tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8528686231765021097.post397545851132396440..comments2023-09-12T16:52:48.733+09:00Comments on Antisthenes' corollary*:: She's not feeling it, Japan. He is.Ἀντισθένηςhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06199983680204710885noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8528686231765021097.post-8491774999541788632013-09-18T11:06:10.282+09:002013-09-18T11:06:10.282+09:00You'd hope anyone in an international marriage...You'd hope anyone in an international marriage had a sense of humour. Hell, anyone in a marriage needs it. "Having hundreds of mothers" sounds like 'the ninth circle'.<br /><br />What you describe in the second paragraph also happens... if he's an idiot! Too common. I had my Orientalist phase too, but that thing called 'experience' taught me that life's a lot more complicated. Seems like the dudes you describe are not only still in their phase, but also in total ignorance of anything in Japanese culture they did not learn from Hollywood movies. Yes Orientalist-dude, Japanese women can act very demure in public: please note the words 'act' and 'public'.Ἀντισθένηςhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06199983680204710885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8528686231765021097.post-52190460430528167712013-09-17T16:17:09.494+09:002013-09-17T16:17:09.494+09:00I'm a woman. Tried the foreign-women-married-t...I'm a woman. Tried the foreign-women-married-to-Japanese-men groups and Internet forums and good luck trying to be humourous, especially irony. You'll be scolded in a deadly earnest manner and told what you can and cannot say; for goodness sakes no swearing! Like having hundreds of mothers. No fun. <br /><br />Also, same thing happens with hetero-couples where the wife is Japanese and meets a non-Japanese man abroad. They come to Japan and soon to him she's too "Westernized" compared to the beer-poster gals who seem so much easier, in more ways than one. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8528686231765021097.post-79856249298118415572013-09-17T04:38:47.206+09:002013-09-17T04:38:47.206+09:00I think humor goes both ways, if you can't lau...I think humor goes both ways, if you can't laugh and take things with a grain of salt you may as well stick yourself in the mud; cause that's what you look like: a stick in the mud. I never understood why women get so jealous, visibly so at least. Keep that shit under wraps and play along like it's all fun and games. Even if a little harmless flirting gets under your skin otherwise you come off looking like a stupid sulking baby. Far worse to look at a stupid sulking baby than a stick in the mud, least I think so. thegypsiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01019720222734603445noreply@blogger.com