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(CNN) Interesting Japan baffled by new trend of fragile young men who are more interested in fashion than sex. At a loss for a simple word for these fancy lads, they dub them "herbivore men."   (edition.cnn.com) divider line 239
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tortilla burger 2009-06-07 01:49:52 PM  
By the way they're described, I would imagine they would love eating the meat.

 
Black Moses 2009-06-07 01:49:54 PM  
oh they're meat eaters all right

 
kleppe 2009-06-07 01:50:39 PM  
I prefer Gasians

 
Neuffy 2009-06-07 01:50:56 PM  
"and believe that friendship without sex can exist between men and women"
... implying that non-"herbivore men" don't?

 
Mixolydian Master 2009-06-07 01:51:39 PM  
Do NOT do a GIS for 'gay japanese' hoping to find some funny effiminate fabulousness

/gaaah!

 
JesseL [TotalFark] 2009-06-07 01:51:51 PM  
What a fancy lad may look like:

www.austinchronicle.com

 
Black Moses 2009-06-07 01:52:20 PM  
bayimg.com

 
AmazingRuss 2009-06-07 01:52:33 PM  
Neuffy: "and believe that friendship without sex can exist between men and women"
... implying that non-"herbivore men" don't?


Why would they, unless they had the ghey?

 
kabloink 2009-06-07 01:53:05 PM  
"They are young, earn little and spend little"

Which basically means they can't get dates from the materialistic young Japanese women.

 
Nick Nostril 2009-06-07 01:53:06 PM  
tortilla burger: By the way they're described, I would imagine they would love eating the meat.

Tube steak.

 
Telos 2009-06-07 01:54:34 PM  
Neuffy: "and believe that friendship without sex can exist between men and women"
... implying that non-"herbivore men" don't?


Only if the woman is ugly.

 
Fano 2009-06-07 01:55:47 PM  
Yaoi-zowie!

 
Pinner 2009-06-07 01:56:30 PM  
Seriously, how hard could it be to get laid in Japan? The girls there must be dying to get together with a dude that has at least ONE hair on his chest.

 
Vanetia [TotalFark] 2009-06-07 01:56:54 PM  
Fano: Yaoi-zowie!

I lold

 
MaddyUnderstood [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-06-07 01:57:36 PM  
20% of the population of guys are "herbivores"?!

holy stromboli! i think the population of Japan may not increase come the next generation!

 
Somaticasual [TotalFark] 2009-06-07 01:58:10 PM  
also known as "first on the rotisserie when times get tough.."

 
Outlaw2097 2009-06-07 01:58:14 PM  
so are they too selling their underwear on the street corners?

 
just_dis_guy 2009-06-07 02:00:12 PM  
Pinner: Seriously, how hard could it be to get laid in Japan? The girls there must be dying to get together with a dude that has at least ONE hair on his chest.

I can only hope.

/srsly, does this mean there's going to be a glut of hot Japanese women looking for some loving?
//cause, I mean, this gai-jin can help
///and I've got LOTS of hairs on my chest
////actually, it's kind of too much, but whaddayagonnado?

 
theorellior 2009-06-07 02:01:22 PM  
In the Anglosphere, I think those people are known as "twee" or "shoegazers". Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

 
xip_80 2009-06-07 02:01:40 PM  
My brother spent much of last year in Japan. My sister went over to visit him. I heard stories of guys wearing make up and even glitter. There would be guys sitting on each others laps, etc. I guess it's pretty weird.

 
ldasil 2009-06-07 02:01:49 PM  
"It was after World War II and the post-war economic growth that Japanese men gained the reputation as a sex animal through the competition with the West."

Japanese men have been considered sex animals since WWII? Huh?

 
LockeOak 2009-06-07 02:01:53 PM  
"Well, well, well, what's on your mind little girl? Aw, you know what you are, you're one of those little fancy lads, aren't you? Boy you're cute. Gosh what a sweet little outfit. Is it your little spring outfit? You couldn't be cuter. You're so adorable. Oh my. You remind me of my niece Sally, lovely girl. She's a dietician. Wanna buy a monkey?"

"Have a good trip Susie! ... Oh man oh man do I hate those fancy lads."

