Posted on 12/19/2015 3:19:07 AM PST by csvset
TOKYO (AFP) -
Anti-Christmas protesters calling themselves "Losers with Women" marched through Tokyo's streets Saturday, bashing the upcoming holiday as a capitalist ploy that also discriminates against singletons.
The group of about 20 -- part of the Communist-inspired group that routinely protests Western holidays -- marched under angry banners that read "Smash Christmas!" in Tokyo's Shibuya district, where couples and families strolled for holiday shopping.
The scrooges -- mostly single men -- said they were against capitalism and were opposed to the commercialisation of Christmas.
"In this world, money is extracted from people in love, and happy people support capitalism," said the head of the organisation, formally called Kakumeiteki Hi-mote Domei, or the Revolutionary Losers' League.
"Christmas is the most symbolic event for this," he added.
The man, who identified himself only by the pseudonym MarkWater, said the rally was also in support of unloved men.
"Unpopular men, who don't have a girlfriend or are not married, are overly discriminated. We want to break this barrier," he told AFP amid the shouting protesters.
In Japan, Christmas is not an official holiday and is mostly celebrated informally as a romantic event for couples, while the New Year's day is an occasion for family reunion.
The Christian population remains small in the Asian country, stores offer special holiday sales and people decorate Christmas trees at home.
The group has held past marches to denounce imported Western holidays, including rallies against Valentine's Day.
Thanks for the report. I rally enjoy your observations of the culture there. The Japanese are an endlessly fascinating and beautiful people.
He is absolutely correct. Anti-capitalists are the most miserable people I've ever known.
Someone let out the (spelling?) Hikkiomori.
I saw that and enjoyed it.
During my career in the Navy, I spent four Christmases overseas, three in Italy and one in France. A French family hosted 6 of us for the weekend. Very gracious hosts. Fwiw, they were Jewish.
What’s the English word for American slackers that live at home and their support system is a Xbox? Democrats? Liberals ? Generation Z?
Liberals.
Your point about early adopters paving the way for better products for the rest of us also applies to the high-end cars; all of the technology advances that make cars safer, more durable and more efficient are implemented at the top end first.
These are the losers that wear size 6 womens shoes.
Probably low testosterone as well.
With attitudes like that, no wonder they are without women.
They need to look within for the problem, not blame-shift and look without.
I had “relations” with a Philipino chick and she didn’t have anything nice to say about Philipino men either. Of course, she had even less to say about a certain other ethnicity.
Retro is a thing, not just in Japan. There's this whole DoWop-revival culture here in the States. Classic car shows are a great place to meet hot chicks in poodle skirts and tight sweaters.
Zengakuran they’re not.
Visited that area last year. Many, many young women walking around alone or in pairs. Very few man-woman couples. Strange place, strange people.
Yeah, but it’s Japan and the feminist habit of dumping the husband with the kids and taking off with a new love interest is far more prevalent than it is in taking he US (yet) so the Otaku route is safer both emotionally and financially. Japan has had no fault divorce (the culprit) longer than we have.
Japan will always confuse me
Aren’t there videogames out there that these guys could be playing instead?
I think these guys took their Valentine’s Day protest notes and tried to apply them verbatim to Christmas.
I think this pretty well epitomizes the divide in much of the world now:
Which will you be - fishers of men, or losers with women?
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