What makes Japanese women run a mile?
With the 忘年会, bounenkai, end-of-year party season upon us and many of us perhaps having headed to our first one tonight flush with our winter bonuses, let’s take a quick look with goo Ranking at what male actions make women run a mile at drinking parties. The fieldwork for the survey was conducted over the 24th and 25th of October 2007 amongst female members of the goo Research monitor group. Note that the vast majority of activities here would result in the guy being slapped with a sexual harrassment suit in the West, and probably also in Japan, although the law is not as frequently invoked here.
Number 8 is perhaps a bit strange and culturally specific, and although thankfully I’ve not witnessed it myself, apparently after a quantity of alcohol Japanese men sometimes do remove their shirts or more. May these be the only undies you whip off for a young lady in the pub!
Anyway, I hope none of my readers got up to or suffered from the activities described within! You may want to cross-reference with previous survey on drunken old git behaviour.
Ranking results
Q1: What male behaviour at drinking parties makes you want to run a mile?
Rank Action Score 1 Touching my body 100 2 Ill-mannered way of eating or drinking 100 3 Boastful talk 99.7 4 Dirty jokes 89.3 5 Being a one-trick pony 83.8 6 Whinging 80.6 7 Pestering me for a phone number or email address 78.9 8 Soon stripping off 76.3 9 Grilling me on private matters 74.3 10 Checking his mobile phone frequently 74.3 11 Offering alcohol despite me refusing 71.7 12 Smoking beside me 71.1 13 Speaking to no-one but lone females 66.2 14 Even though first meeting, calling me by my first name 64.5 15 Tactlessness 63.6 16 Not letting me return home when I want to 59.8 17 Talking to me but not really listening to my response 59.0 18 Telling unfunny jokes 57.2 19 Vulgar party pieces 50.9 20 Splitting the bill down to the last yen 50.0
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Candadai Tirumalai said,
December 8, 2007 @ 23:47
The questions posed and the answers given tell me that Japanese women are both sensitive and thoughtful. As a man I hope Japanese men continue to deserve their women.
Drew said,
December 9, 2007 @ 13:50
I wouldn’t say that “most” of these are sexual harassment; I’d actually say that a majority of them (2,3,4,5,6,10, 11, 12,14,15, 18, 19, 20) are just plain old “mannerless boor” behaviours that would offend anybody, men or women…
mike said,
December 11, 2007 @ 11:15
These polls are endlessly fascinating!
More translation notes…
15 could possibly mean, only talking to one female in particular (favoritism).
19 for ‘heta na gei’ i’m not sure i would use ‘vulgar’.. it could be closer ‘pathetic attempts at displays of skill’
or ‘unskilled attempts at impressing me’ — one wonders what that would be. bad singing? bad impersonations?
mike said,
December 11, 2007 @ 11:16
sorry, i should have said 13, not 15
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