Gabriela is jealous that they don’t get these women for themselves and are especially angry and bitter when these women marry a nice American man who truly loves and cherishes them as is the norm in 99.99999 % of the cases.

Why should Filipinas marry a drunken abusive local man who cheats on them and treats them like crap when they can have a decent life in America? They are not as stupid as Gabriela makes them out to be and they sure as Hell don’t need to be “protected” by the lesbian feminist group Gabriela.

These are mature adult women, I don’t see why they need government regulated babysitters.

Would you also wage a campaign to eradicate newspaper personals advertising? Dating services? Chat rooms? And what about all of the Filipinas who meet men through agencies like Match.com as well as services like Facebook, MySpace and other similar services? Should these be banned also?

At some point you have to accept that people of adult age have free-will and freedom of choice. If a woman from the Philippines wants to marry a man from Japan, Australia or the U.S.A it is her right. You can’t control who people fall in love with and marry. That, to me, is a dictatorship.

I am happily married to a Filipina whom I met through Cherry Blossoms 16 years ago. We have two beautiful children, own property in the Philippines and visit our family over there every four years. My wife is a program coordinator at a local daycare facility and is working on her Masters in early childhood eduction. I am a successful senior programmer for a government contracting agency. If you want to paint me as a sexually frustrated, narcissistic loser who had to “buy” a wife from the Philippines, go ahead and do so. But your slanderous campaign is doing a lot of harm to innocent, law-abiding and upstanding people.

Please take into consideration that not all of us fit into your little stereotype.

It’s not my fault that an American husband is looked upon as a ‘good catch’ by most Filipinas. That’s an issues within your culture.

The rate of adultery, spousal abuse and abandonment I saw in the Philippines dwarfs what you see in the U.S. I’m Catholic and volunteered in the local parish charity group. The number of abandoned Filipinas was huge. The number of Filipinas whose husbands had mistresses was large as well.

You can put lipstick on a pig, which is what you’re trying to do. But it’s still a pig.

It starts at home there in the PI changing, not internet dating services, but the things that drive young filipina women to them.

Actually rashidelg I’m married to an American Southern girl with an MBA. Sorta struck out on that one.

I did spend three years in PI while in the military. I saw a lot of American Marines, sailors and airmen marry Filipina women (who usually threw themselves at them).

It’s not a cliche that Filipino men cheat on their wives. It’s not a cliche that the best ones go overseas to work and earn while the lazy and less ambitious ones stay in PI. It’s not a cliche that American men treat their women better (and I mean American Filipino men as well).

More often than not the above is true. You may be angry at that and you may be bitter about it, but don’t attack the messenger, rather try and change your own society by lifting itself out of its economic hole, holding your males to a standard of behavior and improve your own morality by stopping the lines of 18 year old pretty girls waiting to become strippers all over PI.

The truth hurts, but again don’t attack the messenger.

FilipinaImages.com does not espouse violence or illegal means to attain its objectives.

for those who are curious check out http://www.goodwife.com. they are a “proud” mail order bride site. personally, reading their stuff turns my stomach.

for those who don’t understand the “selling” part jargon of the campaign, it is a metaphor of the underlying “commodification” of women.

if you still have questions, do a google on the chain of words: “mail order bride filipina”. it should yield more answers.

and btw, whoever says that western men treat women better than filipino men treat women, that’s a crock of gobbledeegoo… excuse me, that is a stereotype.

MAYBE I’m naive…but I’m ignorant of where these girls are “sold” to foreigners. Are you referring to penpal sites such as FH? It seems like two adults fully aware of the decision they are making to me. Both parties get something out of it. Sometimes there is sincere love, sometimes less sincere.

I hate abuse as much as anyone, but is there real stats to show these women (speaking only for the US) are abused more than the general population? Some guys are abusive jerks, some aren’t. Many Filipina wives are treated pretty nicely. Only those two involved know the level of sincerity in their love. If it’s sincere, how can anyone else judge how they met?

I can fully understand why you’d want these sites not to be the first things that come up for “Filipina” in google. That alone won’t erase the problem though, you need to address the poverty that makes this path so desirable for many.

For those who found real love, don’t worry about what anyone else thinks.

“Thousands of Filipinas are sold overseas through/by Mail-Order-Bride syndicates. We helped curb this activity through an awareness campaign – for victims to speak up so that activities of people operating to traffic Filipinas can be checked and mini…