A few months back I posted a note on my observation that there are lots of Asian women who sit for hours doing nothing but waiting while their male partners play poker. Why this practice is so heavily skewed demographically towards Asians remains a mystery to me.
Anyway, I was amused by seeing the above-pictured two men, who did not appear to know each other, sitting in adjacent seats at the Excalibur last night, each accompanied by a bored-looking female partner, sitting slightly behind, doing nothing--not reading, not interacting meaningfully with their menfolk, not watching TV, not paying attention to the poker game. Just sitting.
I want to ask these women, "Why are you here? Are you actually enjoying this? Don't you have anything else you'd rather be doing?" But I don't, of course. I just wonder.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Sitting and waiting--part 2
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A friend of mine married a Chineses/Vietnamese woman a few years back. Most of the wedding invitations from her Vietnamese family game back as, "[Husband's first name] and Ma." Ma means wife in Vietnamese. The bride and groom would then get in touch with the invitees and ask for the wife's name. Most of the husbands refused to give it, saying "just put down Ma on the card, we'll know it's us." Not realizing there were 3 or 4 other couples with the SAME name and "Ma." The husband just didn't understand why their wife's name was important, and the wives didn't seem to have much of a say in the matter.
Point being - it's a totally different mindset than we're used to. A lot of these girls/women are used to just tagging along as an accessory.
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