Herbivorous men, where's the beef? | The Japan Times Online

Gingor · 2012-09-23T03:28:16+00:00

It's enough to make you think maybe their lack of sexual desire stems from feelings of inadequacy

Couldnt be that the japanese dating culture is severely shit.

You are expected to have a good income, safe employment, nice apartment, ideally play a musical instrument or two, have travelled a bit, good education, adhere strongly to tradition...

Basically, dating in Japan requires a hell of a lot more effort than in the west. Of course a lot of people decide to keep out of it altogether.

Also notice that politeness is heavily ingrained in japanese culture. Kids learn their whole live that they should be extremely polite to everybody. Of course you aren't gonna find many people that adhere to the male archetype.

Raise an animal: a horse or cow,

Yeah, sure, It's totally awesome to raise a cow in a 2-room flat. thats gonna work out juuuuuuuust fine.

I'm not even sure if the article is satire or not.

So many men sit around and do nothing. I hardly see women like this

Thats because they sit at home. Unless you routinely stare into strangers windows, you won't find em.

sdk2g · 2012-09-23T03:46:26+00:00

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DavidByron · 2012-09-23T17:31:52+00:00

Now, I am totally for the quiet contemplative, sensitive type. Frugal? Okay. But no sex? Sex is free

Sex isn't free for MEN, Amy.

Ortizjoel21 · 2012-09-23T05:00:51+00:00

This reminds me of a TYT story about how ~50% of japanese women were unintested in sex, and ~30% of japanese men were uninterested in sex. Of course the men were derided, pretty much called pussies and told to grow some balls. The women were understandably uninterested because so few men were.

Makes my blood boil.

unexpecteditem · 2012-09-23T15:45:21+00:00

" If men don't start taking an interest in sex, the Japanese race may become extinct."

There is an alternative, of course. Japanese women could start taking an interest in sex.

pauldustllah · 2012-09-23T04:31:28+00:00

Did she really just come out and say that she wanted an "Alpha Male"? that is the impression I am getting from reading this article. Please Ladies and Gentlemen correct me if I am wrong.

AvgGuy101 · 2012-09-23T07:05:06+00:00

Sounds like a lot of young Japanese men have decided that they don't find most Japanese women all that interesting.

Looks like more and more young men all over the world are deciding that there just isn't any benfit to them in the whole traditional dating/marriage/family thing. I guess it's going to be up to young women to convince these guys that these arrangements have benefits for them. They certainly won't accomplish that by insulting men.

kanuk876 · 2012-09-23T16:20:54+00:00

I wonder why these articles never include an interview with these men. It seems like the authors of these man-up articles are so busy complaining about these men they never seem to ask them how why they choose to not have sex or date.

2012-09-23T22:05:24+00:00

We are not descendant from neanderthals.

ErasmusMRA · 2012-09-23T07:25:15+00:00

Hamsterlation:

Not interesting = no money.

OuiCrudites · 2012-09-23T09:14:28+00:00

This is one of the most sexist pieces of shit I've ever read in my life.

primaloath · 2012-09-23T19:10:34+00:00

Notice that a lion does not just sit around sleeping all day. When duty calls, they leave their computers for a few hours, chase some female lions, fight for one who is really hot, and goes home with them to live happily ever after

I would never compete with other men; if someone is unjust, I oppose him/her, but I do not compete for resources, as that is plainly immoral. If this is what a woman expects people to do in order for her to become attracted to them, she has no capacity to love and would likely produce evil children with the genes of evil men unless good people destroyed her first.

unexpecteditem · 2012-09-23T22:31:31+00:00

A clearer example of the insistence of women that men should conform to sex-role stereotypes cannot be imagined. That it contradicts the essence of feminism is a contradiction too inconvenient to call to mind. The context in which this is taking place is the advance of feminism and the economic demise of the Japanese male after twenty years of national economic stagnation. Feminism in Japan has recast the role of women in the economy. It has granted women social equality with men without conceding to men any of the sexual power women traditionally held. This has been how men have responded. They have withdrawn the lynchpin upon which female sexual power depends: the presumption that it is men, and only men, who are interested in sex.

Liberhat · 2012-09-23T10:43:41+00:00

Maybe, girls, you are the ones who are "kinda boring". In my experience when men want something they usually try and get it - if men aren't going for you why not become more interesting? You know, try to woman up, and maybe men might find you worthwhile. Otherwise just put up and SHUT UP!

Ortizjoel21 · 2012-09-23T08:57:21+00:00

More of the it's men's fault and no women's, when will women get some big lady panties and take some responsibility for what they have done ?

MisterFriday · 2012-09-23T16:32:13+00:00

So this lady has certain "suggestions" for Japanese men.

I wonder what "suggestions" one could come up with for Japanese women.

Ma99ie · 2012-09-23T04:43:11+00:00

At least she is honest.

ryuh90 · 2012-09-23T16:46:16+00:00

Wow, the "Man-Up" articles have really gone international. In all honesty however, the author, at least to me, looks very xenophobic in her writing.

kanuk876 · 2012-09-24T06:20:49+00:00

I know a guy who married a Japaneese woman. After 10 years of marriage, he finds the absence of physical or emotional intimacy difficult. He tells me this is pretty normal in Japan -- the husband is seen as a money-earner, and that's it. That's it. Once she's turned out a few kids, the wife often stops viewing the husband as anything but a roommate who supplies cash.

Did you ever wonder why you see groups of middle-aged Japaneese women on vacation, without their husbands, all over the world? The husbands are still in Japan, working, while she takes a break from her busy family life to tour the world.

Did you ever wonder why men in Japan work from 8am until 9pm or later, then go drinking with their buddies? ... yeah, there's nothing for them at home.

Now, back to these "grass-eaters"... seems like a difficult yet rational decision to me.

2012-09-24T10:30:23+00:00

Well the article is total a crap of course and I'm quite sure the most Japanese men are as into women as always. If there are any Japanese women who can't find a boyfriend though I bet there are millions of western men who would jump at the chance to meet them. Give me a Japanese women over an obese, hate filled bitter and twisted american woman any day!

ninjaguineapig · 2012-09-23T04:59:20+00:00

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