Tony_Harrison Archive

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1	Woman who coined the term "herbivore men" apologizes, angrily blasts the media, laments the demonization of men/otaku and wishes she could go back in time to tear up her article. (English translation in first reply) Thank you for your detailed reply. Sorry, I've had a long, exhausting day, so I can't reply as I want to today, but I will get back to you.	/r/MensRights	30/10/16 02:03 PM
2	Woman who coined the term "herbivore men" apologizes, angrily blasts the media, laments the demonization of men/otaku and wishes she could go back in time to tear up her article. (English translation in first reply) Thank you for this. It's interesting to hear what she thinks about the issue now. I think though, that this needs to be contrasted with what she said in her orginal article. I would be interested in RyanoftheStars' take on that—do you think it comes off as presenting the term in a positive light? A neutral one? Something else? Do you have any other impressions of the article? (sorry to those who can't read Japanese. There's no point linking to a Google translation, as it garbles the translation …	/r/MensRights	29/10/16 03:16 PM
1	Why anime is obessed with tsundere characters. maybe under a different account? It says you haven't submitted anything Should I have said comment history? Anyway, it's there for you to take a look at. Oh comeon. In a lot of stories the only affection the male protagonist receives is like one kiss. In season 1 the melancholy of haruhi suzumiya the only affection kyon receives in a thank you for leading her his jacket and a kiss. Here's an example of Haruhi being tsundere. Kyon falls asleep and wakes to find Haruhi waiting for him to wake up. …	/r/MensRights	22/12/15 05:00 AM
1	Why anime is obessed with tsundere characters. Search "herbivore men" in the subbreddit search If you do so, you'll find my posts on the subject. Better yet, just check my post history. This is something that is not related to feminism, but is its own thing. yeah but they're assholes. It's like vegeta X bulma relationship . Tsundere characters can easily be as bad vegeta... Sometimes they are assholes (to me, as a straight man whose heart doesn't start fluttering when an attractive guy is cold to the female main character) sometimes not. Tsu…	/r/MensRights	21/12/15 07:01 PM
1	Why anime is obessed with tsundere characters. I think tsundere characters are popular because beyond the defensive surface bluster (tsun) is the gentle, loving, and caring side (dere). If the character was just "bitchy" with no underlying loving, lovable aspect, then they wouldn't be popular. The gap itself is part of what is attractive, with the main character only really getting to know the "dere" side of the character when they are trusted and the tsundere character lets her guard down. It's similar to how in manga for girls/women there …	/r/MensRights	21/12/15 06:41 PM
3	Another reason why Japanese men are unhappy - Japanese culture tries to keep the baby away from the dad Leaving aside the guy himself, what he says about the average Japanese man's lifestyle is pretty accurate. The average "salaryman" basically has to live for everyone but himself until retirement age. The scariest thing is that there is no one "bad guy" here. Corporations are soulless. They don't care about any individual employee and for the benefit of the corporation try to extract maximum benefit from each employee, which results in most men working ridiculous hours. The wives of these men do …	/r/MensRights	16/09/15 06:11 AM
31	I just quit Tmobile. Both yes and no. Yes, in the sense that in general I think having a tough skin and not taking offense at every little thing are positive traits. No, for a few reasons. I live in Japan. I can't imagine that being said in a commercial here because it wouldn't be a joke--it would just be a complete non sequitur. There's no context in the culture for it to fit into. It would be totally out of left field. They say that fish can't see the water that they swim in. This doesn't even make sense as a "jok…	/r/MensRights	07/02/15 07:46 PM
5	South Korea spent $28 million to put the only Korean astronaut (a woman) into space. She just quit for "personal reasons". I live in Japan and on numerous occasions I have talked with Japanese women (and in one case a Western woman who married a Japanese engineer) whose faces were flushed with pleasure and relief that having gotten married they would now be able to quit their jobs and would no longer have to do paid work ever again unless they wanted to. I think women freely choosing to quit paid work (because it's what they want most out of all possible realistically available choices) is very common in the West to…	/r/MensRights	13/08/14 07:10 PM
5	South Korea spent $28 million to put the only Korean astronaut (a woman) into space. She just quit for "personal reasons". I was curious as to why she quit and got this from the linked Businessweek article: In April 2008, I went to the International Space Station for 11 days to conduct experiments. I worked for the program for four more years before enrolling in Haas. (Haas is where she got her MBA.) ...I would love to go back, but the government has no budget for a second mission. to space (Context is clear in the article.) In this case it may be that she just thought that she would have to put her life on hold i…	/r/MensRights	13/08/14 06:47 PM