 
Nemo's Brother 2009-06-07 02:02:37 PM  
Look at their video game, cartoon and movie characters. Look at their pop stars. Japan is already full of 'teh gey'. I don't know how a country could be any gayer than Japan already. They are worse that the US's Metrosexual phase.

 
Telos 2009-06-07 02:03:27 PM  
xip_80: My brother spent much of last year in Japan. My sister went over to visit him. I heard stories of guys wearing make up and even glitter. There would be guys sitting on each others laps, etc. I guess it's pretty weird.

You forgot the important info here. How much did he get laid?

 
Fano 2009-06-07 02:03:53 PM  
I miss Mainichi's Wai Wai page. That used to be the source of the greatest links ever.

/Japanese tabloids are fun
//and they would have had the best take on this story

 
theorellior 2009-06-07 02:04:02 PM  
MaddyUnderstood: holy stromboli! i think the population of Japan may not increase come the next generation!

Actually, I think the population decline has more to do with Japanese women not being excited about marriage to a sarariman who does nothing around the house, works from six in the morning to midnight, goes boozing with the boss when not working in order to climb the corporate ladder, and has the oral hygiene of a vulture on meth.

 
Nemo's Brother 2009-06-07 02:04:10 PM  
ldasil: "It was after World War II and the post-war economic growth that Japanese men gained the reputation as a sex animal through the competition with the West."

Japanese men have been considered sex animals since WWII? Huh?


The Japanese have a completely different view of themselves than reality does.

 
7473r4 2009-06-07 02:04:15 PM  
"herbivore men," "the men in dark suits," "carnivorous men"?

Everything that comes out of japan sounds like it's from some kind of story book.

 
svenbertil 2009-06-07 02:04:39 PM  
ldasil: "It was after World War II and the post-war economic growth that Japanese men gained the reputation as a sex animal through the competition with the West."

Japanese men have been considered sex animals since WWII? Huh?


Never seen japanese porn? Not exactly common with missionary heterosexual scenes.

 
Dr._Michael_Hfuhruhurr 2009-06-07 02:04:59 PM  
Japanese men want women with large breasts.

Japanese women want a man with a large penis.

Neither group gets what they want.

/dated a Japanese girl in college
//her vagina was 18 slightly different colored squares
//I think that's why they all squint

 
Reverend J 2009-06-07 02:05:02 PM  
草食動物の男性 = 同性愛

/That's was google tells me!

 
feanturi 2009-06-07 02:05:04 PM  
Neuffy: "and believe that friendship without sex can exist between men and women"
... implying that non-"herbivore men" don't?


Some non-"herbivore" men pretend to believe they don't want to fark every female they are friends with, but they do. We all do, it's wired into us, it is what makes us male. If she suddenly decides to have a fling one night, you might turn her down to "save the friendship", but rest assured you're spanking it the moment you get home. If this is not true, you definitely have teh ghey.

 
Pinner 2009-06-07 02:05:23 PM  
shiat, pretty soon they'll want to marry each other too.

 
trintrin 2009-06-07 02:05:28 PM  
What a herbivore may look like:

i86.photobucket.com

/Hoooo!

 
Nemo's Brother 2009-06-07 02:05:48 PM  
feanturi: Neuffy: "and believe that friendship without sex can exist between men and women"
... implying that non-"herbivore men" don't?

Some non-"herbivore" men pretend to believe they don't want to fark every female they are friends with, but they do. We all do, it's wired into us, it is what makes us male. If she suddenly decides to have a fling one night, you might turn her down to "save the friendship", but rest assured you're spanking it the moment you get home. If this is not true, you definitely have teh ghey.


Unless they are fat.

 
Excen 2009-06-07 02:05:54 PM  
MaddyUnderstood: 20% of the population of guys are "herbivores"?!

holy stromboli! i think the population of Japan may not increase come the next generation!


It's not increasing now! It's because the modern Japanese woman is a gold-digging machine. I mean, it's permissible to let your husband fark everything that moves, including octopus, as long as he's discrete and lets your know about it. They even have decorum standards for what to do if you give your wife the clap that you got from your mistress.

