Queen Pixyteri - Thread #1

[A-Stump]

It wasn't just a movie thing. Traditionally, a geisha will have favored sponsors and the one big 'prize' of a mizuage. They have to buy lots of things from instruments, to clothing, to living arrangements and lessons. That money has to come from somewhere and being a geisha isn't exactly a real job anymore :arrow:

 

[Axiom]

There is also a 'thing' in Japan, I think, where actual hookers approximate geisha--wearing kimono and the face paint, pouring tea, maybe doing traditional dance-but aren't actually geisha. (You have to pass an extremely intensive training course and actually be accepted based on your ability to pass, just like earning a medical or other specialized degree.) So, yeah, some geisha may engage in prostitution, and some prostitutes pretend to be geisha, but they're hardly interchangeable.

Also, the money comes from clients who agree to pay for their training/clothing/whatever in exchange for continued (and not necessarily sexual) services.

 

[A-Stump]

I'm content with just saying Japanese culture is ridiculous

 

[Axiom]

It's just fascinatingly different from anything in my realm of experience. It is both immediately familiar and completely alien. I love it.

I am not a weeaboo I swear.

 

[The Dude]

When you get irradiated not once, not twice, but thrice weirdness is bound to happen.

 

[Stuff and Things]

It's just fascinatingly different from anything in my realm of experience. It is both immediately familiar and completely alien. I love it.

I am not a weeaboo I swear.

To me, japanese culture is a culture full of contrast, you can find a lot of stuff in there... that's why i love it too.

 

[CWCissey]

When you get irradiated not once, not twice, but thrice weirdness is bound to happen.

Actually it was twice when the weeaboos were about.

Although I do dread to see what will come out of Fukushima...

 

[The Dude]

When you get irradiated not once, not twice, but thrice weirdness is bound to happen.

Actually it was twice when the weeaboos were about.

Although I do dread to see what will come out of Fukushima...

Japanese business men with three arms and bigger peckers.

 

[Axiom]

I feel the need to point out that tentacle porn predates radiation in Japan. Just sayin'.

 

[Cwckifan]

For what it's worth, much of the stuff Japan is known for (manga, anime, feudalism, etc) apparently isn't too big a deal over there. Especially the manga and anime, which is just seen as kids stuff

With all that grease in her hair and skin, I'm willing to bet that she's been shining sticking for a long, long time.

Fixed

 

[John Titor]

It's just fascinatingly different from anything in my realm of experience. It is both immediately familiar and completely alien. I love it.

I am not a weeaboo I swear.

One thing that bugs me about the word weeaboo is that it gets thrown around so much that it lost meaning. There's weeaboo (pixyteri) and there's someone who likes anime (grumpy jii-san, who by the way is totally boss).

Considering she's into Japanese stuff a lot, I wonder why she didn't go to Japan.

Now that you reminded me, I remember that someone offered Pixy a free trip to Japan but turned it down. I'd say she was skeptical about the trip because it might be a troll scheme but I think that's giving Pixy way too much credit. Realistically though, Pixy has no sense of financial responsibility; she wants something badly but does not want to work to get it.

 

[Axiom]

Of course. But there is this assumption that if you're not Asian and express any interest in Japan or anything Japanese (TV/movies, cuisine, pop culture, music) in anything but the most purely anthropological sense, you're likely to get the WEEABOO label slapped on you. I definitely don't fit the standard definition and I know that anime/manga and cosplay and stuff aren't ALL there is to Japan. But still. Every time I mention being fascinated by Japan, I feel like I need to add the 'NOT A WEEABOO!' disclaimer because people are likely to assume. I'm sure there are probably people who think Fiona Graham is just a really accomplished weeaboo.

Which makes it harder to emphasize just how stupid and annoying Pixyteri is because she fetishizes Japan to an insane degree.

 

[Seahorses]

Of course. But there is this assumption that if you're not Asian and express any interest in Japan or anything Japanese (TV/movies, cuisine, pop culture, music) in anything but the most purely anthropological sense, you're likely to get the WEEABOO label slapped on you. I definitely don't fit the standard definition and I know that anime/manga and cosplay and stuff aren't ALL there is to Japan. But still. Every time I mention being fascinated by Japan, I feel like I need to add the 'NOT A WEEABOO!' disclaimer because people are likely to assume. I'm sure there are probably people who think Fiona Graham is just a really accomplished weeaboo.

