Posted on 11/02/2009 2:04:42 AM PST by markomalley
At the age of 18, Mitsuhiro Matsushita already has a good idea of his ideal future. After he graduates from university a few years of work will be followed by marriage to an industrious wage earner. When children arrive it will be Mitsuhiro who stays at home looking after them, baking cakes and biscuits and living the traditional life of the Japanese housewife.
None of this would be noteworthy but for one thing. Mitsuhiro is not a conventionally minded Japanese woman, but a thoughtful, articulate and fashionably dressed young man. And far from being a marginal eccentric he is a member of a large and growing tribe of Japanese manhood that is attracting the fascinated and anxious attention of companies, academics and the mass media.
Two phrases have been coined to describe them: soshokukei danshi or “herbivorous males”, and Ojo-man – or “girly men”.
Definitions vary, but the new herbivores could be described as metrosexuals without the testosterone. Although most of them are not homosexual they have in common a disdain for the traditional accoutrements of Japanese manhood, and a taste for things formerly regarded as exclusively female.
Two phrases have been coined to describe them: soshokukei danshi or “herbivorous males”, and Ojo-man – or “girly men”.
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The author of the last work, Megumi Ushikubo, estimates that two thirds of men aged 20 to 34 have herbivorous tendencies.
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“I worry that herbivorous boys are the future of Japan,” he says. “As young Japanese men become more timid and more averse to taking risks, it will affect the energy and vitality of the society.”
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
A societal reprobate mind (Romans 1:20-32).
lulz
It’s what happens when a country experiences 15 years or recession and men don’t see the point of being hard-working, strong and ambitious when there’s little hope of reward.
What happened to the nation of Samurai and Ninjas? :oP
They took to socialism and didn’t look back...
I feel kind of herbivorous myself, trouble is....I can’t find a carnivorous woman to support me.......
They were called Bosozoku when I lived there back in the early 80's. The Nissan Skyline was the rage. Damn thing is almost $100K now.
I average 60 hours a week. How do I apply ffor this?
We killed them all off sixty-five years ago.
In a relatively closed society, such as Japan's, where organization and conformity is a societal trait, being 'unique' gets you more attention.
The UK times online should know.
Trust me, you wouldn’t be happy as such a male...
If it’s not according to God’s plan for your role as a man,
you won’t have good, blessed results.
If men are constantly pilloried by strident feminists,
and marginilised and vilified for being what they are,
and their values are constantly rubbished,
and they are expected to fulfill all their traditional roles AND be kind, sensitive etc etc
and they are discriminated against in law,
Then eventually they will stop being men. QED.
Yes, and to what end? Read my tagline then read the following:
Destroy the man, destroy the father.
Destroy the father, destroy the family.
The family being the basis of so much,
Destroy the family, destroy the society.
Destroy the family, destroy the Church.
Destroy the society, destroy the nation.
Destroy nations, destroy humanity.
More importantly, you wont find a woman who is happy with you being such a male. Trust me, I fell for all the partnership/sensitive/new man crap. It doesn’t work. There’s an immense gap between what women say they want and what they actually DO want.
Fortunately, we have an advocate and an intercessor that will intervene for us.
However, I concur. It’s a dangerous path we are going down. This is the faultline in so many liberals. They never think through what the consequences of their actions will be. Dupes.
John 8:44
Libs are working for their “father”, whether they know it and acknowledge it or not.
I lived in Japan from the 80s to the 90s, and while I saw some change (fewer bosozoku-types and more urbane-types), this move towards girly-men has surprised me.
No Japan is dying because it can't be bothered to have enough children to maintain it's population. I suspect this is one of the side effects of this, as the few children that are born are overwhelmingly male. Mark Steyn has written brilliantly (of course) about this.
Too bad, as Japanese women are hot.
Sure would enjoy hearing your take on this, my friend. ;^)
LOVE the skyline’s, from the early one’s to the gtr35, mega cars! Supercar beaters with a Nissan badge, great innovation.
These stories are about the tabloid level just above the Weekly World News. They may have some element of truth, but generally what little truth is blown way out of proportion to reality. Generally, these work by going to Harajuku or Shinjuku Ni-chome and finding a few oddball characters that will basically say anything to shock ordinary Japanese. A better version will then find some left-wing professor or two to give some "perspective" on whatever bizarre statements that the author managed to elicit.
I did a bit of searching, and found one English reference about the demise of the Mainichi's reporting of these silly stories: some English language comments about the cessation of the Mainichi's Wai-wai section.
Concentrate on her studies, meet a man later.
Yep, sort of sums it all up.
They failed to survive to procreation.
Same thing that happened to Europe. The wars took the best of their men, and they never recovered.
Designer labels? "Real men" have an eye for designer labels?
> Whatever happened to the lunatic, Kamikaze Japs?
> We killed them all off sixty-five years ago.
Do NOT mess with the USMC - now or ever!
Sort of like the Shakers?
We have the Royal-T Restaurant here in LA ... a cafe with cute Japanese girls dressed as French maids. The food is shaped like Hello Kitty. An overload of cute.
Oh, “Designer” as in “Hemi.” Got it.
:^)
Photos of the waitresses of the Royal-T and the Hello Kitty food.
http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/ShSbUApKWz2MK6PAD1zhDQ?select=E6up4YAaS-QzxLUTNtq0aQ
Well, on the bright side, we won’t have to worry about being attacked by Japan again.
There ya go...
So what if I like war movies, guns, airplanes, hockey, trail riding, cars and building stuff?
I’d love to stay home and take care of the kids, get all those projects done, heck even cook a meal.
Oh, who am I kidding. I can’t imagine not coming home from work sweaty and tired with fresh wounds to be tended and the blood of some dinosaur still dripping from my club.
That’s what it means to be a man.
Even a combo lobotomy/castration wouldn’t suffice to get me in a place like that...
Now, that’s something to ponder Kamikaze Shakers.
Real men wear clothes until they fall apart. Something like half the pairs of jeans I own.
I'd go there just for the girls.
Its a shame because Japan has a great tradition that being thrown down the toilet because boys don’t want to grow up. Metrosexuality kills. Civilizations.
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