Heard yet another anti-French tirade earlier today, so here I am. I’ve never understood it, really. I was thinkingof creating this thread and was trying to remember a woman I had conversed with who hated the French. I can’t recall a single one. Plenty of men, though, American men, anyway.
I’ve been with (sexually) several French men and American men of predominantly French heritage, and one thing they all have in common is a gargantuan, satisfying penis. (seriously) I’ve wondered for a long time if American men hating the French stems from a sexual inferiority complex.
Of course, I could be wrong.
So I’m curious, are there as many female French-haters as there are male French-haters? How do you feel about the French, as a female?
Hmm… but how would they know? Surely such hatred would be based on what men think French men are like, rather than actuallity. And isn’t the stereotype romance if anything, rather than penis size - though that might be where it comes from.
And you also have to consider if your sample is meaningful. For instance, perhaps you just exceptionally attractive to frenchmen for some reason
I’ve never “been with” a Frenchman, so I don’t know about that part. Regarding other matters:
French food is wonderful and many aspects of the French culture and society are admirable.
As political “friends,” I think the country and its politicians are double-dealing and untrustworthy. I won’t go into all the reasons since I don’t want to get into a political debate.
I have been to Paris exactly once and got there via Air France. As long as nothing’s going wrong, they were lovely people. But if something is amiss, I found there to be absolutely no concept of customer service. I found A.F. personnel to be unreliable and duplicitous. I will never fly with them again. Ditto with their travel agents. Their phone system was an abomination.
Some day I will be happy to travel in France again, but that time has not yet arrived. Did I mention that their restaurants are beyond compare? Oh, yeah, I think I did. Nice art museums, too. And gardens.
I’m a big fan of the kissing!
Sorry, had to. I’ve no issue with the French, or any other industrialized nation that just happens to disagree with our foriegn policy for their own reasons. I’ve never been particularly interested in visiting there, so nothing’s changed for me.
I didn’t like the French when I was working in a shop in Greenwich Village. Because they were the most demanding customers and the number of them who said that we should bend our normal policies for them because “But I am French!” was unbelievable. I’ve never heard people of any other nationality try to use their nationality in that way.
But apart from that I’ve never had a problem with them. I still don’t like Paris, though.
I have it on good authority (multiple cites available on request) that French lesbians absolutely detest French men. With all the menfolk hung like horses, it has the effect of suppressing the bi urges of all those gorgeous Sophie Marceau lookalikes.
My family on my father’s side hails from Normandy. Notwithstanding this, I’m big enough (or not, as the case may be) to accept that for the purposes of this research study Normandy (as well, perhaps as Brittany) should be excepted from the French heartland.
I have only met one frenchman, it was a guy I worked with many years ago. The one thing that stands out in my mind after all these years was the man’s body order. I don’t think he showered every day and in Texas during the summer, it’s a must thing to do.
I don’t hate the french. I mean what did they ever do to me personally?
I’ve never been intimately involved with a French guy, so I have no basis for comparison in that department. I do have some old and very wonderful French friends, one of whom was an exchange student at my high school and with whom I’ve kept in touch all these years. His wife, whom I met during their engagement 10 years ago, and his entire family, are all equally lovely, and have hosted me during 3 trips to France so far, and have always been most hospitable – I hope I get to return the gesture one of these days!
I’ve never had a problem with a French person, with the exception of the guy at the information booth at the Gare d’Austerlitz when I was 19, lost, and couldn’t figure out stupid French pay phones. Funny how the guy whose job it was to help travelers couldn’t understand my basic but quite functional French, which nobody else had a problem understanding.
Maybe it’s time to go back to France and do a more comprehensive and in-depth study.
(seriously) I’ve wondered for a long time if American men hating the French stems from a sexual inferiority complex.
