Nick, I’m trying to understand the food angle to this...
American women have the Oxygen channel.
Women cry a lot when I come into a room.
Well, actually, they throw up.
Do they need a handsome throw up man in Japan?
If I have to cry, I have a stuffed animal. There’s “New Dog,” whom I got from my brother 45 years ago, and “Dad’s Kitty,” the stuffed cat my father had in the nursing home before he died in 2014.
I’m sensing great meme potential for portraying leftard females wearing pink pussy hats while attended by their favorite Hollyweird celeb wiping away their salty tears....
“British mourners are renting “professional sobbers” to blub at funerals to make people believe the deceased was really popular.”
My first reaction?
I’m surprised that I was surprised.
This is the next logical step in making a fetish of an affectation. When personal failure becomes a social achievement.
Expect to see something like this in the United States too.
“Pity Parties” complete with expensive ‘Grab Bags’ of candles, soaps, ointments and ‘toys’.
“In fact, the Japanese are among the least likely to cry of 37 nationalities polled by the International Study on Adult Crying; Americans are the most likely.”
The study must have been done when Obama was president and they oversampled conservatives. I did a lot of crying when Obama was President.
Japan is very idiosyncratic.
I like the idea of sending the handsome man in for therapy. But do we have to do the crying crap?
IBTBHG
I thought dollars to donuts someone has posted the Boo Hoo Girl gif, irresistibly perfect for this thread, and for a while there, almost every thread. But nooooo. I am so disappointed that I must cry...where ats the Japanese wimmen?
Ping
Embarassing.
Andy Pandy, puddin’ and pie...
another quaint Japanese practice, like hari-kari, banzai charges and fugu.
Missionaries and other Americans who spend time in Japan come back and regale me with tales on how horrible Japanese men are. From the open reading of violent and gory pornography, to the truly horrible way they treat women, the stories always end up saying that women are not marrying or having children because finding a worthwhile man is incredibly difficult.
Maybe these women just need someone to actually care about them, and fake “care” is better than “no” care?
When I suffered with cluster headaches I found that watching the movie Hatchiko gave me some relief in the small hours.
In fact, the Japanese are among the least likely to cry of 37 nationalities polled by the International Study on Adult Crying; Americans are the most likely.
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I didn’t know that.