Good news for those of us who love nerds and the social inept.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080212/sc_livescience/whyperfectdatesmakelousypartners

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Uncanny MONCHICHI said, (309 days ago)

Right. Now please forward that to every single female you know. Thanks.

kmon said, (309 days ago)

I know many, but they are in Japan.

Uncanny MONCHICHI said, (309 days ago)

Doesn't matter. You'd be doing a whole lot of dorky expat and Japanese guys a huge favor.

kmon said, (309 days ago)

Haha. Yea, they don't need help. I swear, cross into Japan and every goony ex-pat becomes a god. Wait, goony ex-pat men.

And not the good kind either.....

Oom Mao Mao said, (309 days ago)

God?

Like a horny Shinto god? Tell me more, I'm intrigued.

kmon said, (309 days ago)

Sadly, more like the worship of an ill-behaved movie star.

Oom Mao Mao said, (309 days ago)

Is this by other expat wimmins or the Japanese?

kmon said, (309 days ago)

Japanese women. As a general rule, my friends and I have found them to be pretty despicable.

Oom Mao Mao said, (309 days ago)

Huh, I've heard that. Do you have any idea why that is? Is there some sort of white boy fetish among Japanese women?

kmon said, (309 days ago)

Yea, I will give the short answer since I need sleep.

a. I have seen, and heard, much of Asia has an obsession with the 'new'. Western men offer the potential for new.

b. Hollywood media is force fed here and the West is pretty idolized.

c. The strongest reason, I believe, is the state of the dating culture in Japan. It is a country in major social transition, particularly where marriage and love are concerned. People have recently begun to marry for love and that has thrown the entire dating scene into chaos. Men in Japan tend to be forced into behaving like cogs for the greater society and never really learb ti socialize. Further, with arranged marriages, they never really had to. So, Japanese men are shy (a very positive trait in Japanese society, but not so much when dating), they don't practice chivalry, they don't do outward expressions of emotion and most of all, there is nothing showy/flashy/exciting about being courted by a Japanese man (this is from experience and word of mouth). Western men tend to offer all of those things.

Ok, I've rambled a bit and that was probably more than you wanted to hear.....

Oom Mao Mao said, (309 days ago)

katymonster: No, that's a great answer.

I just wanted to see if it contrasted with what I could see in Nepal with Tibetan and Nepali women and Western men. There the primary motive usually is economic, sadly and one of the reasons why I didn't date anyone there, but I didn't think that'd be the case in Japan.

Make Art said, (285 days ago)

Please don't judge me too harshly, but these "despicable" Japanese women sound extremely enticing.

kmon said, (283 days ago)

Uh sorry if that was confusing. I never ever said the ladies were despicable. just the foreign dudes. and of those actually, just the ones who came over to get laid under the guise of teaching English.

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