War! Japanese Destroy US Defense for 2nd Time in 66 Years!

The headline read:

WAR!

SECOND PEARL HARBOUR!

War!? Again? I had to find out more. I clicked the link at the It's a Wonderful Rife Blog. It said:

Japan Wins Women's World Cup of Soccer

Women's World Cup soccer final between the USA and Japan in Frankfurt, Germany, July 17, 2011. The game started off with a flurry of USA activity, hard strikes and bad luck and some fine tending by the Japanese goalie.... (snip) 

The result - a Japanese tying goal. I believe it was at the 84th minute. For two minutes after that, Japan pressured the USA driving forward like they were attacking Pearl Harbour (what - too soon for that joke?)... but the Americans held them off and starting pressure on their own... Japan was good to hold off the USA. At the end of 90 minutes (plus 2 minutes of extra time), Japan and the USA played..... 

Read more at the: It's a Wonderful Rife Blog. I see from the URL that good old Andrew who runs the Wonderful Rife blog was getting ready to be the first blogger in the world to post about Japan's loss by looking at the URL title: http://wonderfulrife.blogspot.com/2011/07/japan-loses-at-womens-world-cup-of.html?

See? That's dedication from a blogger for you! The guy is getting ready to post as the game is going on! 


Take that old school media!

Actually, I had no idea that this game was even going on and had no idea that Japan was in the finals. I was at a restaurant Sports-Bar type of place and was wondering why it was so crowded. Maybe it was because of this game. I don't really pay too much attention to stuff like this. I left way before the game started.


I don't like crowded places.

If anyone cares, here's what I think of this professional sports stuff in general as I wrote in "Confessions of a Pro Wrestling Announcer" (Yes. I really was a professional wresting announcer):

People pay big money to go watch pro-wrestling; it's a spectacle. But I'll tell you what, it's no more or less fixed or a spectacle than any other professional sport; It's no more or less fixed than any other "game."

My dear sister-in-law wrote a congratulatory note on Facebook to congratulating me on the win by Japan at the "big game". "What big game?" I thought. She said she didn't know I wasn't a soccer fan. I wrote back:

Generally speaking I hate all professional sports (Olympics too) as they are all too nationalistic and involved with money.

If I want to see real sports I go watch kids play. They truly play for the love of the sport and really cry when they lose.

Oh but going to a pro game and eating hotdogs and drinking beer can be fun too because that is an event. Watching on TV is just a game... Boring... Nothing to care about. Just a game... I also don't like how people sometimes get pissed off if "their team" loses. Who cares? If Japan (or USA) wins, it doesn't make me better or enrich my life. It's just big money entertainment. 

I could see someone owning, say, McDonald's stock getting excited and yelling if they "win" and their stock goes up. But what "stock" goes up if some team wins or loses?

See? People who really like sports think I am no fun. They are right. I think pro sports are Bread and Circuses for the masses. Wikipedia describes it well:

the phrase has become an adjective to describe a populace that no longer values civic virtues and the public life. To many across the political spectrum, left and right, it connotes the triviality and frivolity that characterized the Roman Empire prior to its decline.

But, in my way twisted mind, there is one reason that I am happy whenever the Japanese women's team wins. I love it that, in a such a male dominated society, that it is the ladies team that often wins in the world arena! 


So I'm glad the ladies team won! Go ladies!... Whatever team you are on and whatever country you are from!


NOTE: Forgive the cheesy newspaper front page I made. It's a complete ripoff of a newspaper that I was told about when Germany defeated France in the World Cup. That one said something along the lines of "Blitzkrieg! German Forces Crush French Defense for Second Time in 60 Years!" Chuckle! Sports can be fun as long as people don't take this stuff seriously. As you can see, I don't take them seriously at all! 


UPDATE! The Japanese men's Olympics and national teams always fly first-class. But they never win. The girl's teams, on the other hand, win - yet they always fly economy class. This time, after winning, the girl's team coach and players were begging to fly back at least Business class! Now that you know this sexist BS, ask me why I always want the Japanese men's teams to lose and the women's teams to win! Read more on how the world champs are treated like second-class citizens at  Nikkan Gendai 


Thanks to Michele Rogers! 

