then it's back to my small town and probably the least attractive women on the planet. What gives? Is plastic surgery really that widespread? Whatever the explanation, the difference is striking. |
Attractive Korean women in rural areas leave as soon as they can. They know that there are better options in the cities than marrying a poor farmer. In addition, a lot of the women in rural areas are mail order brides. They come from countries where they are probably to poor to afford plastic surgery. |
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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 5:47 pm Post subject: |
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| If an attractive young woman wants to spend her time in a stylish locale or seek out an affluent mate, she'll probably be spending her time in a larger city. I know the attractive young female teachers who get assigned to my rural school are often in a hurry to get relocated to a larger city. It's the married people are more often content to be here in the countryside. |
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modernseoul
Joined: 11 Sep 2011
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 6:24 pm Post subject: Re: Why are rural women here so ugly? |
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| Smithington wrote: |
| Yet tonight when I head to Itaewon the streets will be packed with lovely creatures. Sitting outside on a patio behind Hamilton hotel is a real treat. I'll witness hundreds of attractive, well dressed women parading by. |
For some of them it maybe an aspect of their job to look attractive (if you understand what I'm implying). But you're also in an area where a lot of young (uni aged) women go to hang out.
In your small town most of the women are maybe married with kids and therefore older.
It also might be a factor that you're in Itaewon and the girls dress more to western guy tastes. |
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Smithington
Joined: 14 Dec 2011
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 6:40 pm Post subject: |
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Good points, but even the teenagers are unattractive. Where are the attractive twenty year olds? Everyone seems frumpy, poorly dressed, and not a few are overweight. I'm baffled because some of my young (elementary school) students are beautiful children. It's obvious to me that they will be beautiful adults. But the town is full of unattractive people. Something doesn't add up. Are all the attractive (or even average-looking) people fleeing to big cities the moment they can, leaving ugly folk behind. That explanation seems too monocausal to me.
Back home small towns are full of healthy, good-looking women. Country girls were hot. Here that is emphatically not the case. I've had a few attractive co-teachers at various schools...but they've all been transferred in from other places.  |
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wanderkind
Joined: 01 Jan 2012
Location: Japan
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 7:06 pm Post subject: Re: Why are rural women here so ugly? |
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| Smithington wrote: |
I live in a small town in the country. I like the countryside, but I can't get over how unattractive the women are. Good looking women are a rarity. I ride my bicycle in the evenings and pass hundreds of people, and rarely do I see a good looking woman. Same on the bus, or at the supermarket.
Yet tonight when I head to Itaewon the streets will be packed with lovely creatures. Sitting outside on a patio behind Hamilton hotel is a real treat. I'll witness hundreds of attractive, well dressed women parading by.
Then it's back to my small town and probably the least attractive women on the planet. What gives? Is plastic surgery really that widespread? Whatever the explanation, the difference is striking. |
The women in your small town don't have the disposable income to spend lavishly on nice clothes, beauty products, and first rate dental care?
Aren't interested in consuming the beauty products they do have and expending the energy involved just to get dolled up so bicyclists on any giving evening have some eye candy?
Don't have the spare time to cultivate a hot bod?
Are less inclined to conform to big-city beauty standards, the achievement of which is grueling and sometimes even unhealthy?
Aren't being seen in a context where often the whole point is to look as good as possible for members of their preferred set, such as would be the case on a Friday or Saturday night in Itaewon?
Shocker.
Underneath the cosmetic kung-fu, the average woman looks just that, average. So disavow yourself of your illusions about many of the women you see in Seoul. Get to know some of the women in your small town, you might be surprised how attractive you can find them when you don't just think of them as decoration.
Edit: What you said about cute kids becoming good looking adults isn't necessarily true. Puberty is a hell of a drug.
*The tone of your second post was a lot less superficial than the first one, which my somewhat combative response was oriented towards. |
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 7:39 pm Post subject: Re: Why are rural women here so ugly? |
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| wanderkind wrote: |
| Smithington wrote: |
I live in a small town in the country. I like the countryside, but I can't get over how unattractive the women are. Good looking women are a rarity. I ride my bicycle in the evenings and pass hundreds of people, and rarely do I see a good looking woman. Same on the bus, or at the supermarket.
Yet tonight when I head to Itaewon the streets will be packed with lovely creatures. Sitting outside on a patio behind Hamilton hotel is a real treat. I'll witness hundreds of attractive, well dressed women parading by.
Then it's back to my small town and probably the least attractive women on the planet. What gives? Is plastic surgery really that widespread? Whatever the explanation, the difference is striking. |
The women in your small town don't have the disposable income to spend lavishly on nice clothes, beauty products, and first rate dental care?
Aren't interested in consuming the beauty products they do have and expending the energy involved just to get dolled up so bicyclists on any giving evening have some eye candy?
Don't have the spare time to cultivate a hot bod?
Are less inclined to conform to big-city beauty standards, the achievement of which is grueling and sometimes even unhealthy?
Aren't being seen in a context where often the whole point is to look as good as possible for members of their preferred set, such as would be the case on a Friday or Saturday night in Itaewon?
Shocker.
Underneath the cosmetic kung-fu, the average woman looks just that, average. So disavow yourself of your illusions about many of the women you see in Seoul. Get to know some of the women in your small town, you might be surprised how attractive you can find them when you don't just think of them as decoration.
Edit: What you said about cute kids becoming good looking adults isn't necessarily true. Puberty is a hell of a drug.