Which makes it harder to emphasize just how stupid and annoying Pixyteri is because she fetishizes Japan to an insane degree.

That might just be a consequence of the social circle you've attached yourself to, and I say that with no disrespect.

I've always expressed an interest in Japanese culture, and I've never had to worry about defending myself from a label. But, then again, I can't name an anime show past Dragon Ball Z.

Also, I'm from Miami, our priority is to be superficial, the majority of people there only care about Molly and partying so, really, they might think WEEABOO is some new designer drug.

 

[Duke Nukem]

I like some Japanese stuff, but some people just go wayyyy overboard. I have a coworker who thinks his replica katana from Bleach will help him when the zombies come. I give him shit for it, but I still consider him a friend.

 

[BALLZ-BROKEN]

I own a Mazda pickup truck, which was manufactured in Hiroshima Japan.

That, theoretically makes me more weeby than all the weebs in the world.

 

[The Dude]

I own a Mazda pickup truck, which was manufactured in Hiroshima Japan.

That, theoretically makes me more weeby than all the weebs in the world.

And possibly radioactive.

Speaking of radioactive Japanese crap, I wonder if Pixy has ever watched Godzilla.

 

[Axiom]

Of course. But there is this assumption that if you're not Asian and express any interest in Japan or anything Japanese (TV/movies, cuisine, pop culture, music) in anything but the most purely anthropological sense, you're likely to get the WEEABOO label slapped on you. I definitely don't fit the standard definition and I know that anime/manga and cosplay and stuff aren't ALL there is to Japan. But still. Every time I mention being fascinated by Japan, I feel like I need to add the 'NOT A WEEABOO!' disclaimer because people are likely to assume. I'm sure there are probably people who think Fiona Graham is just a really accomplished weeaboo.

Which makes it harder to emphasize just how stupid and annoying Pixyteri is because she fetishizes Japan to an insane degree.

That might just be a consequence of the social circle you've attached yourself to, and I say that with no disrespect.

I've always expressed an interest in Japanese culture, and I've never had to worry about defending myself from a label. But, then again, I can't name an anime show past Dragon Ball Z.

Also, I'm from Miami, our priority is to be superficial, the majority of people there only care about Molly and partying so, really, they might think WEEABOO is some new designer drug.

Don't think it has to do with my social circles because it happens online as well as off. Typically it happens online more, because people who know me know that I'm fascinated by Japan but definitely not an animu-obsessed weeaboo. Probably because I react with disgust at weeby brats. People online who DON'T know me are more apt to try and slap the weeb label on me when they hear 'I think Japan is really interesting', because in Internet-Land especially, someone who says they like Japan is likely to be a terrible squealing weeaboo. Of course, they usually try doing it in bad Japanese, talking about the KAWAII SUGOI NIPPON DESU and crap like that, instead of just saying 'Japan's contemporary culture seems really interesting'.

 

[John Titor]

I own a Mazda pickup truck, which was manufactured in Hiroshima Japan.

That, theoretically makes me more weeby than all the weebs in the world.

I have Japanese friends, top that.

As if we weren't semi-derailed already, one of my friends does get annoyed when people ask him to translate stuff. Small stuff like phrases don't bother him but one time someone asked him to translate an entire manga. Not a page, not a chapter; the whole thing.

 

[The Dude]

I wonder what Pixy's reaction would be if someone were to tell her of the atrocities Japan carried out during the Second Sino-Japanese War and Second World War? Things like rape, pillage, plunder, cannibalism, the treatment of POWs, and of course Unit 731. Of course those things aren't indicative of how things are in modern day Japan, but would it tarnish her views of her beloved Nippon?

 

[John Titor]

I wonder what Pixy's reaction would be if someone were to tell her of the atrocities Japan carried out during the Second Sino-Japanese War and Second World War? Things like rape, pillage, plunder, cannibalism, the treatment of POWs, and of course Unit 731. Of course those things aren't indicative of how things are in modern day Japan, but would it tarnish her views of her beloved Nippon?

Bonus challenge: Ask Pixy to sit through classical Japanese works. No TV, no video games, literature only. Final Destination. Reading/watching adaptions is cheating.