Today's video is brought to you by a donation by Willis Company and he didn't give me a topic so I want to discuss something that someone brought to my attention a few weeks ago. It's an article called "No Sex in the City: What It’s Like to Be Female and Foreign in Japan." It was written by Reannon Muth, a western woman that went to Japan to teach English. The article is about her complaining that white men have their pick of all the Japanese women when they teach English in Japan. But when it comes to western women, Japanese men don't want them. Her article starts off like this and I quote: "We usually have a tough time keeping female teachers here,” my boss informed me on my first day of work as an English teacher in Tokyo. “They usually don’t last more than six months.” I looked up from studying the roster list of teachers (30 — all male), in surprise. “You mean at this school?” “No, I mean … in Japan.” He shrugged. “Tokyo’s a tough city to be single … If you’re, you know … a western woman.” I stole a quick glance at the photos that were mounted on the wall behind him. Four middle-aged White Dudes. All of them were bearded and balding. All of them resembled the aging, stringy-haired members of the band Metallica. And all of them were pressed up against the model-thin bodies of a heavily made-up Japanese Beauty Queen. I don’t think I’ll have a problem, I thought. It wasn’t that I was beauty
queen gorgeous. Far from it. Slim, medium-height, with hazel eyes and freckles, I was at best ‘cute’ and at worst, average. But I had something that the competition didn’t: long, naturally curly, blond hair. Furthermore, I was bilingual, well-traveled and college-educated. But as I realized a few weeks into my stay in Japan, I was also mysteriously, frustratingly invisible." That's the opening part of Reannon's article and she wants everyone to cry her a river. But I kept thinking about all the Asian men here in Canada and other western countries that don't get the time of day from white women when they want to date them. All those guys get laughed at or spit on when they hit on white women and now here's a woman experiencing things from the opposite perspective but unlike them she has to be very vocal about her experiences. What I also found interesting was that western women actually picked up and left the country after not getting male attention for less then six months. This just shows me that women are more desperate for attention then men are.
No Sex in the City: What It’s Like to Be Female and Foreign in Japan
http://www.vagabondish.com/female-foreign-japan/
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9 pictures paid for and licensed through BigStock.com (In order of appearance)
1. Artem Furman - Young beautiful woman in depression drinking alcohol on a dark background
http://www.bigstockphoto.com/image-95828738/stock-photo-drunk
2. Kaspars Grinvalds - Three desperate business women
http://www.bigstockphoto.com/image-104626019/stock-photo-three-desperate-business-women
3. Dean Drobot - Portrait of a young woman in red dress covering her ears with fingers over gray background
http://www.bigstockphoto.com/image-111869366/stock-photo-portrait-of-a-young-woman-in-red-dress-covering-her-ears-with-fingers-over-gray-background
4. Yastremska - Lonely sad woman sitting on window
http://www.bigstockphoto.com/image-73628089/stock-photo-lonely-sad-woman-sitting-on-window
5. Aaron Amat - Young Woman Heard Bad News And Crying On Cell Phone
http://www.bigstockphoto.com/image-43910581/stock-photo-young-woman-heard-bad-news-and-crying-on-cell-phone
6. Kasia Bialasiewicz - Woman Curled Up In Bed
http://www.bigstockphoto.com/image-92365610/stock-photo-woman-curled-up-in-bed
7. Anetlanda - Stressed Nervous Woman Portrait
http://www.bigstockphoto.com/image-108474740/stock-photo-stressed-nervous-woman-portrait
8. Lichtmeister - Desperate young woman golf player with putter in hand lying on green and blowing golf ball into cup, close up.
http://www.bigstockphoto.com/image-37353613/stock-photo-desperate-young-woman-golf-player-with-putter-in-hand-lying-on-green-and-blowing-golf-ball-into-cup%2C-close-up
9. Dean Drobot - Portrait of afro american woman shouting isolated on a white background
http://www.bigstockphoto.com/image-104000897/stock-photo-portrait-of-afro-american-woman-shouting-isolated-on-a-white-background