Thursday, February 21, 2008

Japan Watch! Vol. 1

This is the inauguration of a new feature here at dudeweekend and no, its not the most original, but that never stopped us before. Ah the lovely country of Japan- full of beautiful scenery, otherworldly technology, majestic vistas, and used panty vending machines.

Would you take dating advice from this man?

This article pretty much tells you all you need to know about gender relations in Japan. Its about nanpa schools, which are essentially night classes on how to pick up women. The students include your average array of dorks and tools, including "engineers who have little interaction with women except through online porn."

Yeah, yeah, lord knows Japan doesnt have a monopoly on people like this. What they do have, apparently, is a class of people willing to pay $280 to take a class that tells them that actual women DO NOT repeat DO NOT like to be tentacle-raped by aliens. Hard to believe I know. I wonder if this is covered in the "How to Use Magic to Gain Popularity and How to Seduce Women" class.

I really feel for Japanese women. They have to take separate subway cars so perverts cant grope them or take pictures up their skirts. Japanese men would rather date robots (or, god forbid that is too intimidating or demanding, a virtual one). Hence modern Japanese sexual culture. Japanese men cry themselves to sleep on a girlfriend lap pillow, across the hall a Japanese woman cries herself to sleep on a boyfriend arm pillow, and we all wonder why Japan's birth rates are falling like Kirstie Alley off a cliff.

Oh, and one of the people interviewed for this article has the coolest name ever. Hachioji Robocop. How in the world you can have a name like that and not get laid is absolutely beyond me.

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