greedy bitches

What I'm about to write, I normally think of as misogynistic, and kind of stupid. So, uh, apologies ahead of time.

They say you can't con an honest man. While I don't really keen to that, the phrase did occur to me as I was watching "damens walker", my first japanese drama in ages. I've only watched the first episode, but that same theme everpresent in japanese media for women recurs. The woman, always searching for "the big one", gets played.
Before I go further, let me make clear what "the big one" means. It is, of course, "the love of one's life", but these men being targeted have one big thing in common. They're freaking ideal. They're young, rich, successful and attractive. There are no social restrictions on that matter in Japan. Women on TV want rich dudes, and rich dudes only; stable, healthy, loving dudes need not apply. (except in that specific genre)
These women are, as per the time honored tradition, mostly trying to finagle these men into long term relationships using sex, or at the bare minimum, calculated overtures toward sex. The men express no special interest in long term situations, but why should they? They're young and succesful. There is absolutely no hurry for them to get involved in a lifelong relationship.
Yet the women, who don't bring the issue up until after sex, expect the man to be on bended knee as soon as they get on their knees. Then when the woman's scheme clearly hasn't worked, she inevitably cries, which again, the man should respond to with a proposal. Should he fail to do so, you can be sure that he will get a comeuppance for daring to have sex. This time, it was a kick to the groin.

Thank god Japanese women aren't much like Japanese TV women.

UPDATE 2/16
actually, by the end of this drama, the women who had spent their time bitching about all the trickery and shortcomings of men realized that they were creating the problems themselves, and that the whole world was a lot more fluid than any stupid set of principles contrary to ones own desires.
They're even so brash as to suggest that for certain women, being paired with a man who incessantly cheats may well be a reasonably happy situation. Though being uncoupled does seem to be undesirable, regardless.