A Phenomenological Study of “Herbivore Men”
A Phenomenological Study of “Herbivore Men”
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“食草人”的现象学研究
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2013
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M. Morioka
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从2008年到2009年，“草食男”（soshoku danshi或soshoku-kei danshi）在日语中成为一个流行的、广泛使用的词汇。它在各种媒体中蓬勃发展，包括电视、互联网、报纸和杂志，甚至偶尔可以在日常对话中听到。随着它变得越来越流行，它原来的意思变得多样化了，人们开始用各种不同的细微差别来使用它。2009年12月，它进入了由U-CAN赞助的“年度流行语”竞赛的前十位提名名单。到2010年，它已经成为一个标准的名词，而现在，在2011年，人们似乎对它并不特别感兴趣。流行语的寿命很短，所以很有可能很快就会被淘汰。然而，事实仍然是，这个词的出现从根本上改变了人们对年轻人的看法。它甚至可以被描述为日本男性历史上的一个划时代的事件。“草食男”一词之所以流行，是因为在日本社会中存在着真正的“男人”。人们已经意识到这样一个事实：似乎失去了“男子气概”或变得“女性化”的年轻男性数量正在增加。这种趋势的迹象从20世纪末开始就存在了，当时高度时尚的年轻人开始把头发染成浅棕色，戴着设计师设计的戒指，打耳洞。当时我刚转到大阪府立大学，我记得当我从讲台上往下看时，我惊讶地发现几乎所有的一年级学生，无论男女，都把头发染成了棕色。仔细一看，我发现一些男同学打了耳洞。然而，与现在的情况相比，这一幕似乎有些怀旧；在今天的校园里，有一些男生把头发染成金色，穿长裙。就在前几天，比如，一个年轻人
From 2008 to 2009, “herbivore men (soshoku danshi or soshoku-kei danshi in Japanese)” became a trendy, widely used term in Japanese. It flourished in all sorts of media, including TV, the Internet, newspapers and magazines, and could even occasionally be heard in everyday conversation. As it became more popular its original meaning was diversified, and people began to use it with a variety of different nuances. In December of 2009 it made the top ten list of nominees for the “Buzzword of the Year” contest sponsored by U-CAN. By 2010 it had become a standard noun, and right now, in 2011, people do not seem particularly interested in it. Buzzwords have a short lifespan, so there is a high probability that it will soon fall out of use. The fact remains, however, that the appearance of this term has radically changed the way people look at young men. It can perhaps even be described as an epochal event in the history of the male gender in Japan. The term “herbivore men” became popular because of the existence within Japanese society of actual “men” to whom it applied. People had already picked up on the fact that young men who seemed to have lost their “manliness” or become “feminized” were increasing in number. Signs of this trend had existed from around the time highly fashion-conscious young men who dyed their hair light brown, wore designer rings, and pierced their ears started appearing at the end of the 20th century. At the time I had just transferred to Osaka Prefectural University, and I remember being surprised when I looked down from the podium to see nearly all of the first-year students, both male and female, had dyed their hair brown. Looking more closely, I saw that some male students had pierced their ears. Compared with the situation now, however, this scene seems quite nostalgic; on today’s campuses there are male students who dye their hair blonde and wear long skirts. Just the other day, for example, one of the young