Being a cool husband in Japan
As it was Fathers Day last Sunday this survey from iShare looked at images of modern-day fathers.
Demographics
Between the 30th of May and the 1st of June 2011 1,343 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-base questionnaire. All of the sample was married, 50.1% of the sample were female, 3.4% in their twenties, 41.7% in their thirties, and 54.9% in their forties.
This survey looked at a new word to me, イケダン, ikedan. The word is a combination of イケる, ikeru, hip or trendy (with a hint of being attractive to the opposite sex) and だんな, danna, husband. It’s a play on イケメン, ikemen, cool guy with a hint of availability.
There’s an ikedan web site, which has the five mottos of an ikedan, namely “Be elegant”, “Live strong”, “Don’t forget to be gentle”, “No excuses”, and “Do things in moderation”. This survey listed the characteristics as “Keeping family important while working hard”, “Don’t hesitate to lend the wife a hand even when busy”, “look cool on the outside too”, and “Not skimping on fashion”, taken from Ikedan Japan web site, which is some kind of Nissan promotion.
Doesn’t look like my style; I’d rather aspire to be a choi-waru oyaji myself!
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