Cultures that lean heavily on misogyny tend to be those where men have lost standing in the global marketplace. That’s why, given the opportunity, men from certain Eastern European and Asian societies are often willing to explore options beyond their borders. It’s also why these cultures rely on arranged marriages or community-enforced pairings—they need ideological justifications to divert people away from the sexual marketplace, which is, in essence, a free market.
When a country is kept poor, its citizens remain trapped lower on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. In that state, men seek to exploit the arbitrage created by massive global income disparities.
This is precisely why prosperity in the West is so compelling—because prosperity creates optionality. And once optionality exists, the Pareto principle kicks in, eliminating most men from contention in both economic and romantic marketplaces.
Many in the West romanticize traditional societies in the East as somehow "based" or ideologically aligned, but this is often a red herring. These men are not especially virtuous, nor are they necessarily right-wing. In fact, some are the worst kind of men—enabled by patriarchal structures but utterly detached from modern ideological frameworks.
Take, for example, the Western right-wing fantasy that allies itself with conservative Asian societies. It’s absurd. These groups have nothing in common. A Chinese programmer in a third-tier city building fantasy video games does not share meaningful cultural or political overlap with Western nationalist media consumers. They wouldn’t even hang out, and that tells you everything. In a Western context, that programmer might be in Silicon Valley, aligned more with progressive tech culture and liberal narratives like "Stop Asian Hate" than any so-called “based” resistance.
This highlights just how disoriented the East can be within the global marketplace of ideas. Consider how popular Trump once was among Vietnamese communities—both in Vietnam and abroad. That support has faded, and it raises the question: did they ever truly understand what they were aligning with?
No special interest group ever truly protected Vietnamese interests—beyond multinational corporations seeking cheap labor. Those are the true power players, not President Lam or whoever is momentarily in office. Western right-wing media constructed an alternate reality, looking to the East and communist regimes as models of traditionalism—thinking, “This is the way.” But that notion is laughable.
The East has never been the way. The West's strength lies in its real women—independent, self-directed, and emblematic of the optionality that prosperity provides.
They are the West’s guiding light.
The American woman is Lady Liberty with her torch. In Silicon Valley I've never seen her. But In Asia I've seen some of Silicon Valley woman's missing attributes.