3/3/2009

This Japanese maid’s photo and the “herbivore” Japanese guy on the bottom are strangely parallel.


The photo immediately above is of one of the new Japanese “herbivorous men”—a recent Japanese phenomenon covered in the Yomiuri News of Feb. 26th …

Yomiuri.co.jp…The term “herbivorous men” was penned by columnist Maki Fukasawa… “In recent times, many men in their 20s and 30s aren’t preying on women, nor are they fixated with demonstrating their masculinity,” Fukasawa says. A company worker in his 30s epitomizes herbivorous man. “If I missed the last train, I’d go to a love hotel with a female friend and we’d sleep together,” he says. “Yet we wouldn’t get up to anything. We’d simply go to sleep.”…more...