The other day, my colleagues were discussing a `herbivore male`. They kept slagging him off for various reasons that baffled me; how could they be so dismissive of him merely because he was vegetarian?
As it turns out, it has nothing to do with his views on the food chain. Instead, it seems to mean a combination of asexual and metrosexual. It centres around the herbivore having no great interest in a real sex life, despite spending an inordinate amount of time on personal grooming.
Instead, as this article on The Wall Street Journal discusses, a large section of the Japanese male youth are purely interested in gadgets, gaming and reading dodgy manga.
The term was coined by pop culture commentator Maki Fukasawa a few years back and certainly supports the timidness of many men I've met in Japan so far.
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