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A young woman is applying makeup in the street, while another is chatting casually in this file 2009 photo taken in Kyiv. (UNIAN) Georg Nurakhmetov writes: I read a story in the Kyiv Post recently about modern women and their chasing of foreign men and not only foreign.

I am living in Holland now. I think my distant opinion might be interesting for a whole generation of huntresses.

I have always liked to say that if women could think like men even five percent of the time, they would never have trouble with men. But while visiting Ukraine, I noticed awhile ago that a whole army has formed of vulgar damsels with Louis Vuitton bags. They carry those bags on their shoulders like Kalashnikov machine guns, showing off their belly buttons as if to prove they are no Eves.

Unfortunately, designers forget to inscribe on these bags that satiation and happiness are completely different things. As a result, these girls fall victims to the dominating stereotypes. They also suffer from the absence of the right words coming from their mothers when they were needed. The result is tragic.

The minds of young Ukrainian women have been mutilated in the last 19 years. Do you remember the once popular joke: “If all girls are princesses, why are there no queens among wives?”

There are no queens among wives because all these spoiled princesses think about is money. But real queens don’t think about it; they don’t need to. Anyone is happy to give her everything they own because she is a real queen!

There are two questions she can ask that make men see a true wife in a woman. These are: “Are you tired?” and “What do you like to eat?”

But more often what we see is a herd of girls with unwashed hair who think they are the height of Almighty’s creation. They have empty eyes, overrated self-esteem and vulgar table manners. They read nothing but glossy magazines. They know nothing of literature and poetry. They have makeup like in an African tribe. And they have a poor vocabulary.

But the main thing they have is arrogance, a sick aspiration to grimace, lie and play silly roles! Don’t get me wrong: I am not a woman hater. I really love women. But what is happening to them makes me think.

They say that our turbulent times are to blame for everything, but I disagree. Times are always rough. Youth, unruly desires, impudence and craving to take more and give less. None of these are new. It has happened in all times.

But if the government is a collective face of the people, then women are the indicators of the society’s spiritual health. I would say that Ukraine’s health is in a very bad state.

There is a famous sophism: Everyone wants to go to paradise, but nobody wants to die. This is exactly the same formula I have seen in Ukraine.

All my friends coming from Europe repeat the mantra that they have never seen more beautiful women than in Ukraine, anywhere. But their pressure – “Give! Buy! I want it!” – shocks and alerts the men.

What they don’t understand is that no woman in the world has become a happier mother or wife by driving an expensive car! We all get a chance to leave a mark in this world. Let’s just hope that Ukraine’s modern women will leave an alley of roses planted by queens rather than empty bottles and piles of rusty metal from crashed cars.

Georg Nurakhmetov is a Ukrainian businessman living in Holland.