The Disappearing Model Trick - FEATURE - MOSNEWS.COM

Gracias a Carmen Gray finalmente puedo poner esta duda en el cajón de los resueltos. Por qué no hay mujeres rusas en la media?. Por qué sólo hay o modelos o matronas?






There is a popular opinion that Russia has most beautiful girls: slender, well-groomed, with just the right amount of that mysterious soul mixed in. They run across icy January sidewalks wearing high heels with alarming dexterity and barely perspire in their fur coats on the metro. Beauty requires sacrifice, as they say. The pickiest critics claim that true beauties don’t take public transportation any more, but the general consensus holds that Moscow’s metro scores higher on the babe-o-meter than any other metro in the world.

One goal of this article is to try to explain a puzzle that male expats and visitors to Russia have been trying to unravel for themselves. What happens to all the babes later in life? What happens to the supermodels on the metro? Do they all emigrate upon reaching the age of thirty? Why are most middle-aged women in Russia squat and bitter, resembling Madeleine Albright rather than Sophie Loren?

This is one mystery that is definitely wrapped inside of an enigma. Evil tongues declare that all the beauties are promptly exported abroad as mail-order brides, but I am skeptical, since older Russian women vastly outnumber older Russian men. So, there are two possible explanations: either bitter overweight women are secretly introduced into Russian society by extraterrestrials, or Russian girls eventually mutate into plump ladies on their own. Since this is twenty-first century, and we are not frivolous x-file theorists here, the only true option is the first one. So, let’s approach the dilemma with a serious attitude.



The Disappearing Model Trick - FEATURE - MOSNEWS.COM

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