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2007-03-26 China-Japan-Koreas

Is "Hello Kitty" the cause of Japan's declining birth rate?

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Posted by Mike 2007-03-26 11:52|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 But the original Hello Kitty vibrator is no longer being manufactured.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-03-26 13:29|| 2007-03-26 13:29|| Front Page Top

#2 You mean, this one? Sex toys, psychological test, birthrate dampening... is there ANYTHING Hello Kitty can't do, I ask you?

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-03-26 14:10|| 2007-03-26 14:10|| Front Page Top

#3 "The cause is not so much a baby-phobia as it is a fear of the sacrifices that accompany babies and children."

Learned this from the best at it - the Euros.

If the West can't come up with a solution for this in the next 100 years it is finished.

If you craft a society (the modern socialist welfare state) which essentially takes over the role of families, why would you be surprised if people stop having them?

It's true that most people will have families whether or not they will need kids to for care them when they get old and infirm. It's also sadly true that a vast chunk of humanity will NOT have kids without this motivation. What is needed, then, is for the West to craft its society so that those that fall into the second category are given a VERY powerful incentive to be procreate.

Eliminating the socialist welfare state should be job #1. Reestablishing the family as the basic social unit, instead of the state, is a close second.

Posted by no mo uro 2007-03-26 15:09|| 2007-03-26 15:09|| Front Page Top

#4 The Japanese abortion industry is the cause of Japan's decliing birth rate. The other reasons are irrelavant as long as you don't look at this. Japan has a massive number of abortions a year. Japanese men just will not wear a condom so it's "birth control".

The moon people are a strange xenophobic bunch. They think and act in strange ways. Their materialism and concern with "face" doom them to screwed up and unhappy lives. This is just one facet of it.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2007-03-26 18:00|| www.sockpuppetofdoom.com]">[www.sockpuppetofdoom.com] 2007-03-26 18:00|| Front Page Top

#5 While living in Japan years ago, I heard about an advertising campaign for a web browser, for which they had licensed the use of Woody Woodpecker. A software company was about to launch a media blitz, when a native English speaker brought the whole thing to a screeching halt. The advertising slogan they had chosen was "Touch Woody, The Internet Pecker."

No relevance, just funny!

Posted by exJAG 2007-03-26 19:33|| 2007-03-26 19:33|| Front Page Top

#6 I say train more Japanese women to touch Woody and Pecker! There I said it.
but say hey ima a genius so these ideas of mine are I'm full of it.

Posted by RD 2007-03-26 19:40|| 2007-03-26 19:40|| Front Page Top

#7 A5089: You mean, this one? Sex toys... is there ANYTHING Hello Kitty can't do, I ask you?

Get one on Ebay today.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2007-03-26 20:16|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2007-03-26 20:16|| Front Page Top

#8 RUSSIAN WOMEN = IRANIAN WOMEN, etc. > stop having babies becuz they no longer trust Society = the State = State Welfarism to make life easier andor wealthier in order to have large families. Socialist convenience was at best TEMPORARY - now LIFE/QUALITY-OF-LIFE IS GETTING HARDER WID NO CHANGE IN SIGHT, AND NOT EVEN OWG = SUPER-SOCIALISM/WELFARISM/GOVTiSM IS GONNA HELP. Commies = Jihadis, etc > despite being aware of the Nation-Society getting poorer andor demographically suffering, THE COMMON ANSWER IS MORE AND BIGGER GUBMINT + GUBMINT-CENTRIC CONTROL - MORE BUREACRACY, MORE WELFARISM, MORE REGULATIONS AND ANTI-LIBERTARIAN CONTROLS. There's always the AK behind the [womens]head(s).

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-03-26 22:44|| 2007-03-26 22:44|| Front Page Top

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