/Granted, when you can have BOTH steak and cheeseburgers. . .

 
Dialectic 2009-06-07 02:06:03 PM  
Man, I'm tellin' ya.

It's all that tentacle porn: The Japanese dudes may have built in an aversion to actually take a girl out to dinner and a movie due to copious amount of porn. And you know, Japanese porn is very freaky. Not like our porn, the 'merican kind.

 
StaleCoffee 2009-06-07 02:07:01 PM  
When a culture obsesses sexually over girls with the body of a 14 year old boy, this kind of thing doesn't seem very surprising.

 
JesseL [TotalFark] 2009-06-07 02:07:18 PM  
theorellior: MaddyUnderstood: holy stromboli! i think the population of Japan may not increase come the next generation!

Actually, I think the population decline has more to do with Japanese women not being excited about marriage to a sarariman who does nothing around the house, works from six in the morning to midnight, goes boozing with the boss when not working in order to climb the corporate ladder, and has the oral hygiene of a vulture on meth.


It seems that the hardest lesson for the Japanese to learn is moderation.

 
spelunking_defenestrator 2009-06-07 02:07:46 PM  
In Boston we call them "queahs".

 
evajyna 2009-06-07 02:08:18 PM  
I normally like the hairy, burly man-types but there is just something about a Japanese dandy boy that just opens up the floodgates. I don't even watch Anime or have any interest in Japan whatsoever, except for those fashionista boys.

Maybe I'm just an Orientalist at heart.

 
koder 2009-06-07 02:08:56 PM  
xip_80: I heard stories of guys wearing make up and even glitter. There would be guys sitting on each others laps, etc. I guess it's pretty weird.

Hint: Japan is a preview of things to come in the US.

 
Pinner 2009-06-07 02:09:33 PM  
evajyna: I normally like the hairy, burly man-types but there is just something about a Japanese dandy boy that just opens up the floodgates. I don't even watch Anime or have any interest in Japan whatsoever, except for those fashionista boys.

Maybe I'm just an Orientalist at heart.


Hairless and smooth, probably cry when they fall down?
/have a seat over there.

 
HMS_Blinkin 2009-06-07 02:09:52 PM  
FTFA: ""In Japan, sex is translated as 'relationship in flesh,'" she said, "so I named those boys 'herbivorous boys' since they are not interested in flesh."

Typically, "herbivore men" are in their 20s and 30s, and believe that friendship without sex can exist between men and women, Fukasawa said."

Just because you understand that men and women can be friends without sex doesn't mean you have to give it up entirely. I mean, really? It's not like it has to be one way or the other, there's a middle. Ah, fark it, Japanese people are weird.

 
tchau 2009-06-07 02:10:04 PM  
Dr._Michael_Hfuhruhurr: Japanese men want women with large breasts.

Japanese women want a man with a large penis.

Neither group gets what they want.

/dated a Japanese girl in college
//her vagina was 18 slightly different colored squares
//I think that's why they all squint



/clap at the mosaic reference.

 
MaddyUnderstood [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-06-07 02:10:22 PM  
Japanese men want women with large breasts.

Japanese women want a man with a large penis.

Neither group gets what they want.

/dated a Japanese girl in college
//her vagina was 18 slightly different colored squares
//I think that's why they all squint


They should all just move to 'Mmurica.
Lord knows all the ladies here have big ones.

/on the other hand, maybe they shouldnt.
//lack of turn signals here already hack me off...
///oops!

 
theorellior 2009-06-07 02:10:39 PM  
Dr._Michael_Hfuhruhurr: //her vagina was 18 slightly different colored squares

icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com

/hot as a cheezburger

 
OLD FARTK 2009-06-07 02:11:19 PM  
The Japanese soldiers in WWII were misguided & conned into "dying for their emperor" however, they were extremely courageous.
They would yell out "BONZAI!!"

These wienees murmur

"bonsigh"

 
Glitchwerks 2009-06-07 02:11:30 PM  
www.itwouldbescary.com

 
Wolf Flywheel 2009-06-07 02:11:48 PM  
This is all happening because the Foobies link is gone. Japanese men need to see Foobs.

 
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