DR Rubia said:
Wow it must be cold and lonely up there on your pedestal all by yourself looking down at others. I feel sorry for you.
It's nice to see you can discuss an issue and refrain from personal attacks.
You don't know me and I don't know you.
I do know what I see on a daily basis here in this country. If you have found love, I'm glad for you. Truly. I said nothing to disparage you personally... unlike you.
You know nothing about what I think is good, or just, or honorable.
Human nature can not often be counted on for the good, or just or honorable. If the day ever came that we stopped killing, cheating, and otherwise hurting one another in massive numbers on this planet, as is the norm, I would have higher expectations for the motives behind the goings on I see here in Sosua on a daily basis.
I will not wear rose tinted glasses and heap praise on all the beautiful people here who see the inner beauty of everyone landing here for a few weeks of whatever they're hoping to find.... just because it sounds pretty and acceptable to say so.
Love comes in many forms. If it's founded on weaknesses, it will be dysfunctional ... and then it leaks away by the weight of its own dysfunction. It can only be founded on strengths to match my definition. You're right, if one is loaded with self esteem, there's a much better chance of finding it.
I will continue to speak up and dispel the fantasies of many who are desperate to find love and willingly fool themselves a culture and country away from home. Your own story is anecdotal, precisely because it is personal. To offer
blind support, as you're doing by supporting the goodness and beauty of heavy people everywhere, is not helpful at all. Not here.
How many women do you know who fly in here for a couple of weeks actually have any kind of opportunity to really know Dominicans? Be honest! But how many do you know who leave here with the idea that they've found true love?
If you haven't done so already, read the many, many posts on the dilemma.
Giving blind support to those who may be fooling themselves in dangerous ways (and for the last time-- I'm not describing you personally) is not helpful. It is dangerous, because it allows those desperate women who hunger for love to believe you. They will not see themselves as part of a huge statistic in this country... they will see themselves as you.
They deserve to know the reality... and again, I'm describing only the type of men they are most likely to be meeting when they step off a plane for a few week holiday. These women need a stiff cold shot of reality, not a warm fuzzy blanket of support.
I think it's far kinder to offer the cold shot, rather than the warm fuzzy. I will not be party to the desperation. Those who have the self-esteem will find their way through the tangle and land on their feet.
So I say what I say... without prejudice against you, although you are too blind to see the difference between objective discussion and personal attacks.