The frightening, awesome power of the non-violent Men's Revolution in Japan

[LJ_Reloaded]

Herbivore Men. Men who have sworn off the pursuit of women and Capitalist norms of success. A quiet revolution that has taken the wheels off of hypergamic femininity and feminism all in one huge, nonviolent move.

How devastating has this peaceful revolt been?

Well, for one, Japanese women are now fucking up their teeth in order to look more approachable. Because Japanese men are not approaching women.

No one is coercing women into doing this. Unless you count non-participation on the part of men, as coercion - and if this did come here, many feminists would say it's coercion. Because that is how American feminism rolls... if you don't pursue women you find undesirable, it's also coercion and ultimately raep culture.

But since you can't charge a man with rape if he doesn't pursue a woman, feminists would be utterly powerless if the Herbivore Man effect came to America.

And this could be what it ends up looking like...............

https://shine.yahoo.com/shine-beaut...s-dental-procedures-girl-group-194500258.html

The trend may seems out of step with American dentistry, but in Japan-where fashion trends often take their cue from child-like physical attributes-it's a thing of beauty. Masuoka claims the snaggletooth look gives his patients an "impish beauty" that is considered "endearingly attractive" to men. He's even reportedly offered middle school and high-school aged patients a half-price discount on the procedure if they bring identification. (You can check out how it's done with this helpful video from Tokyo's Dental Care Salon Plasir.)

Roland Kelts, author of the book Japan America, theorizes the rise of the "impish" mouth may have a psychological link. "The 'girl next door' look of accessibility and plainness is especially popular in Japan right now partly, I think, because Japanese men feel so weak in the face of a stagnant economy and fast-shifting gender roles," Kelts told Yahoo! Shine. "Marriage and birth rates in Japan are at historic lows. A too-perfect set of teeth, or anything else, can be intimidating when your role in society is imperiled."

Shifting gender roles and a growing insecurity of men in the workplace? Sounds familiar. If that's partly behind the snaggletooth trend in Japan, could twisted dental implants make their way to the United States any time soon?

 

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[MeekMe]

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You love using Japan to make your points and I can't help wondering what your experience is with Japan. Maybe you're Japanese? You have a Japanese status under your name, something about Baxter, whatever that is.

I can't help but comment on this. Japanese men aren't the only ones who are fed up. Both young men and young women are uninterested in marriage. For young men it's because they don't want to fall under the pressures Japanese society has put on them to be breadwinners. For women, they don't want to lose their independence even if moving up in a company is difficult to do.

Not only are there articles about this, but I speak from my own experience with Japan. Seeing my in-laws and what they deal with. Talking with friends about their experiences while in Japan.

Men and women are under so much pressure to fit the gender roles their elders have carved out for them that it's just easier to not get married. If they get married they may have to buckle.

My cousin didn't marry her boyfriend for a long time because she had a good job in a prominent company. If she was to marry she would pretty much lose her job. The moment a woman even mentions she's engaged her position is already posted to be filled. When she became pregnant they decided to marry, but to get around losing her job, he registered into her family instead of her registering into his family (the norm). My in-laws are a little less strict than previous generations.

It's expensive to marry and have children. If you marry, you're expected to have children. If a man has a wife, he's expected to work crazy hours and she's expected to quit and be a good wife at home. It's getting more and more impossible for a single income family to raise children. Given the pressures and options, staying single seems to be the better option. Many young people have friends with benefits or frequent clubs where they can spend money on conversation with no strings attached. BOTH men and women do this, not ALL men and women, but enough that it's growing problem.

Here.

This one, too.

I can't say that I'm an expert, but I at least have some experience.

As for girls fucking up their teeth? The general population will follow any trend if they think it will get them friends or lovers. When an article on natto claimed it would help you lose weight, the next day stores across the nation ran out of natto.

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

You love using Japan to make your points and I can't help wondering what your experience is with Japan. Maybe you're Japanese? You have a Japanese status under your name, something about Baxter, whatever that is.

Baxter no Karyujin... Stephen Baxter's Downstream People, aka Downstreamers. If you're not a sci-fi nerd you won't get it.

I can't help but comment on this. Japanese men aren't the only ones who are fed up. Both young men and young women are uninterested in marriage. For young men it's because they don't want to fall under the pressures Japanese society has put on them to be breadwinners. For women, they don't want to lose their independence even if moving up in a company is difficult to do.

Yes, yes, yes, Japanese women have long been fed up. Japanese men, however, are now catching up.

The world depends on using men, not women, as expendable, throw-away cogs in the machine. The world is threatened with collapse, then, when men decide to go on strike. Regardless of what's going on in Japan, or anywhere else, it's always been like that. And women never like men who fail.

I really don't care about anything else you said. What I care about is that men go on strike and put an end to male expendability. No matter what it costs society. If we as a species have to go extinct because we can't survive without treating men like disposable tools then maybe the next species will see where we went wrong and clean up their act.

It's not any more complex than that.