Japanese wives

[martin ewen]

Japan has the most insipid, tepid, soul grinding gigs on the planet. Only the strong survive let alone have any fun.
Spend 6 months figeratively on your back being rodgered by a culture you cannot ever fully comprehend, fueled by thoughts of your morgage, the payoff, whatever. (performance whores with hearts of gold,) No disrespect intended but I have to ask the question, Why do so many performers marry Japanese woman?
Is it like that syndrome (the name i forget)
where captives form emotional attachments with their captors.
Or is it because at heart all the rebels want some sort of docile super-mum who puts out.
I'm not listing them but they are everywhere and they are as varied a bunch of husbands as you will ever find.
Shambling dipso's--Japanese wife
Eclectic wunderboy--Japanese wife
Personality nil--Japanese wife

I know people well respected in this community who are too scared to go there in case they get married.

I lived there for 3 years and my only defense was to drink a lot so I couldn't focus on people or talk properly.
But really, I'm curious.
Is it all the benefits of an anal culture with the gender advantage as icing on the cake?
Is it that in a country of expressionless drones (thankfully changing slowly) someone with a free smile becomes Courtney Love by proxy.
Whats the gig?

[Butterfly Man]

My dick looked big in her hand.

[martin ewen]

So marry an amputee or a midget (political considerations aside--iddi biddi people)
I appreciate your glib response for all its uninflammable worth but still its not like Japanese woman need rescuing (or an organ that stretches their frame) The fact remains they rarely give up on choosing the most incorrigible rogues to marry.
Do they perhaps have a catholic gene?
I , from a position of not having a sane woman ever interested in me, beg to know your secret.
Is it that you give them interior decoration responsibilities and they make do for the duration?
Is it that they are used to gender persecution and you for all your faults are , at the very least malleable?
I realise its as deep and complex as any other major life choice but I have to ask, when was the last time you cleaned the toilet?
And is that really a lifestyle choice?

[This message has been edited by martin ewen (edited 11-21-2001).]

[Butterfly Man]

A foolish woman can manage a clever man but it takes a clever woman to manage a fool.

[le pire]

Martin,

Did it ever occur to you that men and women marry because they LOVE each other? Differences of culture, language and (especially) politics become insignificant when two people realise they are happy together and decide to do whatever they can to stay together.

Go fall in love, you'll understand...

Il n'y a pas un pot si mechant qu'il ne trouve pas son couvercle.


étienne

[martin ewen]

Men and woman marry because they love one another?

Well you learn something new every day.

I've always thought love clouded rational thought rather than clarified it (perhaps you are right and its not a glandular imbalance you spend the rest of your life justifying with higher ideals as you wipe defecation off house-hold surfaces while resisting impulses to throttle your nuclear nearest and dearest before buying a large chest medallion and working as a petty officer on the love boat)
My interest is not why people choose to pretend they are more than DNA vehicles driven by a subliminal need to reproduce.
Nor how societys evolve to encompass this with distinctive trappings , songs ceremonies and boy-bands.
My interest is simply based on an observation that there are, I would venture, a disproportionate amount of Japanese wives in my extended peer group, and why?
I must go now, to my nearest bus-stop, and find a soulmate.

'Haben se einen kartuffle puree'

[Michael Rosman]

this may be so old everyone has heard it,

but ancient Japanese saying:

lucky man has :
American house, chinese wife, and Japanese salary

unlucky man has:
chinese salary, Japanese house, and American wife

[Barry]

i will go on soon about my experiences with japanese women soon...no time this second...i just want to no why ettienne is so damn literal? maybe he thinks linearly as only a frenchman can.i am with martin --definitely marrying for love is an interesting possibility, but it doesn´t answer the question...unless he has a japanese wife.
i don´t think he has played there yet- so why would he?

[le pire]

I just happen to be incurably idealistic and believe in all those ridiculous little axioms that every day life tries to beat out of us. A person dear to me said to me "il faut garder les illusions" (you must hold on to your illusions) and I think it's true.

The essential is invisible.

