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Re:Cultures where men and women don’t speak the same languag... by rgrieselhuber on Monday December 13, 2021 @01:52PM (#29542925)
The funny thing is, Japanese women don't really come off that way, it's just how they talk and they are quite adept at achieving their goals with their "feminine" language. One gets the impression that many of the Western men who learn Japanese from their wives and girlfriends are actually trying to emulate this ability to manipulate their world through softer / more social language and achieve similar levels of success, but it doesn't really work for them and seems sociopathic instead. Hence, the cringe.
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Re:Cultures where men and women don’t speak the same languag... by teawrecks on Monday December 13, 2021 @02:23PM (#29543308)
Interesting. Would "simping" be a better term than sociopathic? Obviously that's not necessarily what's going on, but Japanese is already so contextual, I imagine it's difficult to separate/rationalize how someone speaks the way they do from the why.
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Re:Cultures where men and women don’t speak the same languag... by rgrieselhuber on Monday December 13, 2021 @02:30PM (#29543394)
That’s not a bad way to describe it.
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