I have been talking about this title with my girl friends for a while. I realized Japanese men are getting feminine in these days compared to a decade or more years ago. I especially feel that since I live in America now so that I compared Japanese to Americans unconsciously.
One reason I can consider for this problem is that we do not have military service in Japan. Therefore, young men could be lazy in that way because they are always safe and they do not have to go to the hard trainings or wars. In Korea, for instance, young people are forced to go to military at least for two years. Of cource, many young men go to militalry in America, too. I am sure this makes young people strong both mentally and physically.
Another reason I could consider is Japanese economy. Since the economy is bad, Japanese men cannot do what they used to do. For instance, buy cars or treat girls. They could not do what they want and this would decrease the sexual desire since they do not have confident of themselves. Luck of confidence-this problem is very serious because the job getting situation of young people now is the worse ever. Many companies insist that they are luck of confident, let us hire students from other countries who are studying in Japan.
I found an interesting movie, The Rebound. I found the quality of Aram is similar to recent Japanese. I think it is rare to find guy's feminine quality in American movie, so I thought this is very interesting and easy to understand how most Japanese men are in 2011 since this movie might familiar for you. Please watch this movie. Here, I have introduction of The Rebound.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGyLFdzhw-c
In my opinion, there is a pretty big group of men in the world today that are comfortable with being more feminine. As society changes, it is becoming less important to maintain completely separate masculine men and feminine women. Tis is not true for all men, but in general there is much more freedom now to go outside these stereotypes, and I have noticed many changes in men. I found your connection between Japanese men and the economy having an impact on their confidence very interesting. It makes me wonder if possilbly we would see some of the same trends in the US along with the change in our economy.
ReplyDeleteI'm curious do you think feminizing (or at least un-masculinizing) of men is a good or bad thing? Or maybe a neutral thing? I haven't seen The Rebound, but it looked pretty fun- and I thought the male character seemed like a pretty foxy dude.
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