Why is Quark so attracted to non-Ferengi women?

[kkt]

It's best not to think too hard about traditional Ferengi gender roles. Females are supposed to be naked, submissive, uneducated, and isolated. But how could they be effective parents under those conditions?

I think they're not supposed to spend that much time educating the boy children after they get past preschool. Teach them the Rules of Acquisition, then the boys go to school to learn accounting and then to an apprenticeship. The mothers can teach the girls about cooking, cleaning, and domestic arts.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

It's best not to think too hard about traditional Ferengi gender roles. Females are supposed to be naked, submissive, uneducated, and isolated. But how could they be effective parents under those conditions?

The same way human women were before the 1960s.

 

[Oddish]

I seem to have missed the memo about them scampering about in their birthday suits.

 

[STEPhon IT]

Grilka was such an interesting character, and the chemistry was very good, I can't see any viewer not accepting the heartfelt relationship Quark had with her. For me, it felt right and welcomed her return to the station.

 

[Oddish]

Probably good that it didn't last, though. Quark might eventually have wound up in bite-sized chunks.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I seem to have missed the memo about them scampering about in their birthday suits.

Pretty much everything but that and the chewing food part.

The way Ferengi women are only a mild exaggeration of how women were treated for most of human history.

 

[Sci]

It's best not to think too hard about traditional Ferengi gender roles. Females are supposed to be naked, submissive, uneducated, and isolated. But how could they be effective parents under those conditions?

They couldn't. And if Ferengi society were being depicted realistically, it would have been far, far more violent and sexually violating than any real society has ever been precisely because of how Ferengi women are supposed to be treated.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

They couldn't. And if Ferengi society were being depicted realistically, it would have been far, far more violent and sexually violating than any real society has ever been precisely because of how Ferengi women are supposed to be treated.

And (in "The Jem'Hadar") Quark has the gall to lecture Sisko about Ferengi supposedly never practicing slavery...

 

[Coops]

Quark goes where the love is, love see's no colour nor ear shape, we should all follow his example

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

The same reason Kirk, Riker, Bashir, Paris and Trip were frequently attracted to alien women.

 

[Orphalesion]

And (in "The Jem'Hadar") Quark has the gall to lecture Sisko about Ferengi supposedly never practicing slavery...

That was some of the worst, silliest and most ham-fisted dialogue in DS9.

 

[Lynx]

I'm on a DS9 rewatch, and it's strange how Quark seems so attracted to Human (the women from "If only wishes were horses" / Trill (Jadzia Dax - maybe Ezri as well? Not there yet, don't remember) / Bajoran (Kira Nerys and his dabo girls) / Klingon (his wife) / Cardassian (Natima Lang) / Boslic (the purple-haired smuggler) women.
It also seems to extend to other Ferengi, as Rom and Nog seemed quite taken with the woman from Little Green Men.
Yet, none of them shows attraction to Ferengi women (Zek does, to Ishka).

I can understand a Human being attracted to a Vulcan (Sarek's wives, Charles Tucker III), given the small differences in appearance. Same for all possible combinations of the races above, they don't look that different from each other.
But Ferengi do look very different from those races. To me, it seems as alien as a Human being that is attracted to sentient Kangaroo-people, and never showing any interest in other Humans.

Of course, the Doylian explanation is that the episodes were written by Humans, and mostly Human males... but can we think of a Watsonian explanation?

I just guess that he has good taste!

 

[Oddish]

Just a reminder... we saw only two Ferengi women in all of the series.

One was Pel, and Quark WAS attracted to her once he knew she was female.

The other was Ishka. His mom. Quark's not a sicko.

If Quark is going to play the "horny little troll" character, non-Ferengi females are what's available.

 

[worf1965]

Could it be that we always want what we can't have?