Half of Japanese Females Think Virtual Girlfriends Are Superior
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What there is to complain? The guys have low self-esteem because they don't reach girl's standards so they go to dating sims. Then the girls get miserable because they can't compare to the virtual girls.
So everybody is depressed, sad, miserable, lonely and self-hating.
No unfair share of happiness = justice.
So everybody is depressed, sad, miserable, lonely and self-hating.
No unfair share of happiness = justice.
Now see I really think that while Japan is an extreme case of people falling in love with simulated video game characters, there is still a fair bit of that around here in the West as well. Take a look at the Tali love for instance.
Still currently that's not as extreme a case but looking at how far Japan is technologically compared to most of the world, it's possible that this is a trend that could eventually pass over into the nerdy subcultures of other countries as well. I mean I think largely the idea of a 'virtual girlfriend' is popular because it means you can walk around pretending you have a girlfriend who you can project love onto, without having to actually have any kind of relationship commitment. You know, you don't have to remember her birthday, you can leave her for weeks on end and when you return she's still at your beck and call... all that jazz.
Suddenly the real thing would look like 'too much effort'.
A virtual girlfriend is probably the answer to people who want a girlfriend but don't want a relationship. I wonder if this may result in men resenting real life women for not being as agreeable as the virtual partners?
So yeah, it certainly is sick and freaky but I think I 'get' the logic behind it, even if I still think the logic behind it is extremely insane and crazy and I don't approve at all. But still guys, remember, the next time you fantasise about a video game character, remember that there really are some extreme cases out there and you should probably strive to avoid being among them.
Still currently that's not as extreme a case but looking at how far Japan is technologically compared to most of the world, it's possible that this is a trend that could eventually pass over into the nerdy subcultures of other countries as well. I mean I think largely the idea of a 'virtual girlfriend' is popular because it means you can walk around pretending you have a girlfriend who you can project love onto, without having to actually have any kind of relationship commitment. You know, you don't have to remember her birthday, you can leave her for weeks on end and when you return she's still at your beck and call... all that jazz.
Suddenly the real thing would look like 'too much effort'.
A virtual girlfriend is probably the answer to people who want a girlfriend but don't want a relationship. I wonder if this may result in men resenting real life women for not being as agreeable as the virtual partners?
So yeah, it certainly is sick and freaky but I think I 'get' the logic behind it, even if I still think the logic behind it is extremely insane and crazy and I don't approve at all. But still guys, remember, the next time you fantasise about a video game character, remember that there really are some extreme cases out there and you should probably strive to avoid being among them.
First, can we get a post of that "Don't Date Robots clip" frm Futurama, honestly we needed that shit seven pages ago, if already posted apologies I browsed through the first four pages and after that the urge to comment overwhelmed me.
Second, honestly I just don't know how to feel about this, other than aroused and wanting to go to Japan.
I sppose I can kind of see the appeal of this considering you can just turn them off, but having said that... REAL WOMEN > Virtual screw toys. You know until we can build totally life like androids, then fun times.
Second, honestly I just don't know how to feel about this, other than aroused and wanting to go to Japan.
I sppose I can kind of see the appeal of this considering you can just turn them off, but having said that... REAL WOMEN > Virtual screw toys. You know until we can build totally life like androids, then fun times.
I can't help but feel a tinge of sadness for all the women who believe they cannot compete with pixels. A part of me believes that it is possible that they are basing this view on looks and demeanor, and feel that they are somehow flawed in that regard. Another part of me believes that it is possible that they themselves may have an unrealistic view of how a woman should be. I might be the different ball in the box of cubes, but there are no flaws in a woman or anyone. Perhaps incompatibility, but that isn't a flaw. I don't know, but I do hope that this isn't indicative a society that favors external imagery over genuine humanity.
