Christmas Eve/New Year's Eve = spinsterhood?
So are any of you ladies out there nearing the ripe old age of 25 and are STILL unmarried? (cue gasps of horror) If this were Japan in the 1980s, then you would be compared to a stale Christmas cake that no one wants anymore. You better hurry once you reach your "Christmas Eve" (24), otherwise no sane man will want to marry you after 25.
This is something new I learned yesterday, the kind phrases that people have coined here for women reaching their spinsterhood. I don't know if any of you out there have heard this phrase before, so if you have I'd love to hear stories. After a bit of research and reading up on the good ol' net, I managed to turn up the sad but true info. Please keep in mind though, using the "Christmas Eve"/Christmas cake phrase is VERY out of date now.
Instead, consider "New Year's Eve", where 31 is the new 25! Do you think that is really a big step for women's liberation in Japan?
(referenced from/and further reading: here, here, and here.)
This is something new I learned yesterday, the kind phrases that people have coined here for women reaching their spinsterhood. I don't know if any of you out there have heard this phrase before, so if you have I'd love to hear stories. After a bit of research and reading up on the good ol' net, I managed to turn up the sad but true info. Please keep in mind though, using the "Christmas Eve"/Christmas cake phrase is VERY out of date now.
Instead, consider "New Year's Eve", where 31 is the new 25! Do you think that is really a big step for women's liberation in Japan?
(referenced from/and further reading: here, here, and here.)