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July 4, 2004

INTERNATIONAL MARRIAGE BROKER REGULATION ACT good first step in limiting

American mens' access to non-feminist foreign women.

(PRWEB) July 4, 2004 -- The International Marriage Broker Regulation Act

goes beyond protecting foreign women: it reinforces the Western gender

equality paradigm and facilitates the passage of similar future laws. We

support the strategy of using "womens' protection" to gain bipartisan

support for a law partially intent on eliminating foreign matchmaking

websites. These websites promulgate the "message" that American men are

highly desirable outside the U.S. and can have access to women not intent on

upholding over 30 years of hard won womens' rights. We also support the

strategy of placing "warning labels" on American men as this will decrease

demand for them among foreign women over time.

Although this law is long overdue (and hopefully not too late), we welcome

the Marriage Broker Regulation Act of 2003 as a means to regulating the

often arrogant and brazen international marriage broker industry. This

industry has gone from the fringe to the mainstream. The American male

population is now overly exposed to the message that it is acceptable to

desire and actually marry women "unspoiled" by American materialism and most

troubling, "uninfected" by American feminism. This message may impede the

progress of feminism here at home and give American men the idea that it is

acceptable to not respect feminist principles that took so long to instill

upon them.

Although marriage to foreign women may alleviate the current marriage strike

to allow the IMB industry to continue "business as usual."

Certainly, the existence of this industry is indicative of the sad state of

romantic relationships between men and women in North America; however, it

by no means should be allowed to continue unregulated. Sites such as

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