# My GF is a commie **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 15, 2011, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-gf-is-a-commie/599743 "2011-10-15T15:14:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2011, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-gf-is-a-commie/599743/41 "2011-10-16T17:57:19Z")
A twenty-one year old woman in small-city China is generally going to be much less mature than an American woman of similar age. Most of my students that age were on their first (and probably only) boyfriends, had never had more than a few sips of beer, had never travelled on their own, had never held a job, would only go downtown (a ten minute bus ride) maybe once a month in a group (it’s too dangerous, they say), spent most of their weekends with their parents and generally just didn’t have a lot of the life experiences that aid us in developing critical thinking. Colleges in China have lights out at 10:00. Hell, I’d been to colleges that didn’t allow undergrads to leave campus. It’s often (but of course not always) a pretty sheltered existence. If you date a naive woman, you have to deal with a lot of dumb stuff coming out of her mouth. The flipside if sweet and innocent is clueless and facile. Unless she really isn’t all that smart, she’ll grow up a bit eventually, but by then she’ll probably be a “crazy” 25 year old. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2011, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-gf-is-a-commie/599743/42 "2011-10-16T19:24:33Z")
> [@rachelellogram](#): > > Okay, the comment that she was a dumbass may or may not apply–I don’t know the girl. But of all the adults I’ve met who are still 100% indoctrinated with the bullshit they were fed in childhood (patriotism, religion, ideas like “abstinence-only sex education is good”), the one thing they’ve had in common is intellectual incuriosity. That probably doesn’t apply in societies where intellectual curiousity is a crime. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2011, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-gf-is-a-commie/599743/43 "2011-10-16T19:42:29Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > That probably doesn’t apply in societies where intellectual curiousity is a crime. Are you saying intellectual curiousity in China is a crime? If it is, what is that based on? Or just a stereotype you picked up but never looked beyond news headlines to understand? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2011, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-gf-is-a-commie/599743/44 "2011-10-16T22:01:30Z")
You can always try the \*Ninotchka \*method: is there any way you can get her to Paris, make her laugh by falling off a chair, buy her a funny hat and have her wear Ina Claire’s jewelry? Well, it worked on Garbo . . . ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2011, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-gf-is-a-commie/599743/45 "2011-10-16T22:09:03Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > Oh come one, everyone, why so coy? > > How is she in bed? I hear Commie girls are crazy in bed. > > Or is that just Commie girls in the West? Is it in China where the Austrian Economics girls are crazy in bed? If The Beatles are to be believed the OP don’t know how lucky he is, boy. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2011, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-gf-is-a-commie/599743/46 "2011-10-17T01:21:28Z")
> [@China\_Guy](#): > > Are you saying intellectual curiousity in China is a crime? If it is, what is that based on? Or just a stereotype you picked up but never looked beyond news headlines to understand? No I am not. That was a sweeping statement, and I didn’t specify China. I’m just saying that in some societies the result of intellectual curiosity will be dissatisfaction, and a temptation to behave in a way that will be punished. You can tell me the conditions that exist in modern China. ---
**Author:** ![code\_grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@code\_grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/code_grey)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2011, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-gf-is-a-commie/599743/47 "2011-10-17T01:35:37Z")
Screw the commie, man 😉 ---
**Author:** ![raskolnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e47c2d/32.png) [@raskolnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raskolnik)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2011, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-gf-is-a-commie/599743/48 "2011-10-17T11:26:34Z")
I did. I studied international relations with her for several hours. ---
**Author:** ![kenner116](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@kenner116](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenner116)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2011, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-gf-is-a-commie/599743/49 "2011-10-17T12:04:29Z")
OK, I’m just going to throw some random questions at you. What is her opinion of black people? Where did you meet? Random QQ message? School? I’m assuming you’re an English teacher. Does she have you take lots of photos of her next to flowers and trees? This seems to be very popular in China. Where do find larger condoms in small-town Heilongjiang? From home? Taobao? That’s all for now. Enjoy the upcoming winter! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2011, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-gf-is-a-commie/599743/50 "2011-10-17T16:41:54Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > I see you have not met elucidator. Apparently, neither have you. The modern lefty has very little regard for classical Marxism, more like a droll nostalgia for a bygone era. Like modern psychiatry has outgrown Freud, modern lefties have long since gotten over Uncle Karl. You need to get out more. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2011, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-gf-is-a-commie/599743/51 "2011-10-17T17:44:10Z")
> [@even\_sven](#): > > Get a VPN, dude. Yes, Internet in China is restricted. Foreigners can get around that pretty easily. Chinese people can, too, but most people rarely feel the need to. [Earlier thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=431995) on this topic, which I mention because there’s a cute picture of one of my cats involved. ---
**Author:** ![Namkcalb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@Namkcalb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Namkcalb)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2011, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-gf-is-a-commie/599743/52 "2011-10-18T00:24:12Z")
> [@kenner116](#): > > What is her opinion of black people? I’m guessing you are black > [@](#): > > Where do find larger condoms in small-town Heilongjiang? From home? Taobao? Now I know you are black [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-gf-is-a-commie/599743.md?page=2)