Japan mayor under fire for 'women dawdle at shops' remark

[packman]

The mayor of Japan's Osaka has come under fire for suggesting men should do grocery shopping during the coronavirus outbreak because women are indecisive and "take a long time".

Japan is under a state of emergency over the pandemic, and residents in some areas have been asked to shop less frequently and only send one family member out to get supplies to limit contact.

Osaka Mayor Ichiro Matsui told reporters on Thursday (Apr 23) that men should be entrusted with grocery runs because women "take a long time as they browse around and hesitate about this and that", Kyodo news agency reported.

"Men can snap up things they are told (to buy) and go, so I think it's good that they go shopping, avoiding human contact," the 56-year-old added.


.... Yah, ain't it the truth though? (gonna catch hell for that opinion)

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/japan-covid-19-shopping-men-women-groceries-sexist-12672960

[Turbineguy]

1. He should visit an American

gun store.

[packman]

2. Or a hardware store

[Ohiogal]

3. ++++

[delisen]

4. Prime example of why we are in a mess. Sloppy thinking

Reaching conclusions without thinking things through, speaking without thinking, simplistic binary thinking about human behavior, valuing action over planning, generalizing from narrow personal experience
Societies are now too complex to survive sloppy thinking such as that being evidenced by Matsui.

[LakeArenal]

5. Men... Mr Lake used to say "Have fun!"

when I went to the grocery store. I told him, GROCERY SHOPPING DOESN’T QUALIFY AS LEISURE OR “ME” TIME.

Lists, cloth bags, lifting and toting ten bags of groceries, a twelver of beer a twelver of pop, a gallon of milk, eggs bread and bananas, hauling them home, hoisting into the house and putting the shit away does not equal an afternoon at the mall or flea market.

Frankly I wish he loved grocery shopping as much as they think women do.
Mostly I get, “but there’s nothing to eat!”

[MoonchildCA]

6. My husband can shop really fast...

...as long as he doesn’t have a list. Of course, he only ends up buying about half of what we need. If I give him a list, he spends way to much time trying to find all the items. Before all this started, he would stop at Trader’s or Vons on the way home at least 3 times a week.

Now that I am home from work, I find it much more efficient to go myself.