"These leaflets are showing the outdated gender norms in Japan" I love how westerners think their sensibilities define what's "modern" and what's "outdated".
@@akishi1022 its not just modern America, America has always just destroyed old stuff to make way for new, just look at how many castles and old buildings still stand in Europe versus America, and how they are being taken care of unlike in America.
@@FaceFish9 My dude, castles never existed in America. Native Americans never built any castles. And the Europeans who immigrated to America didn't build any castles, because they immigrated in the 1600s, which is when castles were already obsolete. America was literally created less than 300 years ago. Europe has been around for over 10,000 years.
Meanwhile in America it’s like “dads needs to set up and take care of their children” and get ridiculed for a number of reasons including when they try and provide for their children and the mothers stop them.
More like "men" need to step up and take care of "our community's" children. As in the men who never got to have kids of our own are now expected to pay for another man's kids.
@@ailius1520 no point in that till the left and left wemon stop screaming white men cuased everything white men are the problem white men are preditors. Till the left stops that both birthrates and strong men will keep going down. *men* wont exist in the lefts world because all men would be trans. and or femboys meaning no masculine strong men. Maybe go watch some actual news on events in the usa and the world at large. Get out of your bubble and see the real problems in america. Why shuld a man try when to the left and wemon its never enogh. The avrage women in the usa wants a man who makes 200k a year. Meaning the avrage women wants men that are somthing like .2% of the population essentially, This is infact why relations are down and we see massive reports of. Are men not wanting to date. or Men staying away from dating. etc because men are tried of being constantly told by the left and * modern gender garbage* they are the problem for so much as being a man. Just like remember this also the left who is attacking and hating asians. aka the racists about a panflip they also are cherry picking 2/3 pages of it inorder to try and push it and make more hate or dislike japanese. aka they are racists trying to use colonial tacts they claim to hate. So they can try and change another countries cultures and traditions as if they are the world arbitors of what shuld and shuld not be accepted. Sounds like the left is a group of entitled rich white people trying to shift focus off themselves.
in the UK and US, its looked down and frowned upon by most mothers really for a dad to not be the one looking after the children daily and to make the money instead. i personally think its harsh to specify it to one gender. theres things that a man can do to look after a child its just that we tend to not get the opportunity to and theres things woman can do with a child but have more experience at doing than men because of this whole gender specific roles. there will be things that men can do that woman cant and what woman can do that men cant its just a given, but it shouldnt outright prevent fathers and or mothers to nurture a child and people need to start learning how to do things in all types of fields to make it easier. the more knowledgeable and the more the parents grow, the easier it is for raising a child. education and knowledge is key after all u just got to be able to push your self to able to be sufficiant in as many fields as possible.
See. You gotta embrace it. It's like Skyrim is unapologetic about having disabled genocide survivors as common monster enemies. Also, in Oblivion, there is Pelinal Whitestrake. Who is Pelinal Whitestrake? Well, imagine if Reinhard Heydrich fought for a _winning_ empire.
@@Terralventhe Not only that, once she inevitably tries to go against the alphabet soup people to promote it again, she'll have activists coming after her.
The birth rate there is abysmal, even compared to our issues related to it. Nobita (The Japan Reporter) released a two-part series covering the ACTUAL reasons for the declining birth rate there from multiple perspectives. And what he found was contradictory to these TikTok complainers: Feeling not financially stable enough to have a child and corporate Japan culture, combined with more of a push with women having more of a focus there.
This is agreeable, even if I don't always agree with Nobita. The corporate work culture in Japan basically forces workers to waste a lot of extra time better spent in actual personal time for the person. And since the pay isn't very accommodating to raising a family with just one working parent, a lot of the populace of the marrying age don't find the prospects of raising a family that appealing. Also, since western-style progressivism is also being pushed there, with women becoming subjected to the whole "career woman" imagery, women also slowly lose interest in starting a family. It's a butterfly-effect of multiple factors.
