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No Sex Please, We're Japanese (BBC Documentary)
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No. It was 5 minutes of an hour long documentary, you are fixating on that point more than the reporter. The title of the documentary may be inflammatory/click bait but you are the one linking it to the virtual girlfriend thing.
Brawly Likes to Brawl
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This doc asks a very important question, but unfortunately like most of the other ones that ask it, it feels more like a vehicle to watch Japanese people do silly shit rather than provide some clarification.
Zoe
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As a Japanese woman, I can't help but feel sorry for Japanese men.
They are always the one to be blamed by the western media.
Is it taboo to criticize women in the west?
Some women can be nasty as fuck just to get some little money from a poor innocent guy.
They are always the one to be blamed by the western media.
Is it taboo to criticize women in the west?
It's also there to protect men from getting a bum rap.
Some women can be nasty as fuck just to get some little money from a poor innocent guy.
Except the documentary didn't actually go into the real reasons of the birth rate decline and was mainly fixated on oddities like the otaku. It was a joke.
I once rode the train from Osaka to Kyoto, and noticed some dude stepped inside the women only car. He noticed some minutes later, as evidenced by a look of abject horror. He sat with his hands on his lap and eyes to his feet for the remainder of the journey. Don't know why he didn't just move, but it was pretty amusing.
I'm more impressed by the fact he is married.
Zoe
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Might want to read more of the thread. Mining towns tend to die out.
PJV3
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I'd laugh if she was a stunning 3D version. I can't remember if they showed her.
The Albatross
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The Guardian ran an article about the same topic (probably snatched from the BBC doc) and it was very good / weird:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/20/young-people-japan-stopped-having-sex?CMP=twt_gu
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/20/young-people-japan-stopped-having-sex?CMP=twt_gu
LegendofJoe
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In general men are criticized more then women by media here in the West. I wouldn't say there is a taboo against it, but media outlets are usually much quicker to single out men as a source of social problems. The largely ignore the effect that women's empowerment in the workforce and in the home has had on men. In the U.S. men are getting out competed at school and on the job. The portrayal of men in the media and the image of what a man's role is in today's world has not kept up with the pace of change and it's making it much more difficult for men to find contentment with their place in the world.
The natural consequence of women kicking so much ass is that they will increasingly become the primary source of income for families. As you can guess, at least in the absence of generous vacation time, this will lead to women wanting to have less children. More open attitudes towards men being caregivers coupled with paid paternity leave is how this should be countered. Unfortuantely though paternity leave is an alien concept in the U.S. I suspect the same is true in Japan.
Cow Mengde
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Saving this for after work.
SquiddyCracker
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In a society where 12-hour workdays are common place, I'm not surprised so many decide to become neets.
If "responsibility" meant slaving away for a company, then fuck responsibility - the system is broken.
When being an adult in general in Japan seem to suck (those gender roles), no wonder you get man-child rent.
If "responsibility" meant slaving away for a company, then fuck responsibility - the system is broken.
When being an adult in general in Japan seem to suck (those gender roles), no wonder you get man-child rent.
You're only defending him because you have a virtual boyfriend I bet.
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Deleted member 17706
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It's an issue, but the weird shit in Japan and virtual girlfriends amongst otaku are definitely not the cause of it as so many of these sensationalist reports seem to want to say.
Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku!
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Spoilers: His waifu is a pillow
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Love-Plus-H...Sized-160cm-Great-Art-Must-Have-/380412649278
She's not even that attractive. 2/10 at best. Wouldn't bang.
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Deleted member 17706
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That's really not the problem, though. It's the conclusion so many people are making by taking a very cursory glance and focusing on the weird shit in Japan, but the real problem lies in the fact that people don't want to have kids, get married, or start a family. The reason for that has nothing to do with young people's sex drive for the most part.
Devolution
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Nope just IRL Dicko.
NipplesAndToes23
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Will watch later; thank you.
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Vilix
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Unlike you.
A few years ago I think I read an article looking at the problem as it's going on in industrialized nations in general. I think it might have been the article about the overall world population growth slowing down.
Anyway, the article boiled the population growth problem down to one question: How do you convince educated, goal-oriented women to have children? It asserted that the main problem was that everywhere on the planet you started educating women, birth rates fell.
There was a whole GAF thread on this like lats week, but still nice to post it again.
Anyway, the article boiled the population growth problem down to one question: How do you convince educated, goal-oriented women to have children? It asserted that the main problem was that everywhere on the planet you started educating women, birth rates fell.
There was a whole GAF thread on this like lats week, but still nice to post it again.
Someone should redo that gif so the first section shows an Xbone and then the woman asks him if he would prefer that over a PS4. Or the other way round, whichever is best really.
Red Blaster
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they spent like 5 minutes on the otakus
Uncle Ulty
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Ive noticed this type of trend amongst Americans too. A lot of younger people just don't care to get married or even have long term relationships. HD porn and the occasional one night stand are plenty for them. While I fully support same sex marriage, the rise in number of youth who are homosexuals will reduce the future population as well.
dragonelite
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Seems like the place to go if you have a GILF fetish.
Those legs mang
Yeah, this isn't exclusive to Japan. Speaking personally, I'm 25, my dad has been divorced 3 times and partially because of this I have no damn plans to get married anytime soon. I've even accepted the fact that I may never marry due to it being such a financial liability, IMO. The one night stand , or friends with benefits, seems much more prevalent especially here in L.A.
I also think that people are focusing to much on the otaku aspect of the documentary, which like Red Blaster pointed out, is only about 5 minutes long. I think a lot of this stems from the long held Japanese belief of work, work, work all the time. Which I think is admirable, but I believe they take it a bit to far. So some of these men are just too tired and don't want to have/or do not have the time for a relationship which in of itself is very time consuming.
Immigration is how you solve population decline so it seems we're at a Catch 22 here. Japanese culture I'm sure is very hard to immigrate into, yet at the same time the Japanese people want to keep their culture intact which I completely understand.
Pops Maellard
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Did you watch it? They went over all of those things and only spent a few minutes on the Otaku stuff.
twist: same person
They should make having a child like a huge benefit. Like free school and huge tax cuts. Also, they have many elderly people. The couple can still work crazy hours I guess but they should recruit the elderly to assist with the children if the parents cannot be there. Utilize the elderly resources.
Gentleman Jack
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Seems a bit extreme to expect a generation that probably helped raise their grandchildren to also assist in raising great-grandchildren.
You don't need to go all the way to Japan just to get a Waifu.
sonikokaruto
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when i went to japan, single ladies who kinda knew some english or spanish, wanted to socialize, so they might be havong sex, just not babies
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