[freedumb2003]

"Ken!"

[Vigilanteman]

Short answer: the women do and they know it. They are also smart enough to let the men think they do. Feminazis have always been frustrated with Japanese women refusing to seize the Alpha role.

I was at a gathering once there where a foreign feminist asked a Japanese housewife why they didn't compete with men more. She replied sweetly "We don't want to step down and give up the freedom we enjoy."

[RandallFlagg]

Who Wears the Pants in Japan?

Gonna take a wild guess here....

The tentacles?

_{*runs for cover*}

[Clint N. Suhks]

The robots?

[Billthedrill]

Oh, man, the stories I could tell. When I went to Japan there was a pool to see how long it would take me to get married. When I returned still single eight years later the pool was whether I was gay or not. Neither one. You just have to understand it isn’t how it appears.

[null and void]

The Artillery Man in War of the Worlds described a Victorian England not all that different:

All these—the sort of people that lived in these houses, and all those damn little clerks that used to live down that way—they’d be no good. They haven’t any spirit in them—no proud dreams and no proud lusts; and a man who hasn’t one or the other—Lord! What is he but funk and precautions? They just used to skedaddle off to work—I’ve seen hundreds of ‘em, bit of breakfast in hand, running wild and shining to catch their little season-ticket train, for fear they’d get dismissed if they didn’t; working at businesses they were afraid to take the trouble to understand; skedaddling back for fear they wouldn’t be in time for dinner; keeping indoors after dinner for fear of the back streets, and sleeping with the wives they married, not because they wanted them, but because they had a bit of money that would make for safety in their one little miserable skedaddle through the world.

[GraceG]

“Ah baby, I’m kind of asleep,” I mumbled, “and it’s pouring down rain.”

“I forgot my umbrella,” she said. “Bring me one.

“Yeah, just stop at 7-11. They’re like five bucks.

“Never mind,” she said. “I’ll just get wet. Forget I asked you. Don’t worry about me.

And people doubt that the Jews made it to Japan and influenced them in ancient times...

That sorta exchange would make a Jewish mother weep with pride if her daughter was a Japanese Housewife!

[chajin]

As strange as this may sound, the setup has the practical effect of making all Japanese children be the product of single-mother households, with all the symptoms and results that one sees in such households in the US--but with two major differences. First, the woman gets her money, not from the government, but from her husband's work, so even though she may be passive-aggressive, she knows she can't just walk away and try to go it on her own--and she doesn't expect the other Japanese taxpayers to subsidize her lifestyle. Second, she knows she has to get the sons to finish their education and go into successful careers, otherwise they'll turn into otaku, young men who lock themselves up in their bedrooms 24/7 and never leave home, so there isn't the laissez-faire let-'em-run-the-streets attitude one unfortunately finds here too often.

[GraceG]

Here is something you may find interesting:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/article4072320.ece

“The benefits of drinking green tea and eating raw fish are extolled in a new study showing that Japanese women live longer than any others. “

Note: They don’t mention Japanese Men....

I wonder why :)