Yeah, yeah, I know, "judge not lest ye be judged" and "People who live in glass houses" and all that, but uh.....sometimes it seems like this country is just one big open air freakshow:
And my wife sometimes wonders why I don't want the kids out of my sight in public places. If there was ever a society in dire need of a massive dose of psychotherapy, I'm living in it.
(a hat - tip to Our Man in Abiko)
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And the fact that he is so open about something like that. I don't see that happening here, or in the U.S.
This post just reinforces the mocking hatred I have for all the manga and anime fans here who profess to be experts on Japanese culture. I don't think we can "get" Japan. I don't think we can possibly understand it. I mean really, octopus ink flavour ice cream? Really?
You live in a strange and wonderful world Rev. Thanks for giving us a glimpse.
You can find a few weirdos in any culture, but one line of this story did have more alarmingly widespread implications: "According to a government survey, more than a quarter of men and women between the ages of 30 and 34 are virgins; 50 percent of men and women in Japan do not have friends of the opposite sex."
I was willing to beleive this, mainly because it was in The New York Times and there's no way something like that would get past their fact-checkers if it weren't so, right? Surely?
Well, someone out there begs to differ:
http://www.mutantfrog.com/2009/07/27/nemutans-revenge-some-fact-checking-and-reaction-to-the-nyt-story-on-anime-fetishists/
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