For those who of you who haven't been to Russia yet, but are considering going there at some point, perhaps some of these highlights from messages left on the ETX blog may give you an insight into some Russian females' mindset:
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"Elena said...
Sorry for my English but I am russian, speaking French also. My friend sent me the link on your blog. I am 30 y.o.woman living in Moscow speaking 2 languages, having French Master, earning 1500 euros which is very very little money for Russia. It is my first job as I was married for 9 years and never worked before. Now I am divorced and must earn my life so I understand that it is a shame to earn 1500 euros at 30 years old. I am trying to move, to make a career, to learn and to move forward. You are a man, 40 y.o., earning nothing, not learning, drinking and fucking 20 y.o. poor gilrs from poor russian provinces. What is your background? What are you doing in life when not fucking and teaching ? Reading ? Going to the theatre? You are humiliating women you fuck thus humiliating yourself. You show to public photos of girls who trusted you, to whom you were saying nice words and you are now making fun of them. It is disgusting. As is disgusting your old body and becoming bold head. You get what you are looking for - stupid cheap girls interested only in money. And you know why you get them and why they are interested only in money - because you can not give anything else. You can not give love, friendship, cleverness, you can not be interesting. So all girls around you are looking only for money. But you can not give them even money. So the only thing you can give them - is a good fuck. Buy you are 40, so in 5-10 years even this will not be possible. I am sorry that you could find only bad features in russian girls, but i believe that you found exactly what you were looking for.
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Elena said...
...If man wants to fuck a normal woman ("such a heart") he must be able to give her smth in return - maybe love, maybe interesting personality, maybe super sex, maybe intelligence. If he can not give all this - then money. English Teacher X can not give anything of it, not even money. The story of 250 roubles shashlyk run away is just pathetic for a man. So maybe before juging russian women he should look at himself in a mirror. Or maybe he should try an american girl. But i am afraid an american girl would not even look at him.
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Olya said...
For the foreigners who read this blog and think, that all what Russian girls want is money and don't understand, why they should pay in the pubs, restaurants and etc dedicated: it is Russia, and you came here as a guest, so you should follow the rules. And it is a rule, that THE MAN PAYS. So expect to pay, if you are inviting a girl somewhere. You can think it is unfair, but it is a rule. If you don't have much money - offer dinner at home or bring to a place which you can afford (eg McDonalds
, if she stops meeting with you after that - better for you, probably that's not your type of girl and she doesn't like you. From this blog you really can think that all Russian girls are greedy whores. Not sure how X should be called then, but if he is digging in the dirt, then there is very little chance to find pearls, isn't it?
The main idea was "getting laid" - well, he've got it (for free!!!
, he should be happy&grateful and not complain, how bad everyone around is. If he wanted good attitude and relations, he probably was with wrong people and/or showing wrong attitude. He should have been running from the girls with the type of behavior he described, but that is exactly what he wanted, so congrats! Its just a pity, that being in Russia, he could find only the bad sides of everything.
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Olya said...
I personally always offer to pay when I go out with foreigners (they usually refuse - probably well trained by former girlfriends
As well i think if man invites me to some really expensive place, then he probably can afford that and I wouldn't offer to pay.
When i was in long term relations, to be frank, i didn't offer to pay, when we went out. He was American guy with 10K USD salary, so he was paying all the time, which didn't seem to bother him. If his salary was more like mine, then i would probably also pay.
As for average salary, this will probably sound not nice, but i don't think either Lena or i would meet with the guy who is permanently getting so much lower salary than we do. Permanent salary like that would mean either 1) he is a student 2) he has lower education than i have (eg he is a driver) 3) he has a good education but he just didn't fit into this life. In cases 1 he is probably too young for me, in case 2 he is not the right person for me (though he can be very nice), as i need someone who will be better or at least not worse than i, in case 3 - he is a looser, which is very sad.
If you are dating with girl and all what she wants is to go out to restaurants and bars every evening, i would start thinking, what exactly she wants from you and whether she likes to be with you there or she just likes to eat in nice places. Dinner at home can be as nice as in restaurant, sometimes even nicer.
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Olya said...
What is more important, no one likes angry sarcastic people hating everyone around. So until this changes, all the changes in your material status are not important. Other important things: What is your education? In which University you studied? Do you have your teaching certificate? I hope you do have all of that. What are you doing in your free time? How many exhibitions you visited? Do you go to theater? Are you interested in history? Reading books? What are your interests except tits/drinking beer/cheap girls? I don't see it from this blog (just look at the labels...).
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Olya said...
As i said, Russia gives lots of opportunities - go study English and you will find a job in better company, your salary will rise, prove that you know more, than others do, that you are a valuable employee. if you are lazy, it is easy to tell that this is "average". What i am saying is that there is always a way to improve yourself and your life. And "average poorness" is for losers, pls don't beat me for that...
Again, i am talking about men/women 30-45 y.o. This is the age, when evth is possible and you and only you can take your life under control and responsible for it.
Do you know many women, who would tell you that money is not important at all and will agree to live with you under the bridge? Those who tell you so are either the ones living in a dreamworld or are the posers... Or maybe she is living under the bridge too. Everyone wants to live not worse, than he/she is living right now. I am not an exception.
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Olya said...
I will say that i don't believe in love from the first sight as it is shown in the films, at least when you are 30yo. I do believe that you meet a person and like him a lot, feel attracted to him, then you communicate and see, whether you have common interests, whether you can get along, his attitude towards you. All those things are important. And this is a base for long happy relations for me.
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Elena said...
When i meet a man i am interested in his personality and yes, sometimes i invited him to a bar or resto and pay for him. It is not a problem for me and thus i also want to show him that i am his equal (that is why i have problems with russian men - they are used to dominate women which i do not appreciate). When i met my boyfriend - i told him directly that everything i need from him is sex and no serious relations as i have no time and energy on this. So he thought i am a whore
)) But he was so nice to me that I forgot about bitchy behavior pretty fast. He is very ill, at the beginning i didn't know about it. And now i can't leave him because i will never respect myself after this. Why i told you all this - i want you to understand that if you want to fuck whores - you will fuck whores, if you want to be loved - you will find this. You can not treat women like whores and wait something better in return. And yes, money counts
)) I am just back from vacation where I was with my kids. 70 000 roubles for 5 days in 2 star hotel - please do not tell me after this that money doesn't count !!!!"