Japan's work culture is also nightmarish as you're expected to spend even your time off-hours thinking and interacting with your job. Many examples being pressured to go out drinking with your coworkers/bosses, socially scorned for getting sick or needing a vacation cause then you're "letting down the team", expected to work overtime without being paid, etc. You're practically expected to sell your soul to the company you work for. Japan's Shoguns never left, they just evolved into work bosses.
Wow, so you mean the flyer had advice for both parents, but they ignore half of it in order to call it misogynistic? Im pretty sure that is a blatant lie by omission. I'd say I'm shocked, but I'm really not.
Ironically, the actual leaflet seems pretty progressive to me. It surveyed what each gender wanted their partners to do more, what they didn't like and it gave solid advice to both parties. The "misogynistic" part is the same as what the women said in the "didnt like" section about what their husbands did, yet no coverage of that, of course. It just seems like those parts were just fact boxes about the survey results, not instructions on how to behave.
Misandry is encouraged in Western culture, there is a reason why young teenage boy in recent survey is increasingly leans more on the Conservative side of the spectrum
Its the Western SJW Wokie in the Hollywood, Comic industry and Blogger internet sites that are the problem, they can't respect and understand other cultures show their truth racism within them.
@@InternetGravedigger People forget that culture is to be shared..... Between community, between individuals, between society. New mix of people can't not breeds a new culture. A new "appropriation". These people malding about appropriation is just isolationist in disguises. In a world that's more connected globally.
The obsession Americans have with hating on Japan, especially when more guys are going over there to escape some of the insanity happening in the west, is getting out of control.
@@wyattbarnett3877its because japan doesn't bow to woke leftist ideologies and their facism thats why they hate it. Plus it gets them more attention they hate a country that makes beloved media.
its the left bud :/ and remember the men going over to to escape it are called names and hated on by the same leftists. rofl trust me id go there if i could and had the money its 100 times better than the usa right now truth be told rofl. Remember it was also the left just like this time a year or two ago who attacked and gave hate to japanese people for the anime face of a blood drive and called it disgusting pedophilia while they use the term maps and try to defend the same shit kek they are hypocrits who hate themselves so much they have to hate others and be racists to others inorder to think they love themselves.
@@wyattbarnett3877 that should be the normal, liking everyone no matter where there from, but sadly our world is fucked up and people aren't smart enough to be normal like us
People seriously always take thing at 1) face value and the truth and 2) the wrong way bc I KNOW they are not gonna look anything up to fact check it and 9 times out of ten it’s Americans.
Thank you Hero Hei for investigating further. A marriage is a team and both parties work together. Those activist are just trying to put women against a country who doesn't deserves it
Honestly....those requests of ladies are actually pretty simple reasonable. What dad WOULDNT want to be appreciated for actually keeping things on lock?
its *exactly* what they expect. is part of the cultural sphere of "woke" a paradoxical situation where they are utterly intolerant of any diversity of thought that conflicts with how they want to see the world. ignore the slogans and just look at the behavior and what is allowed and not allowed, and you are left with a group of xenophobic, theological purists with an inherently unstable set of beliefs that are intent on colonizing the world, influenced and directed by a much smaller set of people with a broader variety of beliefs who benefit off of the masses.
''a bigot is a person who is obstinately or unreasonably attached to a belief, opinion, or faction'' isn't that basically the whole transgender and gender ideology community?
@@somecatyoudontknow6471 the new York times wrote an opinion complaining about this. The comments were of course mostly unmarried women, simps and white knights.
The part they won't mention: Japan's draconic working culture has those same men slaving away for 14+ hours a day. The LEAST the wife can do is those menial tasks.
The one that doesn't live in Japan: Everyone can or should choose what they want to be and do, if those wives want to do other things they perfectly can or also work both and take turns, a thing that also happens in Japan like in many other places, no work of these is less than the other and you clearly haven't really worked cleaning houses to know how hard it is, it's not meanial tasks, and my mother has really worked as a slave in more ways than one doing everything, you apparently and obviously haven't, and there are also many women working outside their homes in Japan, and one way or another it's hard for everyone there, not just men or women, but it's funny to make some people look less than others or turn everything into an absurd gender fight, right?
