What’s Wrong With Western Women

Lawrence Hunter
8 min readApr 6, 2024

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Let me start out by making a clear distinction between Passport Bros and those who are engaging in sex tourism. The former are men from various Western countries seeking love and relationships. The latter are those seeking, well, it should be obvious. Making this distinction is essential because words, thoughts, ideas, and accuracy matter. I came across another Medium story by Katie Jgln called How the ‘Passport Bros’ Movement Reveals the Ugly Truth About Western Men. Refer to my definition above concerning what precisely is a Passport Bro. In her article, Jgln claims they are a breed of men from the US and the UK who roam countries in South America, Southeast Asia, and Eastern Europe in search of ‘traditional women.’ Passport Bros roam the countryside, but for what? So, for giggles, I searched for a clearer definition. A Fox News article claims they are men seeking love, family, and loyalty. An article in NZherald, a New Zealand-based newspaper (they claim to be New Zealand’s best journalism), claims that “they are men who prefer to date foreign women in other countries.” That article even mentions that they got their definition from the Urban Dictionary. So, being quite the inquisitive scamp, I headed over to Urban Dictionary to verify the claims made by New Zealand’s best journalism. Lo and behold, Urban Dictionary’s definition states, “The Passport Bros’ are men who have chosen to seek out foreign women, typically from other countries, for relations. They believe Western women have been influenced by cultural and societal pressure to behave in a certain way, and that by seeking out foreign women, they can find a more authentic, fulfilling, and harmonious relationship.”

So, from the jump, we see deliberate misleading by JgIn and Sarah Pollock, the author of the NZHearld article. We can also determine that we will not get the correct information from them as we advance. But why? Why is there so much hate for the Passport Bros? On this point, Jgln is accurate; there are videos, journalistic articles, TikTok videos, and YouTube channels dedicated to this growing phenomenon. So the question is, why are many people (mostly ladies) so up in arms? I mean, the Bros are overweight, undesirable, leftover, dusty beta males and trash who can’t get a lady’s attention in the UK or the US, right? So why not let them go and clear out the forest so the best and brightest can shine forth? Why are there so many videos and essays bashing these men who want a loving relationship? Videos celebrating their exit I could understand. But the majority of vids are nothing more than shame, insult, and scorn for the movement.

Well, for one, I maintain that deep down, they know what they are saying is simply not true. Isn’t it evident that broke men can’t afford plane tickets, passports, visas, hotel stays, Airbnb’s, and enough food and entertainment for themselves, let alone the company of a foreign lady? The anger and venom that is spewed isn’t about taking advantage of 12-year-old girls, as Jgln hints at in her article. It’s about Western women feeling lonely, rejected, and unwanted. That’s the real deal. Remember that Passport Bros (PB) claims that Western women are undatable and, in many cases, are strong and independent and don’t need no man. So when the men respond to the ladies’ rhetoric that they aren’t needed and leave, why do the Western ladies act so hurt and angry? Western men have heard cries and bellows from ladies who claim that men are useless and toxic. Therefore, they are seeking loving and lasting relationships elsewhere. In a recent incident, a college professor had to retract and apologize for advancing an unpopular opinion to his class. He suggested that young men seek love in foreign lands because there is a lack of quality women in the California Bay area. Full transparency: I, too, think he should have kept his opinion out of the classroom.

Jgln tries to tie these types of men to sex traffickers and sex assaulters, but these tropes and shaming tactics are falling on deaf ears. Let me emphasize again that I am distinguishing between those seeking loving, lasting relationships versus those who are up to nefarious deeds. For the record, I don’t condone going after underage children or impregnating ladies and leaving them, as JgIn claims Andrew Tate has said. (A claim I cannot verify).

As I see it, there are three essential problems with the attack on the PB. First, as previously mentioned, western women feel rejected. Plain and simple, they see good, and sometimes, not-so-good men board airplanes, take their resources with them to foreign lands, and therefore feel hurt or even betrayed. But what do you expect from those who “get no attention” from ladies? With the simple exiting of an aircraft, a man who was a nobody in their home country is now a somebody. It would be foolish to stay in a country and continually get rejected by women in parking lots or constantly get swiped left on dating profiles, face nuclear rejection from face-to-face encounters, and so on. Some would suggest that these men need to make some self-improvement. To this, I will certainly agree. However, the 5'8" guy can’t do much about his height. So to the men, yes, get your weight (game) and money up; self-improvement is vital. There is no sense in engaging in escapism. If you were a jerk in America, then you would be a jerk in Eastern Europe. So yes, seek therapy, heal from a nasty divorce, and work on yourself. Do not bring your bad attitude and nasty disposition to a foreign land.

