liveblogging a stupid tv show!

not really.

But there's a certain kind of tv show that seems to come on once every month or two that always fuels the ameteur sociologist in me. A group of 100 japanese people are polled on various questions, and everyone goes "えーー" to all of the answers. The formula changes... sometimes it's 1000 people, sometimes, like tonight, it's 100 high school girls.

I'm watching it now, and can't help think a bunch about the culture. for example, among the current 100, 71 have a boyfriend now, and 75 have ever kissed a boy. 53 have ever had sex. These revelations are followed by some really heavy handed social messages.
The messages make me doubt the numbers

(maybe I am liveblogging)
Tonights show isn't the usual poll and response. It's actually Hozoki Kazuko, the terrible fortune teller responding to them individually and criticising audience members from the podium.

The terrible obaasan fortune teller is currently telling the girls that they are dead wrong for thinking boys and girls are the same. If the 16 year old girl in the audience is not willing to fight a guy twice her size, then clearly women and men can't live the same lives, according the baasan.

--Well, she certainly outdid that. She says that war is for boys, taking care of the home, cooking and raising the children is for women.

Maybe the obaasan is not such an important opinion maker as I thought, but lots of people I know love her. I hope it's because she's an irrascible, backward old bag, and not because she says she can see the future, and knows the gospel answer to every moral question.

Correction, maybe not so many people I know love her. The office people seem to "kirai" her. Sort of makes sense since her primary job as a "fortune teller" is synonymous with "liar", that people wouldn't think much of her moral opinions.