@@doloresgronenberg5882still dont equate to the gruelling a husband goes through. If you are a wife and you stuff up something at home, who is going to see it and berate you?? Nobody! Unless it's a terrible mistake and you accidentally hurt your child. Nobody cares. When a man works for so many hours, in a competitive field, they cant make mistakes! If they fail, not only can that man lose his job, but his reputation will also be ruined as others will speak behind his back about how he is incompetent for one mistake. And he might not get hired again. Extremely disingenuous to compare a house wife's work with someone who is constantly out there!
@@doloresgronenberg5882 What a self-centered comment. You have no clue what the working class in Japan have to go through. It is absolutely not like in "many other places." Being a housewife in Japan is a LUXURY most can't afford to indulge in. Most families need both parents to work. Raising a child is too expensive, hence the declining birth rates. A HUGE contributor to that is the working culture which is particularly hard for men. The LEAST a housewife can do is those menial tasks described in the video. This is the reality of the working class of Japan which every single real Japanese can attest to. Do not try to gaslight people who have literal lived experiences in the subjects they're talking about through your westernized lens of ignorance.
When people give men relationships advice on treating their girls like Queens. Feminist: That's not enough, do better men! When people give women relationships advice on treating their guys like Kings. Feminist: That's not okay, this is s*xist, that man needs to step up.
@@luksalter8200 the fact I’ve seen this exact thing. There’s nothing wrong with having traditional values of what a family is because it’s a way of life. It’s not “outdated” to want to be a stay at home mom while your husband is the breadwinner of your family. Or even take care of your kids. Don’t get me wrong, I understand that some women like to work; however, they shouldn’t judge another women for wanting to stay home and care for their children and husband.
@@akishi1022 I think they hate the idea of women being in relationships with men because nothing stops a mother of a family from working and being financially successful, a rich and smart wife would be the best thing,at least to me
@@luksalter8200 I honestly think having a rich person as your spouse is you know comfortable living and all that. It’s really not that bad wanting to work even if it “get rich for myself so I can life comfortably”
@@luksalter8200 Only true of black companies, and that has been made illegal, with increasingly stiffer punishments and standards to encourage exploited workers to come forward. Japan has actually been working _really_ hard to fix this problem, and they've made a ton of great strides in that area.
Japan's falling birthrate has nothing to do with misogyny. In fact, its a little bit of the opposite as many Japanese women have extremely high standards for their man, especially financially, so men work like slaves to attain that financial status and end up with no time to actually pursue any meaningful relationships. Couple that with the extremely accessible sex industry Japan has and increasing cost of living and you have a formula for men and women to just not see the need to pursue starting families. The issue is far deeper than "men bad" and everyone needs to take accountability for the problem and solve it together.
Ah, so our ol' pal feminism strikes again, aye? But you gotta imagine there's some fault from the societal norms for men and women to have those high standards. They've probably fallen into the same rabbit hole the west has, in which we expect to meet someone attractive who has everything we've ever wanted.
@@tozu777 Nothing to do feminism. The ideal Japanese wife is still the the stay-at-home wife who cooks, cleans, cares for the kids etc. It's why the men work themselves to death to attain the financial stability that would allow for one income household to exist in a city as expensive to live in as Tokyo. They end up with no time to actually socialize. The women looking for these men can't find them and worse, they need to work too so they don't have time to socialize either. So what happens when no one has enough time but lots of money? They spend it on quick and easy entertainment. The men can go to a soapland anytime they want and for an hour or two at around 20k yen per hour (around 130USD), they get to have fun with a beautiful girl. The women can go blow off steam with hot guys who would drink with them and shower them with compliments at a host bar anytime they want. Both sexes can just pay someone to go on a date with them too. Interpersonal relationships that require months and years to build becomes an unnecessary chore when you can just pay for fleeting ones as easily as opening an app on your phone. The west is only now having this problem with OnlyFans except worse cause at the very least, Japan's sex workers don't go around trying to convince people that it's somehow empowering to be one. The problem is way deeper than misogyny OR misandry.
