Japanese ladies long for date with brutal men of history (girly men dumped)

The Times(UK) ^ | 12/12/09 | Richard Lloyd Parry

[TigerLikesRooster]

Masamune Date is not an obvious heart-throb for today

[TigerLikesRooster]

So these women had enough of metrosexuals, which have been a rage for 20(?) years.

I am not sure if they really want such men in real life instead of fictional fantasy.

About 4 decades ago, there was such a man, Mishima Yukio. Embodyment of pro- militarist Japanese samurai, who believed Bushido is the essence of Japanese soul. Actually, he was a renowned novelist. He went in SDF headquarter and took the commander in hostage, and exhort soldiers to join him, but was rebuffed. In frustration, he committed Sepuku(being beheaded by his lieutenant while slicing his stomach open.) What do these women feel about him? If they like him as well, China should worry.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[BobL]

They’re human.

(unlike the metros running the schools)

[Clemenza]

Mishima was a homosexual, even though he was married to a woman. His “bodyguards” were actually his lovers/groupies.

[TigerLikesRooster]

I think you are right. However, women can still love him, or somebody like him. Since he died, it may matter little to them if he really liked women.

[VOA]

girls love bad boys....BUMP

[TigerLikesRooster]

I mean, he is dead, and only his image is left behind. Image can be an object of attraction.

[DTogo]

I don't think this has anything to do with a yearning to go forth and brutally re-conquer Japan's Asian neighbors. Especially when compared to China's rhetoric on Taiwan or North Korea's on their southern brothers.

What's also missing is that off screen, the male TV stars of these samurai dramas are likely the same "gentle, foppish, unaggressive" males the rekijo now claim to shun.

日本＊ピング＊ (kono risuto ni hairitai ka detai wo shirasete kudasai : let me know if you want on or off this list)

[Perdogg]

I believe Chinese/Korean/Vietnamese/Filipino ladies are the same.

[SIDENET]

The suit, gloves and pose are a dead giveaway.

[Pontiac]

The trend may also be a reaction to the recent emergence of a tribe known as soshokukei danshi or “herbivorous men” who are gentle, foppish, unaggressive and not interested in traditional masculine pursuits such as fast cars, drinking — and women.

Eri Kohinata, 22, believes that young women like the discipline, sense of duty — and rippling, armour-clad torsos — of men of the feudal age. “Men these days are wimps, but men in history are courageous and manly,” she said.

Men will try to be what ever works to get a woman to drop her panties.

If the odds of achieving that goal is in being a soldier men will start joining the ranks in greater numbers.

This could be a favorable trend.

[TigerLikesRooster]

However, to make a living, these pretty boys pretend to be tough. Actors customized for one era suddenly found themselves out of fashion.

[Perdogg]

[Ev Reeman]

Women have always been attracted to REAL men, not sissies or girly men.

That is something the women’s liberation movement completely ignored or discounted much to its own ultimate irrevelance.

The women’s liberation movement tried to change men into something they didn’t want to be and should never be.

I believe the women’s liberation movement was begun by lesbians and dykes, butch women, ugly women who could never attract a real man in a million years.

That may sound pretty harsh coming from a real man but I wholeheartedly believe that to be the case.

And I have a lot of praise for all the real men out there who did not fall prey to that pjilosophy and let it get the better of them.

[Pontiac]

Nice work.

[Tax-chick]

If a man is wearing armor, how can you tell if his torso is rippling?

And if you can see his rippling torso, because he’s too vain to wear armor (or even a shirt) then he must be gay.

[Last Dakotan]

The Chinese didn't much care for the last wave of Japanese "tough gys".

[1776 Reborn]

Modern women raise their boys to be effeminate than they wish for real men? Ah, you reap what you sow.......

[vladimir998]

He was gay though. To say he was a complicated figure would be an incredible understatement.

[Dead Dog]

..one week in Japan is enough to see that they are a very industrious and intelligent people..with no frontier. Men eventually provide what they think women desire.