3	So Amazon has a section called "Amazon Mom" that gives discounts on baby items (diapers, wipes etc) but why not call it Amazon Parent??? While I mostly agree, I don't think it's the full answer. The UK and Japan have "Amazon Family," so why does the US have "Amazon Mom"? I think it may be more than just phonetic pleasantness. While in each of these countries women would be the primary spenders on childcare products, I suspect that the way mothers in each of these countries respond to certain marketing techniques differ. In Japan, the Amazon Family welcome page includes a picture of a happy family that includes a father, and it is…	/r/MensRights	15/02/14 12:28 PM
2	Anime tropes are probably bad for Japanese society (especially its men) IMO I don't think you can get anywhere near a clear picture of Japanese society from the Western media. The reporters are either fresh-off-the-boat ignorant, unable to do anything but view things through a distorting Western cultural/ideological lens, or even knowing better they deliberately distort and selectively present things because "weird Japan" sells. Most Japanese women don't want a career because being a "salaryman" sucks. Even young Japanese men are starting to really wake up to this a…	/r/MensRights	15/01/14 03:13 PM
1	Anime tropes are probably bad for Japanese society (especially its men) I use this account almost entirely to talk about Japan and the issue of Japanese men and women marrying later or not at all, so checking my earlier posts will partly give you a response. For example: Well, I can only offer my opinion based on my own observations. In a nutshell (speaking in generalities), I'd put it this way: The vast majority of young Japanese women don't want careers, yet they don't want to marry too early either. In their twenties they have a golden time of being able to live …	/r/MensRights	15/01/14 02:54 PM
1	Interview with an herbivore ...it seems to me that women are overprotected and suffocated in many ways. The Japanese dormitory used to have a cage around the girls elevator is strange example. Japanese dormitories, whether at schools or at companies, have strict rules for both men and women. I know a man in his late fifties who was transferred to work at another prefecture's branch and has to live in the company's bachelor dormitory. He has to abide by a curfew and rules on who can can visit and for how long. Even his wife…	/r/MensRights	26/08/13 05:57 PM
5	Interview with an herbivore Quite an extreme view if you ask me but some parts of it definitely ring true. I think the extremeness comes from the stark choice the vast majority of Japanese men have to make: become a salaryman or not. It's not like you can become a salaryman and then live a balanced lifestyle — you have to choose between giving up the vast majority of your waking life until retirement age in exchange for job security and marriage eligibility, or giving up job security and marriage eligibility in exchange fo…	/r/MensRights	26/08/13 03:26 PM
17	Why Men aren't getting Married in Japan-Relevant to the West, The context for Japanese men is this: getting married and having children means committing to being (usually the sole) family breadwinner. Children cost a fortune. For the majority, this means trying to become a "salaryman" — a full-time company employee, a stable job where your salary increases every year that you work for the company. But choosing to become a salaryman means full commitment. Salarymen are worker drones. Work and commuting take up most of their waking hours. It's common for sal…	/r/MensRights	24/05/13 06:41 PM
31	Young Japanese 'decline to fall in love' Well, I can only offer my opinion based on my own observations. In a nutshell (speaking in generalities), I'd put it this way: The vast majority of young Japanese women don't want careers, yet they don't want to marry too early either. In their twenties they have a golden time of being able to live at home, working in low-pressure jobs, with their incomes their own to spend freely on a fun, responsibility-free lifestyle. Marriage would mean an end to that lifestyle and the start of new responsib…	/r/MensRights	11/01/12 03:25 PM
38	Young Japanese 'decline to fall in love' I think you are right. I'm a permanent resident of Japan and in my opinion a lot of the Western reporting on Japanese cultural issues has incredibly misleading "weird Japan" or feminist spin on it. This has both. To me, the report comes across as deliberately crafted and edited, with cherry-picked subjects asked leading questions, resulting in them merely acting out a narrative prefabricated by the Western reporter.	/r/MensRights	11/01/12 02:53 PM
6	UK Guardian and many Japanese elders angry that not all young Japanese men are eager to be one-dimensional grunt-laborers with a singular interest in sex I'm a permanent resident of Japan. I'm no great authority, but I do have some personal opinions and observations. There are a number of problems with the article. The author falsely describes "hikikomori" as socially withdrawn boys when the term actually refers to shut-ins of either gender. Then there is his attempt to conflate the issue of the minority of Japanese men who are "otaku" (and who sincerely consider themselves to have virtual girlfriends) with that of so-called "herbivore men." Bein…	/r/MensRights	29/12/11 01:44 PM