@@hiddendrifts Their work culture is definitely the biggest problem. Asian societies are generally known for putting too much emphasis on working and making money but Japan takes all of that to absurdity. Working overtime as a show of dedication to the company, for example, is rampant and taking your legally paid days of leave is just not a thing cause its viewed as inconveniencing others. The younger generation are getting the sense that their work culture is insane but the older generation expects the above out of them so it’s hard to break out of that right now. Some of them also end up just not working cause they’re done with or don’t want to deal with the work culture. The issue is so ingrained in Japanese culture that it’s going to be really hard for them to break free of it.
IF ANYTHING, we should be bring back these traditional values. The moment we left these values behind the US society went to SHIT. We no longer have or value respect, courtesy, or good manners in general anymore and it's quite sad.
I blame Tumblr for purging R18 content forcing SJW morons to flood Twitter. It was a great place in 2006, not so now with how media had hijacked it. People who cried about leaving Twitter are still there, even fully corrupting society further into homelessness and starvation.
The natality problem of Japan is quite old, hell there are 40-50 year old ads that encourage couple to have more kids. Japan isn't in the worst situation though, they are on the 4th place world wide on lowest natality rate and do relatively alright on the mortality rate world wide. The bigger problem from what I remember is the aging of the population, more and more people retire in Japan and the generations that work are smaller and smaller.
These slim working demography is the results of natality program 20 years ago.... To think that any natality boosting program will only takes effect 15-20-25 years into the future. Japan will continue to have the problem for a very long time.
Misogyny, huh? So.....they're saying woman has an objective definition now? Otherwise, how do they know "husband" doesn't refer to the woman? I for one hope that this person does better and educates themselves.
Why is Japan singled out in issues like sexism and birth rates, when there are plenty of countries with the same issues, and in a greater scale? Are they winning the culture war, perhaps? Or some deeply ingrained racism towards Japanese people? Who knows. The fact is that there is alot of misguided hate towards Japan, and I find it strange.
simple: they hate men being happy, anime & weebism is on the rise right now and is especially popular among teenage boy & even adult men, and the portrait of the female gender in anime is the idealistic version of a GF material. "kind, virtuous, feminine and beauty" are considered "sexist" by Western wokism, hence why they're all after Japan because of this. It's funny the wokes voiced little opinion against China when the demand for women there is even higher than of Japan
Probably because there's no inflated amount of women in the workforce due to anti-man discriminatory practices. There's genuine equality of opportunity in Japan. There's also the fact that people will always call other countries misogynistic. Westerners call all non-westerners misogynistic, Easterners call westerners misogynistic. Muslims call christians misogynists, christians call muslims misogynists. It's all just a game to see who can be the most pro-woman as possible.
Probably because it's the easiest target currently, nobody would care if this was some random impoverished country in Africa that the West had probably exploited their natural resources a dozens of time, but since this is Japan, a big country with huge economy and influence, then people will care when they say things like this. And also, of course, another thing is that since Japan is very influential nowadays due to their cultural reaches, the West (as usual) feels threatened which led them to do things like this in the hopes that people will see Japan in a negative light and go back to adoring the Western stuff again. It's the same thing with what they're doing to China, and even to some extent to South Korea. Anyone who challenges the West in literally anything, be it friend or foe, would get these treatments. And for what exactly? Well, to protect the fractured and pathetic ego of the western peoples so they can keep believing that they truly are superior than others.
I like how women keep going on about misogyny but you never ever hear of misandry. I find it strange how people try to demonize one another but make it blatantly clear by making it seem like their side is incapable of the same thing.
