How Japan’s ‘BBC’ is rewriting its role in the Second World War

[Malthus]

There is no question that *some* men here are into underage girls, but it is not socially acceptable. In Japan, apparently, it is.

Depends what you mean by "socially acceptable". I think that dudes who are into that sort of stuff are still thought of as creeps and losers by the majority who are not. But you can still produce, sell, and buy stuff that caters to those tastes.

It is without doubt *more* socially acceptable in Japan, seeing how so much of anime uses that theme, how widespread and popular that anime is, and how open the depictions of pedophilia are in at least some of it. 

[Ed Anger]

Speaking of Hooters, I took my son in there a while back. Every damn waitress in the house fawned over him. He got attention, I got spectacular views.

Totally awesome. 

[Razgovory]

I wonder if the making airplane girls, nation girls, battleship girls etc stems from Japan's more animist leaning traditional religion.

[alfred russel]

My problem with Hooters is I don't know what proper customer behavior is.  Are you supposed to perv on the waitresses and make comments to your buddies about their tits, or are you supposed to pretend you're in an Applebees?

I've been in a Hooters once and I found it surreal.

On the other hand, the Bikini Bar I visited in Austin made perfect sense to me.

That's a good point.  I have no philosophical objection to Hooters and the like, but generally do not attend for pretty much that reason.

There are a few former coworkers that I have lunch with every so often just to stay in touch. We always go to Hooters or Tilted Kilt (its scottish themed clone). I actually think it is better because the atmosphere stays unprofessional (which is a danger when you are keeping in touch with former colleagues). The waitresses are cute and flirt with you a bit and give the table a topic of conversation. Why not? At least here, the prices are really about the same as any other bar.

No one ever hits on the waitresses or anything like that.

[alfred russel]

That's not even close to true.  Britney Spears became a huge star by exploiting the North American hunger for underage T&A.

Her audience was mostly young and skewed female. I know there are members of many age groups that like underage T&A, but at her concerts I would think that most males were young themselves.

[Monoriu]

There is no question that *some* men here are into underage girls, but it is not socially acceptable. In Japan, apparently, it is.

Depends what you mean by "socially acceptable". I think that dudes who are into that sort of stuff are still thought of as creeps and losers by the majority who are not. But you can still produce, sell, and buy stuff that caters to those tastes.

It is without doubt *more* socially acceptable in Japan, seeing how so much of anime uses that theme, how widespread and popular that anime is, and how open the depictions of pedophilia are in at least some of it.

I'd say that the depictions of cute, underage girls in skimpy clothing is far less a berserk button in Japan than in the west.  My impression is that anime fans and otakus aren't highly regarded in Japan either.  The difference is that the "we are only talking about fictional characters" argument works in Japan much better than it does in the west.  Plenty of people don't like anime in HK, my parents and wife included.  But they dislike anime for other reasons and don't seem to have a problem with apparently underage girls, because they are animated fictional characters. 

[Admiral Yi]

The Runaways might be a better example than Britney Spears.  Their European concert audiences in particular were all middle aged guys in raincoats.

[Duque de Bragança]

The Runaways might be a better example than Britney Spears.  Their European concert audiences in particular were all middle aged guys in raincoats.

Never heard of them, unlike Britney Spears, who had her heyday and fame so on one could escape.

[Monoriu]

I wonder if the making airplane girls, nation girls, battleship girls etc stems from Japan's more animist leaning traditional religion.

I know next to nothing about Japanese religion.  But I think they make airplane girls based on "our target audience likes military hardware, and cute magical girls.  Let's somehow combine the two." 

[The Brain]

Speaking of Hooters, I took my son in there a while back. Every damn waitress in the house fawned over him. He got attention, I got spectacular views.

Totally awesome. 

Hitler, worse than.

[Ed Anger]

Speaking of Hooters, I took my son in there a while back. Every damn waitress in the house fawned over him. He got attention, I got spectacular views.

Totally awesome. 

Hitler, worse than.

[Admiral Yi]

Never heard of them, unlike Britney Spears, who had her heyday and fame so on one could escape.

Maybe you've heard of Joan Jett?  She started out in The Runaways.

[Monoriu]

Speaking of Hooters, I took my son in there a while back. Every damn waitress in the house fawned over him. He got attention, I got spectacular views.

Totally awesome. 

No Hooters in HK.  One, they'd have a real problem with staff recruitment unless they import all waiting staff.  Two, and more importantly, it won't be socially acceptable for most people to go to such places.  I think a Hooters opened in Vancouver during my stay there.  I considered going but decided against it.  I would only go alone, and the experience would totally suck as I was pretty sure that the waitresses wouldn't bother with a table of one. 

[Valmy]

That's why I mentioned a retarded provincial bourgeoise as well. As for T&A in North America this is the way it is (strange nobody mentioned it)

"If you suck on a tit the movie gets an R rating. If you hack the tit off with an axe it will be PG."

This is not me at all dude.

[Duque de Bragança]

Never heard of them, unlike Britney Spears, who had her heyday and fame so on one could escape.

Maybe you've heard of Joan Jett?  She started out in The Runaways.

Indeed, but Joan Jett's audience is not exactly middle-aged guys in raincoats since she was not underage when she did the cover(s) who brought her fame, so I don't see your point.

PS: covers since in Wayne's World 2 it was not exactly the same as the first