Joanna Henderson
7 min readJan 22, 2024

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You don’t need to be “woke” or whatever the modern term for that is, to know what white privilege is and how it works. Lack of education on this matter is one thing, but denying its existence is much worse. Especially when we talk about passport bros, who mostly move to non-white countries and get special treatment partially because of being white. But even non-white passport bros still opt to visit less fortunate and poorer places, because if they were to go to equally financially well-off country, they wouldn’t get much attention from women. Why don’t passport bros usually go to Sweden, Switzerland, Australia and other developed countries to get away from women who supposedly treated them so horribly? Why do they visit second and third world countries where their salaries (or earning potential) make them the 10% earners, if not 1% earners? Even without the white privilege, the fact of the matter is: these “men” cannot attract partners being regular (as in average) men back home, which is why they have to resort to going somewhere less fortunate, where they look better compared to the rest of the local men. The irony is, any hypothetical passport bro only gets attention from women from those countries because those same women turned down and overlooked the local men, who are exactly the same as the passport bro is back home. All the supposedly awful women who wouldn’t look at the passport bro in his home country aren’t different from the women who chose them at the new place, with the only difference being the pro had to travel to a much worse country (economy- and fortune-wise; those countries can otherwise be great) to get attention for the same type of women who turned them down back home.

This, of course, has nothing to do with normal, decent people (men or women) who were travelling and simply met someone & fell in love. It’s the intention and attitude that matters. Also, the character. Your comments regarding rape alone is an indicator of you being a horrendous person whom no woman should be with. But since I don’t enjoy insulting people, let’s pretend we’re taking about a hypothetical person, not you.

“You gloss over false rape claims” - I literally said those people should pay for their lies and do time in prison. Don’t lie about what I said, please and thank you.

“80% of reported r's are from women but if everyone did report them the numbers would moe closer to even” - lol, what? Math isn’t mathing here.

“Claiming that every person you know has been assaulted is concerning, the stats show that around 0.00006% of women in the US have been a victim annually, so the number is actually much lower” - not just assaulted but harassed too. Your comment shows you either haven’t been around women a lot, never bothered to ask them or study the topic, or simply women never trusted you to share this. Also, I’m not sure what resources you use for research, or if you simply come up with these numbers in your head; but if you Google this, you’ll learn that 30% of women worldwide experienced sexual violence in their lifetime. For Canada it’s giving me 44% as I search this. Those are examples of the official reported numbers. The unofficial are higher, plus sexual harassment isn’t as bad as sexual assaults. But even the most recent trend called “the 97 percent” that refers to 97% of women who have been sexually assaulted at least once in their lives, speak for themselves. It’s not just “concerning” as you put it; it’s the reality.

Like I said, I’ve been assaulted several times and harassed dozens of times (the most recent one being 1.5 weeks ago in case you’re wondering). And yet, for some reason I don’t call all men rapists, tell women to never date men or push out the narrative about men being horrible humans. For some unthinkable, truly shocking to people like you reason, I encourage the awareness about the damage of toxic masculinity towards men, discussions about men also being victims of sexual assaults, and fully support the idea of dating men and creating families with them. With the good men that is. Shocker, eh? Unlike you who instead of taking the reality, meaning that nearly every woman will be sexually assaulted at least once in her lifetime, refer to 4% of rapes being misreported, and using that as one of the reasons you got fed up with Western women. Again, the problem with passport bros isn’t the fact they find partners overseas. It’s the fact that they possess horrible characters and are terrible people whom no woman should ever come close to. Oh, and the worse part is, sexual assaults and rapes are much worse in second- and third-world countries where the bros travel to. Meaning, those same women they end up with, the women who turned down regular guys just like the bros were back home in their favour, usually have experience even worse experiences with sexual harassment and assaults, because legislation often isn’t as good and public shaming is much worse. Ah, the sweet irony. I genuinely feel bad for women who choose passport bros as partners as there is a very good reason no normal woman wants the bro back home. But hey, that’s their choice.

Buddy, gym shaming is a weird trend with influencers who barely exist in real life. I have never seen an influencer at a gym in real life. And no, a random girl filming herself at a gym is most likely not an influencer or a shamed. I don’t agree with the idea of a woman wearing barely anything to the gym and then complain about men looking at her. Having said that, how your life experiences are related to this? “We as men take this seriously” - sorry, how often do you get filmed at a gym by a woman? Please let me know. Because this odd trend almost never happens to regular people and you’ve got to live at a gym to ever encounter someone to accidentally film you, and even then almost no one who does is an influencer.

Hon, $50 for a dinner is not a “resource”. I easily pay for my friends’ dinner when we go out. If a man doesn’t have the resources, as you called it, I can help him out financially and pay for his part of dinner himself. It’s not because I’m rich but simply because I’m not a cheap person who sees buying a few appetizers as a big deal. You invite someone out, you get their company and it’s usually a polite thing to pay if you’re the one who initiated the meet-up. If you don’t want to do that, then don’t invite people out. It’s that simple. But wait! I bet if the girl agrees to see you for a few more dates and then agrees to sleep with you, there’s no problem with her “having the right” to “access your resources”, eh? The problem isn’t paying for someone’s dinner but the fact that they didn’t like your personality enough to see you again?

“You claim my being fed up with false accusations is horrendous, why? Why is not wanting men to suffer so bad?” - these so-called-men aren’t suffering. They are getting the consequences of their actions and most importantly, the consequences of the personalities they chose to possess. A man who dismisses a group of women, almost each of whom has been or will become a sexual assault victim at least once, and talks about men being victims of false reporting that represents only 4% of all reports (and again, should add in prison time) is an example of someone with a terrible personality who doesn’t deserve to be with a woman. A man who complains about women who didn’t want to see them for a second date and says women just want free meals, also doesn’t deserve to be with a woman. Similarly, if a woman were to possess such awful character, she shouldn’t have a partner either. But hey, there are a lot of people who are in relationships despite being awful human beings. It doesn’t affect me personally because I turn down men like that. And if I ever discover I’m someone who has such a personality, I’m leaving them asap. But it’s still an important topic to discuss.

“You lastly try to call me out 'Just like you' to try and shame me for my choices” - I’m not shaming you for your choices, you can make any choices you want. I’m just saying you’re not a good person, and I’m not surprised women noticed that. But again, such guys can always travel elsewhere and be with a woman who turned down a regular guy like yourself in favour of a much better, 1 to 10% foreigner who is at the top of the pecking order simply because he’s a foreigner. I’m not a representation of such a woman as I gladly date regular guys, don’t care about superficial stuff like height, muscles or whatever the passport bros convince themselves women want, money and etc. I’m a personality digger, if you will. Which is exactly why I turn down men with personality like the one you described. I’ll also gladly be single and happy instead of with someone like that. So, the passport bros can keep bro-ing. I’ve got opinions though.

All passport bros have to do not to “suffer” is being good human beings. They aren’t. This is an example of a logical outcome.

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Joanna Henderson
Joanna Henderson

Written by Joanna Henderson

Canadian. Mental health activist. Banker and financier who drinks too much coffee. Pursuing happiness and sharing my thoughts with others.

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