Its precisely the reason why they are after Japan: they hate men being happy, anime & weebism is on the rise right now and is especially popular among teenage boy & even adult men, and the portrait of the female gender in anime is the idealistic version of a GF material. Western women considers "kind, virtuous, feminine and beauty" are "sexist trait", hence the pushback against Japan
I can only say two thing... Westerners should shut up about issues that don't concern them in countries were they don't live in. Second... It is just me or is it weird that the same Japanese government needs to tell their citizen how to behave to be proper humane-like husbands and wives? Like... Seriously... All in those fleets were literally actual concern for proper behavior as a dad or a mom and or as a couple. It had nothing to do with misogynic or misandry... It was literally a fleet telling people how to be humane.
Being able to express basic decency and humanity. How icky and vile and MySoGyNiStIc is that? This sort of makes me theorize that they are slamming this likely because they themselves are indecent and inhumane people.
Asking someone to act fake is weird but, real talk, it's part and parcel with Japanese culture. The bare minimum fertility rate to sustain a population is an average of 2.1 births per woman. Japan is at 1.3. The whole world is looming on a demographic crisis but many nations are obfuscating their numbers by padding them with immigration and Japan is basically a canary in a coal mine (also because their culture REALLY takes a lot of the socioeconomic factors relating to the demographic crisis to an extreme).
The point of making the lunch isn't the inability to make a lunch, but to have the connection to your loved one when you are stuck at work hating your life.
Both people in a relationship should do that sometimes depending on the situation, and it's not even a forced thing (unless it actually is of course, but I'm talking about healthy relationships where there is respect and love), it's out of love, let's say that your husband or wife is tired one day or sick or has any kind of problem or even that one day they just don't feel like cooking, a relationship is a thing of two, both must put on the work and show love, appreciation, understanding and worry, show that they care and worry, and that if one person can't really take care of themselves at that moment the other does it as the couple and team that they are, that is true love, it's not a fight of who is better or worse, who does more or less, it's a partnership and both work as a team and really care about the other and try to help and take care of the other if the other needs it, there would be selfless acts born out of love, there wouldn't be any fight of that kind which are stupid nor one that is superior or inferior to the other or that does more or less than the other, they wouldn't care about any of that, they would both be equals and consider each other as such, that is love
So...good advice? Helps keep the marriages together as they have an issue with sexless marriages which eventually lead to cheating Just a clarification, the wife or girlfriend making lunch for their husband or boyfriend is a cultural thing. Women will also do it for guy's they like or have an interest in dating.
The declining birth rate thing is a normal proccess to every developing nation. The greatest factor that determines it is urbanization, as it makes living costs higher. Also the fact that there is less space in cities, and having a ton of children won't help you in your work like it might in a farm.
Also, extended working hours. Definitely not unique to Japan, but particularly pronounced over there. Even if the women are staying home, they can't really get pregnant if the husband is never home. And relationships with workaholics tend to be pretty sexless. Also, overly intense work and academic culture can result in a lot of socially stunted youth who never gets married in the first place.
This has to be mentioned. But the Soviets went through something similar and their population stabilised after. This is the effect of post industrial revolution. Before it, Japan had around 38 million people, when they entered this period, their populations skyrocketed. Now sinse they are reaching the post era, their population is naturally going back to what it was. THIS IS A GOOD THING. Only dumb westerners would think otherwise... I am also glad people there are getting rid of feminism too.
@@captainnyan-nyan2005 Also economy is in a way where its just not wise to create a family; Ur more likely to go homeless if u try to start up a family.
@@goGothitaLOLYes, at this point there are almost no nations in the world that doesn't have a declining birth rate. And the worst part is most of the countries that do still have an ascending birth rate are sending their undesirables to other countries.
I wonder why is social media so obsessed with Japan's social problems these days? I'm always seeing posts on RU-vid, Twitter, and other social media saying like "Japan sucks!" "It's over for Japan." For example, Italy and Spain have lower birth rates than Japan, but I have never seen a post on social media mentioning the birth rates in these countries.
simple: they hate men being happy, anime & weebism is on the rise right now and is especially popular among teenage boy & even adult men, and the portrait of the female gender in anime is the idealistic version of a GF material. "kind, virtuous, feminine and beauty" are considered "sexist" by Western wokism, hence why they're all after Japan because of this.
