The career aspirations of Japanese women are said to be increasingly centred on the prospect of becoming a fulltime housewife, but instead of citing a desire to raise a family many such women are instead determined to enjoy a life of leisure supported by their man: “I don’t want to work,” “I want to sleep,” “I want to be watching daytime TV.”
“I want to be a housewife so I can take it easy and don’t have to work” sums up this line of thought.
Even promising graduates from top universities are said to sometimes be more concerned with finding a husband to support their dissolution than with pursuing a career.
The example of one such lady is illustrative; at 23 she graduated and found work in a large financial firm, but in a matter of months her courting paid off and she secured a marriage proposal from a 24-year-old man she had dated a few months, after which she immediately quit and became a housewife:
“She was saying she didn’t want to work and wanted to become a housewife before she was proposed to. She had only been in the company a month when she quit. She had a child soon after and seems happy,” reports an acquaintance.
It seems the only reason such a young man was able to secure a bride was due to his position in a first-rate company…
Some simply pick marriage as the lesser evil, despising work, such as the case of a Waseda graduate who in similar fashion quit her company after only a month in favour of pursuing marriage. “These women want to marry their boyfriends because work is too hard for their tastes,” it is said.
Via JCast.
Of course, there are those who will point out that a housewife’s lot is not always an easy one, but if we are to consider the examples given above it seems rather charitable to assume such that the housewives in question have any intention of doing anything but what pleases them.
As we have seen, it seems securing a high income husband to leech from is rather more appealing to many Japanese women than the challenges of pursuing an independent career, and men seem for some reason less desirous of such arrangements…
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you could say japan's women want to... take it easy?
Keeping it NEET.
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
I guess they're taking Yukkuri's words very seriously
NEET :3
After having to work full-time for only a year so far, I can't fucking wait to be a housewife.
lolz fucking lazy NEETS
wasnt there an article here recently about guys wanting their wives to work?
ahaha oh wells, back to your 2d waifus guys...
If my wife were like that, she'd damn better be a supermodel and stay like that.
I trully hates lazy bitches!
Nice job finding the perfect pic as always.
Men, this is why we have porn. Or better yet, this is why maids and sex health workers exist! As long as you have someone to clean your house [if you don't do it yourself] and have a sexually active relation with a woman [or just pay hookers] why would you need a wife? Don't say love and what other bullshit nonsense. It's survival of the fittest now.
Forgot to add our 2d world. Oh weltschmerz.
Watch tv all day and take all the money their hubby makes for themselves... Jeeze. Personally, I think that if you're a house wife you should do house work and take care of kids. Women haven't gone through hell for the rights to work and vote just to have a large number decide they'd rather be lazy... It annoys me because it gives those who are housewives and actually do work a bad reputation.
Oh well, it's their choice. Hopefully some will learn that living life as a piece of dead weight is horribly unfulfilling...
(Who am I kidding? Most people want to laze around if they get half a chance...)
Men are the same way. I wouldnt mind leeching off my rich wife while I stayed at home playing video games and building gundam models.
Atleast the chick in the pick is eatin health and isn't some fat american chick or a new breed fat asian chick, I went there
Hmmm... when you think about it housewife do fit under the definition of a NEET.
Would I be showing my age if I made a Peg Bundy reference?
I'm not that old, but I'd get it. So probably not?
Forget marrige for some time.
I would rather be free but lonely than devoid of life.
I think all of you people are being hypocrites here. Really what's so strange about them not wanting to work? I don't want to work ether. I do it only because i need money to live. Don't you guys hate waking up very early while you wanted so much to stay in your nice warm bed for another hour? I know i do. Every morning i woke up i curse the fact that i have to go to my fucking job and can't sleep as much as i want. And why should i be happy for spending 8-10 hours a day working, while i could be doing something i liked and have fun?
Basically they just want what every one wants. Men don't say such things simply because they know that society does not approve a man sitting home while his wife works so they don't have much chance at it.
If i win the lottery i would stop working immediately and tell my boss to go screw himself because now am rich and i don't need him.
I agree that by not working you shouldn't become some couch potato that gets fat. But other than that there wish is not that strange.
