I jokingly say she's one of the reasons one of my degrees was Spanish. Anyway, I've seen a lot of these sites, and I joined - out of fun - a listserv (remember those) in the late 1990s dedicated to men finding Latin women, and oh, my, gawd... I've never seen such bitter men. Bitter about American women. Bitter about American society ruining Hispanic/Latina women. Bitter that younger women would prefer to date men around their own age for the most part. Disrespectful of women in their age group. Bitter, bitter, bitter.
Hardly any of them spoke Spanish. 99% of them didn't care about the culture and how differences between theirs and the USA might be something they should be concerned about. They just saw attractive, hopefully submissive, women. There were a couple of men already married to Latinas whose wives were also part of the group, who I considered success stories (they didn't go through those agencies), and the advice that both the men and women gave were normally shot down because it wasn't what the bitter ones wanted to hear (especially if the members of the couple were close to the same age). It was literally a train wreck that you couldn't look away from. Being the young mid-20s whippersnapper that I was back then, I halfway trolled it and halfway argued my position on relationships and talked about the culture.
The most fun was when a female friend of mine, who was a travel agent (and had knowledge and experience with the kind of tours talked about) joined, pretending to be a lesbian looking for her special Latina lover. It was an interesting experiment to see who would be supportive and who wouldn't. As you can imagine, the bitter ones hated her... Especially after about half a year, when she found someone in Oaxaca, Mexico (a place I'm familiar with and thus could help her with her stories) and traveled there to meet her during the Guelaguetza Festival. Oh, man... Bitter old men hate it when a "lesbian" lucks out so quickly.
I eventually found other train wrecks that attracted my attention (W's presidency) and lost interest, but it was a fascinating experience.
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