Not Wanting a Girlfriend is a "Serious Illness"

[Black Phoenix]

I don't have a girlfriend, but that's no big deal.

According to the Japanese, i'm ill.

According to American teenagers, i'm a nerd.

According to my friends, i'm a weird, shut-in w**ker.

Oh well. At least I have disposable income, a car, a property and free time.

Unlike many people of my age, I grew up. I understand that one needs to be a realist and needs to work towards building a stable and independent life, which dating would quite frankly ruin. I don't understand why girls feel the need to go out with some arse just "Because" and guys feel the need to wear Polo or Checkered shirts and stick their hair in spikes to attract females. It's stupid and fatuous.

I hate to break it to you, but that is not how you pick up girls.
And most girls don't go out with an, as you put it, "arse" just for the lulz.

Cheer up a little.
Why so serious?

When was the last time you were in Britain?

Actually, holidaying in popular destinations for British tourists was enough to formulate that opinion. I was literally the ONLY guy there not to fulfil some sort or archetype for the young British male (Stupid dress sense, spiky hair, crap attitude).

Also, the first sentence was "I don't have a girlfriend, but that's no big deal". I have no intention to pick up the shallow, vain, ditzy slags that grace my generation.

If it's not an awkward question, how old are you? Because your opinions on your own generation seem worryingly similar to my own...

More on topic: I can kinda see the point this guy's making, but serious illness? Maybe something got lost in translation somewhere down the line...

 

[Little2Raph]

Thing is, this lowering birth rate and aging population isn't just Japan - it's considered a problem here in Australia too. Also, one of my Taiwanese friends told me it was a problem there as well. In fact, it seems to be a problem in most developed countries. It almosts seems as if the more educated people are and the more access they have to material wealth the less interested they become in raising children. . .

 

[Drejer43]

"If [one] begins thinking, 'I can't get a girlfriend, but that's not big deal,' that is a serious illness," he writes.

But that is how I think...

 

[bluepilot]

Lots of people here in Japan suffer from a disease called `having next to no money`. Having children is expensive in Japan. It is so expensive that I think that those who actually WANT children should have their head examined.

If the government wants people to have more babies, it should allow health insurance to be used in pre-natal checks and childbirth. Currently, pregnancy is not covered by health insurance because it is "not a disease".

I am sure that there are many happy men out there bursting to the seams with virility, but just cannot afford to have a family/girlfriend. With all the medical checks and having to buy a house/rent a bigger place you are virtually put into a slave debt/debt slavery to pay for all those mouths you have to feed in your new family (yay, I love working for the bank).

The whole "cartoons makes people sick" is just a cover for the effects of a 20 year recession which has limited both salaries and prospects.

 

[Leadfinger]

He he,it just leaves more hot Japanese toddy for Japan's foreigner community

 

[fix-the-spade]

If smog was the problem then how do you explain China's overpopulation problem?

China is mostly rural countryside.

Japan's problem is most of it's population is concentrated into the cities on the coast, China has millions upon millions of small towns that don't suffer Beijing Smog (that also send vast numbers of young people born in them to work in the cities), Japan has very few people living in the mountains and most of the rest in it's coastal conurbations.

 

[Abedeus]

I don't have a girlfriend, but that's no big deal.

According to the Japanese, i'm ill.

According to American teenagers, i'm a nerd.

According to my friends, i'm a weird, shut-in w**ker.

Oh well. At least I have disposable income, a car, a property and free time.

Unlike many people of my age, I grew up. I understand that one needs to be a realist and needs to work towards building a stable and independent life, which dating would quite frankly ruin. I don't understand why girls feel the need to go out with some arse just "Because" and guys feel the need to wear Polo or Checkered shirts and stick their hair in spikes to attract females. It's stupid and fatuous.

Wrong! You need to have a dumb, blonde girlfriend that will only suck money out of you, complain all the time and break up with you because you think her poodle is annoying piece of shit and you don't like Twilight!

And apparently everyone who isn't trying to fuck everything that moves is ill...

"You really want a someone to love."

This man has listened one Queen track too many. Or he's just trying to... I have no idea what, frankly. World is as fucking overpopulated as it is, and he wants people to have MORE children?

