• alapakala@quokk.au
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    11 days ago

    they love shortening loanwords

    when I do this, I get xenoglossophobic downranked.
    When tourists do this, “it’s cute, adorable, hahaha they can’t say ‘sherbet’🍧”

    odd given the message at the bottom about the ¥150 discount for women.
    Sexism is ingrained there😔

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      Sexism is ingrained there😔

      Yeah to a certain extent, but at least this seems on the level of “ladies’ night” or “first drink free for ladies” type thing

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        11 days ago

        still a sexist thing to do. I rather make it an promotional challenge or something to get them to come back with more customers. e.g.
        “Wearing sherbet hats get 150¥ discount!” “Parties of 6+ get discounts!” “Catering orders are 15% off!”
        The couples things is a big turn off too.

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          I haven’t been to too many love hotels so I’m not sure how common that is. I know in Korea they let me get a room with a friend I was traveling with before we both realized it was a love ho.

          I know it’s sexist for sure but I was just trying to point out that it’s not much different than the sexism of eg the US, rather than closer to like places in the middle east. Feels like a lot of times people get their impressions of Japan from internet sensations like wacky vending machines rather than from more nuanced sources

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          still a sexist thing to do.

          it’s an incentive to make an underrepresented demographic integrate into the locale.