And let's not forget that the governments took a very good advantage of the fact that women wanted to work by raising the cost of life and now when you have a family both have to work even if they don't want to. In the old days a salary man could take care of his family with the money he brought home. But now it's impossible. Only if his some executive or something like that this can happen. I'm quite certain that if women never started becoming career women and all, that half of the products would have had half the price they have now.
Beaches and shores.
I'm a stay-at-home artist for a living.
I make a good amount of money from comissions, and I'm single.
So basically, I get to sit at home and relax, hehe.
That's what I wanna do!
Isn't that everyones dream job......
This is true with all women. :l
As another anonymous person stated, I think most people would willingly live a life of leisure rather than having to put in a full day's work. It's a thing of human nature, not gender.
Considering the fact that in many cases women end up doing more work than men in many modern cultures and generally are better at multitasking - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6011245/ (this article unfortunately only covers American statistics - which do not always cover over a multi-cultural phenomena such as this) it's really no surprise. Wasn't there another article on this website that was also noting how many women - specifically in that article Japanese ladies - prefering the company of their own mind to another human? Usually due to the fact of the odd sort of gender roles and current paradigm shift occurring in Japanese culture as well as the world in general - for better or worse.
Problem is, the reality of being an at home spouse isn't "sitting around watching TV". There is a great deal of work that goes into it as well, especially if one considers the increasing instances of divorce, single parenthood, and so on.
Marriage itself is an institution for the distribution of wealth and division of labor. In many of these cases, I really see that trophy wives they mention are maybe a notch above prostitutes. They are allowing person x to have their company on a regular basis for the cost of rent, food, cable, and other creature comforts. And in such a case, I find men who marry women that are gold diggers usually end up finding that the pretty ones who are so quick to marry a rich man - are often not the ones who actually satisfy them and vice versa. But then again, there are guys who do have the fantasy of being an independently wealthy man with a harem of beautiful ladies to service his every desire ( Oshiete RE Maid Lesson moment to break the seriousness http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa54nLtb1yQ <3 - btw... not all women hate hentai/ecchi/loli/bdsm/etcetc...)
It's unfortunately becoming a neccessity for many cultures to have both male and females working out of the home as inflation goes up - counterbalancing the attempt to increas income. In the cases of many married women - this means doing a full time job and then coming home to take care of a family while the husband (or male figure if he's still around) may relax or just "tune out" after a stressful day. This is of course assuming that he is still around. All of this is done while we are told to be beautiful, strong, motherly, and be the "working mom".
Many cultures are still very much of the opinion that women are the "lesser" gender. As males tend to be the dominant ones due to cultural roles that were defined well before any of us were born, most guys don't really understand the concept of being female as much as a Caucasian person would understand being of African descent, or a person of rural Tibetan ancestry when compared to someone of an urban Rome lifestyle. And generally speaking of most people - there is a lack of empathy and ability to put one's self in the shoes of another. But women were generally kept home because we're not as physically strong as men, back before there was birth control women who were of child bearing age were likely to be pregnant or caring for children, and so forth.
If you look into many tribal cultures before the invent of industrialization - it's a pretty practical lifestyle. Women often provided the bulk of food through foraging/fishing and men generally hunted for meat. Oddly enough, most tribal cultures also have/had shorter work days than our "civilized" society.
I've seen a highly negative view of females and various cultures on this website. I.E - "All women and ( insert ambiguous nationality other than your own) seem to viewed as petty femi/nazi's with an axe to grind with all of the world for no particularly good reason other than to be a pain in the ass."
It's good to know the relatively anonymous nature of the internet allows people to show their true bitterness about life in general without any pretense.
Which is just sort of amusing to me - wonder why do so many men on this website have such bad opinions of all women( bad IRL experiences, gents?). I can't help but wonder if some of it comes from an intrinsic dislike of the fact that the world isn't under their complete control or their inability to communicate with the opposite gender - or being surrounded by morons IRL. Which I should note - idiocy does not discriminate between gender, race, creed, and nationality. It's sort of like death - idiocy is the great equalizer...
