Tokyo (CNN) The mayor of Japan's third-largest city is facing a public backlash after he suggested men are better suited to grocery shopping during the coronavirus pandemic, because women take too long and contribute to overcrowding at supermarkets.
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On Thursday, Osaka mayor Ichiro Matsui implied male grocery shoppers would reduce the potential spread of the virus as they would spend less time in stores.
"Women take a longer time grocery shopping because they browse through different products and weigh out which option is best," Matsui told reporters at a coronavirus press conference in Osaka on Thursday.
"Men quickly grab what they're told to buy so they won't linger at the supermarket -- that avoids close contact with others," added Matsui.
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Men quickly grab what they’re told to buy? Told by whom? Their wives?
So, women should do the grocery list and send men to the store? It IS easier to buy what someone else has told you to, rather than make the “list” as you go along in the store.
I’ve done that now and then, but hubby often comes home with a different brand or a different product than what I was thinking of, and sometimes I have to go shopping TOO. I knew what I wanted it for, so I would have been able to swap it for something that could be used instead.
It has nothing to do with gender, really. My father loves to cook; he often spends two hours cooking a dinner. He also like to shop for the ingredients.
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Hah, I was just about to say, my mom does the same thing, in fact she’s been doing it since back when Corona was still just a Mexican beer. She was actually that supermarket’s first customer for that service, I think she made the local paper at that! (hey, it’s a small town, what can I say) Even at the times I’ve been with her while she’s grocery shopping, she doesn’t “linger” or anything, she goes in, buys her stuff, and leaves like anyone else.
Due to my job watching grocery shoppers all day in case they steal, I can confirm that this is bollocks. He’d have a point if he was talking about clothes shopping instead.
It’s people who shop in pairs who are really slowing everything down. They aren’t allowed to (unless one of them is a minor or a care worker for the other one) but they sneak in separately, meet up inside and go up and down the aisles passing stuff backwards and forwards between them while having a long discussion. It’s very selfish and I’m always having to throw one or both of them out. “We’re doing separate shops,” is the excuse they always use. I’m getting called ‘cunt’ every day.
That does not match my experiences grocery shopping with women at all. Granted, I’m usually shopping with a control freak and there’s lengthy pre-shopping planning: organizing grocery lists, consolidating coupons, double checking sales, planning routes not just to the store to avoid traffic and optimize any side trips planned for the day but even a methodical path through the aisles to minimize time in the store. The actual shopping is over and done with as soon as possible, which makes sense because it’s just one of the many things that needs doing any given day and there’s always a dozen things that need doing after.
Now it might be different in rural areas where there’s really nothing else to do but while away the day but for working women - of which the majority of women I know have been - one more drawn out chore is not a leisure activity.
Clothing on the other hand is a different story. For a lot of the women I know that has actually counted as a leisure activity for them and the closest I’ve seen to the bahaviour described here though again speaking from my experience doing the shopping with a control freak there’s a good deal of pre-planning to that as well. I can’t say for certain but I suspect that some of the enjoyment when picking out something to wear comes from an element of anticipation: it’s a step towards future social interactions and leisure activities.
Alternatively the time taken might be less from enjoyment and more a combination of sharp awareness that a great deal is read into what women wear (whether it’s desired or not) necessitating a veritable war game session in preparation for assumed statements being made through clothing, predicting reactions to some outfits, how to respond, how to respond TO responses, anticipating the perception of social challenges and threats, how the various potential interpretations of multiple individuals can change an entire social dynamic and present future issues to manage, and just what kind of irrational idiot ideas other people might get in their heads, or how to deal with people simply assuming this is all being planned for when the only thing you were thinking is that you liked how it looked when you tried it on.
This yaro has clearly never gone shopping with me- I am in & out in less than an hour. I do my supply runs with the speed & planning of a tactical stealth strike.
The only places I really dawdle at are bookstores, a dangerous place to leave me unsupervised & any place with animals. I’ve been known to waste 30 minutes in a PetCo.
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