 

[Madman123456]

The random Mess of Neurons we call "Brains" has a few things not functioning the Way we like them. We're all mental in one way or another.

So yes, i am mentally ill in the Way described in the Article. If you want to call that an illness. I don't feel ill and unless i somehow tread on other Peoples freedom in any way i can be as ill as i "like" to be.
I do realize that this means i wont procreate and i'm ok with that. The World will have to do without my Offspring and it'll be fine.
Oh well, apparently i'm too much of a pathetic Loser to have any Woman be interested in me. I'll have to make do without one.

I can do that. Is that a Symptom? Thinking one can live without Company when Society pretty much tells us that we can't? I feel more like a Rebel against the Rules of Society then a pathetic Idiot who's too stupid and too afraid to talk to the Ladies.

The Ladies will have to make do without me. And they'll be fine.

 

[Casual Shinji]

If the current trend continues, by 2050 Japan's population will have shrunk 20%, and the elderly will make up 50% of those that remain, presumably leading to some kind of nightmarish, apocalyptic future where gangs of octogenarians stalk the streets of Tokyo on their mobility scooters, hunting teenagers with nets and tridents.

I would go see that movie.

 

[trophykiller]

Frankly, I've found dating to be a waste of time, and ignoring it has made my life so much better than my lady-obsessed peers.

Also, is it wrong for a man to friend-zone a girl?

 

[Scars Unseen]

Well I've been married for the last 4 years, and I've got to say that if that were ever to end, I'd probably stick to that particular illness for the rest of my life.

EDIT: But I might get a pass on the issue since I've already contributed a child to Japan's next generation...

 

[purifico]

Frankly, I've found dating to be a waste of time, and ignoring it has made my life so much better than my lady-obsessed peers.

Also, is it wrong for a man to friend-zone a girl?

It`s not wrong, and not unheard of. I just hope that the girl y9u friend-zoned won`t take it the wrong way. Some just like to jump to a conclusion, that if she got "rejected" then the guy is gay, or a pervert of some kind. Sad but true.

 

[Woodsey]

I can already see this slipping into a classic Escapist Relationship Thread.

AKA gamer douchebags whining about women not lining up to suck their cocks on command.

Now now, let's not forget how every other guy going out with a girl is a retarded ape who is barely intelligent enough to grunt, and how the anti-social misogynist whining about him is so much better for her.

 

[spartan231490]

The title is completely misleading. He said that if you actually want a gf but your self-esteem is so low that you say you can't get one and try to pretend it's ok, that is an illness. Calling it an illness might be going too far, but it's certainly not a good thing.

 

[370999]

I can already see this slipping into a classic Escapist Relationship Thread.

AKA gamer douchebags whining about women not lining up to suck their cocks on command.

Now now, let's not forget how every other guy going out with a girl is a retarded ape who is barely intelligent enough to grunt, and how the anti-social misogynist whining about him is so much better for her.

Yeah this is so weird. I am not by any means a feminist but this whole weird relationships were people seem to act as if girls as these stuck up idiotic whores but not to them and that's bad is well hard to comprehend. i mean subsititute the word girl for black or whatever and the sentiment of steotyping would not be okay.

As for the Herr Doktor mentioned in the articule, I think leaving the societal stuff aside, yeah you should try to have a rela girlfriend/boyfriend/whatever. I know asexuality get's brought up but I don't think it is anywhere near as prevalent as people make it out to be. I'm not saying you should be forced to have a partner but it seems like people are engaging in a mssive self decpetion and I don't know but it seems well kinda sad, like selling yourself short.

 

[Zeetchmen]

I love my waifu, and don't need no 3D

<3 Rin

 

[darron13]

I'm excused since I can't procreate anyway >.>

 

[CheeseSandwichCake]

Pfft you don't need to be a douchebag to get girls. Anybody who thinks that is a loser who doesn't know how women work.

Exert power and confidence, be aggressive and competitive and be yourself. They only go for douchebags because they're usually people who do all of these things.

 

[Rect Pola]

Perhaps instead of demonizing their vast entertainment empires they need to use them as a starting point in sharing interests. An Okaku mixer of sorts.