Man Loves Pillow...
Topic: Man marries pillow
Summary:
A Korean guy, Lee Jin-gyu, fell in love with his dakimakura (large huggable pillow)
Significance:
What happened to the good old days when you loved someone, that you wanted to settle down with, you would marry them. I remember about a month ago, another otaku (a Japanese term that roughly translates to somewhere between 'obsessive' and 'nerd') married a video game character from a Nintendo DS game.
This "case" just goes to show the differences of the year 2010 to the year 1990. Nowadays, people get divorced more and more, and old family and marital values no longer exist as they used to. I mean, why would someone want to marry a pillow? Or a video game?
Marriage is defined as a union between two individuals. How can you create a union between a man and an intimate object? Even if this man really loves his pillow, why marry it? I feel that marriage is something you do in order to declare to the world that you and your partner are together. That is why you are branded legally and by a ring on your finger.
Another issue, is the fact that this guy is a nerd. From the looks of it, they only place he could find love is with a pillow. Another fine example of our culture. It seems like the 21st century has created this social rift, that compels people to find a lover. From all our TV and other forms of media, we are brainwashed to think that being alone is taboo, and there is always someone out there for us. Lee Jin-gyu, seems like a victim who was to scared to be alone, and chose to marry his pillow.
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