Telling your husband what you want them to do in clear and concrete terms isn't a bad advice. It's essentially the "What do you want?" question and it's telling new mothers to give clear answers because the husbands are juggling you, the baby and their job. I believe it's the very least you could during this period.
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Imagine thinking that the needs of husbands are "mysoginistic"... And people in Japan wonder they their marriage and birthrates are the lowest on the planet. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The moment she used the word "mysoginistic" it made me dismiss.all of her arguments entirely. That word has lost all meaning thank to people like her. I recommend not using words like that and MAYBE I'll take you seriously.
More like outdated gender norms in Big Cities all across America. lol Since they are trying to get rid of *strong* men because they deserve some outward hatred for being a man. When BOTH sides got oppressed, throughout history. Including in Japan if you weren't a Samurai, the Samurai was allowed to kill the ungrateful bastard that called them out for shit. lol
Of course, she left out other important parts and blew things out of proportion. Same old, same old… Also, about the wife making lunch things, it’s just their culture and way of life. Most males are super busy with their office jobs that they wouldn’t have time to cook, so it really helps to have lunch made ready for them. This also help saves money on eating out and most housewives in Japan takes great care in making healthy lunches rather for the husband to pig out on greasy ramen or junk food. Besides, it shows that the husbands and wives have good relationship, too, if the wives care enough to cook for him.
I've been called crazy for noticing an increasingly anti Japanese sentiment in the west, this may be confirmation bias but this shit is so frequent now.
You're not wrong. Many people hate Japan because it calls them out exposing their fake house of cards. All an act. Look at how CNN was called out for diddling kids after accusing Japan of it, and how Vice News attacked doujinshi and Anime industry, yet exposed their corrupted side of things. If you can't have it, sabotage it.
To me it seems that the makers of that leaflet wanted to help by pointing out the most common small things that can improve the relationship between new moms and dads, who might not talk about what they would want from each other. As weird as it may sound, people often don't talk about their problems openly until it's too late to fix whatever is wrong.
While I do agree, this thinking is kind of dangerous, otherwise, people wouldn't be able to call others out. Imagine you saw someone molesting a child and they say that you can't judge them because they're part of a new group that showed up, etc. You don't need to be part of something to dislike it, just show decent understanding and knowledge of the matter, something the lady clearly doesn't have.
@@shikikankillzone4239 Laws are based on borders. If they're within my country, they have to follow my country's laws. I don't care what "group" they are a part of. If they don't like the laws they can leave and go to a different country.
Ah yes, you cannot critique this social movement because you are not actively apart of it. You cannot dislike a movie because you weren't apart of the production. You cannot condemn laws in another country because you don't live there. We can go on and on.
Err...Japanese womam dont adopt the feminism so very hard like in the ocident tho. And the declining birth rate is hapening in almost every nation in the world, the thing is most nation hides and compesates this problem with imigration (Japan dont tho) PS: Sorry my english
You know it's not like their forcing them to meet their demands and on top of that it just sounds more like a friendly advice than anything sure the guy should probably do their part, but at the end of day if you love the person your with sometimes you have to sacrifice a little bit of your time and happiness for your love one to be a little more happier, but just be considered and care for each other. The more i hear about this people preach about their "modernity" they always look and sounds so miserable it almost like they never really had a happy childhood or even a happy stable relationship no matter how old they are, so it sounds more and more like they don't understand what a happy relationship looks like or even is
Anyone women outside of Japan telling Japanese Women to put the man in charge of baby and the women are to do nothing has no right to tell other culture women what to do. Women are made to create babies, take care of them, keep the child out of danger and of course take care of the house meanwhile the fathers are to work long hours and take care of finances and such. Thats will and always be the given roles for those two..as for cooking it really doesnt matter who does the cooking if the women is always home then she can take care of the cooking but if on a Saturday and the father has a day off he can cook. Thats the point of being a unit or a married team it's give and take. You can't do it then you have no right to tell other women what to do
Japan is trying to raise their birth rates. It's one reason why they're pushing romance and intimacy so hard in anime and manga these days. They're trying to encourage the creation of couples.