Japan May Be a Man's Country, But the Women Dominate

Japan is often thought of as a heaven for men. Japan is thee Man's Country. There's lots of things here that are very, for lack of a better term, "beneficial" for men. Just a few off the top of my head are the fact that it isn't unusual at all for a 45-year-old or 50-year-old man to have a 20-something-year-old wife; while it is frowned upon, it is also often allowed, that married men have affairs with various women and having a mistress is still common. It is also not considered as "having an affair" by many women when her man goes to a sex parlor or so called hostess club and has his frustrations, er, "relieved."


In my old age, I've come to realize that these types of frivolities are not a benefit but a curse. They just cost money and surely, one woman is trouble enough. Also, at my house, even though I am the boss and Lord King of all I survey, my wife is chief financier and she controls the money and budget.


But I digress...


So, in this country, that has the image of a man's paradise - paradise where a man's virility is often showcased; where the women walk two steps behind the men, it makes me chuckle whenever I see a Japanese men's team getting beat in any world sports game. It doesn't matter if it is baseball, soccer, volleyball, whatever, I've always take secret pleasure in seeing the Japan men's team get beat.


It must be some sort of psychological screw-up in my brain. It's been that way since I was a kid. I've always loved Japan, but I always wanted the Japan men's teams to lose. It didn't matter what it was, but it was usually the Olympics, and the Japanese men's team would consistently come in as an "also ran." I was happy when they lost. 


Which is weird in one way, I always wanted the USA men's and women's teams to lose too, but that wasn't because of the way society is, it's because I want to always cheer for the underdog, and the USA is never the underdog... Ever! I mean, how could you possibly be the underdog when you have all the money, the best facilities, the best trainers, dietitians, drugs, er, I mean, "sports rehabilitation techniques."


But this always wanting the Japan men's teams to lose confused me inside. I mean, if I loved Japan so much, then why did I want their men's teams to always lose? 


I concluded it was because my mom was Japanese and I had this idea that Japan is a very chauvinistic country and that the men dominate the women. I'm sure that I am not the only one with that image in my head either. It must be that everyone thinks so.... Especially us half-Japanese kids who have a Japanese mother that we love dearly...


I guess growing up with the image of a Japanese man treating women as second rate citizens leaves a bad image in the minds of us kids. It isn't always true, of course, I have to deal with my phobias and stereotypes on my own I suppose.


So, it's been OK cheering against the Japanese men's teams because they always lose anyway. Sometimes, I've even felt sorry for them... 


But there is a Japanese team who I always cheer for and I always am extremely happy when they win. Can you guess which team that is?


It's the Japanese women's national team. It doesn't matter what the sport is, I always want the Japanese women's national teams to win. And they do! Last night they knocked out two-time defending champion  Germany out of the World Cup 1 - 0! It was the German Women's Team's first World Cup defeat since 1999! Woo-Hoo! Go Japan! 

Japanese forces penetrate deeply into German territory!

The Japanese national women's teams win and they win often. Recently, just to name a few, they won at Olympic Softball, Volleyball, Marathon, and they've done OK at other sports like table tennis and synchronized swimming (arguably not a sport!)... So I enjoy it when the women's teams win.

Perhaps it is a twisted satisfaction that I get from watching these poor ladies, as representatives of the female half of their society, actually showing the guys how to win.... Something that the guy's teams rarely do (excepting the two times they lucked out in baseball). Perhaps it is because I feel a sort of revenge for my mother.

I don't know what it is. But, when the Japan women's teams win, it feels good just because I get some sort of childish feeling of revenge or satisfaction (even though I don't really care about any sports).

So the Japan women's teams showing the men's teams how to win is great fun. It proves that times they are a changin' and that women are taking their place, slowly but surely, in Japan.... 

That, and the fact that in 80% of all Japanese households, the wife holds the purse strings and controls all the money and finances it makes me wonder if this really is a man's country or is it that the men are all children and the women are the adults and are de facto controlling them!

Of course, that is nonsense and poppycocky. In Japan, men are king. The wives merely win all the time and control the money.

That's all.