3rd 'point' - what a joke, and hope you intended it as one. It seems that white male culture is very obsessed by the size of genitals. Statistcally, it is pretty clear that for all the boasting about size, not that many boasters actually have all that impressive 'members' themselves. That joke/stereotype exists because of white, male insecurity. And none of those fools that repeatedly say it seem to realise that SMALLER people would probably have PROPORTIONATE genitalia. Would Japanese 'want' Japanese men? Well from the high amount Western visitors shouting their warcries of 'we have come to conquer you with out larger members!', most Japanese women probably DO want Japanese men, for all their potential 'faults'.viranimus said:
4th 'point' - Yes there are many beautiful women in Japan, but many Westerners correlate such beauty and fashion sense with 'loose morals'. Perhaps that's how it flies back in the West and yes you will find all kinds of poeple in every culture, but why should any women that don't want to 'jump the bone' (no matter how much men think that they should) be then called 'prudish'. Just because Western vistors so often only see them as sex objects doesn't mean that they actually are. Japanese women are some of the most strongwilled around. Strange that so many Western men come to Japan looking for easy lays and kitchen slaves.
5th point - yes the allies droppped 2 very large and excessive bombs on Japan, after decimating so many cities anyway by conventional means. Has it left a mark? Of course it has. Has any war left a mark on ANY culture? Yes. Look how affected America is post 9/11. Look how messed up it is in its view of Asia after WW2 and Vietnam. Every culture bears the scars of the past. Japanese penchant for cataclysm in their pop culture is probably due to those two bombs but also such themes run rampant in Western fiction too, and are at least partially drawn from Biblical fear of the apocalypse. Most cultures have apocalypse on the brain, somewhere. As for pantie vending machines? The much overblown and over cited rarity in Japan? Well what the heck does that have to do with those bombs? You used the word 'prude' up above, which is interesting considering that Western culture, by comparison, is very prudish when it comes to many bodily functions. It still hasn't shed alot of past conservatism and religious modesty. Adult shops are kept away from, sexual things are feared, and so on. In Japan, there was no such social and religious movement to demonise parts of the human body and what they do, though there are taboos, of course. This IS a modern society.
So yes, there ARE puddings in the shape of breasts - millions of Japanese have breasts, so why not? Plus it's funny! Yes, there is a comic character that's a poo, and why not? EVERYBODY poos, plus it's funny. This is what so many 'only in Japan!' people don't get. Japan isn't the West and so many of the 'strange' things in Japan are actually just 'different', and what is 'normal' is just a product of your own 'strange things'. Those pantie vending machines are not easy to find. You have to go where they are sold, ie IN FRONT OF ADULT SHOPS or in curtained off areas or in certain districts. It's better to keep that stuff in the open than hide it in the dark so that it grows unchecked and unseen.
You talk about 'guys marrying pillows', well what about Western people getting married in computer games? That guy who married a pillow was just a geek having fun. That wedding was NOT OFFICIAL. Of COURSE it wasn't. Almost every example of 'Japanese weirdness' portrayed in Western media is out of proportion. Strange inventions made to look like the latest craze are most of than not actually part of competitions to make functional but useless things, or they are 'art' or they are just a joke. Strangely costumed people are just people having fun in Harajuku at cosplay festivals or in the park there. And if not, they are no stranger than the goths and swampys, and other eccentrically dressed that walk around in Western countries.
Western culture so often tends to hide the things undesirable or hard to digest, and then it convinces it self that those things don't really exist.
I tried to find "don't date robots" on youtube but i got nothing.kotorfan04 said:
They won't, Americans will step in and gladly keep them going.Kuilui said:
Yes, it seems that critics against Japan and users of the 'only in Japan' rubbish, are very blind to their own culture's eccenticities. For example, THIS (http://www.realdoll.com/cgi-bin/snav.rd?action=viewpage§ion=contact) is not a Japanese invention. And it wasn't the Japanese media which gave us people getting OFFICIALLY married in Quake, Second Life, World of Warcraft, etc.; or making pink machine guns for their wives on Valentine's Day, or celebrating being the fattest people in the world, or whatever. Every culture has these kinds of things going on, but when Western media report on Western weirdness, it doesn't try to equate those things to the culture as a whole. That is very unlike what happens with all these 'look how strange Japan is' articles here and in most other Western sources.Vrex360 said:
You think so? The USA has already come the closest - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealDollKuilui said:
"RealDoll creator Matt McMullen has stated a desire to keep working in the areas of robotics and artificial intelligence
