Do you think that countries getting stronger are always patriarchical?

[MatureDJ]

I was reading this article about how the Playboy brand (especially the clubs) becoming popular in India, a country that is in the midst of a rise from utter squalor, and it got me thinking. Back when the Playboy Club was considered cool in the USA, the American economy was the unquestioned leader in the world stage, whereas now, all the economic growth is happening in the emerging market countries, with the American labor market extraordinarily weak - something that has coincided with the onset of the matriarchy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/11/fashion/playboy-bunny-makeover-for-india-opening.html?_r=1&

Of course it could also be because horny Hindi-Indian men like looking at Northern European women (which will debut at these clubs ...) :woo:

 

[Scaramouche]

Dear MDJ,
Anyone who would compare the svexual mores of India today with the US of Hugh Hefner,has never visited India....It is such a moralistic repressive Nation,why you never even see Women Socially they are all well locked up away from harm...Forget that article it is just froth and bubbles!

 

[Bokanovsky]

Agree with Scaramouche.

Mature DJ, you really need to cut down on reading Slate, New York Times and similar mainstream crap. The world that we live in has very little resemblance to how it is portrayed by the U.S. media.

 

[Scaramouche]

Dear MDJ,
Having travelled extensively in India,a Country I love,on three Holidays..The impression one takes away is of a social system absolutely locked into and dominated by the Hindu Religion...Sure the face India projects to the World is of a Technologically vibrant,aggressive little Nation,up there with China hell bent on showing the World how they can be more efficient than us in using the technology we invented...Its not like that, when you go there,they are far more driven by the needs of the Farmers and countless millions of village people who while they have TV's,computers and cell phones maybe even a motor bike...lead simple lives not much changed for hundreds of years...Do they know or care that their Nation has a new Aircraft Carrier rescued from rusting away at its moorings in Odessa,do they even know where Mars is,let alone that their Nation is building a budget rocket ship to go there...No,they are more interested in whether a good Monsoon will come this year!