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One person's meat is another's poison, an old saying which proves true for both Jane and Akiko's inability to conceive: the former is able to have uninhibited sex with her partner Sloan while the latter gets shamed by her husband and physician. Leave it up to the salaryman Wayno to turn the tables on both women, but he still doesn't come across as the villain. He's more of an empty suit tainted by BEE- EX executives.
— Jul 19, 2013 06:55PM
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So parts of Shōnagon are made up bits to disguise the facts as the Heian author thought might be too controversial, and while Jane doesn't purport to tell the whole truth about her Year of Meat, there are enough facts to be found elsewhere to support her claims. Even with the covered up faces and meat marketing men getting in trouble, the fiction only works for those that believe in knowledge as an empowering force.
— Aug 15, 2013 12:47PM
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As the year draws to a close, Jane and Akiko meet up, and like so many Christmastime stories, ghosts are brought back into their lives and accounts seem to be settled. Jane has a lot of apologizing to do while working on the summary My American Wife! episode - the tell-all version that makes sense of mystery behind the meat. Akiko moves forward by reviewing the lives of a few of the Wives in person.
— Aug 14, 2013 05:57PM
Kyle
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After a couple days in October,I was expecting a month of hospital rest for the two heroines. One was short and devastating, the other was longer and generative. Not sure where the month of November actually began, but no surprise that as their Year of Meats starts to wrap up, some narrative deviations would happen. Yet both Jane and Akiko seem to be headed in the right direction, at long last, away from Joichi Ueno!
— Aug 10, 2013 10:01PM
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I am very thankful that I had given up beef and pork just over a month ago, and the last hamburger I ate was in France, as far away from the horrendous freak show of Dunn & Son Custom Cattle Feed and slaughter represents. It is one of the most common reactions, but I cannot see myself ever enjoying another hamburger again. The only thing that could have made this chapter more odious is a spiteful J. Ueno showing up.
— Aug 01, 2013 12:42PM
Kyle
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Takagi has put her foot in it uncovering the medical miseries caused by chemically-enhanced meats. So while things may be working out fine on the reproductive side for her, her carelessness is causing others harm. Emotionally, Sloan and Suzie seem to want things Jane is unable to give back; physically, Akiko is becoming a punching bag for the jerk-husband, now simply named J. Ueno, who may've knocked her up.
— Jul 30, 2013 10:01AM
Kyle
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Asides from the double-barreled narrative of women with unique fertility issues, this chapter shows the evolving sensibilities of two other characters, Oh and Suzuki, who started off as crass and often drunk trainwrecks. Both men have become more caring, nurturing and dare I say feminine while getting the required shots for the weekly installments of American Wife. Perhaps to build contrast for the heroines.
— Jul 26, 2013 07:31PM
Kyle
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Akiko's storyline is put on pause while Jane gets to rewind and scroll back through formative experiences in her life. Revisiting the library and the 1902 socials textbook have me a wonderful shocker to present my 21st century high schoolers with, and the commentary of the Races of Man called into question. As bold as this geographer may seem today, Jane is as reckless with evaluating events in her own Year of Meats.
— Jul 24, 2013 10:24PM
Kyle
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I enjoyed the distinction being made in this chapter between authenticity and wholesomeness, whether it was comparing the healthy lamb meat of Australia to the DES-contaminated meats of America, or the real American families like Miss Helen and the Bukowskys or the phonies that Ueno insists are more perfect models of togetherness and family; as if he is any authority on these matters. Good for Akiko going Australian!
— Jul 22, 2013 09:22AM
Kyle
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Quite the variety of experiences, sexual and otherwise, as the shooting of new episodes in the United States, and viewing of them in Japan, takes place within a month. While I am sure he deserves better, Oda-san's run in with antibiotic-laced meat opened the door for Jane to direct a much needed whiff of variety. Wayno is peeved, but has bigger fish to fry (or rather meat to grill) on the home-front: his barren wife.
— Jul 18, 2013 10:30PM
Kyle
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The demands of married life on both sides of the Pacific are scrutinized in this chapter, and while the Japanese production tours the United States in search of a model wife, ending up in sleazy motels, strip clubs and worse yet WalMart, the unfortunate breeding habits in Japan has produced a bulimic Mrs Ueno, unfit for husbandly consumption - guess part of the reason for "John" Wayno's many business trips to the US.
— Jul 17, 2013 12:39PM