Sure, Martin, I have to do housework and clean up garbage. Who doesn't? It's part of life, man. Whether your cleaning up after yourself, or yourself and your wife and kids. Have you ever had a slovenly roommate?

Isn't is just a bit unfair to cynically pick apart other people's personal relationships, especially when you are single? It looks like jealous raving.

You say "no sane woman is interested in you..." WELLLLLL!!!!!! Maybe it's because you're a grade A nutcase!

Maybe Jim could start a new forum "personals" forum...

Spring time will be here soon, that's when loooove is in the air!

The rooster is the symbol of France, because it is the only animal that can be up to it's knees in shit and still sing.

étienne


p.s. The most dangerously beautiful women are in Italy... Perform at Carnivale in Venice, you'll see!

[Butterfly Man]

Martin the Spartan,

I have just reread you old missive about Japanese wives and so I plunged into deep deliberation because I realized that you never really got a serious answer to the second part of your question as to why these Japanese women married this army of wandering rogues.

Well, the answer is rather complex. It has to do with their attraction to a culture that appears exotic and quite alien from their own... being with men more expressive and emotionally available than Japanese men... and mostly because of the deep cultural emotional scars as a result of the whole Godzilla experience.

Americans can't understand this syndrome because we never had anything like that happen here... sure we had a brief episode with King Kong, but he was taken out in one day by a handful of biplanes... Godzilla stomped all over Japan and did some major damage and in the end just left... and I'm not even touching upon Mothra, Gamara and that bastard Rodan...

So before you judge these poor terrified people take a walk in their wooden platform shoes <geta life>...

Sayonara Yankee Dog,

[Stephon]

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Also an over-decorated, foul-smelling, egomaniac, commonly referred to as a "cock". Why would the French relate to that?
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[ricardo yonez]

No, No, its genetic assimulation, gene pool war, impregnate , infiltrate and occupy. The answer is simple that 'we' are driven to sew our seeds, muddy the water and impart a bit of our selves, the price is of course a blurring of cultural definitions. Its not love its survival.

[Rich Potter]

Martin,
Pay no mind to these literalist idealists. They know not, love is blind, jealousy is tunnel-visioned and lust is cock-eyed.
(ouch!)

If interested, I'll be your Japanese wife for $5.00 U.S.

I can cook and clean, all while walking around the house with my ankles grabbed.

--Rich

P.S. Hope you like "tossed salad" ...

[martin ewen]

Richard, Please don't flirt with me as its unseemly and unsettles me.
While being of the same gender would be an advantage in that we could not breed and your obvious genetic weakness towards symetrical epilepsy would be stopped in its tracks. (Juggling sadly being one of the more socialy acceptable nervous disorders)
And while, for the sake of humanity, marrying you and thus devoting my existence to being a contraceptive of sorts has a certain selfless, almost catholic, noble masochism attached.
I will have to dissapoint you and decline for the simple reason that I really have funnier things to do.
But do I appreciate your desperation and at $5 I'm sure you'll make someone very happy eventually.
However my question remains and has not been answered by perhaps the only qualified individuals. Japanese wives.

[Mr.Taxi Trix]

I ran around with Juliie Chen for awhile.

http://www.performers.net/library/tt-soccer.html

Attempting to be true to her steryotype, she was a red belt, and could put me in my place with a glance. From her foot. It was attractive, in a hidden dragon sort of way. I also loved her tattoos, and the fact that she never wrote missives about upcoming ink installations. Doesn't take much, for me. Robert's commments on the termiinus of his uriary tract also held true here, in her hand and other places.
And Julie? I couldn't tell you. if I had any idea what about me did it for her, I would work it. Its likely that her interest in me was grounded in but not limited to her lack of other amusing options at the time. Our relationship was riddled with ambiavalence, frought with typos, and culminated in a series of near-misses and bypassed intentions. Short of that, it was the stuff of pure white light and hollywood soundtrack that only the busiest self-replicating, well-intentioned DNA could concoct.
On balance, it was better than eating broken glass.