A Solution (RE: A Problem)

[Doktor Howl]

I'm going out this weekend, too.

I will be wearing blue jeans, a black t-shirt, and engineer boots.

Dok,
Can reasonably count on NEVER being in style.

Speaking as a female....  (since I am one) I prefer a man in a nice fitting pair of jeans, t-shirt and boots!! 

Sure.  But I'm not talking about looking good, I'm talking about being in style.

Dok, looking good is always in style! 

Even if it looks good to dress up like a soldier in the Continental Army?

ONLY IF YOUR EARS HANG LOW.

[Jasper]

Looking good is not always in style.  

Some cultures favor a sickly demeanor, and I am pretty sure there have been (ETA:  Mainstream) cultures that fetishized obesity.

[Doktor Howl]

Looking good is not always in style.  

Some cultures favor a sickly demeanor, and I am pretty sure there have been (ETA:  Mainstream) cultures that fetishized obesity.

Yeah.  America.

Only we do it backwards.  Everyone's a fatass, but we are provided with sickly waifs that are so skinny you can count their organs through a parka, so that everyone feels properly inadequate.

Cosmopolitan Magazine, for example, is designed specifically to keep its readers miserable.

[Jasper]

Heh.  I know a guy who reads cosmo.  He keeps them near the toilet.

I was thinking of Japan.  They seem to have a feminine ideal of a female who is too feeble and ill to do anything.  So I've heard.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Heh.  I know a guy who reads cosmo.  He keeps them near the toilet.

I was thinking of Japan.  They seem to have a feminine ideal of a female who is too feeble and ill to do anything.  So I've heard.

Immaturity too. I hear for some reason Japanese males favor childish behavior.

[Cramulus]

japan's still wrestling with gender role issues. Their gender norms are like ours were in the early 80s. Things are changing fast though because no families have time to instill their kids with "traditional values", everybody's working late tonight, dinner's in the fridge.

Cosmopolitan Magazine, for example, is designed specifically to keep its readers miserable.

true dat

[Doktor Howl]

Heh.  I know a guy who reads cosmo.  He keeps them near the toilet.

I was thinking of Japan.  They seem to have a feminine ideal of a female who is too feeble and ill to do anything.  So I've heard.

Immaturity too. I hear for some reason Japanese males favor childish behavior.

The American South still clings to that, to some degree.

[Jasper]

How come American culture exported to Japan seems to take twenty years?

[Doktor Howl]

japan's still wrestling with gender role issues. Their gender norms are like ours were in the early 80s. Things are changing fast though because no families have time to instill their kids with "traditional values", everybody's working late tonight, dinner's in the fridge.

In 30 years, they can graduate to "Everyone's in the club car, nobody's driving the train", like we have.

Cosmopolitan Magazine, for example, is designed specifically to keep its readers miserable.

true dat

Yep.  Insanely emaciated models, and continous articles like "Is your man cheating on you?  Take this quiz.", and "Your sex life sucks, here's why."

I giggle every time I pass the magazine rack at the grocery store.

[Doktor Howl]

How come American culture exported to Japan seems to take twenty years?

Stupidity takes training.

[Freeky]

How come American culture exported to Japan seems to take twenty years?

Stupidity takes training.

Except that Americans are usually the forefront of stupid, because we're a country of pioneers.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

How come American culture exported to Japan seems to take twenty years?

Stupidity takes training.

Except that Americans are usually the forefront of stupid, because we're a country of pioneers.

I don't know, I think the Japanese embraced hipsterism way before hipsters here did.

[LMNO]

Yeah, but the Japanese took it to the motherfucking wall.

Just google "harajuku" and you'll see what I mean.

[Doktor Howl]

Yeah, but the Japanese took it to the motherfucking wall.

Just google "harajuku" and you'll see what I mean.

I will not.

[Jasper]

I've seen that shit.

Feels bad man.