A term "mail order Russian brides" is really prejudiced and often misinterpreted. Nobody mail any brides and online dating is just as serious issue as any dating. Mail order Russian brides sounds like easy way to get a bride, just order and ship her...which is totally wrong.
Russian women for marriage became so popular that "mail order" was a funny way to remember and describe, but it does sound inappropriate. Russian women brides go through the same online dating as any long distance dating in any country or between countries.
There is nothing wrong with online dating or Russian women, men would have to take their time to get to know a Russian woman through email conversations, phone calls, sent photos and videos of each other.
People are prejudiced no matter what. It doesn't matter if you met your spouse and someone described it even as simply as "online dating" people would be prejudiced even to that. Certain people have certain fears and you can't please everybody with who you are and what you do.
People reject each other for silly reasons but sometimes they get attracted to someone for no reason either.
Sometimes it really doesn't matter if someone likes you or if someone rejects or if someone loves you or if someone is attracted to you, only matters the result that you want to get.
For example, Tom Leykis is aware that he has more success with women when he is rich and famous and it doesn't bother him at all, that women want him for his success, he openly admits that it still makes him happy.
This is why so many people are confused whether they are really loved or not, but if you do get the result and attention that you truly want, then you still can be happy.
So, it doesn't matter if it's online dating, if someone is prejudiced to how you met and who you met, if you are happy with each other, it only matters in the end. It doesn't matter if someone thinks or calls your dating experience as "mail order Russian brides" only your true love and happy experience truly matters.
Love can happen even if people are looking for something certain. Sometimes love just happens, so you never know where your path is going to lead you, as long as you are open for love, it can find you anywhere. Love and success and personal happiness and fulfillment is what most people are looking for. It can be hard to find, but if you do find it, then hold onto it and be happy.