Some of us ladies actually do have brains and do have more than just a nice snug trio of holes, breasts, hands, feet, knees - etc to service you with. Granted, those are still nice to look at and enjoy - and are no way to be underestimated or an excuse to see us as just a nice place to stick your man parts whenever you're bored or frustrated. But I suppose it can be attributed to ignorance, laziness, lack of understanding, need for attention, and a general need to vent bitterness about circumstances in life people can't change.
Over all though - these girls would still end up earning every penny. Marriages made for money are generally not a happy thing an take a toll on both parties. Granted, who wouldn't like a lifetime of leisure to focus on their own pursuits - watching TV, saving rain forests, researching protozoa, blogging, and so on...
It's funny how you complain about lack of empathy regarding females while making spiteful, far-fetched assumptions about males.
AKHH. thaz why i hate 3D . at the begining of marriage . EVERYTHING is BEAUTIFUL . but , ..... ya kn ow the result after 10 years . or maybe 1 years later . ^_^
As long as she takes care of my children properly and did the house choirs, I wouldn't mind a Japanese wife that stood home.
damn feminist
Exactly what a Woman is for, if only Women from other countries were like this.
Reason #6, 324, 775 to avoid Japanese women.
equality now = wives doesnt work and husband must work to bone
this is why we need to make countermeasures!!
we need to make a group to counter equality now and NEET wives!!
we need to create ZEON!!
I want to be a "lazy bitch" as well... :(
I'd be wary of the postman, milkman, pool boy, cable guy, plumber man, lawn boy and any other "____"man/boy making a visit.
Marriage + Lazy wife = Busy Pussy
if i get to screw her everyday after i get back from work i dont mind letting her stay home recovering
and if she is willing to take care of the kids then that is even better
The only problem is that this kinda thing will get her all fat and fugly. And i doubt you'd want to hit it after she becomes all fat and fugly.
that's a great tactic on their part.. then again, if you can get them to ride on top, cowgirl style..
well she will get exercise.taking care of the kids and buying groceries.if all she does is sit around and watch tv then i dont mind but if she binges on food then i'm just going to divorce her
Jeez, I wonder just how short their marriage life is going to be. It takes the truly desperate or a blind idiot to want to marry and keep a couch potato at home.
Or another couch potato?
The couch has only enough space for one couch potato.
What? so 1 plus an another 1 potato is a crowd already? hey wha-what are we talking by the way am confuz
And I'd heard potatoes are ideally planted 12-15 inches apart... plenty enough room for several on one couch.
Potatoes of the couch variant is as wide as a couch.
XP-tan... why didn't any of us notice this was happening to you sooner? ;_;
How could we not have loved you enough to intervene before it became too late?
Shame on us. This was our fault too.
But who will still be willing to stand with you on your road to recovery? Who are the faithful among us?
Everyone will divorce her for that hot new Win7-tan.
Feminism demands you have the same rights and duties of the men. So go to work you lazy bitches.
Well said.
When great power comes, etc...
These women fail, wow.
so glad my wife isn't like that.
My dakimakura waifu(s) are the best soulmate.
Too bad the dakimakura waifu is a bed potato. At least you don't have to feed her.
lol. Nice one.
This is way 2D is better...
the cake is a lie.
Except for the paper cuts... must not forget the paper cuts.
Real men fuck they're 2D waifus virtually, through AG3 or 3DCG.
their* my bad. I always rage when I see grammar errors like that :v
So true. Kallen will never betray me like this.
As long as she gives it up at every beck and call, she can sleep in until noon, and watch irritating soaps the rest of the day for all I care.
CAN'T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS, NO HEADACHE EXCUSE.
Enjoy working in a stressful job till well into the evening to support your couch-potatoe wife. Not like you'll want nothing but a hot meal and sleep afterwords or anything.
Oh, but your wife would be lazy, so they're won't be any hot meal (unless you make it). Oh, and even if you are up for sex, she'll probably weigh a good 300 lbs from doing nothing all day.
The married life sounds awesome.
I'm fine with this.
What i want is a housewife anyway.
Women suffer enough already so the men should
do all the physical work and shit.