@@StupidAnon-gn8ih this dont is the problem, the problem is the work culture (mainly in Tokyo), Japanese teen dates a lot (the calls hiajus),BUT a lot japanese dont WANT has a baby (because of the work etc) And about declining birth rate: almost every nation in the world has this problem,the thing is most nations hides and compesates this problem with imigrations.
She got me at 'smile'. Obvious misogynists, they think a woman should ever 'smile'. Disgusting. To anyone who doesn't fully understand - a major factor in your daily life in a relationship is the general attitude you are giving away to your partner. Both men and women. If you smile, speak clearly and in a pleasant tone - it invites same from your partner. Even if you are feeling worse or down - it's alright to state your feelings, but it's damaging to the relationship to project outward with a sad, tired or annoyed face expression as it puts pressure on the other person, who themselves may have their own issues. If you smile despite feeling worse and you are comfortable around your partner who also smiles back - you will feel more comfortable talking about your issues and negotiate actions both of you can take to fix them.
I hate how a minority of pretentious crybabies in the US somehow makes the rest of us seem like assholes. I’d guess the majority of us from all backgrounds have a positive and respecting outlook on Japan.
It's gotten to the stage where their LGBT groups are purging the ranks of the LGB portion that don't like the collectivism and don't ignore biological truths.
As far as i know all well to do countries have low birth rate issues. In japan specifically it is apparently due to an aging population voting for more and more benifits at the expense of the younger people. So like higher retirement benifits and more money but that raises the burden on young people preventing them from having the funds to even think about investing in a family.
Why does it look to me that her eyes are trying to retreat sideways into her ear as she speaks? Edit: Btw, the declining birthrate in Japan is very serious, they are way below replacement levels per generation which is at 1.35(a slight raise in 2023 from 1.31 in 2021), the minimum number should be 2.1 per woman. Now as far as factors are concerned its really complicated, first there is the whole dating culture, second the rising lvls of promescuity(one factor being a female porn star pays well for uni as an example and is a pretty good safetynet), thirdly the insane work hours that dont have time for relationship, increasing cost of living, the list goes on, the misoginy claim is completly false too cause its westrener feminist examine it from their own cultural lens while also dismissing any other reason.
Let's be real here; its a "news" account from flipping Tik Tok. Shouldn't we consider the possibility that some of these answers were greatly, purposefully mistranslated?
So it's an ill put together leaflet with some good advice and some bad that was gained through indirect means? Also I love the blind assertion about "outdated gender roles" being the problem with falling birth rates, as if there was a software update to gender roles when they last updated the matrix or something. As if the gender roles that have been around for millenia are to blame and not things like price of living getting out of hand that forces men and women to work their fingers to the bone to afford anything let alone another mouth to feed.
I was just about to comment this before it got to the part in the video that said exactly this (honestly there’s nothing misogynistic about reminding both partners to be mindful about showing thanks and love to their partner when nurturing a newborn because of how stressful it can be that early on): Honestly they should’ve just had a section for husbands reminding them to be kind to their wife and remember to thank them and do little acts of kindness for them or take over their chores while they are taking care of the child or recovering since this is a hard time for both parents. Those were my thoughts on it before I knew that the flyer in Japan was already telling husbands ways they could be loving and helpful to their wives too. As with all things both men and women are valuable and to foster a healthy relationship you need to show each other love and appreciation. There’s nothing wrong with reminding parents of this in a time that can be so stressful for them. Heck even young adults with no children and who are just dating could stand to be given some ways they can show their love and appreciation for their girlfriend or boyfriend. TikTok is dumb or willfully ignorant because they want to be angry about something. Maybe, I’m really misunderstanding this story but the idea of this entire survey kinda seems sweet.