The second problem ties in with the first one: good men are leaving. There are several names to call these types of men: friend-zoned, clean-up guys, and my personal favorite, orbiters. Orbiters are those who are hanging around, just waiting for their chance for the ladies to let their guards down. They perform emotional labor and menial tasks while the ladies live life like it’s golden. These men may not be the first choices by Western women who are seeking fun in their early years instead of choosing a stable guy to settle down with. The narrative is that when the ladies have had their fun with the Chads, Tyrones, Pookies, and Ray-Rays, they will turn to the clean-up orbiters to settle down with. The good guys are labeled corny and lame (no disrespect to those who are disabled), and they lack the excitement of the bad boy. I plan to address the good guys in future posts and podcasts. Ladies, who, according to Jgln, are sexually loose and liberated, are enjoying themselves, put the educated lames and less desirable guys (think husband material) on the back burner. A YouTuber with a PhD in finance boasts about how he waited for his wife for 20 years. He honestly thinks that’s a flex! What does he think his now wife was doing in those 20 years while he sat by the door waiting for his turn like a puppy longing for their master to return home? Think of the insanity of this. Did I mention that he has a PhD? Thanks to the ability to work remotely and obtain other income streams, these non-select, corny, educated under 6-foot lames have options, and they are exercising them like a bodybuilder at Planet Fitness at peak hours. So it’s ladies like the PhD’s wife who will have no lame-o to rescue her from bad decisions when “they are ready.” And this, they cannot tolerate. I wish I could take credit for this, but there’s a TikTokker who summed this point up far better than I. The ladies are upset that their orbiters are leaving. The friend-zoned orbiters are the men who save them later in life. The ladies keep them around for a “break glass in case of emergency” situation, to walk their puppy when they take girls’ trips, and to cry on their shoulder when Pookie ghosts them. The orbiters have wised up and are in S. America, living their best lives. No more orbiters to help them move, hang flatscreen TVs, or snake their drain (the literal drain), all the while having chiseled chin Chad rearrange their….errr other things. Those days are going and almost gone, thanks to the PB Movement.

Finally, the third point to be considered: ‘Why is there no PB movement of men flocking to Western countries to marry these modern, strong, soft girl era seeking, independent boss chics who don’t need no man but want one?’ It stands to reason that there must be a vacuum or good man shortage if many men are fleeing the US and the UK. Shouldn’t lonely women be inundated by nothing less than the best of the best from their own countries and foreign men boarding planes in droves? Where are the Asian, Middle Eastern, South American, and African middle and upper-middle-class men waiving their passports and seeking strong and independent women? Where are the men flying first class to get rejected for Cheesecake Factory, non-coffee dates, and boring walks in the park? Where are the leaders, protectors, and providers who have all the sixes (6-foot, 6-pack abs, and 6-figure incomes) boarding aircraft in hordes to get here and rescue ladies from the burden of going 50/50? Where are the men packing freight liners to come to America to pay for Western women’s nails, cat glasses, and pink hair treatments? If you’re unfamiliar with it, going 50/50 is a concept that, in a relationship, a man must be willing to foot 100% of all date expenses and monthly bills. Sometimes, the expectation is that men should pay a lady’s bills before a relationship starts. It is unacceptable for a woman to foot any bill. His money is her money, and her boss chic money is her money, and it is to be used for spa days, hair treatments, and girls’ trips, not bills. Splitting the bills is unacceptable to some ladies; they would rather pay 100% of their bills than split them 50/50, 60/40, or whatever. After all, they can do bad all by themselves. Make it make sense.

Jgln and others leave out of their analysis what the men get from these ladies. Of course, the spinners like to paint the picture that the PB are taking advantage of vulnerable ladies who will do anything to survive. The PB are those seeking a more traditional woman who believes in *gasp* gender roles (the boogeyman of the modern era). By the way, some modern Gen Zers have surveyed the landscape of modern feminism and said, ‘Nah, we’re good.’ Many are now scrapping the angry boss chic and seeking for Trad wives. Jgln’s Medium article sought to shame men for being toxic and wanting traditional values. Does it say something when the men you grew up with are fleeing back to traditional values and the men with traditional values in other countries stay put? Does that resonate at all? No, I didn’t think so, but it was worth asking. Jgln’s article discussed what’s wrong with Western men; the real question is, what’s wrong with Western women?

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Lawrence Hunter

Adjunct Professor, Life coach, father, concerned citizen, retired police officer.