世論 What Japan Thinks

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