I've never seen it happen either. Doubt its more common than anywhere else
I've never seen it happen either. Doubt its more common than anywhere else
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Pffft!Originally Posted by DrB0b
Thai-coffee-ophile!
hmmmm, my spell-checker suggested Neo-Platonism for no-platformed. I'm quite impressed with this new phone.
Clearly not a Thai phone then. Thais haven't invented or contributed a single thing to humanity dontchaknow.Originally Posted by DrB0b
Think about that when drinking your inferior wawee coffee!
I had to use my superior Western brain to Google that because I had no clue what it meant. Still don't really. Maybe I'm Thai??Originally Posted by DrB0b
Could be. Do you have a recipe for a good gai yang marinade? I can offer you a choice of several barely used philosophical systems in exchange. Doing a special deal on Epicureanism today, if you take it in the next hour I'll throw in Thomism for nothing. Can't say fairer than that, eh?
Well OK, that sounds like a fair enough deal but if I am actually Thai I'm going to have to think a way to rip you off someway, somehow - because as a Thai I'm obligated to take advantage of your intellectually superior Western brain with my rat-cunning Thai brain.
It's not personal though you understand. Anyway, can I interest you in this double-priced bit of kitsch?
Yes, my brother just so happens to own a gem shop.Originally Posted by DrB0b
You, farang, you come with me now...
Same here. I have never seen that behavior here ever and I have been all over the place. Now someone at work showed me some online vid where some guy did that to his GF/Wife but I have no idea where it even was.
Would I intervene here? Completely depends on situation and circumstances.
Bottom line, Men that hit women are cowards.
Eventually, climb the ladder to become heads-of-state, powerful corporate CEOs, corrupt politicians, spoiled princes sired by demigod kings, multi-media moguls, popular and grossly overpaid film stars, influential Generals-cum-war-lunatics, coddled and insecure rich boys who become presidents, scholars who consider themselves all that but really aren't, etc, etc....
^ Ah...psychopaths. Yes...they seem to have taken over the world.
If the man's mates didn't stop him then exactly why would you as a foreigner step into the fray ?
(That holds true in many nations and cultures. For instance try it on in Mejico , Señor Gringo.)
Possibly he caught her with another Aussie...you know as "they all look alike"
Violence against women happens everywhere. Its a sad reality. It will never stop as long as people - men, women, gov't continue to look at the other way, ignoring the problem and its root causes. It takes balls and a lot of guts to tackle this problem face on, but if we do not do something about it, the rot/decay of the population will become more severe. Its not an easy task, but this has to be addressed if we wish to become a better society in future generations.
Every law enacted to protect women, the little acts that individuals or strangers do to make a difference or to help is a step forward.
I am so unlucky that if I fall into a barrel full of D*ick**s, I'd come out sucking my own thumb!
I'm not condoning the violence metered out to women but my belief is that violence metered out to men by women is about the same. Based on the fact men are more unlikely to report they've been beaten up by a woman.
I'm not into all this shit that it's always the man.
https://www.yahoo.com/beauty/the-num...771263030.htmlRoughly 40 percent of the victims of severe physical violence were men. The CDC repeated the survey in 2011, the results of which were published in 2014, and found almost identical numbers — with the percentage of male severe physical violence victims slightly rising.Oct 26, 2015
Prolly in the West, but its a different story in ASIA. Women are desserts, inferior, weaker. Violence against women in Asia is a huge problem.
Unlike most of the knights in shining armor here, I would come to your rescue if I see you being beaten by a woman, but that's just me.
Sorry I don't see the difference here to the west.
Women in the west claim the same thing.Originally Posted by GracelessFawn
And both statements are correct. However, in the West there is a lot of legal and social support in place to help the victims, in the East there is not. In the West violence against women is generally acknowledged as being a problem which needs to be solved and much has been done at many levels to help deal with the problem. In Asia a lot of lip service has been paid to the issue but in general nothing much has been done to improve the situation. I guess a simple way to put is that in the west a known wife-beater would be ostracised and probably jailed, in many Asian countries he's just one of the boys and is just keeping the bitch in her place.
That said, I have still never seen a Thai man beating up his female partner in public and still think the part of the OP after "I have seen" is mostly BS.
I'm a knight in shining armour in a Thai bar , when two pissed up bar girls start punching and kicking each other I always have to rescue them. Other Farang always advise me not to get involved in bar girl scrabble , but I have no problem wading into the middle of a bird punch up and bar fineing them both 2000bt for the night and your shift at the pub is over.
Then the knight takes over and uses his Sir lancer a lot to tame the damsels.
Good for you Wasabi for supporting the local business.
I've seen Thai men hitting their wives a couple times. I've seen Thai women hitting their husbands a few more than that. Witnessed one throw a knife at her husband, only to miss and have it fly out the door and hit a tourist walking by in the foot.
I've also had to disarm an ex of the knife she was trying stab me with, as well as another time the bottle she was trying to hit me with. (cue the bargirl jokes, but she wasn't one).
As well, I was having to constantly watch my rear view mirror as any business dealings I had with her had yet to be settled, and her and her new Thai boyfriend knew it would be better for them if I was dead.
So, from my, possibly biased, personal experiences, I have to disagree with Fawn.
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