Keith Watanabe * NET 2.0

This is a funny Japanese drama I just completed about two weeks ago.  It's essentially about a Japanese woman's insecurities regading her breast size.  Yup.  Lots of tit jokes here and it stars no less Misaki Ito as the Kabe Onna, or "Wall Woman" (literally translated; or basically a girl with no boobs).  I'm not going to do a full analysis here of the show, but I do want to talk about my own experience in this situation.

I came to a conclusion that at least in Japan, there's what I call "The Rule."  "The Rule" is what I refer to as how often you'll see these pairings of women, typically fat and skinny or beautiful and ugly.  I think this dialectic exists as a psychological offset.  It makes the skinny girl look skinnier and the beautiful girl look even better.  I've heard other theories on this, but mostly this is the gist.  I know this is partly true since I met a woman who said to me she liked dating fat guys since it made her look thin.  Nevertheless, the next time you walk around Tokyo, see if you can notice this pattern.  Certainly, there are a fair number of groups where this does not occur, but I've seen this situation happen more than once.

Perhaps, another reading into this situation is how the ugly or fat girl might hang around the pretty or skinny girl to get the "rub".  Heck, I try to hang around what I might call "cool" guys on occasion to learn a bit about their lifestyle and absorb their knowledge.  Not to mention there's always a chance that cuter girls might be around :)

That said, two weekends ago in coming home on Korean Airlines, I noticed "The Rule" again.  This time there was this tiny doll of a girl and a mountainous woman.  The mountain woman was so huge that I thought she had to buy up the entire row.  Sadly enough, the tiny girl was paired up with the mountain woman since they were friends.  I think the tiny girl even had the window seat.  I can't imagine for one second how the tiny girl managed to survive for 11 1/2 hours of flight time being squashed next to this planetoid.  Of course, if the airplane crashed, the tiny girl would probably be the only survivor since the mountain woman would absorb the impact (and the tiny girl at the same time).  Also, I think the tiny girl might've had a slight advantage of having a full body pillow riding all the way to Narita.

Despite all this now I have one name for one of these pairings.