HERBIVOROUS GUY.

As usual, I was enjoying my rare pastime in surfing the web until I came by Hyunwoo Sun’s website and was presented with a blog on Japanese anime. I paid a look around to read some of its threads, then found a brief introduction of “herbivore guys(called in Japanese soshokukei danshi).” This is one of the fresh-born buzzwords in Japan describing all kinds of men who put their own hobbies or pastime before dating a girl, thus usually keeping their room rather than going out for parties. Some sociologists observe this phenomenon as a sign of men’s decreasing financial status. Personally, I’d add that we should also blame on today’s society that drives people more confined in the rooms for their computers’ sake. 

Actually I used to be one of such people. I had even continued a vegetarian diet for five years! I feared every time I dated a girl that I should sound like a muscleheaded macho. I kept careful on my every move, every manner, and every word to her. I always tried to respect girls as human beings, not sex toys reserved for lascivious private parts. So how did it go―All those worries never helped me with my romance. The girls ended up grading me nothing but as a “nice guy.” Yeah, just nice, or sweet, but never had they said cool. I was a nice friend boy of theirs, but a boyfriend. I was puzzled and disgraced at the humiliated outcome. It later took me almost two years to realize my past naivety and to sit back to a barbecue party. I felt the need of becoming a little more aggressive myself, so I started eating meat as Sakamoto once did to boost his “fighting spirits.” Dunno it did its trick for me, though… I think it did.

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