Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!CALA-MUZIK!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!news.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!not-for-mail From: "Ben Bullock" Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan,sci.lang.japan Subject: Re: Western women should try to become OL's. Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:57:51 +0900 Organization: Public NNTP Service, Kyoto University, JAPAN Lines: 34 Sender: benkasminbullock@gmail.com Message-ID: References: <453eb559$0$14299$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <4sz%g.52545$rP1.46528@news-server.bigpond.net.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: 75.241.accsnet.ne.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-2022-jp"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: caraway.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp 1161748670 17207 202.220.241.75 (25 Oct 2006 03:57:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@news.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 03:57:50 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2962 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:164567 wrote in message news:4sz%g.52545$rP1.46528@news-server.bigpond.net.au... > Apud B Anderson (fj.life.in-japan) hoc legimus: >>Why don't they? If I was a western woman, I would go to Japan, do a 2 >>year degree and become an OL. > > The fantasies of Andersonくん continue. I can imagine millions > of "western women" lining up for this great chance to get a low-paid, > low status job, and then end up with the best proze of all: married to > a Japanese male. > > If it's so easy and so great, why isn't it happening already? I don't see a lot of foreign "office ladies" but there are quite a lot of ladies I know who are apparently happily married to Japanese men. I don't think it's the worst fate in the world for a woman, probably not better or worse than being married to an Australian or any other nationality. In fact I would say that a lot of Japanese women seem to do very much worse in their marriages to foreign men. The basic problems for foreign woman who want to be office workers are probably language and cultural barriers, but it isn't necessarily a low-paid job, and as Anderson says the hours are relatively light compared to the Japanese man's working hours. A lot of married Japanese women do seem to enjoy rather a luxurious and easy life, it has to be said. Let's look up yuukan madamu in Edict: yes, it is there. Jim, have you ever met a "yuukan madamu"? -- sci.lang.japan FAQ: http://www.sljfaq.org/afaq/afaq.html