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That's awesome. Town celebrates its own via a medium that the youth seek out on their own. The youth then forge closer connections with their elders. Everyon
by NickC25 2y ago
That's awesome.
Town celebrates its own via a medium that the youth seek out on their own. The youth then forge closer connections with their elders. Everyone is happy, everyone wins.
- oulipo 2y ago[flagged]
- tomcam 2y agoHey, what about the women?
- ConspiracyFact 2y ago[flagged]
- falcor84 2y agoPutting on my Product Manager hat, the best product launches often focus on a single well-defined persona, as this one apparently did. Now that this is proven to work, they can expand to middle-aged women, older people, younger people, animals and what have you. But I think that this is a great start.
- oulipo 2y ago[flagged]
- j_4 2y agoI'm sorry, white men?
- maximus-decimus 2y agoThe are two gender : women and white men.
- laurent_du 2y agoThose damn elderly white Japanese men!
- djrj477dhsnv 2y agoWhere outside of Europe were "white men" in charge 1000 years ago?
- Gibbon1 2y ago[flagged]
- Andrex 2y agoAn obvious choice for an early expansion pack. Like Pokemon adding a girl player character in 2nd Gen.
- xanth 2y agoIn fairness older men are goofy, women not so much
- presentation 2y agoAnd Japanese people are well aware of this, there is definitely a common youth cultural appreciation of goofy middle-aged men here beyond what I was used to growing up in the USA.
- munificent 2y agoIn Japan, men commit suicide at roughly twice the rate of women. The age group with the highest rate of suicide was 50-59. I can't find good data, but loneliness and not feeling valued by a community is very likely a significant contributor here. Women are important but if the problem you're trying to solve is deaths of despair, then focusing on men makes sense.
- steve_adams_86 2y agoSuicide among men is ~4x higher in Canada and the USA in some demographics, too. In some cases, such as men 80+, the rate is 6.5x higher in Canada. This is crazy sad. It doesn't mean other things affecting women aren't sad. It just means this is sad.
- amrocha 2y agoExcept that’s not in any way their motivation, so this is a completely unrelated comment.
- munificent 2y agoFrom the article: "We wanted to strengthen the connection between the children and the older generations in the community. There are so many amazing people here. I thought it was such a shame that no one knew about them." Older people being forgotten and unknown seems relevant to me.
- amrocha 2y agoStop assuming. Strengthening connections doesn’t mean old men are killing themselves.
- akimbostrawman 2y agoThat isn't even only Japan. On a global scale men are 1.7 times more likely, in the US 3.6 times, Europe 4.0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_differences_in_suicide https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_differences_in_suicid... There are so few resources about the topic for men compared to women that comlaining about it is just sad.
- philsnow 2y ago"obachan" expansion potential
- presentation 2y agoDon't let perfect be the enemy of good.
- oulipo 2y ago[flagged]
- presentation 2y agoWell, evidenced by the fact that these aren't even white men, and we have no evidence that anybody in the community in question are actually offended or feeling disempowered except for righteous social justice warriors like yourself, this comes off as screeching from someone who just wants to push their agenda. And before you call me a sexist MAGA patriarchal asshole, not only am I liberal, but I actually live in Japan and interact with the local culture here all day every day. I speak the local langauge, am married to a local, have local friends and in fact talk about and interact with ojisans on a very regular basis, because it is a cultural touchpoint that is relevant here. Do you? I am sick and tired of annoying people like you co-opting every discussion to push a specific victim-mindset zero-sum world view, reducing everything to your race and sex struggle without actually lifting a finger to, say, do things that actually affect outcomes in society besides pissing people off—unlike the people who set up this lighthearted card game, which is demonstrably bringing a community together. Not everywhere is the USA, let alone your toxic online ragebait bubble. What you are doing is repelling people from your cause more than helping it, myself included. Please do some soul searching and if you really feel a need to irritate people, I would appreciate you do it somewhere else. I hope that your implication that Japanese culture is inferior because it doesn't kowtow to your cultural expectations, has made you feel good today.
- zemvpferreira 2y agoHear hear
- mattigames 2y agoThe whole thing was an idea of a woman, Eri Miyahara, 45-year-old secretariat head of the Saidosho regional community council, I bet she have her reasons to focus on men, I suspect it's the perceived loneliness of the selected ones.
- seabird 2y agoThat's a needlessly uncharitable interpretation, but it is an interesting point. I think that increased rates of low (and high) grade neurodivergence in men, and society expecting eccentric behavior from men, especially as they age, results in in the sort of characters that make something like this work. Umarells in Italy come to mind.
- Cthulhu_ 2y agoThere's quite a few assumptions in your comment; one, that men have higher grades of neurodivergece than women (whereas it can also be underdiagnosis or masking through higher societal expectations on women). Women are eccentric too.
- ConspiracyFact 2y agoMen are more dissimilar from one another, generally, than women are from one another. Sorry.
- laurent_du 2y agoThis is a well-known fact with a well-established genetic basis. For pretty much any trait, the standard deviation of the distribution for men is larger than the distribution for women.
- sceptic123 2y agoBold claim with no sources there
- nothrabannosir 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variability_hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variability_hypothesis I guess you live up to your username, though not the most flattering interpretation of it :D :D
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- __MatrixMan__ 2y agoThe bar in this medium is pretty low. Pokemon is about capturing animals in the wild and making them fight in captivity. The "why just men?" question is probably worth raising locally, but I'm not going to shame them from the other side of the planet for it.
- DeathArrow 2y ago[flagged]
- pjc50 2y agoInterestingly, Japan is in the middle of its own version of Obergefell v. Hodges where several courts have ruled that the ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and plaintiffs are currently awaiting the consolidated Supreme Court ruling.
- GuinansEyebrows 2y agoThis is unnecessarily antagonistic.
- awongh 2y agoJapanese society is famously sexist.... also the game was created by a woman.
- GuinansEyebrows 2y agoI was going to comment on this. I wonder if there are any cards for women (dumb!) or if they’re just not mentioned in the article (dumb!).