‘Herbivore man’ actually worse name than ‘wussy man’

Japan has a few things going for it: vending machines with questionable products in them, vast amounts of robots in both menacing and non-menacing tastes, moonspeak and even an iconoclastic culture harboring xenophobic tendencies that would make your head spin.

And now, there’s another thing they get to add: the slow and disastrous extinction of their male population. Or their population in general. Which, you know, just makes things peachy for society.

“Herbivore men”, young men in Japan that feel that sex isn’t a factor between men and women (or sex with anyone for that matter), are currently becoming a strong trend. In America, we call them metrosexuals (though believe me, there are more factors that they need to fulfill in order to fully qualify for that title).

We know that you’ve had some issues regarding a rather catastrophic decline in your birth rate, but c’mon, Japan. Man up! Now, granted, they could always adopt someone if the birth date does drop disastrously, but there goes that whole variable-xenophobia thing again.

Well, at least the cost of living will go down, right?