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Japanese women's response to all those viral videos celebrating Japanese World Cup fans' cleaning up after themselves (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 weeks ago by fireweed@lemmy.world to c/japanlife@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/48291275

Image description:

Japanese text: 家でやろう。

English text: Please do it at home.

Image: a male Japanese soccer fan cleaning up a stadium superimposed over an image of a home interior, featuring an exasperated woman doing dishes and laundry while a disengaged man lounges on a couch and browses his phone.

Japanese text: 日本人男性の家庭内労働時間は国際的にみても極めて低い水準。まず家の中のケア労働を分担してほしい。

English text: Japanese men spend among the least time on housework intentionally. Please share unpaid care work at home.

Japanese text: 思いやりは、家の中から。

English text: Start with respect--at home.

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[–] etherphon@piefed.social 33 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

international call out oooo hah

[–] RaphaelSchmitz@feddit.org 3 points 3 weeks ago

I think if you told western men to do the same at home as in the stadium, they'd sit around watching sports while getting drunk.

Which, gotta hand it to the boomers, they were ahead of the Japanese

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 18 points 3 weeks ago

The English translation is kinda mediocre imo. The word "unpaid" doesn't come in expressly or implied.

The level of time spent on housework by Japanese men is extremely low, even from an international view. First, we'd like them to share in the care work at home.

Thoughtfulness begins at home.

Personally, I see it as a side effect of the workaholic culture, being unable to divide housework fairly when one or both partners are overworked is bad for both.

[–] one_old_coder@piefed.social 8 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Japanese slop, will we have slop manga after?

[–] SailorFuzz@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

there already is, it's the entire isekai genre.

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Shots fired!

[–] SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 5 points 3 weeks ago

One Punch Man season 3 was pretty sloppy.

[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I don't think it's AI, AI would've fucked up the characters and the numbers on the scarf and Jersey.

[–] MissingInteger@lemmy.zip 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's AI. The woman who originally posted it on Xitter even noted it in the alt text of the image.

xcancel link.

[–] fireweed@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

Way to scrounge up the original! Hats off to your tracking skills.

[–] Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Edit: I was wrong, thanks to the commenter who checked the alt text on twitter where it discloses being ai :)

~~I agree. Literally the only detail I can find that feels smudged or vague at all is the far back right jersey numbers, and they're pretty small. All the details feel like they were drawn by an actual artist when you look at the hands and feet, or the dishes in the sink, etc.~~

~~I think folks just feel like this simple stylization feels AI, but I don't think it actually is...~~

[–] usrtrv@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Characters might have been added after the fact. Look at the pattern on the clothes bin, jersey in the back, the guy's pants who's sitting down. Those are the most obvious tells. There are more subtle things that artists wouldn't typically draw certain ways as well. It's definitely AI.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 weeks ago

also just the artstyle, it's of course not something you should use to say "this IS ai" but at this point the vast majority of artists would avoid this style due to it being claimed by image generators

[–] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 4 points 3 weeks ago

Already dooo

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, dude in the back's jersey is seriously peeling.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 4 points 3 weeks ago

It's going to get to a point where sports supporters will decide not to travel because they don't want to have to do the cleanup after the game. They have checkmated themselves clean. That way the old ball and chain at home won't stay this uppity about an equal share of housework too! Where does she get these crazy ideas from?

BTW Japanese people litter too. They just won't do it when there are TV cameras on them.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 weeks ago

That's not the Japanese way.

[–] inari@piefed.zip -4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah the whole cleanup thing in the World Cup/Olympics is very fake and obviously trying to cause a good impression

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 weeks ago

It's not fake as in at domestic sports matches they trash the place. As a culture they take collective responsibility to keep public spaces clean.

However, it is true that "keeping up external appreances" is quite ingrained in Japanese culture, which is where the disconnect with keeping the home clean vs. outside can come from.