BagOfCrisps 24 Posted December 28, 2009 Share Posted December 28, 2009 I found this quite interesting. I suppose it leaves all the more rampant totty for the, er, meat eaters. Quote: Japan's 'grass eaters' turn their backs on macho waysYuki Sakurai and thousands like him have cast off the traditional image of the company salaryman As the twee cafes and boutiques in this quiet corner of Tokyo's Marunouchi business district fill with groups of "office ladies", it is easy to see how out of place Yuki Sakurai would look in the company of the blue-suited salarymen grabbing a quick noodle lunch beneath the nearby railway tracks. For one thing, the 28-year-old business consultant is impeccably turned out, from his perfectly knotted striped tie to his scuff-free brown leather shoes, bought after a champagne breakfast with some female friends. He is patience personified when passers-by do a double take while he poses for the Observer's photographer. When I ask him when he decided to become an unrepentant "grass eater", he doesn't flinch. It is not an unkind reference to his diet. Sakurai is a proud member of a new tribe of Japanese men who have eschewed traditional notions of masculinity and adopted a gentler, more "feminine" persona. He is a soshokukei danshi – herbivorous boy – a term coined two years ago by the commentator Maki Fukasawa to describe the proliferation of men who, in appearance and attitude, bear little resemblance to the two dominant Japanese male groups of the past century: soldiers and their peacetime offspring, corporate warriors. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/27/japan-grass-eaters-salaryman-macho Bloody ponces! Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted December 28, 2009 Share Posted December 28, 2009 poofs Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted December 28, 2009 Share Posted December 28, 2009 fags Link to post Share on other sites
Jynxx 4 Posted December 28, 2009 Share Posted December 28, 2009 Mind your own business guys. Link to post Share on other sites
Slippery Jim 65 Posted December 28, 2009 Share Posted December 28, 2009 My guess is that it's a total play, and he gets laid quantitatively and qualitatively far more than the average guy. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted December 28, 2009 Share Posted December 28, 2009 nah.....what a nancy-boy Link to post Share on other sites
Oyuki kigan 0 Posted December 28, 2009 Share Posted December 28, 2009 My girlfriend was telling me about this a while ago. The old saying was 'carnivorous guys' (肉食男å or something like that to explain 'macho', but now the 'herbvacious' term has come to explain guys that aren't really interested in girls or other 'manly' aspects of trad. japanese culture. It was kind of a joke, because when my friend first introduced me to my girlfriend, she said 'Oyuki is a 'è‰é£Ÿç”·å ' (a joke because i'm vegetarian) but loves sex." Link to post Share on other sites
HelperElfMissy 42 Posted December 28, 2009 Share Posted December 28, 2009 Bit like the western Metro-sexual, no? Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 Oh no not the metrosexual word! Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 Metrosexual....Herbivorous Guy......= Nancy Boys Boys don't need make up or feelings, we just need red meat, beer, football (add in anglo-colony specific sport) and women with big breasts and quiet mouths!! Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 I can do without the big breasts myself, but other than that... Link to post Share on other sites
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