Japan comes up with new term for "homosexual men"

[guyver01]

Japan's 'herbivore men' - less interested in sex, money

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

The term has become a buzzword in Japan. Many people in Tokyo's Harajuku neighborhood were familiar with "herbivore men" -- and had opinions about them.



Midori Saida, a 24-year-old woman sporting oversized aviators and her dyed brown hair in long ringlets, said "herbivore men" were "flaky and weak."

"We like manly men," she said. "We are not interested in those boys -- at all."

Takahito Kaji, 21, said he has been told he is "totally herbivorous."

"Herbivorous boys are fragile, do not have a stocky body -- skinny."



:Q

 

[Sea Moose]

Kinda like emos



Firing squad at dawn

 

[Pepsei]

hell, the chinese already have a term.... ironically, the slang is comrades.

 

[zerocool84]

Attn All Anandtech Forum Members:

Anandtech Forums is officially changing it's name to Herbivore Forums.

 

[guyver01]

i like it because it's basically insinuating that all 'vegitarians' are ghey...


which i would agree with that sentiment. real men tear flesh from bone with their teeth.


<ROAR!>

 

[sjwaste]

So the metro craze is sweeping Japan?

 

[alkemyst]

Makes sense, tossed salad = herbivore.

 

[RapidSnail]

Originally posted by: guyver01
i like it because it's basically insinuating that all 'vegitarians' are ghey...


which i would agree with that sentiment. real men tear flesh from bone with their teeth.


<ROAR!>

lol

 

[jlee]

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

So I guess it's supposed to be difficult to be friends with your friends and their SOs?

wtf?

😕

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

I find it funny how insecure asian men are. Today I had a conversation with a female friend (who I would like to bang, but that's another story) and she was asking me whether asian men really are horribly under-endowed. I don't know first-hand, but I have heard confirmations from some asian friends.

 

[SlitheryDee]

Originally posted by: JLee

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

So I guess it's supposed to be difficult to be friends with your friends and their SOs?

wtf?

😕

Wait, so everyone else is screwing all the girls they know? I'm not saying I wouldn't like to screw every girl I'm friends with (well most of them anyway). I just didn't know it was required to maintain my straight status. Have to get on that...

 

[ElFenix]

i didn't read the article so i could be wrong, but the blurb doesn't mention anything about homosexuality. more like asexuality.

 

[TridenT]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
i didn't read the article so i could be wrong, but the blurb doesn't mention anything about homosexuality. more like asexuality.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
I find it funny how insecure asian men are. Today I had a conversation with a female friend (who I would like to bang, but that's another story) and she was asking me whether asian men really are horribly under-endowed. I don't know first-hand, but I have heard confirmations from some asian friends.

So let me get this straight, you want to fuck this chick, but the best topic you can come up with is talking about asian men?

 

[coloumb]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
i didn't read the article so i could be wrong, but the blurb doesn't mention anything about homosexuality. more like asexuality.

"Fukasawa said Japanese men from the baby boomer generation were typically aggressive and proactive when it came to romance and sex. But as a result of growing up during Japan's troubled economy in the 1990s, their children's generation was not as assertive and goal-oriented. Their outlook came, in part, from seeing their fathers' model of masculinity falter even as Japanese women gained more lifestyle options."

So - basically they became wimps and found it easier to just have self-satisfying internet pr0n sex.

 

[ProfJohn]

Post WW 2 Japan really got fucked up and still hasn't found its way.

 

[MovingTarget]

Lets just hope it doesn't spread to our side of the pacific.

 

[invidia]

Any herbivorous ATOTers here that want to get together for July 4th?

 

[bdude]

You know, what's with all the pink ties and shirts? Totally herbivorous.

 

[DayLaPaul]

If a dude likes to smoke sausage and eat meat, doesn't that make him a carnivore?

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: ProfJohn
Post WW 2 Japan really got fucked up and still hasn't found its way.

this.

here's a great article published a few years ago about the ridiculous popularity of anonymous group suicide among Japan's infantile population (suggests that lack of any real adults to "look up to" after the colossal defeat in WW2 lead to "a country of children" up to this day).

interesting read.

 

[EGGO]

Originally posted by: sjwaste
So the metro craze is sweeping Japan?

They were the ones who probably started it...centuries ago.

 

[Nik]

Originally posted by: guyver01
i like it because it's basically insinuating that all 'vegitarians' are ghey...


which i would agree with that sentiment. real men tear flesh from bone with their teeth.


<ROAR!>

Yes, but apparently herbivore men now also suck meat and bone and no longer use teeth :Q

 

[Perknose]

I hear herbivore men are leafy pants stalk munchers.

 

[Ronstang]

Don't they have that a little mixed up? I mean herbivores eat bush, carnivores eat meat.