"She's a lot stronger than I am, can lift heavy things and go drinking until dawn..."

[Captain Japan]

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In Japan, it's the men who want to be skinny and cute
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There was a time when slimness was the absolute prerequisite for urban Japanese women, when designers like Shinichiro Arakawa and Yohji Yamamoto professed a flat refusal to make clothes for women who weren't fragile and thin, whose chests and hips were barely discernable through the fabric. That aesthetic went out when the health and exercise boom came in about seven years ago - the new Japanese woman, according to the fashion critic Ikuko Hirayama, is: "strong, robust, bursting with energy. She takes care of her body but is not obsessed with being thin. She's proud of her biceps and also proud of her sexuality." Accordingly, the most popular relaxation sport for single working women nowadays is "boxercising," or the combination of boxing moves plus aerobics, which is said to increase adrenaline flow by 80 percent and is an ideal way to blow off aggression and stress. In stark contrast, it's the men who want to be slender, vulnerable and protected....more...

Sound boring? Well, at least read until you get to the part about the guy whose girlfriend outweighs him and can lift a piano.

[Mulboyne]

[Samurai_Jerk]

These guys should all be beat to death.

[alicia454]

I serious doubt that applies to foreign women, especially those that are very big, tall, strong, and fit. Every time I see Japanese couple, the woman is usually some tiny, anorexic, helpless doll.

Not one guy here has shown any interest since I move here. It is very different to the reaction I got when I was working in Germany last year.

Mind you I am only attracted to men that are much bigger, taller, and stronger than myself.

[james]

[james]

These guys should all be beat to death.

heh heh, and their girlfriends could probably do it for us!

[gomichild]

I serious doubt that applies to foreign women, especially those that are very big, tall, strong, and fit. Every time I see Japanese couple, the woman is usually some tiny, anorexic, helpless doll.

Not one guy here has shown any interest since I move here. It is very different to the reaction I got when I was working in Germany last year.

This has not been my experience here at all and I'm definitely not a tiny, anorexic, helpless doll.

Japanese boys are easy. Plus the skinny ones are always easier to kick out the door the next morning.

*Except for the ones who wear you down until you marry them and have their children.

[Takechanpoo]

no wonder some women here develop a gaijin fetish.. who the hell could blame them?

Those girls who love macho man are minority group in this country.
Mostly macho J-dudes are called "kimoi(creepy)" by most of J-girls.
After all, mainstream of J-girls need these neutral gender guys.

[james]

Those girls who love macho man are minority group in this country.
Mostly macho J-dudes are called "kimoi(creepy)" by most of J-girls.
After all, mainstream of J-girls need these neutral gender guys.

you don't have to "macho" to not be an androgynous shell of a man.

[jim katta]

Love this topic. Two recent pertinent anecdotes:

Yesterday, from my peripheral vision I saw what I thought was a lesbian couple walking hand in hand. But when they got closer it turned out to be a tall robust blonde gaijin girl and walking with a shorter and much skinnier Japanese guy. She noticed me looking and glared a little. I'm sure she mistook my look of shock as some statement on her being in a mixed couple rather than surprise at what I thought was two women. Oh, and the guy looked positively feeble.

At work there's a hot new Korean girl who has broadcast that she's not interested in Japanese or Korean men at all. She even went so far as to tell us all that she only wanted to date a Western man. OK, so you think you know what she's looking for, right? Wrong. After months of looking lonely she finally hooked up with this Swedish guy who is literally one of the skinniest, timid, nervous everyday (hands shaking and everything) people I have ever met. He's a nice guy, but in the U.S. he'd be either 1) immediately swooped up by the gay community and either turned or hailed as a mascot, or 2) be strap-on bait for some overly aggressive woman. But in Japan? The guy is a winner because he is actually a double threat in that being with him is like having a Japanese guy but getting the 'exotic' gaijin flavor.

Weird.

As a blue-collar, big muscular type, I'm actually starting to feel the pain. Most of the Japanese chicks into my type are slutty. Other than that, proper/non-slutty gaijin chicks go for me, but I don't meet many. So, since I have no intention of bitching up, dropping 40 pounds, wearing tight low-cut jeans, and artificially raise my voice tone a few octaves to a fine faerie-like whisper, I may be in for a lonely winter. Unless of course I lower my standards and embrace the skanks that like barbarians like me.

[james]

As a blue-collar, big muscular type, I'm actually starting to feel the pain. Most of the Japanese chicks into my type are slutty.

oh, woe is you! "the only girls who are into me are sluts who want nothing more than to sleep with me!".. yeah, i feel your pain too

arright, so i can't empathize with the problem of slutty girls wanting me, i can, even after almost 10 years of marriage, if i try really hard, empathize with wanting a real relationship.

there must be a few girls over here though that are not complete skanks / sluts that would want a real relationship with a big, muscular type..

[ttjereth]

oh, woe is you! "the only girls who are into me are sluts who want nothing more than to sleep with me!".. yeah, i feel your pain too

arright, so i can't empathize with the problem of slutty girls wanting me, i can, even after almost 10 years of marriage, if i try really hard, empathize with wanting a real relationship.

there must be a few girls over here though that are not complete skanks / sluts that would want a real relationship with a big, muscular type..

I think part of the problem is most of the "sluts" aren't only interested in sleeping with a guy. A lot of them tend to be after a "relationship" with gaijin, but aren't generally the type of girls one wants to form any type of lasting relationship with.

If they were just interested in one night stands, I doubt there would be as much to dislike about a lot of the "gaijin chasers"

[Samurai_Jerk]

Mind you I am only attracted to men that are much bigger, taller, and stronger than myself.

They can probably sense your attitude and that's why they don't show any interest.

[james]

Mind you I am only attracted to men that are much bigger, taller, and stronger than myself.

As a blue-collar, big muscular type

have you two met?

[Behan]

Standards? What are standards? Never heard of 'em.

[Iraira]

Most of the Japanese chicks into my type are slutty.....Unless of course I lower my standards and embrace the skanks that like barbarians like me.

According to the definition of "Slut" (a girl who sleeps with everyone, incluidng you), that would mean that you actually sleep with them. If she were a "bitch", that would mean she sleeps with everyone, except for you. Not sure why I'm defining these terms here. Been home all day with a 100.5 fever, so I've lots of time to ponder these and other important issues.

[Buraku]

heh heh, and their girlfriends could probably do it for us!

Do they really have girlfriends ? Or maybe they just have girls who go shopping with them.
I'm not sure if they really like girls, I think they've a preference of bungholyo over manko

[American Oyaji]

Is that Jet Li?