"Well,one day you will all have to grow va**nas."
Thats probably the one unprintable rant that Ill tell my JP male friends.With all that is going on,the seemingly coming extinction of the male here and the rise of the feminist movement that is encouraging women towards hyper-masculinity....if theres such a word....Anyway,the all too common narrative is, there is a man behind every crime committed by a woman.Murders her kids?Yeh, depression caused by the partner.Yeh,he wanted to leave her.Yeh,he had another woman.Yeh,It couldnt be helped.Etc etc.Women seem to be exonerated from complicity in crimes they commit.Female criminals are victims and male criminals are animals in need of the most severe punishment.My point?Mmmm....I dont have a point but remember Medea by Euripides whose suffering, instead of ennobling her, made her into a monster?A very tricky affair.The victim may just be the victimizer.......
PS Photo©Defrezne aka Mer
There was a time when Japan appeared to be another England.The house of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha led Europe in the industrial revolution; The "heavenly leader" headed a Japan that led Asia.Both monarchies with feudal class structures. Both are Island nations.Both managed to combine attachment to tradition with a spirit of mordenization and became expansionist imperial powers.In many ways the England of the Far East.But since WW2 in industrial might Jp has left Eng far far behind.No doubt a case of capitalism without liberalism.Growth and maturation of capitalism can flourish without the evolution of a democratic political system.Which in many ways Jp is really NOT! The Blue-Bloods rule this side of town.
Yes,Xtra-marital,brief infatuation,a tryst,an indulgence,a liaison,dallying,philander....infidelity oh my,oh my ,thats a lot of words to describe what used to be known by the JP-ans as a "FLOATING HEART".
There is still and I insist a still-popular belief that women are the jealous sex.JP brides wear a hat called a horn-hider (tsuno kakushi) at her wedding.For a woman to show jealousy is to "grow horns" and the white hat symbolizes that she will curb her jealousy which will supposedly make her poke sharp devil like horns from her head. Well,to each their own.....
PS* Im always lucky to stumble upon a wedding when Im on my bike travels.These are just 2 of the many pics I hold.
Unstimulating ramblings that paint a biased picture of contemporary life in post-code JP as a foreign-born person,in all my layered,contradictory and often messed up role.
Like the English original,shinguruzu is used to not only describe young people,but also the leftovers who never got hitched,the divorcees and the bereaved left behind when their spouses moved on.
Although few JP people choose to stay single for life,there is a large and devilishly cleaver arsenal of words for ridiculing them-especially women unfortunately.For example, “unsold merchandise”(urenokori), “widow without going”(ikazu goke) a play on to go ie getting married.Some of the words are phrased in a foreign tongue like “old miss”(orudo misu)to the rather insulting “high miss”(hai misu).Its not surprising that there are few words to describe bachelors.
Well,evidently the times are changing and there are possibly more words out there to convey a more upbeat image of single life.
As for me,I will wait as passively as a grocery-store tomato hoping a customer will pick me up before I do rot.....LOL!
P.S
The image of the kimono clad girl was taken last year when I happened to see her standing and looking at a vermilion-colored O-torii Gate out in the sea.
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