Stereotype No. 1 - Stick Legs

Do Japanese women have stick legs? I investigate at my local mall by surveying local shoppers. Also, I do some shopping.

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• mall
• japan
• thin
• skinny
• women
• japanese
• diet
• figure
• stereotype
• weird
• product

[morinokuma123da]

Stick leg,,,,

We say, maybe "かもしかのような足" or "Deer's leg" or "Deer's-leg-like"

It's used when people admire long & slender beautiful legs with imagination of dynamic & quick move. It's like legs of athlete.

But we don't often use it when we admire women's leg.

And there is a word "だいこんあし(da-i-ko-n a-si)" or "radish leg", meaning "fat legs".

It's obviously an insulting word and used for describing not men's legs but women's leg.

[daiquirikiss]

@morinokuma123da Ah yes, I've heard of those expressions before. I know that the reason why many Japanese women want thin legs is because they know it's admired by others. Some women go too far and look too thin for western eyes. Westerners like thin, but we don't want someone to look like they're starving. So many Westerners think Japanese women are too thin sometimes. They focus on the legs because the women are always showing them off.

[hcm9999]

Where are you? In the video, I mean. Don Quixote?

[daiquirikiss]

@hcm9999 Aeon mall.

[hcm9999]

@daiquirikiss Never seen those products in an Aeon mall. Did you make this video with iPhone? It looks very good.

[daiquirikiss]

@hcm9999 no I used my Canon Lumix digi camera.

[MiroMiroSune]

The smell of black people having sex... That almost had me on the floor.

[luigipatera]

What`s the name of the track in the beginning, at 0:28? sounds good.

[BlackOakStudios]

"What would you like today sir?"

"1 Black People sex, to go please."

[SaiKoSeSu]

The woman in skinny jeans at 6:20! *to the left*

But, no... I do think people exaggerate about how "stick thin" Japanese women are. A lack of obese people doesn't mean everyone is too thin. :P

[RawrIwilleatsoul33]

whooa, the driver's seat is on the right...XD that's so...weird

[caletcalet]

nice beginning song

[luigipatera]

@bakagajin thanks!!!!

[bakagajin]

@luigipatera It´s Horchata by Vampire Weekend.

[morinokuma123da]

@daiquirikiss

You have a point in that Japanese women cares about how the other people think about them. Generally speaking, both Japanese men and women often think "how people think " should come first rather than how individual thinks. For example, It's very hard to find Japanese woman, especially young lady who eat alone in ラーメン屋.They care about other peoples' impression about eating alone. if you capture young lady eating alone in ラーメン屋 by video, I promise to donate 千円 to your project. lol

[rafaelromerojr]

so wild.