When I taught in an International School in the Dominican Republic early in my teaching career, I got to live in a place where most people did not have access to education for their children because it was not free. Our building was filled with old American, Canadian and European men with their 15-year old girlfriends whose children did …
When I taught in an International School in the Dominican Republic early in my teaching career, I got to live in a place where most people did not have access to education for their children because it was not free. Our building was filled with old American, Canadian and European men with their 15-year old girlfriends whose children did not generally live with them, but the men still paid for their schooling. The problem was that if the women went to visit their children who were usually with their moms in the capitol, the men would move in new girlfriends, threatening the financial status of girlfriend number one. There would be a lot of fighting with these young women. There is more about this experience that was both enlightening but sickening that I won't share, but suffice it to say. Tom Hartmann's description of where Red State education is headed in the USA is both obvious, and much like the DR was when I lived there. I hate to think of how racism makes this country and this world lesser, but it certainly does. Let us hope that the majority nonbillionaires can get the representation we deserve. I would love to send the right wing billionaires packing.
That business of American & EU males going to live in places like that is entirely because they can easily find willing baby girl friends. Never let it be said they are pedophiles - they are only doing what the law of the land says is ok where they are living, so they are not penalized & the 'baby girls' of young years are looking for their ticket out of poverty - so it's a mutual business, but still sickening ! You cannot tell me that those relationships are anything but sexual on the part of the males, they are too obvious ! Epstein would totally approve of their choices ! So my opinion is - why doesn't society decide to be honest about this business & tell it like it is - they are basically dirty old men who want a young vibrant sexual partner, because it makes them feel manly & like 'conquerors' & fulfills their basest dreams as males ? I'm sure Viagra is available in those places too, or there is a great mail order system to assist with the plan !!!
I lived there before Viagra was on the market, but I understood the sexual dynamics. We lived in.a complex that had a pool. Afternoons I would be in the pool, and the men would be in the pool too talking about how their girlfriends had to have a siesta as if this were a legitimate relationship of equals. Most of them were retired, or close to it. I remember the wife of one of the men came and she was at the poolside talking to him and later on, when she went off to do something the men asked him if she was his mother. She was there age, in fact, might have been a bit younger, but their views of women were so skewed that they did not recognize how crazy they all seemed at least to me. I was right out of grad school teaching there. I think the fact that the women all had children, which I understood was why they were in these relationships, to have something better for their children. I thought it must be so hard to be away from their children. It is like working away from home. Some of the families on the island intentionally crippled their children so they could more effectively beg on the beaches, and I was reading that a lot of North Americans were coming for eyes and organs of Dominican children for transplants, so this seemed like a much better deal. In the school I taught there were foreign men who went into a village and got a young child from their family and then raised them as their own. We had a boy like that in our school, and he was very sexualized in his behavior. It was hard to tell if it was normal or whether he was acting out things that were happening to him, but there were absolutely no authorities to report anything to. This is the world the Republicans want to create here.
When I taught in an International School in the Dominican Republic early in my teaching career, I got to live in a place where most people did not have access to education for their children because it was not free. Our building was filled with old American, Canadian and European men with their 15-year old girlfriends whose children did not generally live with them, but the men still paid for their schooling. The problem was that if the women went to visit their children who were usually with their moms in the capitol, the men would move in new girlfriends, threatening the financial status of girlfriend number one. There would be a lot of fighting with these young women. There is more about this experience that was both enlightening but sickening that I won't share, but suffice it to say. Tom Hartmann's description of where Red State education is headed in the USA is both obvious, and much like the DR was when I lived there. I hate to think of how racism makes this country and this world lesser, but it certainly does. Let us hope that the majority nonbillionaires can get the representation we deserve. I would love to send the right wing billionaires packing.
That business of American & EU males going to live in places like that is entirely because they can easily find willing baby girl friends. Never let it be said they are pedophiles - they are only doing what the law of the land says is ok where they are living, so they are not penalized & the 'baby girls' of young years are looking for their ticket out of poverty - so it's a mutual business, but still sickening ! You cannot tell me that those relationships are anything but sexual on the part of the males, they are too obvious ! Epstein would totally approve of their choices ! So my opinion is - why doesn't society decide to be honest about this business & tell it like it is - they are basically dirty old men who want a young vibrant sexual partner, because it makes them feel manly & like 'conquerors' & fulfills their basest dreams as males ? I'm sure Viagra is available in those places too, or there is a great mail order system to assist with the plan !!!
I lived there before Viagra was on the market, but I understood the sexual dynamics. We lived in.a complex that had a pool. Afternoons I would be in the pool, and the men would be in the pool too talking about how their girlfriends had to have a siesta as if this were a legitimate relationship of equals. Most of them were retired, or close to it. I remember the wife of one of the men came and she was at the poolside talking to him and later on, when she went off to do something the men asked him if she was his mother. She was there age, in fact, might have been a bit younger, but their views of women were so skewed that they did not recognize how crazy they all seemed at least to me. I was right out of grad school teaching there. I think the fact that the women all had children, which I understood was why they were in these relationships, to have something better for their children. I thought it must be so hard to be away from their children. It is like working away from home. Some of the families on the island intentionally crippled their children so they could more effectively beg on the beaches, and I was reading that a lot of North Americans were coming for eyes and organs of Dominican children for transplants, so this seemed like a much better deal. In the school I taught there were foreign men who went into a village and got a young child from their family and then raised them as their own. We had a boy like that in our school, and he was very sexualized in his behavior. It was hard to tell if it was normal or whether he was acting out things that were happening to him, but there were absolutely no authorities to report anything to. This is the world the Republicans want to create here.
This is horrible.
Agreed! And because I lived it, I can really picture what third world life looks like.