Quote from: Christopher Brady;957814The average Japanese woman wants to have a career until she is 24 and then wants to marry a, preferably rich, man.  (And for whatever reason, they honestly believe they are entitled to such a marriage.)  The man they settle for may not be rich, but most women in Japan who want to marry at 24, do.

Being married at 24 was extremely important for cultural reasons. It used to be that you found your spouse while you are in college (it was often viewed as the reason to send women to college). Or you met them at work, got married by 24, and then worked part time or quit and become a parent. This was still a common expectation into the 90s (the average age of marriage was starting to slip later and later, even then), though everything was turned on its head as their economy tanked.

There is a horrible label in Japan referring to some women as "Christmas Cake". Christmas has sort of been marketed as a kind of romantic day (fewer than 1% Christian), except for kids. They will sometimes have a Christmas cake, which is made with whipped cream instead of frosting. Because of that, you need to eat it up fairly soon before it goes bad. Why do these women get called Christmas Cake? Because after the late date of the 25th, nobody wants it. And then granny or a local match maker try to set up an "omiai" marriage. This has become less and less common over the last two decades.

Marriage by age 24 isn't a silly thing - it was an expectation of women.

What the fuck happened to this thread?

Quote from: trechriron;957840What the fuck happened to this thread?

Apparently Japan happened? :confused:

The short of it is. Pointless publicity gag gets some people riled and other people looking at the publishers stuff.
It may be even outrage advertising because Jesus wept we havent got that in fucking everything enough now.
Even if it was well intentioned, and it may well be, the way is was promoted was bound to come across wrong to some.

Why does it seem Japan cornered the market on crazy social aspects?

It is their min/max tradeoff for inventing katanas?

Quote from: trechriron;957840What the fuck happened to this thread?

Gojira!!

[video=youtube_share;LR4XNqrqxrU]https://youtu.be/LR4XNqrqxrU[/youtube]

Quote from: Spinachcat;957855Gojira!!

Ask and ye shall receive...

Giant monsters are woefully under-represented as game designers.

Quote from: trechriron;957840What the fuck happened to this thread?

What the fuck happened to this site overall? :-/

Quote from: trechriron;957840What the fuck happened to this thread?

It got the treatment it deserved for the subject matter it brought up.

[video=youtube;Mh5LY4Mz15o]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh5LY4Mz15o[/youtube]

Quote from: trechriron;957840What the fuck happened to this thread?

You did.  You went on about a bullshit goal for a company who has no idea how the real world works.  The problem is...  That the ad solves a problem that doesn't actually exist.  You wanted to make it into some big 'hurrah' thing when quite frankly quotas only harm.

I'd rather someone be able to do the job get it, rather than by virtue of their skin colour or having a penis or not.

But then, the entire West has been sliding into a society of whiny babies who want everything handed to them with no work required, where places of learning are for 'safe spaces' rather than challenging oneself or one's ideas.  Where one half of the world's population whines about how they've been oppressed when 90% of the world has always revolved around them.

No one wants to work, or achieve anything anymore.  Meritocracies are seen as a bad thing, instead of allowing humanity to grow and learn, we want complacency and 'security'.  Where children are crushed and given gold stars for participating where no one loses and every one is given an overweeningly over-inflated sense of entitlement because everything had been handed to them instead of earning it.

This little ad is a symptom of it.  It's garbage, pointless and insulting to every single PERSON who ever wants to be a writer.

Fuck, I'm done with this topic.  Bleagh.  It's like Tumblr and their mental sickness propagation.

Quote from: Dionysus;957771Why are you dragging race into this?

Hmmmmmm, lemme think . . .

Quote from: The_Shadow;957615I'm thinking of young men graduating and going into the workplace, and realising that they are far from privileged, they are making less than their female peers and in many cases being actively discriminated against, for example by HR with hard or soft quotas who will choose a someone other than a white male every time given the choice.

. . . oh yeah, that was it.

Quote from: CRKrueger;957864Ask and ye shall receive...

That's pretty much all my dancing skills.

Not kidding either.

Quote from: Spinachcat;958087That's pretty much all my dancing skills.

Not kidding either.

Having had to dance in a heavy costume... I can sympathize with the big G. :cool:

Back on topic...

So anyone think that this would not have been a problem had they not worded it as they did?

Quote from: Omega;958097Having had to dance in a heavy costume... I can sympathize with the big G. :cool:

Back on topic...

So anyone think that this would not have been a problem had they not worded it as they did?

It would have been a problem.

Some people are sexist buttnuggets.  Some people are not sexist buttnuggets.  Gamers are a subset of people.