*The tone of your second post was a lot less superficial than the first one, which my somewhat combative response was oriented towards. |
More onerous bullshit from the West. Wonderful. |
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Scorpion
Joined: 15 Apr 2012
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 7:56 pm Post subject: Re: Why are rural women here so ugly? |
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| wanderkind wrote: |
| Aren't interested in consuming the beauty products they do have and expending the energy involved just to get dolled up so bicyclists on any giving evening have some eye candy? |
"Cyclists" on any "given" evening.
From your very defensive response to the OP's post, and your questionable English, I'll just go ahead and assume you are either Korean (who can't take criticism) or one of the hordes of unattractive Western females here who cringes at the idea that people enjoy looking at attractive people. And since you're not that (attractive) you have to look down your nose at the "superficialty" of others enjoying looking at pretty women. Looks aren't everything, but they're not nothing either.
What Smithington is observing is valid. From Seoul, where looks are everything, to an hour outside the city where they are nothing. Two extremes. It would be nice to have more attractive women in small towns. One in ten would be nice. Even one in twenty. There's nothing wrong with appreciating beauty. Even if much of it is just 'packaged' beauty.
May I suggest you take a chill pill. |
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oatmeal
Joined: 26 Nov 2013
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 8:10 pm Post subject: Re: Why are rural women here so ugly? |
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| Smithington wrote: |
I live in a small town in the country. I like the countryside, but I can't get over how unattractive the women are. Good looking women are a rarity. I ride my bicycle in the evenings and pass hundreds of people, and rarely do I see a good looking woman. Same on the bus, or at the supermarket.
Yet tonight when I head to Itaewon the streets will be packed with lovely creatures. Sitting outside on a patio behind Hamilton hotel is a real treat. I'll witness hundreds of attractive, well dressed women parading by.
Then it's back to my small town and probably the least attractive women on the planet. What gives? Is plastic surgery really that widespread? Whatever the explanation, the difference is striking. |
It's because most of this women are from vietnam, indonesia, philipinnes, and other SE asian countries brought over as mail-order brides. |
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edwardcatflap
Joined: 22 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Are women from these countries all unattractive? |
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bossface
Joined: 05 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 8:18 pm Post subject: |
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Back home small towns are full of healthy, good-looking women. Country girls were hot. Here that is emphatically not the case. I've had a few attractive co-teachers at various schools...but they've all been transferred in from other places. |
Not sure if this is true. I don't know where back home is for you or how long you've been away. In high school it was fun to visit small towns since there were always hot high school girls around. Those girls ether get married and/or knocked up early, or leave town after college and don't return. There are very few attractive and date-able women in small town America. I would venture to guess that 99.9% of attractive girls in, say, Euclid, Ohio either marry the high school quarterback and start sh1tting out kids, or they study hard, go to a Big 10 school, and move to the North Side of Chicago the second they graduate. Prolly largely the same deal for dudes too. |
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wanderkind
Joined: 01 Jan 2012
Location: Japan
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 8:20 pm Post subject: Re: Why are rural women here so ugly? |
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| Scorpion wrote: |
| wanderkind wrote: |
| Aren't interested in consuming the beauty products they do have and expending the energy involved just to get dolled up so bicyclists on any giving evening have some eye candy? |
"Cyclists" on any "given" evening.
From your very defensive response to the OP's post, and your questionable English, I'll just go ahead and assume you are either Korean (who can't take criticism) or one of the hordes of unattractive Western females here who cringes at the idea that people enjoy looking at attractive people. And since you're not that (attractive) you have to look down your nose at the "superficialty" of others enjoying looking at pretty women. Looks aren't everything, but they're not nothing either.
What Smithington is observing is valid. From Seoul, where looks are everything, to an hour outside the city where they are nothing. Two extremes. It would be nice to have more attractive women in small towns. One in ten would be nice. Even one in twenty. There's nothing wrong with appreciating beauty. Even if much of it is just 'packaged' beauty.
May I suggest you take a chill pill. |
I'll get to being contrite in a moment, but regarding English:
'Giving' was a mistake, fair 'nuff, but is the use of 'bicyclist' really inappropriate? The OP said they rode their bicycle, so I would think 'bicyclist' more apt, 'giving'(  ) that 'cyclist' could refer to a unicycle, or tricycle (etc.), and to me it collocates more with competitive sport than recreation.
For your part, you misspelled 'superficiality' (though perhaps you were facetiously making a simple mistake to poke fun at mine), and I personally would have conjugated "one of the hordes of unattractive western females here who cringes at" as "who cringe at". Does any of this have anything to do with being Korean (which, as it happens, I'm not)? Anyway, I expect we could go tit for tat all day.
Your chill pill comment was well merited, as when I reread Smithington's post I realize I misinterpreted the tone in the OP. It was more pointing out a disparity they couldn't understand and less complaint, which is how I construed it. I might say I made that mistake because sentiments along those lines pop up here from time to time ("hordes of unattractive western females"?), but really I just read it too quickly and presumed regarding intent.
Sorry I maligned your reputation Smithington.
Also, I'm male.
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optik404
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 8:24 pm Post subject: |
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| edwardcatflap wrote: |
| Are women from these countries all unattractive? |
If they were attractive they probably wouldn't be a mail order bride. |
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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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| edwardcatflap wrote: |
| Are women from these countries all unattractive? |
The ones I've seen are generally not wildly beautiful or anything, but they're still often reasonably attractive. Average is probably the best descriptor, but that's average in a country where high quality cosmetics and plastic surgery are common, so it's no surprise that men might be harsh judges in this regard. |
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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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| In fact, one of my student's Vietnamese mother coincidentally just stepped in with the Korean father to see her classroom teacher. Quite cute really. Not gorgerous, but probably better looking than any Korean woman he'd have been able to convince to marry him. |
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