A friend discussed her motherhood potential with her OB/GYN.
He said she was built like a pop up toaster!
Sh-sh-she has two slots???
I’m usually the first person to jump all over Asian sexism, but I really can’t get upset about this remark. He acknowledged the comparison isn’t perfect. And it’s not like he said women are only good for popping out (boy :p) babies.
Honestly, given the way older generations reproduced, you probably would need to be a machine to cope with that kind of output.
Well, I thought maybe some of the female persuasion might not appreciate being called baby-popping machines; however, if that did not happen, I was not going to cry about it.
Besides, I like the way the thread has progressed. Sex jokes, tubgirl, and witty one-liners. That’s like what the Dope is all about right? Well, Ok… scratch the part about tubgirl.
All women have 2 slots. It’s so you can carry them home like a six pack when they get drunk. 
:rolleyes:
That wasn’t funny the first time I heard it told by a drunken Smith Island waterman.
Humans, like pretty much every other life form, are just big clunky machines that genes use to copy themselves.
Yeah, and one is clearly marked “One Slice,” the other, well, you can figure it out.
Perhaps you should drink more. 
P.S. Did he tell ya why women have legs too?*
[sub]*Part of the joke is that they’re such bad jokes[/sub]
And the input. Mustn’t forget the input … 
But it is now?
The low birth rate probably has more to do with incredibly low sperm counts in Japanese men and the fact that most men work so much that they’re almost never home to do anything. Hard to have babies when hardly anyone ever fucks. Even without birth control the birth rate probably wouldn’t be much higher than it is right now.
I’m surprised the Japanese haven’t invented the Hello Kitty artificial womb yet.
Couple of things.
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Arudou Debito (formerly Dave Aldwinckle) is an absolute kook. The kind of guy I would happily bitch-slap if I ever meet - if I ever do run into him, I hope it’s while I’m in a car, any car. Delusions of grandeur and self-importance, the guy spends every waking second looking for any opportunity to play the victim, with one eye on the camera and the pocketbook. I’m surprised his wife stayed with him for as long as she did.
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Japanese spouses aren’t having sex with each other. But the guys, at least, are definitely having sex: Japan is the world’s third-largest market (volume) for condoms, behind only India and China, and any one who’s been to Japan knows all too well about the thriving sex industry. It has long been my contention that the thriving sex industry is one factor behind the low birth rate - why go home and shag the aging missus in curlers when you have easy access to pretty young things in your favorite costume?
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The ‘Japanese are hard workers’ is a myth, myth, myth. Japanese both believe their own advertising, and also deep down know it’s a crock: any Japanese will tell you about having to stay at work because the boss is around (i.e., they aren’t at work because they actually have work to do). Long hours doesn’t equate to actual hard work - they spend way more time at the office to get the same amount of work done is all. In fact, it is my impression that many of the clerical staff (99% women) worked harder than most of the guys in every Japanse office I’ve worked at. And the ‘mandatory’ drinking sessions were most often planned and encouraged by the same guys who would be on the phone later that night explaining that they ‘simply couldn’t refuse to go out for drinks’. Most guys, I’m convinced, much prefer going out at night to going home.
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As has been said before, Japan is a ‘country of old men, run by old men, for old men’. But don’t decry the fate of Japanese women just yet - most of them are quite happy with the status quo. They have money (in the majority of the households, the housewives have complete control over the finances, with the husbands having to ask for an ‘allowance’ each month), plenty of time (doesn’t take much time to clean the relatively small Japanese apartments) and freedom during the day to do what they want. And in general, being a housewife is an established, respected profession in Japan.
Japanese women may be treated as ‘second class citizens’ in some respect, but I would suspect that many women are - in general - happy with the arrangement. It’s why they’re willing to put up with glass ceilings and eternally unfaithful husbands. I feel most sorry for the talented Japanese women out there with actual career ambitions; they face far more hardships than their Western counterparts.
Ick. but how would the er, liquid get on her face? She must be a contortionist. <shudder>
The abortion rate in Japan is also quite high, although for some strange reason, women cannot get BC pills. I heard all this on that Worldview program about 2 weeks ago on NPR. Essentially the working women were saying that they didn’t want to give up their freedom and their career to raise kids. There is also the phenomenom of kikimuro (spelling?) to contend with–the young adult males who stay in their rooms, unemployed etc. The suicide rate is high for young people as well. Seriously, listen to the program; it was fascinating.
That’s ‘hiki-komori’, lit. to withdraw (from society). Yeah, it’s kinda weird. They’ve done documentaries on people who haven’t left their bedrooms in over five years.
The pill is still not widely available in Japan; the stated ‘rational’ being that the ‘risk of side effects are too great’. :rolleyes: As opposed to, say, pregnancy and abortion… Plus, the government only allows high-dosage pills - so of course any side effects will be stronger than they would be for low-dosage pills.
There was a considerable fuss when the same government that has been stone-walling low-dosage BC pills for literally years speed-approved Viagra in less than six months - side effects be damned…
Regarding the original topic, a large portion of the Opposition Parties in the Japanese Parliament called for the Minister of Health’s resignation. If he refused, they threatened to boycott.
I’m not too familiar with the Japanese system of politics, but in any case the reaction seems patently absurd.
If American politicians were forced to resign after every mis-speak… oh man.
What are opposition parties in every country experts in besides ‘outrage’? Calling for someone’s resignation at the drop of a hat is a time-honored tradition among opposition parties around the world.
In Japan, it plays out like friggen’ clockwork - Twit A puts foot in mouth. Opposition parties/various interests group howl with ‘outrage’. Twit A says he’s sorry for causing any fuss, but says he has no plans to step down. Twit A receives a token show of support from the Powers That Be. Opposition parties/interest groups continue to howl with rage. Twit A, a few days later, decides to step down to ‘avoid causing any more problems for my party/company’ etc.
The Health Minister got his supporting comments from the Prime Minister two days ago, so he’ll be lucky to last through the weekend
Can the gay guys stay? We’ll be good.
I vote yes. We’ll still need eye-candy.