By housewife, do you mean a person who'll maintain the house clean and in order? then look somewhere else because the ladies mentioned here want to waste the day away.
Now if you want a very pretty face and body and have the status and money, well that's your choice. Just make sure she showers you with attention and make herself readily available whenever you want to do it, it's the least she could do for leeching off of you.
>Women suffer enough already so the men should
do all the physical work and shit.
...?
Uh, wut. Don't bother with periods or pregnancy, because that's a physiological phenomenon, men don't have it all that great either.
Women have it just as bad, and as good as men, they need to work as hard as their spouse. That's kind of the point to equality.
Nice. So should men be forced to erect Great Pyramids for women too?
Men already "Erect Great Pyramids" for woman...
Then the women get headaches...
That's when the real ride starts.
That is why I will live alone... (and it is not like I can have a wife even if I wanted to...)
see? this is why i am divorced. (awkward silence)
If I add that 45% of them declare being unfaithful, I cannot help but think that it sucks to be japanese husband.
There's a reason why the Japanese birth rate is dropping.
Dammit dammit dammit.
To be honest? It's nothing new. It doesn't mater if it's female or male, we're a lazy species, that's just how it is.
Laziness is a virtue, from a evolutionary perspective. The lazy guy is the one who expends less energy, takes less risks, etc.
Every human-being balances between wanting to be lazy, and needing to get shit done to survive in life.
It's the workaholics with OCD that get the most stressed out, and on average live shorter lives. Isn't good for your blood pressure :)
This - is what I have the opportunity of becoming, if I ever want to. We currently have one child, and expect to adopt a boy later on. Well, except, housewife, would instead be househusband. Or, rather, 'housekeeper' since we aren't actually married.
My 'wife' so to speak, really enjoys working - no matter what her job is, and so, would appreciate me greatly, if I gave up my position (how grande it is...) and took care of the kids.
I'd consider it. It's not even about being /lazy/, if you actually are focusing on housekeeping itself - instead of just watching TV. Child care, house care, and so on, are basically just physical labor. Believe it or not. *shrugs*
That's why the only thing i can really think of is for them to marry someone extremely rich who can get a baby sitter and someone else to clean the house while the woman can just watch tv all day. maybe taking money for fitness or shopping, who knows.
Living like this makes you rotten inside anyway, it's absolutely the worst to not to have any kind of activity. Otherwise, being an "housewife" is not that bad of a dream, i guess. You still tend to your family...
Housekeeping and parenting is a ridiculously hard work (especially the parenting part), and my own parents is a testament to that. There is absolutely nothing lazy about being a housekeeper and parent. Someone has to keep the house in order and the raise the kids.
Yes, but that's not what Japanese wives seem to think.
Being an actual housewife/househusband is probably one of the toughest and most underrated jobs in the world.
Especially, when kids get involved as well. You end up multitasking and keeping schedules like the personal assistant or private secretary to some big shot CEO.
And that's next to the actual physical labour involved. From cleaning the house and keeping it clean, no easy task when rugrats are around. Then there's the shopping, keeping an eye on the family finances, trying to raise the aforementioned rugrats and spend time with them etc etc etc.
The ladies mentioned in the article, have about as much in common with the term housewife, as Equality Now has with actual feminists like Atma.
You can also put too much emphasis on these organizational necessities.
A lot of what needs to be managed by a housewife can be manage by both parents if they work together while still maintaining a job. That may indeed seem like a lot of work, with the majority of it carried over to the partner with the lesser amount of occupational work, but American moms and dads have been doing this for years and parenting is no joke.
In this era, being a housewife/husband is no longer needed. At all.
No offense, but I wouldn't exactly call a lot of those kids as properly parented. Not when one takes into account their attitude, behaviour etc etc etc.
Matter of fact, more often than not I've been given the impression that mom and dad are too tired from working their behinds off to keep their family fed and with a roof over their head to be worrying about raising their kids.
They either let the school handle it or they just buy stuff so the rugrat will keep his/her mouth shut, thus causing kids to end up with M-rated comp games, but without the proper frame of reference that, yes it's all make believe. And no tying a towel to your neck and jumping off a roof, won't turn you into Superman. :P
3D waifu pig disgusting
2D waifu still on paper
Another draw.
