now i kind of suspect it is the women who make men become manginas.
To be more precise, it is the
mothers, especially
East Asian (or at least/especially
Chinese) mothers:
wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_mother
("
Tiger mother (traditional Chinese: 虎媽; simplified Chinese: 虎妈; pinyin: hǔmā; Wade–Giles: hu³ma¹) is a term which refers to a strict or demanding mother who pushes her children to be successful academically by attaining high levels of scholastic and academic achievement, using methods regarded as typical of childrearing in East Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia to the detriment of the child's social, physical, psychological and emotional well-being.")
Men do
not suddenly become "manginas"
the moment they start adulthood.
If they are "manginas" at the start of their adult lives (especially until they reach middle age, or even old age, before they
realize the
hard truth that they are "manginas"), it is most probably (and I'm tempted to say "100% simply") because they were brought up by
feminist mothers (and usually
"mangina" fathers at the same time). :(
From even before they start puberty, they
grow up in an environment where they are
pressured (especially by their "mangina" fathers) to
fear their feminist mothers and also their
grandmothers (who are, more importantly,
female adults); so by the time these boys become adults and start to interact with
women outside their family, they (the "manginas") only know how to behave
submissively towards women. :(
I was such a "mangina" before, but because of my interest in watching
non-Sinkie movies since my teens, I
gradually discovered other
non-Sinkie non-"mangina" cultures outside Singapore and their
non-"mangina"
men and
submissive women, especially
Japanese women:
wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamato_nadeshiko
And eventually, by my late 20s (after a roughly ten-year process that started when I was in my late teens during NS), I dare say that not only am I
no longer a "mangina", it's even quite
difficult for me to
become one again!