I Want to be a Baker

Wait, what?

So Japanese kids are trend-led individuals (by individuals I mean sheep, hence why they're trend-led).

There is currently a drama doing the rounds, involving, you guessed it, sheep.  Wait, I mean bakers.  Bakers.  I was unfortunate enough to see ten seconds of the show (I cannot remember where however, and it may well be a brain melting hallucination formed from the slurry of dramas past.  Worse yet, it might even be korean.) and can say, without ambiguity or misunderstanding, it's shit.  It's so typical of the genre, that it becomes a stereotype before a word is spoken.  I can't quite believe they managed to embody the definition of stereotypical drama without running a few seasons.  Normally a show becomes popular enough to define terms - this took the terms and carefully sculpted a steaming pile around the definition, to the detriment of everything.  Without knowing a word of the lingo, indeed without a word even being spoken, the villain is obvious.  He's only shy of the Dick Dastardly moustache - and only then because asians can't grow moustaches.  It's a scientific fact.

So with this work of art currently doing the rounds, a massive number of girls in the classes want to be bakers.  Presumably so they can be knocked up by Dick Dastardly (hey you at the back there, stop snickering) and spend the rest of the show wondering who the father is.

To give you some statistics regarding youthful stupidity - of the (roughly) seventy papers I just marked, it's safe to assume (again roughly) half were written by girls.  That's (roughly) thirty-five.  Of those thirty-five, a full eleven want to be bakers.  In conservative countries women (willingly or otherwise) still tend towards secretarial duties, and the rubbish jobs men don't want.  Think human resources, and ironically, teaching.  What makes me laugh is this: Japan doesn't want to be seen as conservative.

At one of my other schools, I was talking to the head teacher about how I saw lots of women serving tea in Japan, but no men.  This isn't a one-off case, it's expected that the youngest members of an office do the subservient bullshit, but only those with too many chromosomes are expected to do the subservient serving roles (as opposed to the heavy lifting roles of the men).  In an effort to appear normal, the head said, 'no no, of course women and men are equal.'  He stood up, made tea for everyone, (at which point the office looked somewhat afraid, I could imagine the local farm animals sprouting wings) and sat down with a satisfied grin.

Ten minutes later, a woman went around picking up all the empties, and normal service was resumed.

Whoops.

I've not seen a man perform that task since he did.  Again, whoops.

I get really annoyed when people like germain greeeeeeeer go on television and verbally assault men, pretending to want equality.  The veil she hides behind is one of equality - while espousing the 'virtues,' of making women the superior class of citizen.  The often cited lines of 'if women ran the world there would be no wars,' while probably not attributable to greeeeeeeer, is often echoed by other feminazis.  Yes.  Run the world.  Equality.  Wait, what?

Here, women appear to have so little aspiration as to seem frightening, the exact opposite of world domination focused feminitis.  A sex genuinely devoid of ambition.

Even if it means they inadvertently spawn a Tamazaki greeeeer of their own (imported from australia, presumably), they need to show the young female population that bread is not a fulfilling career choice; at least not for one third of the entire population.

Besides, the last thing this world needs is more Japanese bread.  It's crap.