Javizy wrote:
Just enjoy the videos.
Okay, I will and I have. Would it make you feel better if I excluded the introduction so that people can enjoy the videos without the politics?
Javizy wrote:
NB: I'm not "ageist"; I just associate high-school with cliques of people who're identified by their interests. I feel justified with the goon comment though.
Sorry but calling someone a "soulless goon" is not nice, particularly if she's Christian, and even if it's true (which you don't know is true since you don't personally know her). As far as I'm concerned, calling someone a soulless goon (and worse comments found in the respective video comments section) is worse than people enjoying these videos.
But I think everyone should take your advice: enjoy these videos.
nadiatims wrote:
So... can we conclude from this thread that Qwerty has a "white fetish"? and is perhaps having trouble reconciling that with his interest in japanese culture (something that often coincides with "asian fetish").
*There's nothing wrong with having preferences based on race.
Intriguing comment. Is it even possible to have a white fetish? After all, white males and females are often the unspoken-of "standard of beauty", even in non-white countries. We have all sorts of derogatory names for white males interested in Asian females (yellow fever, etc) but the reverse is viewed with at best encouragement (that Asian guy has a whtie girlfriend! Good for him!) and at worst, disinterest/indifference.
IceCream wrote:
umm... this is awkward. i think it's you who may need to look over your reading comprehension, and / or basic propositional logic, because it doesn't mean what you apparently think it means at all. But it feels like it might be going too far if i start trying to explain this to you here. I can if you really want me to though.
This is Japan which has links to China, and obviously, most people care about face (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_(sociological_concept) even on faceless mediums (message boards).
I'll use this opportunity to say no, I don't really want you to. That way, I can walk without loss of face, and so can you (so you don't need to get the "last word" in, your words in another thread).
quark wrote:
Like someone else said, if your only interest in a woman is how good she looks, you don't actually value women.
That's assuming their strawman is true: that my only interest in a woman is how good she looks. If you read the first post again, I mentioned two criteria: a woman's physical aesthetics AND her interest in Japan or Japanese culture (personality). Isn't that what counts? Her personality (and her looks)?
quark wrote:
Mods, this thread is really creepy, insulting, incredibly sexist, and has the whiff of troll about it.
All or the majority of my posts in this thread are civil, with good spelling and grammar, and most importantly, on-topic. If there's anyone that should be crying to the mods, it should be me for the off-topic trolls.
quark wrote:
I keep seeing threads like this here, and every time it leaves me with a really nasty taste in my mouth. I come here to learn, not to watch people have their race/gender/sexuality put down and belittled.
Firstly, if you were really sincere in trying to learn Japanese, by far the most effective method is to not go on internet forums. Sometimes, I need to take this advice myself.
Secondly, nobody forced you to click the thread nor read it.
Thirdly, I'm not a fan of censorship. I see plenty of other posts or threads that are not to my taste but I let them speak. For example, I am not a fan of nadiatim's libertarian ideology which he occasionally promotes and which in my opinion, does far more harm to the world than this thread. But I let him have his say.
Last edited by qwertyytrewq (2013 February 21, 8:54 am)
