My friend is in Japan, keeps getting this ad, and it's driving them nuts (they also says the company is worse than BetterHelp, apparently).

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      I was eating with a friend in a Shinjuku bar once when the only other foreigner in the place came up to us because we were speaking English. Dude proceeded to rant about how women in Japan were "stuck up bitches" because they refused to date him.

      • PKMKII [none/use name]
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        5 months ago

        Nothing more entertaining than an orientalist fetishizing white dude running head on into the reality that actual Asian women don’t conform to the submissive geisha fantasy in their head.

        • DragonBallZinn [he/him]
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          5 months ago

          "Japan is good because it's an ethnostate and hates foreigners!"

          "Wait, what do you mean Japanese people don't know their place as filthy brown peasants and just treat me like royalty? Do they not know they are angering a God!?!?"

      • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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        5 months ago

        Enoshima

        Well there's your problem, you should have gone to Harajuku instead!

        (Jokes, you should actually go to a shabby housing estate in Saitama)

      • Pluto [he/him, he/him]
        hexagon
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        5 months ago

        ...Is Enoshima worth it? I might return to Japan.

        Legit question. Want to see more of the country.

      • Pluto [he/him, he/him]
        hexagon
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        5 months ago

        Fuck America.

        Shit, I wish I could find that Death Stranding clip on YouTube, dammit!

        thurston

    • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
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      5 months ago

      I was disappointed with Japan one time when I realized there's not much (enough for me) prevalence of Judo schools in Tokyo. How much of an orientalist that makes me is between me and God. Though people were very patient and kind to me as I spoke with my broken Japanese.

      • Owl [he/him]
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        5 months ago

        Honestly, finding out that there's not a weirdly large subculture dedicated to [fill in the blank] in Tokyo is a bit of a letdown.

        • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]
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          5 months ago

          "What do you mean not every Tokyoite owns and regularly wears a papakha and cherkeska‽ Taiga Nozaki literally teaches people in that city how to dance lezginka!"