guy's disillusionary attitude

Wow, today is a funny day. Some world leaders fell down in public: Former Premier Silvio Berlusconi in Italy and President Fox in Mexico. As a Japanese, I remember the president of the United State of America puked in Tokyo, but his wife's speech was a nice funny one after that.

This is a result of questionnairing conducted by Ranking Japan, "The ranking of guy's disillusionary attitude for women." I wonder if you will agree or you think some are unique Japanese feelings?

No1. He acts arrogant at the restaurant or shop : 1017
No2. He asks to split the bill, it's 10yen : 985
No3. He panics when he finds a cockroach or other bugs : 871
No4. After eating, he cleans his teeth by toothpick without hesitating : 852
No5. There are too many figures on his office desk : 767
No6. Printed T-shirts can be seen through his shirt : 633
No7. He is poor at parking a car : 620
No8. He looks good in a business suit but his ordinary clothes are so so : 602
No9. He really gets into cell phone games on the train : 528
No10. He wipes his face with the "OSHIBORI" (hand towel) at a restaurant : 463
No11. He is not good at wiring, he is not good with the PC : 453
No12. His wallet is big because of receipts and useless cards : 431
No13. He checks and gives his hair a trim in the subway window : 400
No14. He wear a nice business suit but his socks are white and cotton : 336
No15. He uses pictographic characters on his cell phone mail :304
No16. His hand writing is so bad so that we can't read it at the office : 295
No17. His typing is too fast and too loud : 210
No18. He collects point cards or coupons a lot : 157
No19. He likes to drink sweet cocktails like Kahlua milk: 152

No3 is okay for me if he doesn't cry :-) I agree with No7; I need a guy who has good motor coordination. Parking should be a very instinctive reaction, like animal behavior. No10 is very Japanese ("OSHIBORI" is a wet hand towel offered to customers in places such as restaurants or bars in Japan). I understand No.16 too. I don't care about his writing in private, but when he writes something on paper or a white board at the office, I want him to care about others reading without problems; it's a courtesy. From that stand point, I understand No17 too. He may not mean anything bad, but his loud typing has to be taken as exhibitionism.

There is woman's disillusionary attitude also. But it's not so interesting.
No1. She smokes and let it out through her nose :686
No2. Her scent of her perfume is too strong : 549
No3. She applies make-up in a train : 546
No4. She sleeps on a train with her mouth open : 421 .....
Mm there are no impressive answers there. I won't complain because maybe guys don't care about small things and don't dislike women for unreasonable reasons :-P

Comments

[neuroneuster]

Hahaha.

It's quite contrary from my country.
Most of them have good motor skills,
and good in computer.

I think all are ok and accepted.
There's not really wrong or awful
about it. Unless the number 4.

Cleanliness seems important for them.

[Jeff]

"No10. He wipes his face with the "OSHIBORI" (hand towel) at a restaurant : 463"

During the Summer in Japan, doing #10 is a must! Its just yucky to eat with your face full of sweat!

[scott]

The single most unatractive thing hre in Japan: Girls who wear high heals and dont know how to walk in them. shufling around sliding there feet instead of walking or looking like they have no knees. its really bad

[AH]

No. 7 My Japanese sister-in-law went on for about 10 minutes about how well I could park the car. "Sugoi! Otokorashii! Ippatsu de haittajyan..." She kept telling her husband how useless he was needing 3-4 shots to get his car in the parking space. At the end of the ten minutes I didn't know if she was talking about parking or about other activities involving timely and proper insertion...

[Betty_Woo]

Great subject! I'm glad I found this blog through the Japundit.com podcast!

Best Trait That Acts As Absolute Birth Control For Me:

*1* Men clipping their nails in public (especially on the train or on the platform).

I hear the 'clip-clip----clip' and my stomach gets sick and I just end up staring at the guy like, "what? Where you born in a barn?!"

I guess the fact they're so interested in their manicure means they don't notice me and a bunch of other disgusted people wincing and moving away as quickly as possible (and that ain't easy on a crowded platform but people seem to genuinely understand the mortifying reason for our crowding them and they make room for us :-) ).

Things that would bug me (but may be overcome):

1. bumping into him getting his hair cut in the same salon I go to and finding him sitting in the chair of the most expensive coiffeuse,

2. stays sitting in his seat *after* I've gotten up to give mine to a senior who has come on the train with a few other seniors who are looking for seats, too,

3. taking every freaking cellphone call while I'm trying to have a conversation with him,

4. like the point on the list about white socks with a business suit, I'm embarrassed to be shallow enough to go 'ick' when I see a guy wearing black executive-like socks with running shoes when we're playing volleyball. Don't do that. Just... just... . Don't. Please.

[Tagore Smith]

At least in the West, the rule is that your socks should match your trousers when wearing business or nice casual clothing.

[41nano]

I quite don't understand number 19, is it a bad thing to like sweet cocktails ?
As for wearing white socks, are black ones any better ?
I found some other funny.
Nice post ^^

[Ken Y-N]

I manage 9 out of 19 of these no-nos! Perhaps that explains my previous history of no success with Japanese females?

[mike]

i've always used those towels to wipe my face when in japan... i sort of thought that's what they were for.

i also do it when i eat in a japanese restaurant here in the US... well not anymore.

[danielmick]

Nice blog. =)

I think it's funny how sexist some of the items on the list are. Looks like Japanese women are just as bad as Japanese men in sexual role stereotypes.

Using pictures in emails?
Collecting point cards?
Likes sweet cocktails?
These can all be seen as positive things: he's an effective communicator;
he's thrifty and money-conscious (though I have found that to be a negative trait for men in Japan);
he has strong/various tastes in food/drink.

Thankfully those are at the bottom of the list. Though the ones at the top are pretty petty too...

Of course, I could be biased since I do all those... Though I avoid obvious faux pas like t-shirts under dress shirts, insisting on splitting the bill, white socks with anything but gym clothes, etc.

I would be very interested to see the same survey for my own country the US.

[Garrett]

Sorry, I meant anonymous person who said making small friction into a big fire is #1, I agree.

(Not that I disagree with you, Marshdrifter.)

[Garrett]

Hahaha! I agree with the women, even though I'm guilty of some of those things. If my face is sweaty or oily, it's hard to resist the temptation to clean it up a bit with a quick wipe with the shibori.

Marshdrifter, I agree completely.

[Marshdrifter]

Jeez, #7 and #16 for me. I suppose #6 as well, except I don't wear anything over the printed t-shirts (unless it's cold). Maybe #5? No figures, but a whole lot of clutter.

Luckily, I'm married, so she's stuck.

For me, this is a woman's disillusionary attitude.

No 1. Make a small friction into great fire.

[bshock]

In No.5, do "figures" refer to toys?

As for No.14, I read that white socks were standard Japanese business wear. Perhaps the quality of socks is the problem?

In regard to the women's behavior, No.2 (strong perfume) is all I might notice. When someone wears a strong scent, I wonder what she's trying to cover ;-)

[Marcel]

"She sleeps in a train with opening her mouse?"

lol, but what does this mean? or didn't i catch the sentence?

greez, marcel