When will this madness reach a conclusion? щ(ﾟ～ﾟщ)
Here's the trick - 2D wife is still 2D, even if she's placed inside a 3D robot.
Moe WifeBot - it's only a matter of time guys. I'd give it on the high side, 15 years. Well, maybe 20 for it to become commercially viable.
2d wife is everything whoever said them like some of those fucking idiot on top of me is a feminist or mostly a fucking women trying to ruin anime again
You create a 2D waifu that offers sex 24/7 without the paper cuts and you will make a mint
But how does 2D wife make real children?
Oh, what the hell.
Any opportunity to spread this info is a good opportunity. The more people who know the sooner it will come to pass:
Here Here, and Here.
<- is an Artificial Intelligence Programmer. Things are being worked on (not by me specifically) similar to what you suggest already. Check out South Korean robotics.
need 2D waifu in hologram.
Then comes the programmable matter...
lazy bitches
god, so this is the other side the womens??? O.o
If she's gonna be lazy and stay home, she'd better have dinner ready and warm slippers for me when I get home or they'll be hell to pay.
What? life is an adventure they shouldn't do that
NO anon
For them life is being a couch potato
and provided by their husbados
I myself tends to be like that sometimes
like now am toooo lazy to go to the bathroom
People are lazy its better to chill and do nothing..
I agree the sit around and do nothing life sounds pretty good...
wow so your a lazy bitch ouch
I'm to lazy to go to the bathroom some times too and I'm a guy. So doesn't that mean the human race in general is lazy?
Actually we`ve become lazy over our evolution mainly because of technology >_>
sadly, 5 friends from highschool i know are doing that housewife bit. They used to be hot but now they're fat and lazy (high school was about 8ish years ago)
Damn bitches need to start going into the kitchen to make me some pie or get back to work :\
As long as they don't let themselves go physically I wouldn't really mind, I don't really spend much money. As long as they don't try to control my finances it would be nice to have some company. Especially a fellow Otaku.
w/e
It's a FACT, live with it or jump off the building!
Sounds pretty neat. Maybe I should find myself a suitable marriage and then chill at home with a good book, some wine, a bit of videogaming here, some MMO's there and anime all night long. Do a little gardening, cook some delicious dinner, whip and rape my "other half" a little.
Love the new avatar Narcissist. Your post describes how I want to live if I ever became a woman.
being a Japanese Husband is tough job...
ya gotta' wonder.. 'this' or working feminists...
its a tough decision
Athrun, good luck.
Apparently in Japan, the housewife controls the money. Enjoy having your hard earned cash used up on shopping trips. Oh, don't worry though - I'm sure she'll be more then happy to give you a $10 a day allowance.
I know about the money that's why I included it in my list. If she won't agree to my conditions then good luck for her in becoming my housewife.
To Zacharov,
Do it! You won't regret it!
I'm living on my own and only make $40,000 a year, but you know what? I saved 70% (~$28,000) of my before tax income last year! It goes straight into investments. It's so worth it.
What about forgetting marriage completely? Most potential wives have one too many dimensions anyway.
^ pretty much
You forgot the slave wife. The best choice?
I don't mind if she wants to become a housewife but, she'll have to agree with these conditions:
1. Sex whenever I want
2. Respect my opinion and I'll respect yours
3. Devotion
4. Excersise 3-5 times a week
5. See #1
6. I manage the money
7. Able to cook a good meal
8. Care for household
9. Don't get lazy and become ugly
10. See #1
You know, the idea of living in a small flat by myself and saving up on the bills, rents and maintenance is a very tempting prospect. It's much easier to manage my money and live a somewhat luxurious life that way. Also, small flats are easier to clean up. And on the plus side, there is no damned couch potato making a mess of my house and littering the floor with junk food package.
Bouken desho, desho ...
Agreed
fuck that! if i could find me a rich ojou sama and let me laze around watching anime, reading manga and 100% uuber otaku, i definitely would. plus ojou sama would give smexy time once a year
yes, and those lazy bitch only give their husband $10 a day to use
Bitches and whores.