2011-11-14

Charisma Man

Charisma Man is an amusing, if not chauvinistic, comic about a Canadian dork who goes to Japan and manages to get girls—except when his arch-nemesis Western Woman shows up and ruins the effect of his "special charisma".

Some people have commented that the perception of Japanese woman going ga-ga for Caucasian men is racist.  However, I've seen it in action enough that I consider it a fair assessment.  I've found it completely annoying when a girl is hanging off the arm of a total dweeb, way out of her league, who wouldn't be able to get a girl back home, which is probably what drove the authors to write the comic.

I would make the point, too, that some Caucasian women, particularly American women, have gotten too big for their britches, e.g. excessively liberated, and they could use a dose of reality.  Perhaps if enough eligible bachelors find mates elsewhere, Western Woman will have a change of tune.

Japanese women's discretion has improved in recent years due to the popularity of American TV shows in Japan; at least they have a cultural frame of reference, however exaggerated.

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